CHARLOTTE (August 22, 2025) – With fall quickly approaching, drivers from Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas), Formula 4 United States Championship (F4 U.S.), and Ligier Junior Formula Championship (Ligier JFC) are trading in their helmet bag for a bookbag as they head back to school. Balancing life as both a racecar driver and student is nothing new to the group, with nearly 80% juggling work on the track and in the classroom.
Drivers like Ligier JFC’s Beckham Jacir (No. 7 STONICA / BELL / OMP / P1Doks / LC Racing Team Ligier JS F4), Jordyn Martin (No. 8 Hubzity / LC Racing Team Ligier JS F4), Cash Felber (No. 11 BioLongevity Labs / TownHall / Rebol / DWT / Matrix Mind Water / Phantom Fireworks / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F4), Roman Felber (No. 73 BioLongevity Labs / TownHall / Rebol / DWT / Matrix Mind Water / Phantom Fireworks / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F4), Max Mokarem (No. 46 BFS / District Construction / Don’t Sleep Energy / Momentum Motorsports Ligier JS F4) and FR Americas’ Brady Golan (No. 80 Attire / Toney Driver Development Ligier JS F3) and Nicolas Ambiado (No. 55 Velox USA / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) are homeschooled or attend online school. Others, like F4 U.S. drivers Cooper Shipman (No. 14 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422), Clemente Huerta Raab (No. 17 Velox USA / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422), Luke Powers (No. 51 Corporate Commercial Group / Toney Driver Development Ligier JS F422) and Caleb Campbell (No. 68 Kids Help Phone / Camtacc Properties / Legacy Foundation of Canada / LC Racing Ligier JS F422), as well as Ligier JFC drivers Ava Hanssen (No. 26 NGK-NTK Performance / Chiropractic Center of Elkhorn / Franklin Motorsports / One Powersports LLC Ligier JS F4), Luca Day (No. 9 Zimperium / Momentum Motorsports Ligier JS F4) and Zach Fourie (No. 15 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F4) all still roam the halls of their local high school.
Then, there are the drivers pursuing advanced courses of study at universities around the globe.
In FR Americas, James Lawley (No. 88 Pentagon Properties / Atlantic Racing Team Ligier JS F3) is nearing the finish line on his studies at Acadia University, working toward a degree in business management, while also growing his commercial real estate firm. Connor Roberts (No. 46 Apexspeed.com / Entropy Cellars / Atlantic Racing Team with Team Roberts Ligier JS F3) is a rising senior at LaGrange College, where he hopes to walk across the stage after earning a degree in business management and accounting in the coming months. Barrett Wolfe (No. 13 Make-A-Wish / Axiom Cyber / Cool.inc / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3) continues his work toward a marketing degree from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, while Callum Baxter (No. 45 Chapman's Certified Collision Centres / Road to Racing Canada / Atlantic Racing Team Ligier JS F3) is a sophomore studying sport management at Brock University. Jake Pollack (No. 5 The NRP Group / Foreview Ventures / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3) is just beginning on his college journey, studying sports management at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
F4 U.S. driver Alex Popow (No. 55 Dr. Michael Thompson MS DDS PPLS / MLT Motorsports Ligier JS F422) will be a sophomore at Florida International University studying finance, while Ligier JFC drivers Harbir Dass (No. 23 Northcoast Medical Group / Dubby Energy / Dass Psych LLC / Berg Racing Ligier JS F4), Drew Szuch (No. 28 Berg Racing Ligier JS F4) and Gastón Irazú (No. 42 Elia Group / Baly / Canal 4 / Ancap / Champagne Racing Ligier JS F4) are all focused on degrees in engineering. Dass will begin his senior year at Georgia Tech studying mechanical engineering, while Szuch enters his junior year in a dual-program that has him studying business at Indiana University-Indianapolis and motorsports engineering at Purdue University-Indianapolis. Irazú is in his sixth year at San José de la Providencia studying engineering.
With classes officially back in session, the juggling act will start now as drivers in FR Americas and F4 U.S. return to the track next weekend for the Labour Day Weekend Sprints at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, August 28-31. After that, just two weekends remain on the 2025 calendar, with all three championships contesting the VIR SpeedTour, September 18-21, and Barber SpeedTour, October 17-19.
