In early January Alex spoke to James O’Connor for Pit Debrief about his 2026 plans, representing Ireland and the other up and coming Irish Motor Racing stars.
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GB4 race winner Alex O’Grady will remain with multiple champions KMR Sport as he returns to the GB4 Championship in 2026. With aspirations of a title challenge in his second GB4 campaign, O’Grady has resumed track action with KMR Sport, with positive days at the Silverstone and Donington Park Grand Prix circuits across recent weeks.
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Following his successful Oulton Park weekend Alex spoke with Stephen Corrigan, from his local newspaper the Connacht Tribune, about his love of Motor Sport his current situation and his future ambitions.
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Strong early season performances by Alex secured him an Omologato ‘one to watch’ award following his victory and second place finish at Oulton Park. Along with the recognition of his achievements Alex also received a watch from motorsport influenced watch makers Omologato.
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Round 3 of the GB4 season brought the drivers to Oulton Park. Alex mastered the wet conditions to start the weekend with his first GB4 victory and the first car racing win of his carreer.
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Alex’s GB4 season started off in Donington Park, where he had a mountain to climb having been relegated to the back of the grid for all three races following an issue in post qualifying scrutiny.
The young Irish driver fought back to score points in all three races.
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Alex O’Grady has today announced that he will undertake his first full season of Car Racing in 2024, competing in the French F4 Championship. FFSA F4 is a European series which uses the next-generation Mygale M21-F4. This prepares young drivers for transition to the higher categories.
Alex enters the FFSA F4 championship following a year spent testing F4 cars at various venues around Europe as a stepping stone from his successful years in Karting which saw him crowned as IAME Cadet Champion at the IAME World Finals.
The championship will see Alex race at iconic tracks such as Circuit Paul Ricard, Magny Cours, Spa Francorchamps, and Nurbergring. He is the first Irish driver to take part in this championship.
11 year old Alex O’Grady becomes Ireland’s youngest world champion
11-year-old Alex O’Grady from became Ireland’s youngest world champion at the weekend when he won the IAME World Championship Cadet final in Le Mans. Alex is a member of the Southern Karting Club based in Tynagh and races with Fusion Motorsport in England. The race report from the Kartxpress website is below:
This year saw the inception of two new classes at the IAME International Final with Minime (FFSA) / Cadet (MUK) one of them. The youngest of our warriors was made up with a 28 kart field for the final. Like all the finals it treated us with plenty of excitement and a tense last lap which would see Alex O’Grady (IRL) just hold on to take the win.
Neither would start on the front row though, that would be formed by Lewis Wherrel (GBR) and Zach Knight (GBR) who battled for the win in a close ran Pre Final with O’Grady also fighting for the win in third.
The start of the race would see Wherrel get the better of the starts leading Knight across the line at the end of the first lap. Into turn one Slater appeared to get caught out by Knight through turn one and made contact which saw Knight drop back and O’Grady inherit second.
O’Grady continued his charge as he took the lead from Wherrel with Slater going into second. However, this was going to be far from a three horse race with more drivers coming into the mix including the likes of Knight, Bishop Macaulay (GBR), Jack Buckley (IRL), Andrei Dabja (IRL) and Lisa Billard (FRA).
Lap six was where the race really started to heat up! With Knight setting fastest laps and quickly recovering to third, Slater felt it was time to go for the lead. His first attempt to pass was unsuccessful and his second led him to lose a position to Knight and it gave O’Grady a gap 0.7 seconds.
The start of lap seven saw Macaulay pull off one of the moves of the event going from fourth to second in one clean pass! But as Knight desperately tried to get back passed the two went side by side through the chicane with Macaulay eventually having to run over the grass.
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