45 Facts About Olli Caldwell

Oliver "Olli" Caldwell was born on 11 June 2002 and is a British racing driver who is competing for Alpine in the FIA World Endurance Championship and for Inter Europol Competition in the European Le Mans Series.

Olli Caldwell is a race winner in the FIA Formula 3, Formula Regional European, Italian F4 and ADAC Formula 4 championships and former member of the Alpine Academy.

Olli Caldwell later credited representing Great Britain at the latter competition, where he finished eighth and broke the then-lap record, as his best moment of his five-year karting career.

In 2016, Olli Caldwell progressed into car racing, driving for JHR Developments in the second half of the Ginetta Junior Championship.

Olli Caldwell competed in the series for the remainder of that year, finishing 14th with a highest finishing position of seventh, which he recorded in three separate events.

Mucke Motorsport was the team Olli Caldwell made his Italian F4 debut for in 2017.

In 2018 Olli Caldwell switched to the Italian outfit Prema Powerteam, partnering Enzo Fittipaldi and Gianluca Petecof for the entire season.

Two podiums at the final round would not be enough to claim the title, as Olli Caldwell finished third in the standings, being beaten by teammate Fittipaldi and Bhaitech driver Leonardo Lorandi.

Olli Caldwell competed in the F4 UAE Championship for Silberpfeil Energy Dubai in preparation for his 2018 season.

In 2019, Olli Caldwell remained with Prema, progressing to the Formula Regional European Championship alongside Enzo Fittipaldi and Frederik Vesti.

However, Olli Caldwell ended up being disqualified after his team had been found to have committed a technical infringement.

Olli Caldwell capped off his weekend by finishing fourth in Race 3, profiting from a collision between Igor Fraga and Raul Guzman.

At the following round in Vallelunga Olli Caldwell experienced difficulties in qualifying, although he would recover his weekend by scoring a podium in the second race.

In Barcelona, Olli Caldwell was fighting for a podium position in Race 1 until being forced into the gravel by Fittipaldi, which left the Brit down in seventh place.

Two further points finishes completed the weekend, although at the next round in Mugello Olli Caldwell experienced his worst weekend of the season, scoring a mere three points and getting his first and only non-points finish of the season.

Olli Caldwell ended his campaign with three top-eight finishes at Monza, as Caldwell finished fifth in the championship, a long way off teammates Vesti and Fittipaldi.

On 4 November 2019, Olli Caldwell announced he will be racing for the Trident team at the 2019 Macau Grand Prix.

Maini was sent into a spin and rested against a trackside wall in a way that caused his vehicle to protrude at the exit of Lisboa turn, blocking Olli Caldwell, who lost a number of positions.

At the start of the race Caldwell made contact with Andreas Estner and on the fourth lap, Caldwell retired from the consequences of the earlier collision that damaged his front wing and a tyre.

In January Olli Caldwell was announced by Trident as one of their three drivers for the 2020 Formula 3 season, partnering the experienced pairing of David Beckmann and Lirim Zendeli.

Unfortunately, Olli Caldwell then had to endure four successive rounds without any points, a run that included him being spun out in the feature race at Silverstone.

Olli Caldwell managed to break that streak by finishing seventh in the Barcelona feature race.

Olli Caldwell was announced to be racing for Prema Racing in the 2021 season, partnering Arthur Leclerc and Dennis Hauger.

Olli Caldwell won the second race of the season in Barcelona, after he inherited the race lead when the leading pair of Hauger and Matteo Nannini collided on the penultimate lap.

Olli Caldwell held off a charging Victor Martins on the final lap to take his first F3 victory, stating afterwards that he was "over the moon with the result".

Olli Caldwell ended his campaign eighth in the drivers' standings, two places ahead of teammate Leclerc.

In November 2021 Olli Caldwell announced that he would be joining Campos Racing to partner Ralph Boschung in the final two rounds of the FIA Formula 2 Championship.

Olli Caldwell stepped up to Formula 2 full-time for the 2022 season, remaining with Campos and still having Boschung as his teammate, whose experience Olli Caldwell cited as being the deciding factor behind his decision of signing with the team, saying that Boschung would be "an experienced reference in the other car".

Olli Caldwell missed out on points at Imola, although he did end up getting his then best ever F2 result with 13th place, which he managed to reach in the following round at Barcelona.

The next three rounds did not yield points either, although Olli Caldwell was able to outqualify Boschung for the first time at his home track at Silverstone.

At the Red Bull Ring in Austria however, Olli Caldwell would get up to eleventh by the end of the race after starting from last place, which eventually became sixth place after multiple penalties ahead of him, including one for Frederik Vesti, who had overtaken Olli Caldwell whilst off the track, had been handed out.

In France, he would experience a disappointing weekend despite some promising pace, as Olli Caldwell missed out on setting his final laptime by a couple of seconds at the end of qualifying, which put him toward the back of the grid and meant only a 13th place in the feature race.

Olli Caldwell ended up finishing tenth in the sprint race, however a strong feature race was undone after his fuel ran out on the final lap.

Olli Caldwell bounced back in the feature race, taking advantage of a pileup at the Safety car restart to finish ninth, having held off attacks from Jehan Daruvala throughout the final third of the race.

The next round at Monza would bring two retirements, as Caldwell retired from lap 1 of both races due to collisions with Tatiana Calderon and Theo Pourchaire respectively.

At the final round, Olli Caldwell finished ahead of teammate Boschung in the sprint race, being classified 16th, but would retire from the feature race following a mechanical issue with a couple of laps remaining.

Olli Caldwell ended up finishing 21st in the standings with 12 points to his name.

In February 2022, the Alpine F1 Team announced that Olli Caldwell would be joining the team's academy, alongside former F3 rivals Jack Doohan, Victor Martins and Caio Collet.

Olli Caldwell himself was quoted as saying that he was "excited to join the Academy", and that the pressure added to him was "good pressure to have in order to keep pushing".

At the start of 2023, it was announced that Olli Caldwell had graduated from the Alpine Academy.

On 3 November 2021 it was announced that Olli Caldwell would be making his debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship, driving alongside Miro Konopka and Nelson Panciatici for the ARC Bratislava team in the 2021 8 Hours of Bahrain.

Olli Caldwell ended up setting the second-fastest time of all rookies in the category.

The campaign began disappointingly at the 1000 Miles of Sebring, where, with Negrao having qualified twelfth and last, Olli Caldwell was forced to retire after five hours due to an electrical issue.

Olli Caldwell completed a triple stint on used tyres and relinquished his car to Negrao, who was caught out due to a late race safety car, which left the team one lap down before the restart.

Olli Caldwell would be handed qualifying duties for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, where he managed to place himself ahead of Charles Milesi in the sister car, before contributing to take eighth on a damp track on Saturday.