Owen Tangavelou

2020

In 2020, Tangavelou made his car racing debut in the French F4 Championship. Due to a lack of testing prior to the season, as well as him stating that he had "not enough experience" in racing at the time, the Vietnamese driver finished 12th in the championship with a best race result of fifth place at Le Castellet.^[5]

2021

Tangavelou remained in French F4 for 2021. The Vietnamese driver started his season out strongly with his first podium in single-seaters at the opening race in Nogaro.^[6] He scored a further podium later in the season in the reversed-grid race at the Circuit Paul Ricard and finished fifth in the standings, having also set two fastest laps.^[7][8][9] In the FIA standings of the championship, Tangavelou also finished fifth, with a total of nine podiums, including three third places at the Hungaroring.

2022

Moving into 2022, Tangavelou made his debut in the Formula Regional category by racing in the final three rounds of the Formula Regional Asian Championship with Hitech Grand Prix.^[10] He had a best finish of 13th in the final race, one in which he scored a rookie podium, and ended up 31st in the standings.

Tangavelou's main series that year would be the Formula Regional European Championship, which he would contest with G4 Racing.^[11][12][13] Following the first half of the season, which yielded a best finish of 14th at Le Castellet, Tangavelou switched to the RPM team to partner Pietro Delli Guanti.^[14] His results would improve almost instantly, with him getting his first points at the Hungaroring and scoring two further ninth places at the next round in Spa-Francorchamps.^[15] Another point came at the Red Bull Ring, before Tangavelou scored a season-best finish of sixth place at the season finale in Mugello, thereby taking the rookie victory within that race, which elevated him to twentieth in the standings.^[16]

2023

In 2023, Tangavelou moved to Trident for his second season in the series.^[17] He finished 14th in the championship, achieving two top-five finishes and seven top-ten results.

2024

To represent his family living in Vietnam, Tangavelou decided to compete under a Vietnamese licence from 2024 onwards.^[18][19] After spending two seasons in FRECA, Tangavelou switched to the Eurocup-3 championship for the 2024 season, driving for MP Motorsport.^[20] Tangavelou finished third in the Eurocup-3 Winter Series with one podium. In the main championship, he took a win at the Red Bull Ring, three poles, three podiums and nine top-five finishes en route to fourth in the standings.^[21]

2025

Tangavelou returned to Eurocup-3 in 2025 with Drivex for the third round in Paul Ricard, where he had a best finish of eleventh.^[22] He returned the next round in Monza, moving over to Allay Racing where he once again had a best finish of eleventh.^[23]

At the end of 2025, Tangavelou joined Saintéloc Racing to race in the FIA FR World Cup at Macau.^[24] He became the first Vietnamese driver to race at the event.^[25] He qualified 21st and finished 17th.^[26][27]

USF Pro 2000 Championship

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

* Season still in progress.