Jazeman Jaafar

Jazeman Jaafar is a Malaysian racing driver, born in Kuala Lumpur on 13 November 1992. ^{1 2} He won the Formula BMW Asia championship in 2007 and was runner-up in the British Formula 3 championship in 2012. ³

Jaafar began karting at the age of six in Shah Alam and won eleven karting championships in Malaysia and Asia, including the Belgian Open Kart Championship in Mariembourg. ³ In 2006 he entered the Asian Formula Renault 2.0 series at thirteen, becoming the youngest driver ever granted an FIA International C licence. ³

Jaafar won the 2007 Formula BMW Asia title — confirmed only the following February after an appeal overturned his exclusion — becoming the youngest winner in Formula BMW history at fourteen. ³ After two seasons in Formula BMW Europe he joined Carlin in British Formula 3, finishing as vice-champion in 2012 and becoming the first Asian driver to win the Pau Grand Prix. ³ He stepped up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series with Carlin in 2013 and ISR Racing in 2014, raced in the Blancpain Endurance Series with HTP Motorsport in 2016, and most recently competed in the Super GT Series in 2025. ^{3 1}

Jaafar resides in Malaysia; his hobbies are training and reading, and his idol is Ayrton Senna. ³

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