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.
Career Karting Piszcyk began karting in 2014 and made his competitive debut in 2017, where he stayed in domestic Australian championships throughout his career. 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.
Formula Ford 2021 In 2021, Piszcyk 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.
2022 For 2022, Piszcyk 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.
Piszcyk also competed in three races of the Victoria Formula Ford Championship with CHE Racing as well. He 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.
Formula 4 2023 Piszcyk made his Formula 4 debut in the Formula 4 UAE Championship with British outfit Hitech Pulse-Eight. He scored his first points in the third race of the first round at Dubai Autodrome, where he came in eighth. 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. He retired from the second race of the final round of the season at the Yas Marina Circuit, due to a tyre issue. Piszcyk finished the drivers championship in 15th with 25 points.
Piszcyk's 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. 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.
Piszcyk's 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. He got his first reverse-grid podium in the eighth round at Knockhill and ended the championship in fifth place with 220 points.
2024 For 2024, Piszcyk returned to his home country Australia, to compete in the relaunched Formula 4 Australian Championship with AGI Sport, who he tested with in 2022.
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.
For the closing months of 2024, Piszcyk 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. 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. 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.
2025 After a successful sophomore year in Formula 4, Piszcyk came back to the F4 British Championship for the 2025 season with last year's teams runner-ups, Rodin Motorsport.
Piszcyk 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.
Piszcyk got a third place at Thruxton and won the reserve grid races at Oulton Park and Donington Park. 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. 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 2017 Australian Kart Championship - Cadet 12 24th 2018 Australian State Championship South Australia - Cadet 121st Australian Kart Championship - Cadet 123rd 2019 Australian Kart Championship - KA2 11th Australian Kart Championship - KA4 Jr. 41st 2020 Australian Kart Championship - KA2Source:
Racing record Racing career summary SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition 2021 Australian Formula Ford Championship Synergy Motorsport 5 0 0 0 0 Formula Ford Fiesta Victoria 2 0 0 0 0 28 18th 2022 Australian Formula Ford Championship CHE Racing 18 4 1 5 10 2372nd Victorian Formula Ford Championship 3 0 0 0 0 69 19th Formula Ford New South Wales - Duratec ? ? ? ? ? 2771st 2023 Formula 4 UAE Championship Hitech Pulse-Eight 15 0 0 0 0 25 15th F4 British Championship 30 2 2 2 4 220 5th 2024 Formula 4 Australian Championship AGI Sport 12 9 6 8 10 2561st Formula Trophy UAE 5 0 0 0 2 48 6th 2025 F4 British Championship Rodin Motorsport 30 6 4 2 10 3112nd
Complete Formula 4 UAE Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 DC Points 2023 Hitech Pulse-EightDUB11DUB12DUB13 KMT11KMT12KMT13KMT21KMT22 KMT23 DUB21 DUB22 DUB23 YMC1 YMC2 YMC3 15th25
Complete F4 British Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 DC Points 2023 Hitech Pulse-EightDPN1DPN2DPN3BHI1BHI1BHI3SNE1SNE2SNE3THR1THR2THR3OUL1OUL2OUL3SIL1SIL2SIL3CRO1CRO2CRO3KNO1KNO2KNO3DPGP1DPGP2DPGP3DPGP4BHGP1BHGP2BHGP3 5th 220 2025 Rodin Motorsport DPN1 DPN2 DPN3 SILGP1 SILGP2 SILGP3 SNE1 SNE2 SNE3 THR1 THR2 THR3 OUL1 OUL2 OUL3 SILGP1 SILGP2 ZAN1 ZAN2 ZAN3 KNO1 KNO2 KNO3 DPGP1 DPGP2 DPGP3 SILN1 SILN2 SILN3 BHGP1 BHGP2 BHGP3 2nd 311
Complete Formula 4 Australian Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points2024 AGI SportBEN11BEN12BEN13BEN21BEN22BEN23SYD1SYD2SYD3SEP1SEP2SEP31st256
Complete Formula Trophy UAE results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) YearTeam1234567DCPoints 2024 AGI SportDUB1DUB2DUB3YMC11YMC12YMC21YMC22 6th 48
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