Paul Aron (born 4 February 2004) is an Estonian racing driver currently set to race in the 2023 FIA Formula 3 Championship with

Prema Racing Prema Powerteam (competing as Prema Racing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, the FIA Formula 3 Championship and European Le Mans Series and as Prema Orlen Team in the FIA World Endurance Championship) is a motorsport team from Italy. It mainly ...

. He previously competed in the

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for Prema in

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and

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, in which he ended both series in third. Aron is part of the

Mercedes Junior Team The Mercedes Junior Team is an initiative by the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team to help nurture talent from karts through the feeder series ladder to promote them to their Formula One team. All eligible drivers have been promoted to Formula One, with Pa ...

. He also won the rookie cup in the

2019 Italian F4 Championship The 2019 Italian F4 Championship Powered by Abarth was the sixth season of the Italian F4 Championship. Norwegian driver Dennis Hauger dominated the championship, winning twelve out of the 21 races, helping his team Van Amersfoort Racing to becom ...

and placed third in the regular standings.

Career

Karting

Starting in Estonia at the age of 8, Aron climbed the karting ladder as he was soon racing all over Europe but mostly in Italy. Aron won the

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in 2018.

Lower formulae

Aron raced in the

2019 ADAC Formula 4 Championship The 2019 ADAC Formula 4 Championship was the fifth season of the ADAC Formula 4, an open-wheel motor racing series. It was a multi-event motor racing championship that featured drivers competing in 1.4 litre Tatuus-Abarth single seat race cars tha ...

for

Prema Powerteam Prema Powerteam (competing as Prema Racing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, the FIA Formula 3 Championship and European Le Mans Series and as Prema Orlen Team in the FIA World Endurance Championship) is a motorsport team from Italy. It mainly ...

, he finished seventh in the championship with two podiums both of which were wins in

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and the

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. Aron's more successful campaign in 2019 came in the

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, also racing for Prema, he took eight podiums and two wins, one of which also coming at the

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, with the other achieved at

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. Aron finished the year in third behind

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junior driver

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and Brazilian

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-member

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. Thanks to nine rookie victories Aron became the rookie champion.

Formula Renault Eurocup

After testing with them in the post-season test at

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in November 2019, Aron was signed to

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's new

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outfit for the 2020 season. Despite scoring a second place at the

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, the Estonian was outscored by his more experienced teammates

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and eventual champion

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and finished eleventh in the standings.

Formula Regional European Championship

2021

In 2021 Aron moved back to Prema to partner David Vidales and

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in the

. The Estonian's first podium came at the opening round at

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, where he finished second in race 2, being beaten only by previous year's teammate Saucy. Aron was able to finish third at the following two rounds respectively, but would then go on a podium drought that lasted until the seventh round of the season, where he ended the first race at the

in third place. After a round in which he finished fourth and twelfth in

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, Aron claimed his first pole position of the season at the

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2022

Aron continued with Prema for the

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FIA Formula 3 Championship

In November 2021, Aron partook in the post-season test with

on Day 2 and Day 3. At the end of September 2022, Aron again took part in the FIA Formula 3 post-season test with Prema, contesting on all three days. During the following month, the team confirmed that Aron had signed up to compete in the 2023 F3 season.

Formula One

In July 2019, the Mercedes Formula One team added Aron to their junior team.

Personal life

Aron's older brother is 2015 Italian F4 champion

Ralf Aron Ralf Aron (born 21 March 1998) is an Estonian former racing driver, who competed in the Italian F4 Championship, ADAC Formula 4 and European Formula 3 championships for Prema Powerteam and Hitech GP. He is now a team manager at Prema, but cont ...

, who currently is a team manager at

Karting record

Karting career summary

Complete CIK-FIA Karting European Championship results

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