# Lochie Hughes

Lachlan "Lochie" Hughes (born 15 March 2002) is an Australian racing driver. He currently competes in the 2025 Indy NXT for Andretti Global. Hughes previously competed in the 2024 USF2000 Championship driving for Jay Howard Driver Development, where he won the title. He is the 2022 Formula 4 United States champion and the 2024 USF Pro 2000 champion.

## Career
### Karting

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.

### Australian Formula 4 Championship
#### 2018

In 2018, Hughes would make his car racing debut in the Australian Formula 4 Championship driving for Team BRM. He would get his maiden win in the series at Winton Motor Raceway. Hughes would finish the season 5th in the standings and rookie champion.

#### 2019

Hughes would return to the series in 2019 once again driving for Team BRM. He would get three wins, two poles, and eleven podiums during the season to finish 2nd behind champion Luis Leeds.

### Formula 4 United States Championship

After not racing in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hughes would move to the United States to compete in the 2022 Formula 4 United States Championship driving for Jay Howard Driver Development. He would start off the season with a win in the first race at NOLA Motorsports Park. At the New Jersey Motorsports Park round, Hughes would take pole position, and won all three races on-track, however, a penalty in race one for jumping the start meant that his win would be taken away. Hughes would clinch the championship at the final round at Circuit of the Americas taking two wins to cap off the season. He would finish the season with 6 wins, 2 poles, and 10 podiums.

### USF2000 Championship
#### 2022

Hughes would make his debut in the USF2000 Championship in 2022 with Jay Howard Driver Development at the Mid-Ohio round. Finishing 2nd in his first ever race later to be disqualified for a technical infringement.

#### 2023

On 6 October 2022, it was announced that 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, Hughes would beat competitor Nikita Johnson to pole position by just eight hundredths of a second. He would manage to convert pole to victory, getting his maiden win of the season.

### USF Pro 2000 Championship
#### 2024

Hughes made his debut in the 2024 season racing with Turn 3 Motorsport. Claiming five wins, four pole positions and eleven podiums, Hughes won the title at the season finale at Portland ahead of Nikita Johnson.

### Indy NXT
#### 2025

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

## Racing record
### Karting career summary

| Season | Series | Team | Position |
| 2014 | Florida Winter Tour – Rotax Mini Max | Praga North America | 11th |
| 2014 | Florida Winter Tour – Kart Formula TaG Cadet | IPKarting Australia | 2nd |
| 2014 | ROK Cup International Final – Mini ROK | Praga Kart Racing | 14th |
| 2014 | WSK Final Cup — 60 Mini | | 16th |
| 2015 | WSK Night Edition — 60 Mini | Birel ART | 7th |
| 2015 | WSK Gold Cup — 60 Mini | Birel ART | 2nd |
| 2015 | South Garda Winter Cup – Mini ROK | Birel ART | 6th |
| 2016 | CIK-FIA European Championship — OK Junior | | 52nd |
| 2016 | WSK Night Edition — OKJ | Novalux Srl | 12th |
| 2016 | Australian Kart Championship – KA2 | | 4th |
| 2016 | Italian Championship — OKJ | | 13th |
| 2017 | Australian Kart Championship – KA2 | | 2nd |
| 2017 | Race Of Stars | Birel ART | 1st |

### Racing career summary

| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
| 2018 | Australian Formula 4 Championship | Team BRM | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 224 | 5th |
| 2019 | Australian Formula 4 Championship | Team BRM | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 266 | 2nd |
| 2022 | Formula 4 United States Championship | Jay Howard Driver Development | 18 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 277 | 1st |
| 2022 | USF2000 Championship | Jay Howard Driver Development | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 28th |
| 2023 | USF2000 Championship | Jay Howard Driver Development | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 335 | 3rd |
| 2024 | USF Pro 2000 Championship | Turn 3 Motorsport | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 395 | 1st |
| 2025 | Indy NXT | Andretti Global | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40* | 2nd* |
* Season still in progress.

### Complete Australian Formula 4 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 | DC | Points |
| 2018 | Team BRM | SYM 1 5 | SYM 2 4 | SYM 3 7 | PHI 1 5 | PHI 2 5 | PHI 3 5 | QLD 1 5 | QLD 2 5 | QLD 3 6 | WIN1 1 4 | WIN1 2 1 | WIN1 3 5 | WIN2 1 4 | WIN2 2 Ret | WIN2 3 5 | SYD 1 4 | SYD 2 5 | SYD 3 4 | PUK 1 5 | PUK 2 3 | PUK 3 5 | 5th | 224 |
| 2019 | Team BRM | MEL 1 3 | MEL 2 5 | MEL 3 4 | SYD 1 2 | SYD 2 Ret | SYD 3 2 | PHI1 1 4 | PHI1 2 1 | PHI1 3 DNS | PHI2 1 2 | PHI2 2 6 | PHI2 3 3 | BEN1 1 4 | BEN1 2 1 | BEN1 3 2 | BEN2 1 1 | BEN2 2 3 | BEN2 3 2 | | | | 2nd | 266 |

### Complete Formula 4 United States 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 | Pos | Points |
| 2022 | Jay Howard Driver Development | NOL 1 1 | NOL 2 5 | NOL 3 2 | ROA 1 2 | ROA 2 4 | ROA 3 4 | MOH 1 19 | MOH 2 1 | MOH 3 5 | NJM 1 6 | NJM 2 1 | NJM 3 1 | VIR 1 Ret | VIR 2 2 | VIR 3 2 | COA 1 4 | COA 2 1 | COA 3 1 | 1st | 277 |

### American open-wheel racing results
#### USF2000 Championship

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Rank | Points |
| 2022 | Jay Howard Driver Development | STP 1 | STP 2 | ALA 1 | ALA 2 | IMS 1 | IMS 2 | IMS 3 | IRP | ROA 1 | ROA 2 | MOH 1 DSQ | MOH 2 18 | MOH 3 4 | TOR 1 | TOR 2 | POR 1 | POR 2 | POR 3 | 28th | 22 |
| 2023 | Jay Howard Driver Development | STP 1 1* | STP 2 3 | SEB 1 1* | SEB 1 4 | IMS 1 2 | IMS 2 2 | IMS 3 1* | IRP 6 | ROA 1 12 | ROA 2 1* | MOH 4 | MOH 2 19 | MOH 3 22 | TOR 1 15 | TOR 2 3 | POR 1 5 | POR 2 13 | POR 3 10 | 3rd | 335 |

#### USF Pro 2000 Championship

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Rank | Points |
| 2024 | Turn 3 Motorsport | STP 1 1* | STP 2 2* | LOU 1 19 | LOU 2 18 | LOU 3 10 | IMS 1 3 | IMS 2 2 | IMS 3 3 | IRP 3 | ROA 1 1* | ROA 2 1 | ROA 3 1* | MOH 1 4 | MOH 2 7 | TOR 1 6 | TOR 2 1* | POR 1 6 | POR 2 2 | 1st | 395 |

#### Indy NXT

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with $^L$ indicate a race lap led) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Rank | Points |
| 2025 | Andretti Global | STP 2 | BAR | IMS | IMS | DET | GMP | RDA | MDO | IOW | LAG | LAG | POR | MIL | NSH | 2nd* | 40* |