Photo Credit: Jose Mario Dias/USF Juniors

Titus Sherlock raced his way into the top-10 eight times during the 2022 USF Juniors season, but inconsistency held back the young driver’s season as he only finished eighth in the championship.

Now in the Formula 4 United States Championship for 2023, Sherlock believes he has a chance to take all the positives of last season and turn them into a title challenge.

“We honestly had a lot of mechanical problems,” Sherlock said. “We had some random (issues), just bad luck, random flat tires, random electrical gremlins, and we just didn’t quite have the speed at some tracks.”

When Sherlock was at his best, he was able to run near the top of the field. His best result was part of a chaotic second race at Virginia International Raceway where Sherlock managed to play his cards right and finish second place.

Sherlock has full faith that the team will not only be able to wrestle out the mechanical problems that plagued them in USF Juniors in 2022, but also that he will be able to take the experience from last year and contend for the F4 title.

“I would consider anything less than a championship challenge to be a failure,” Sherlock said. “Last year was kind of a disaster in terms of the results that we expected, but the potential was there, and we saw that when we ran the F4 round last year.”

Titus Sherlock

Sherlock got a small taste of F4 last season when he raced the final weekend of the season at the Circuit of the Americas, placing 8th and 6th in two of the three races.

Staying with the same team, Sherlock will still be running with Crosslink Kiwi for the upcoming season. He described Kiwi as a team that he has grown comfortable working with over the past two years.

“I followed all of the junior single seater categories, I wanted to move up one day and I always saw Kiwi at the top,” Sherlock said. “They were always winning.”

Sherlock went on to explain that one of his friends began racing for the team and after receiving good referrals, he got his chance to race for them as well.

“Everyone says they loved (Kiwi) and I moved with them last year into juniors,” Sherlock said. “The reason I’m sticking with them is that I love them too, they were great.”

Sherlock goes into 2023 having accumulated a lot of experience in a short amount of time. For starters, he finished second in the Lucas Oil Formula Car Race series in 2021 and then won their winter series in 2022 before embarking on his USF Juniors campaign.

Before he began road racing, he had experience running various off-road races, which he said has helped with his car control.

“I started in karting relatively late compared to a lot of people,” Sherlock said. “I started when I was 13 and ever since I began road racing, I always felt like I was behind when it came to experience.”

Sherlock believes the past few years have been crucial for him to get up to speed with other drivers, and he is confident in taking what he has learned in USF Juniors and applying it to a successful campaign in F4 in 2023.

Titus Sherlock will begin his season for Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport whenever the Formula 4 United States Championship begins in March.