ALFONS
MIETTINEN

THE STORY

Where it started

Alfons was born on 28 February 2010 in Espoo, Finland. Anything with an engine got his attention before he could walk — cars, motorbikes, even the brakes on the local tram. At seven, a friend invited him to try karting at the Bemböle track in Espoo — the same circuit where Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen, Mika Salo and Kimi Räikkönen took their first laps. He did three hours straight on his first day. He hasn’t stopped since.

Karting: building the foundation (2017–2021)

From a Dino chassis with a Cadet engine to a Raket Micro and finally an IAME Mini60, Alfons climbed the Finnish karting ladder racing out of a family-run tent. In 2018 he won the Uusimaa County Cup and finished 2nd in the National Champions race. In 2020 and 2021 he raced the Iame Mini60 series, finishing P6 and P5 overall against teams with engineers and multiple engines — while running a single rented engine and a chassis that was already several years old.

Going international (2022–2023)

2022 was the breakthrough. In his first OKJ season as a rookie he finished P4 in the Finnish Championship and earned a wildcard to the IAME International Final in Le Mans — his first race outside Finland. In 2023 he stepped up to Champions of the Future and the FIA European Championship with Diamond Racing, then later that year joined Koski Motorsport for the rest of the season. He scored P3 in qualifying in his first ever Champions of the Future round in Valencia and made the final at the FIA European round. At home, he finished P2 in the Finnish OKJ Championship despite running a three-year-old chassis.

Senior categories and KZ2 (2024–2025)

In 2024 he started with Koski in the first two Champions of the Future and FIA European rounds, then returned to Finland to race the IAME X30 Senior series, finishing P3 overall. 2025 was about making the jump to the gearbox class: he raced his first KZ2 in Lonato and reached the final, then competed at the KZ2 World Championship in Franciacorta with LA Motorsport, and finished the year P14 overall in the WSK Final Cup KZ2 — alongside P2 in the Finnish OK Senior Championship. In November he did a two-day F4 test in Valencia and set times quicker than the race pace. That test changed the plan.

2026: Spanish F4 with GRS Team

Ten days before the season opener, the call came: a seat in the 2026 Spanish F4 Championship with GRS Team. Alfons and his family said yes. Coming from a family-run karting tent straight into a national F4 series is not the usual path — but very little about Alfons’s career so far has been usual. The 2026 season is about learning the car, racing the calendar, and proving that the speed shown in karting and in the Valencia test transfers to single-seaters. The long-term goal hasn’t changed since he first sat in a kart at seven.

“The point of football is to run after a ball. I’d rather drive.”
— Alfons, age 5, explaining to his father why he was quitting football