Oliver Rasmussen

Oliver Rasmussen (born 21 November 2000) is a Danish racing driver born in France currently competing for Prema Powerteam in the Formula Regional European Championship

Oliver Rasmussen
Nationality Danish
Born (2000-11-06) 6 November 2000
Mougins, France
FR European Championship career
Debut season2020
Current teamPrema Powerteam
Car number6
Best finishTBA in 2020
Previous series
2018-19
2019
2020		Italian F4 Championship
ADAC Formula 4
Toyota Racing Series

Career

Italian F4

Rasmussen started his single-seater career off with Jenzer Motorsport at the opening round of the 2018 Italian F4 Championship[1]. Rasmussen completed the first ten races with 4 retirements and a best finish of 11th, a string of 3 retirements in a row starting at Monza's 2nd race left Rasmussen the only one of the 6 Jenzer drivers without a point. In race 2 at the Misano round a season best finish of 8th ended Rasmussen's points drought, things were looking good for him until the 3rd race he sustained a heavy crash with Prema driver Amna Al Qubaisi. The closest Rasmussen got to the points was a 13th place finish, he ended the season 24th and last of his teammates. He returned for the following season but this time for Prema Powerteam and with his first race of the season he beat his entire tally from the previous year. In the second race Rasmussen was handed a ten second penalty for overtaking under the safety car resulting in a 14th place finish. Despite a lot of good results, including three 4th places and a pole position at Imola it took until the final round of the season for Rasmussen to take a podium where he placed 3rd in the first and third race at Monza. Before his double podium Rasmussen was 10th in the championship but ended up finishing 7th, 6 points behind his nearest competitor[2].

ADAC F4

Rasmussen raced with Prema Powerteam in the ADAC Formula 4 in 2019[3]. The first round of the season got off to a bad start as he retired after he sustained damage crashing into Prema teammate Paul Aron. A handful of good results and points followed before he scored a career best 2nd and first podium of the season at Zandvoort due to Dennis Hauger and Gianluca Petecof crashing in the later stages of the race[4]. Rasmussen went on to finish on the podium once more and end the season in 12th behind Paraguyan Joshua Dürksen.

Toyota Racing Series

mtec Motorsport and Rasmussen joined forced as he entered the Toyota Racing Series for the first time in 2020[5]. He finished 11th with two podiums, one fastest lap and 158 points. His best result was 2nd, a race in which he shared the podium with FIA Formula 2 driver Yuki Tsunoda and FIA Formula 3 driver Lirim Zendeli.

Racing record

Career summary
Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2018 Italian F4 Championship Jenzer Motorsport 20 0 0 0 0 4 25th
2019 Italian F4 Championship Prema Powerteam 21 0 2 1 2 126 7th
ADAC F4 Championship 20 0 0 0 2 76 12th
2020 Toyota Racing Series mtec Motorsport 15 0 0 1 2 158 11th
Formula Regional European Championship Prema Powerteam 3 1 0 0 3 55 TBD

References
  1. Allen, Peter (April 4, 2018). "Jenzer Motorsport to field six drivers in Italian F4".
  2. Waring, Bethonie (October 6, 2019). "Dennis Hauger takes Italian F4 title with another Mugello victory".
  3. "Oliver Rasmussen joins Prema for 2019 Italian and ADAC F4 Championships". us10.campaign-archive.com.
  4. Wood, Elliot (August 11, 2019). "Aron wins at Zandvoort, Pourchaire extends ADAC F4 lead".
  5. "Oliver Rasmussen". Toyota NZ.
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