British
Ben Barnicoat (born 20 December 1996 in Chesterfield, England) is a British racing driver best known today as a sportscar professional and Lexus factory driver, but who had an earlier single-seater career on the junior ladder.
Barnicoat was a successful junior in the Formula Renault world, winning the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC title in 2014 and a string of other junior trophies, and he raced in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Hitech GP in 2016, finishing ninth. He largely moved into GT racing from 2017, joining McLaren's GT driver academy.
His single appearance in the modern FIA Formula 3 Championship came in 2020, when he made a part-season return with Carlin (the team later rebranded as Rodin Motorsport) after stepping in for Enaam Ahmed mid-year. He scored a single point — a tenth place in the first Silverstone race — and finished 22nd overall in a short cameo.
Barnicoat's main career has been in sportscars: a McLaren GT factory driver, then a Lexus / Vasser Sullivan factory driver in IMSA, where he won the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship GTD Pro class.