Brazilian
Pedro Henrique Rodovalho Clerot is a Brazilian racing driver who stepped up to the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2026 with Rodin Motorsport, calling the move "the biggest step" of his career to date.
The climb
Like a generation of Brazilian talents before him, Clerot cut his teeth on his country's fiercely competitive karting scene, collecting multiple national karting titles before graduating to single-seaters in 2021. He announced himself quickly in cars, winning the Brazilian Formula 4 championship in 2022 — a title that has launched several of his compatriots toward Europe — before packing his bags for the Old Continent.
Formula 4 and Formula Regional
In Spanish F4 in 2023 he finished sixth overall with two wins, a solid first European campaign that earned him a graduation to the Formula Regional European Championship (FRECA), the key stepping stone below F3. His 2024 rookie FRECA season yielded two podiums and eighth in the standings; he stepped up sharply in 2025, fighting at the front, taking race wins — including a pole-to-flag victory at Spielberg — and ultimately finishing fourth in the championship with a round still to run. That run of form made him one of the most coveted FRECA graduates of his cohort.
Formula 3
For 2026 Clerot joined Rodin Motorsport as the team's only rookie, lining up alongside the returning Christian Ho and Brando Badoer. He wasted no time making an impression. At the glamour round in Monte Carlo he claimed his maiden FIA Formula 3 podium, inheriting third place in Saturday's Sprint Race after the on-road finisher ahead was excluded for a technical infringement — a result he later described as "mega" given the unforgiving nature of the Monaco streets. He carried that momentum into the rounds that followed, adopting what he has called a deliberately grounded, "race-by-race" approach with realistic expectations for a rookie season in a notoriously level field.
2026 / temporada actual
Clerot's debut F3 campaign was still unfolding mid-season, but his early Monaco podium, combined with Rodin's recent pedigree as a front-running outfit, marked him out as a Brazilian prospect worth watching as he looks to build toward the upper reaches of the single-seater ladder. With a karting and Formula 4 title already to his name and a steadily rising trajectory through FRECA, he arrives in F3 as a driver still climbing rather than one with his ceiling already defined.