James Piszcyk

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James Piszcyk
Nationality Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australian
Born (2006-08-25) 25 August 2006 (age 19)
F4 British Championship career
Debut season 2023
Current team Rodin Motorsport
Former teams Hitech Pulse-Eight
Starts60 (60 entries)
Wins8
Podiums14
Poles6
Fastest laps4
Best finish2nd in 2025

James "Jimmy" Piszcyk (born 25 August 2006) is an Australian racing driver who last competed in the 2025 F4 British Championship with Rodin Motorsport, where he came runner-up to the title. He is also the winner of the 2024 Formula 4 Australian Championship.

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Career

Karting

Piszcyk began karting in 2014 and made his competitive debut in 2017, where he stayed in domestic Australian championships throughout his career. [1] His best results came in 2018, where he won the Australian State Championship South Australia and came third in the Australian Kart Championship in the Cadet 12 categories. [2] [3]

Formula Ford

2021

In 2021 he stepped up to Australian Formula Ford Championship, marking his single-seater debut with Synergy Motorsport, he also drove in Formula Ford Fiesta Victoria with Synergy Motorsport. [4] [5]

2022

For 2022 he switched to CHE Motorsport, where he contested the Australian Formula Ford Championship for the second time. In eighteen races, he got four wins, one pole position, five fastest laps and ten podiums, where he finished the championship as runner-up. He missed out of winning the championship after skipping the final round due to attending a Formula 4 test. [6] [7] [8] [9]

He also competed in three races of the Victoria Formula Ford Championship with CHE Racing as well. Piszcyk won the Formula Ford New South Wales championship in the Duratec class and was selected to compete in the 2022 Ferrari Driver Asia–Pacific and Oceania Academy. [10] [11]

Formula 4

2023

Piszcyk made his Formula 4 debut in the Formula 4 UAE Championship with British outfit Hitech Pulse-Eight. [12] He scored his first points in the third race of the first round at Dubai Autodrome, where he came in eighth. [13] At the fourth round in the Dubai Autodrome he got finished in the points two times, first a fifth place – his highest result of the season – in the first race, and a ninth place at the third race. [14] [15] He retired from the second race of the final round of the season at the Yas Marina Circuit, due to a tyre issue. [16] Piszcyk finished the drivers championship in 15th with 25 points.

His main campaign of the season was in the F4 British Championship competing with his F4 UAE team Hitech Pulse-Eight, where he partnered Kanato Le, William Macintyre and Gabriel Stilp. [17] After respectable results in the first three rounds, he got his maiden Formula 4 pole position at the first race of the fourth round at Thruxton. He converted that pole into his maiden win, podium and fastest lap in the series and Formula 4 in general. [18] [19] [20]

His next success came at the sixth round in Silverstone, coming third in the first race and converting a second pole position into a win in the third race. [21] [22] He got his first reverse-grid podium in the eighth round at Knockhill and ended the championship in fifth place with 220 points. [23] [24] [25]

2024

For 2024, he returned to his home country Australia, to compete in the relaunched Formula 4 Australian Championship with AGI Sport, who he tested with in 2022. [26]

Piszcyk dominated the competition, winning the first nine races and getting five out of six available pole positions. He clinched the title at the first race of the final round – and only international round – at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, where he came third in the race, breaking his win streak. Piszcyk came in sixth position in the final two races of the season and finished the championship with 256 points, nine wins, six pole positions, eight fastest laps and ten podiums. He had a 81 points margin between his closest title rival, Nicolas Stati. [27] [28] [29] [30]

For the closing months of 2024, he joined the newly established Formula Trophy UAE with AGI Sport. His teammates were Emily Cotty, Nooris Gafoor and Formula 4 Australian Championship title rival, Nicolas Stati. [31] Despite only contesting two out of the championships three rounds, he was the only one in his team to score podiums, he got two podium finishes back-to-back at the second and third race of the first round at Dubai Autodrome. [32] [33] At the second round in Yas Marina Circuit, he got sixth in the first race and came twentieth in the second race. Piszcyk finished the championship in sixth with 48 points and two podiums. [34]

2025

After a successful sophomore year in Formula 4, he came back to the F4 British Championship for the 2025 season with last year's teams runner-ups, Rodin Motorsport. [35]

He achieved a podium in the third race of the first round at Donington Park, and collected two pole positions at Silverstone Circuit a round later – converting them to wins. [36] [37] [38] [39]

Piszcyk got a third place at Thruxton and won the reserve grid races at Oulton Park and Donington Park. [40] [41] [42] [43] With these results he found himself in the title fight with Fionn McLaughlin and Martin Molnár, and in the final round at Brands Hatch, he got two pole positions and converted them to wins, similar to Silverstone. [44] [45] [46] [47] He came runner-up to the championship with six wins, four pole positions, two fastest laps, ten podiums and 311 points.

Karting record

Karting career summary

SeasonSeriesTeamPosition
2017Australian Kart Championship - Cadet 1224th
2018Australian State Championship South Australia - Cadet 121st
Australian Kart Championship - Cadet 123rd
2019Australian Kart Championship - KA211th
Australian Kart Championship - KA4 Jr.41st
2020Australian Kart Championship - KA2
Source: [48]

Racing record

Racing career summary

SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition
2021Australian Formula Ford ChampionshipSynergy Motorsport50000
Formula Ford Fiesta Victoria200002818th
2022Australian Formula Ford ChampionshipCHE Racing18415102372nd
Victorian Formula Ford Championship300006919th
Formula Ford New South Wales - Duratec?????2771st
2023 Formula 4 UAE Championship Hitech Pulse-Eight 1500002515th
F4 British Championship 3022242205th
2024 Formula 4 Australian Championship AGI Sport12968102561st
Formula Trophy UAE 50002486th
2025 F4 British Championship Rodin Motorsport 30642103112nd

Complete Formula 4 UAE Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearEntrant123456789101112131415DCPoints
2023 Hitech Pulse-Eight DUB1
1

16
DUB1
2

19
DUB1
3

8
KMT1
1

15
KMT1
2

18
KMT1
3

17
KMT2
1

15
KMT2
2

14
KMT2
3

6
DUB2
1

5
DUB2
2

14
DUB2
3

9
YMC
1

25
YMC
2

Ret
YMC
3

10
15th25

Complete F4 British Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeam1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132DCPoints
2023 Hitech Pulse-Eight DPN
1

10
DPN
2

14
DPN
3

18
BHI
1

7
BHI
1

101
BHI
3

6
SNE
1

C
SNE
2

510
SNE
3

5
THR
1

1
THR
2

155
THR
3

5
OUL
1

10
OUL
2

73
OUL
3

15
SIL
1

3
SIL
2

101
SIL
3

1
CRO
1

8
CRO
2

54
CRO
3

8
KNO
1

10
KNO
2

32
KNO
3

18
DPGP
1

7
DPGP
2

10
DPGP
3

124
DPGP
4

6
BHGP
1

4
BHGP
2

104
BHGP
3

4
5th220
2025 Rodin Motorsport DPN
1

9
DPN
2

53
DPN
3

3
SILGP
1

1
SILGP
2

12
SILGP
3

1
SNE
1

Ret
SNE
2

12
SNE
3

4
THR
1

Ret
THR
2

31
THR
3

6
OUL
1

13
OUL
2

11
OUL
3

4
SILGP
1

13
SILGP
2

12
ZAN
1

4
ZAN
2

45
ZAN
3

2
KNO
1

6
KNO
2

51
KNO
3

11
DPGP
1

4
DPGP
2

12
DPGP
3

5
SILN
1

4
SILN
2

8
SILN
3

3
BHGP
1

1
BHGP
2

101
BHGP
3

1
2nd311

Complete Formula 4 Australian Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeam123456789101112DCPoints
2024 AGI Sport BEN1
1

1
BEN1
2

1
BEN1
3

1
BEN2
1

1
BEN2
2

1
BEN2
3

1
SYD
1

1
SYD
2

1
SYD
3

1
SEP
1

3
SEP
2

6
SEP
3

6
1st256

Complete Formula Trophy UAE results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearTeam1234567DCPoints
2024 AGI Sport DUB
1

5
DUB
2

3
DUB
3

3
YMC1
1

6
YMC1
2

20
YMC2
1

YMC2
2

6th48

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