Théo Pourchaire

Théo Jérôme Julien Pourchaire
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Driver Details
Nationality	French
Date of Birth	20 August 2003
Date of Death
Experience	FIA Formula 2 Championship IndyCar Series
Formula E Career
Tests	1
Début	2025 Jeddah E-Prix I (FP0)
Teams
Current Season
Team	Maserati MSG Racing
Role	Test Driver

Théo Jérôme Julien Pourchaire (born 20 August 2003 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a French racing driver who served as a test driver for Maserati MSG Racing during the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix I. An FIA Formula 2 Championship Champion and former Sauber Academy member, Pourchaire would also work as a development driver for Spark Racing Technologies when they were developing the Generation 3 base car ahead of its debut in 2022/23.

Background

Pourchaire began his racing career at a very early age, driving a kart at the age of two and a half before making his competitive debut at the age of seven. Between 2012 and 2017 the Frenchman would take multiple French national Championships, before graduating to French F4 in 2018. Entering the Junior class, Pourchaire would have a stunning rookie season, claiming the Junior title with fourteen victories in eighteen races.

The Junior Elevator: 2018 - 2020

Having also claimed a single victory in the Championnat de France F4 in 2018, Pourchaire opened 2019 with a seat in the ADAC Formula 4 Championship, as well as a place in the Sauber Junior Team. Armed with their backing, Pourchaire claimed four wins while engaging Dennis Hauger in a season long fight for the title, with the Frenchman ultimately emerging ahead on the final day. That earned Pourchaire a graduation to the FIA Formula 3 Championship for 2020, with the Frenchman signing with the ART Grand Prix squad for the season.

Pourchaire impressed in his maiden F3 campaign, claiming his first victory in only his fourth race, becoming F3/GP3 Series' youngest ever race winner. A further win and a run of podium finishes saw Pourchaire again head into the final day of the season as a title pretender, although he was ultimately beaten to the crown by Piastri by just three points.

F2 to the Fore: 2021 - Present

After a debut cameo at the end of the 2020 season in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, Pourchaire would step up the Formula One feeder series full time in 2021, and would collect two wins in his rookie season. Remaining in the series for a sophomore campaign in 2022, Pourchaire was tipped as a favourite for the title, although he would ultimately fail to seriously threaten eventual Champion Felipe Drugovich, who won the title by over 100 points from the Frenchman. In his third campaign, and knowing it would likely be his final shot at trying to break into F1, Pourchaire would finally claim the F2 title, despite only claiming one victory all season, although it was ultiamtely not enough to convince Sauber to promote him to a race seat in F1.

For 2024 Pourchaire would secure a reserve role in the IndyCar Series with Arrow McLaren, and would go on to make six appearances during the campaign and almost obtain a seat for the full season before funding saw him over-ridden by another rookie. The Frenchman would also make his debut in Super Formula, making a cameo at the season opening race but failed to score, before moving into endurance racing for 2025 with a seat in the European Le Mans Series.

Formula E History

Pourchaire gained his first chance to sample an ABB FIA Formula E World Championship car in early 2022, when Spark Racing Technologies invited the Frenchman to complete a three day test in the development car for Generation 3 at Calafat, before the first chassis were sent out to teams. A strong three days of running saw Pourchaire partner Benoît Tréluyer as Spark's preferred test drivers during the final development period, and would see Pourchaire claim vast increases in pace compared to the Spark SRT05e, but also suffer a huge off from the circuit which saw the car come to a stop on top of a sand bank after a battery issue. That experience, combined with his own flashes of pace in Formula 2, saw Nissan evaluate Pourchaire for one of their race seats for the 2022/23 season, although the Frenchman would ultimately miss out to Norman Nato and Sacha Fenestraz.

Pourchaire returned to focus on obtaining a seat in Formula One, although after winning the F2 title and still not securing a seat, the Frenchman would evaluate other options, including Formula E, although he would not drive an FE car again until the 2024/25 season. That season saw Pourchaire given a run in the Free Practice 0 session at the 2025 Jeddah E-Prix I, driving for Maserati MSG Racing, where the Frenchman would set the fourth fastest time at the wheel of Stoffel Vandoorne's #2 Maserati.

Full Formula E Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Théo Pourchaire's career in Formula E in statistical form:

Théo Pourchaire's Formula E Test Record
Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Role
2021/22	Spark Racing Technologies	0	Spark Generation 3	Test/Development Driver
2024/25	Maserati MSG Racing	2	Maserati Tipo Folgore	Test/Development Driver

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