16 Facts About Lochie Hughes

Lachlan "Lochie" Hughes was born on 15 March 2002 and is an Australian racing driver.

Lochie Hughes currently competes in the 2025 Indy NXT for Andretti Global.

Lochie Hughes is the 2022 Formula 4 United States champion and the 2024 USF Pro 2000 champion.

Lochie 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.

In 2018, Lochie Hughes would make his car racing debut in the Australian Formula 4 Championship driving for Team BRM.

Lochie Hughes would get his maiden win in the series at Winton Motor Raceway.

Lochie Hughes would get three wins, two poles, and eleven podiums during the season to finish 2nd behind champion Luis Leeds.

Lochie Hughes would start off the season with a win in the first race at NOLA Motorsports Park.

At the New Jersey Motorsports Park round, Lochie Hughes would take pole position, and won all three races on-track a penalty in race one for jumping the start meant that his win would be taken away.

Lochie Hughes would clinch the championship at the final round at Circuit of the Americas taking two wins to cap off the season.

Lochie Hughes would make his debut in the USF2000 Championship in 2022 with Jay Howard Driver Development at the Mid-Ohio round.

On 6 October 2022, it was announced that Lochie Hughes would stay with Jay Howard Driver Development and make the jump up to the USF2000 Championship full-time in 2023.

At the opening round at St Petersburg, Lochie Hughes would beat competitor Nikita Johnson to pole position by just eight hundredths of a second.

Lochie Hughes would manage to convert pole to victory, getting his maiden win of the season.

Lochie Hughes made his debut in the 2024 season racing with Turn 3 Motorsport.

In October 2024, Lochie Hughes graduated to the championship for the 2025 season with Andretti Global.