Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Lochie Hughes
Australian racing driver From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Lachlan "Lochie" Hughes (born 15 March 2002) is an Australian racing driver.[1] He currently competes in the 2025 Indy NXT for Andretti Global. Hughes previously competed in the 2024 USF2000 Championship driving for Jay Howard Driver Development, where he won the title.[2] He is the 2022 Formula 4 United States champion and the 2024 USF Pro 2000 champion.[3]
Remove ads
Remove ads
Career
Summarize
Perspective
Karting
Hughes would have success in karting, finishing 2nd in both the Florida Winter Tour, the WSK Gold cup and the Australian Kart Championship in 2014, 2015 and 2017 respectively.[citation needed]
Australian Formula 4 Championship
2018
In 2018, Hughes would make his car racing debut in the Australian Formula 4 Championship driving for Team BRM.[4] He would get his maiden win in the series at Winton Motor Raceway. Hughes would finish the season 5th in the standings and rookie champion.[citation needed]
2019
Hughes would return to the series in 2019 once again driving for Team BRM.[5] He would get three wins, two poles, and eleven podiums during the season to finish 2nd behind champion Luis Leeds.[citation needed]
Formula 4 United States Championship
After not racing in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hughes would move to the United States to compete in the 2022 Formula 4 United States Championship driving for Jay Howard Driver Development.[6] He would start off the season with a win in the first race at NOLA Motorsports Park.[7] At the New Jersey Motorsports Park round, Hughes would take pole position, and won all three races on-track, however, a penalty in race one for jumping the start meant that his win would be taken away.[8] Hughes would clinch the championship at the final round at Circuit of the Americas taking two wins to cap off the season.[9] He would finish the season with 6 wins, 2 poles, and 10 podiums.
USF2000 Championship
2022
Hughes would make his debut in the USF2000 Championship in 2022 with Jay Howard Driver Development at the Mid-Ohio round. Finishing 2nd in his first ever race later to be disqualified for a technical infringement.
2023
On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Hughes would stay with Jay Howard Driver Development and make the jump up to the USF2000 Championship full-time in 2023.[10] At the opening round at St. Petersburg, Hughes would beat competitor Nikita Johnson to pole position by just eight hundredths of a second.[11] He would manage to convert pole to victory, getting his maiden win of the season.[12]
USF Pro 2000 Championship
2024
Hughes made his debut in the 2024 season racing with Turn 3 Motorsport.[13] Claiming five wins, four pole positions and eleven podiums, Hughes won the title at the season finale at Portland ahead of Nikita Johnson.[14]
Indy NXT
2025
In October 2024, Hughes graduated to the championship for the 2025 season with Andretti Global.[15] In the opening race of the season at St. Petersburg, he would qualify second behind his teammate Dennis Hauger. Hughes would convert his qualifying result in the race, finishing on the podium in second.[16] He would score another podium in the second round at Barber, finishing third behind debutant Evagoras Papasavvas and Hauger. For the third round of the season at Indianapolis, Hughes qualified on pole for both Indy GP races, ahead of teammate and championship leader Hauger.[17] He would have a dominant performance in race one, leading from the start, and going on to score his maiden win in the series.[18][19] Hughes would close down the gap to Hauger by 30 points to just 3 points following Hauger's finish of eighth.
Remove ads
Racing record
Summarize
Perspective
Karting career summary
Racing career summary
* Season still in progress.
Complete Australian Formula 4 Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Formula 4 United States Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
American open-wheel racing results
USF2000 Championship
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
USF Pro 2000 Championship
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
Indy NXT
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with L indicate a race lap led) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads