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Lucca Allen

Lucca Allen
Allen (left) in 2018
Nationality	Irish
Born	(2002-06-29) 29 June 2002 (age 22) Cork, Ireland
Related to	Rachel Allen (mother)
Le Mans Cup career
Debut season	2023
Current team	Graff Racing
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Previous series
2022 2021 2020–2021 2018–2019 2017–2018	Ultimate Cup Endurance Series Formula Regional Japanese Championship Super Formula Lights Formula 4 South East Asia Championship F4 British Championship
Championship titles
2019	Formula 4 South East Asia Championship

Lucca Allen (born 29 June 2002) is an Irish racing driver who last competed in the Le Mans Cup with Graff Racing. He was champion of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championshipin2019, and previously competed in Super Formula Lights.

Born in Cork, Allen started his karting career in 2011. He quickly proved his speed, competing for Ireland in the Karting World Championship in 2014 against the likes of Enaam Ahmed and Mick Schumacher. Allen once again raced for Ireland in the Karting World Championship in 2016, a year in which he also became Irish Karting Champion.^[1]

The Irish driver signed on with Fortec Motorsports to compete full-time in 2018.^[2] Allen scored 29 points and finished 14th in the championship, whilst also making his F4 SEA Championship debut, scoring one podium in Sepang.

Allen fully committed to the F4 SEA Championship in 2019. Allen won the championship by one point to Finnish driver Elias Seppänen, with 640 points and twelve race victories to his name.^[3]

In January 2020 ALBIREX Racing announced that Allen would take part in the inaugural season of the Japanese Super Formula Lights series.^[4] However, due to COVID-19 travel restrictions Allen was unable to compete in the first three rounds of the championship at Motegi, Okayama and Sportsland SUGO.^[5] The Irishman made his series debut at Autopolis and scored a total of five points, helping him to finish 9th in the drivers' championship despite only participating in 3 rounds.

In 2022 Allen made his first foray into endurance racing. Having originally been scheduled to drive for AF2 Motorsport in the Michelin Le Mans Cup,^[6] Allen ended up competing in the Ultimate Cup Series for Graff Racing, racing in the Prototype Challenge. The Irishman won the championship in convincing fashion, having won five out of six races.^[7] Allen would eventually return to the Le Mans Cupin2023, driving alongside James Sweetnam for Graff.^[8]

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Cup	Qualifying	Quali Race	Main race
2019	Team Ireland	Formula 4	15th	11th	8th

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

• Lucca Allen career summary at DriverDB.com