Actor

2003-03-17 · Oslo · Male

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Dennis Hauger (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪs ˈhœʉ̯ː(ɡ)əɾ]; born 17 March 2003) is a Norwegian racing driver who is competing in the IndyCar Series. He will begin competing with A. J. Foyt Racing in 2027, having previously competed with Dale Coyne Racing. He competed in the 2025 Indy NXT with Andretti Global, winning the championship. He then won the 2026 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year award.

Hauger raced in Formula 2 from 2022 to 2024. He was a member of the Red Bull Junior Team and was the 2021 FIA Formula 3 champion. Hauger also won the 2019 Italian F4 Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing.

Karting

Hauger was born in Oslo and raised in Aurskog. His parents bought him a quad bike when he was two, and he started driving cross bikes at the age of four. He began his karting career at the age of five, winning his first race at the age of eight. After finishing 62 out of seventy national races on the podium the Norwegian moved into international competition in 2014. That year, Hauger claimed the ROK International title in the Mini category and followed it up the following year by claiming Mini category titles in the Vega Winter Trophy, the Italian CSAI Karting Championship and the WSK Champions Cup and Super Masters championships. In 2017, Hauger became the youngest ever champion to claim the DKM junior title and repeated this feat the following year to become the youngest DKM champion, until Harry Thompson claimed the title in 2018.

Lower formulae

In October 2017, Hauger and fellow Red Bull junior Jack Doohan were signed by the TRS Arden Junior Team to contest the 2018 F4 British Championship. Claiming four victories, Hauger ended the season fourth in the overall standings, but missed out on the Junior Championship to Doohan.

The following year, Hauger remained at Formula 4 level, but switched to Van Amersfoort Racing to contest the ADAC and Italian F4 championships. In the ADAC championship, Hauger claimed six victories, including one at the Formula One support race at the Hockenheimring, and finished as championship runner-up to Théo Pourchaire by only seven points.

Over in the Italian championship, Hauger scored twelve victories, including a weekend grand slam in the season finale at Monza, and sealed the title with a round to spare, being over 130 points ahead of fellow F1 junior drivers Gianluca Petecof of Ferrari and Paul Aron of Mercedes. His performances also helped Van Amersfoort Racing to win the team championship.

Euroformula Open Championship

In August 2019, Motopark announced Hauger would make his debut in the championship at Silverstone replacing Liam Lawson, having had to wait a round due to clashes with ADAC Formula 4 at the Red Bull Ring. The race weekend saw Hauger take a sixth place finish in the first race and a fifth place finish in the second race.

FIA Formula 3 Championship

2020

In October 2019, Hauger partook in the second and third days of post-season testing in Valencia with Hitech Grand Prix. In January 2020, Red Bull confirmed Hauger would race with the British outfit in the upcoming season together with fellow Red Bull junior Liam Lawson and Renault junior Max Fewtrell. Hauger's first FIA Formula 3 points came at the Hungaroring, where he finished eighth in the first race. This put him on reverse-grid pole position for the second race. He led much of the race but dropped back when the track began to dry, finishing third to claim his maiden FIA Formula 3 podium finish. Despite this result, Hauger would fail to score points at any of the remaining races, eventually finishing seventeenth in the championship with fourteen points.

In the post-season test at Catalunya, Hauger joined reigning team champions Prema Racing and consistently ran in the top ten across both testing days with a best placed finish of third in both afternoon sessions. Later that month, the Italian outfit once again fielded Hauger in the second post-season test at Jerez.

2021

In December, Prema confirmed Hauger would race with them in the 2021 season, partnering Olli Caldwell and Ferrari Driver Academy member Arthur Leclerc. He scored his first pole position in the category at the first weekend in Barcelona, beating former British F4 rival Jack Doohan. Hauger fought for the lead of Race 2 with Matteo Nannini, however the two collided, breaking Hauger's front wing and dropping him to the back. He led the entirety of Race 3 to claim his first FIA Formula 3 race victory, and ended the first round leading the championship by two points over teammate Caldwell. Hauger took consecutive second-place finishes at the Circuit Paul Ricard before taking pole position at the Red Bull Ring and finishing all three races on the podium, including a victory in Race 1 after starting 12th. After the third round, his championship lead had extended to a margin of 41 points, and Hauger extended that gap to 63 points after winning a wet-weather race at the Hungaroring. Following a round at Spa-Francorchamps in which he only scored six points however, his title rival Jack Doohan was able to bridge the gap between the two going into the penultimate round of the season. Hauger lost a chance at a podium finish three laps from the end of race two at Zandvoort due to a collision with Ido Cohen, but he was able to bounce back in the final race, extending his gap once again with his fourth win of the year. In the first race of the final round at the Sochi Autodrom, Hauger came up from fourth on the grid to take second, thus becoming the 2021 Formula 3 Champion with two races to spare. After the race, he stated that he had "started questioning [himself]" the previous season, but that his doubts were eradicated following his move to Prema.

Following the season finale, Hauger drove an F3 development car in a tyre test in Barcelona, completing 123 laps on a dry track, with the goals of the session being to make racing in F3 more demanding, as well as developing the tyres to help the teams for the following season.

FIA Formula 2 Championship

2022

Having tested with the team at the end of 2021, Hauger announced on 14 January that he would be partnering Jehan Daruvala at Prema Racing in Formula 2. Qualifying 15th for the Bahrain opener and narrowly missing points in the sprint, he ran in the points but retired after a faulty pit stop resulted in a tyre detaching from his car. Hauger started on reverse grid pole for the Jeddah sprint race and lead the early laps, but a safety car miscommunication invoked a ten-second stop-and-go penalty, causing him to finish down in 16th place. Hauger scored his first points of the season in the feature race with sixth place. Hauger's Imola weekend was bittersweet; he scored his maiden Formula 2 podium after finishing third in the Sprint Race, but was involved in an early collision with Jack Doohan that saw his Feature Race over after three turns. His weekend in Barcelona was uneventful; he qualified fourteenth and finished twelfth in the Sprint Race and thirteenth in the Feature Race. In Monaco, Hauger led from start to finish in the sprint race to score his maiden F2 victory. In the feature race, he made up four places at the start to fifth, but a safety car compromised his pit strategy and he dropped to seventh.

Hauger had an improved qualifying in Baku with third. His race ended after a failed overtake resulted in a crash into the wall, but he redeemed himself by winning his first feature race the next day, inheriting the lead after Jüri Vips crashed out. He failed to score in Silverstone as he was involved in a collision on the opening lap of the feature race with Roy Nissany. In Austria, he qualified in fifteenth position, and finished ninth in the sprint. During the feature Race starting on slick tyres, he passed multiple drivers who were on wets as the track dried; he eventually finished fourth after post-race penalties. Hauger qualified eighteenth in France due to a fuel pump failure, and failed to score points in the races…