After a non-scoring season with the FW43, Latifi scored his maiden points finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2021, repeating this feat in Belgium.

Nicholas Daniel Latifi was born on 29 June 1995 in Montreal, Quebec,[1][2] and grew up in North York, Toronto.

[3] He is the son of Michael Latifi, an Iranian-Canadian billionaire businessman who is the CEO of Sofina Foods, Inc. and also owns the British Virgin Islands company Nidala.

[8] In 2023, Latifi announced that he was putting his racing career on hold while he studied for an MBA at the London Business School.

Latifi continued competing in Canadian and American karting series until 2012, when he won the Florida Winter Tour championship in the Rotax DD2 class.

[30] Latifi competed in the 2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge for Rehagen Racing, driving a Ford Mustang GT.

[31] In 2014, he made an appearance in the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain driving for Redline Racing at Rockingham.

Latifi joined GP2 for two races in 2014, replacing Hilmer Motorsport's Daniel Abt, who dropped out due to Formula E commitments.

In 2016, Latifi joined GP2 full-time with DAMS,[36] but had a difficult season and finished 16th, 101 points behind teammate Alex Lynn.

"[43] He was hampered by qualifying issues and occasionally chaotic race starts, but mounted notable recovery drives at Bahrain (pit lane to tenth),[44] Baku (last to fifth),[45] Monaco (18th to ninth),[46] Paul Ricard (17th to seventh),[47] and Spielberg (19th to 11th).

[85] However, Latifi pushed back against the "pay driver" label, noting that while "the reality of motorsport is that it is an expensive sport", his F2 performances had more than met the FIA Super License benchmarks to compete in Formula One.

The team parted ways with title sponsor ROKiT, claiming that the latter had failed to timely pay its sponsorship dues.

[87] Williams promoted Latifi to the senior team for 2020, replacing Robert Kubica and partnering former Formula 2 competitor George Russell.

At the Italian Grand Prix, Latifi recovered from last[98] to 11th, after a well-timed pit stop immediately before a safety car and red flag vaulted him into ninth place at the re-start.

[102] Latifi received an opportunity to compete with a new teammate when Russell was temporarily promoted to Mercedes for the Sakhir Grand Prix, and duly outqualified substitute Jack Aitken;[103] however, he was forced to retire in 13th place due to an oil leak.

[106] At round two, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Latifi advanced to Q2 and achieved his career-best qualifying position with 14th place;[107] however, he retired after colliding with Nikita Mazepin, who was in his blind spot.

A 12th-place qualifying finish,[120] two penalties, and a Sergio Pérez crash allowed him to start the rain-affected Belgian Grand Prix in ninth place.

[121] He made Q2 again at the following race, the Dutch Grand Prix, but a shunt during his flying lap doomed him to a pit lane start so that Williams could fix his car.

[122] At the Italian Grand Prix, Latifi finished 14th in the sprint race[123] and nearly scored points for a third time before losing tenth place to Esteban Ocon at the safety car restart.

[126] Williams' form dropped off in the final third of the season,[127] but Latifi outqualified Russell for the first time with a 16th-place grid placement at the São Paulo Grand Prix.

[130] Latifi played an unexpectedly significant role in the Abu Dhabi GP, which had one of the most controversial endings to a race in Formula One history.

Hamilton led most of the race, but Latifi crashed on lap 53 of 58 while battling Mick Schumacher, triggering a safety car.

[134] Following the race, Latifi apologized for the crash[134] but nonetheless received threats and hate messages from fans on social media.

[139] Latifi stayed with Williams for the 2022 season and was paired with his former DAMS teammate Alex Albon following Russell's promotion to Mercedes.

[140] Formula One debuted new regulations for the 2022 season, and Latifi admitted that he was having difficulty adjusting to the new ground effect cars.

[141] In addition, Williams team principal Jost Capito believed that the online abuse Latifi endured after the prior year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix affected his performances during the season,[142] and offered the team's "full support" to Latifi to rebuild his confidence.

[149] He started the race and finished in 15th,[150] but Carlos Sainz accused Latifi of costing him the victory by holding him up under blue flags.

At the French Grand Prix, Latifi retired after colliding with Kevin Magnussen on lap 38; neither driver accepted sole responsibility for the incident.

[158] At the Italian Grand Prix, Latifi's old F2 rival Nyck de Vries filled in for Albon, who withdrew due to appendicitis.

[162] Despite the grid penalty, the Japanese Grand Prix provided one last hurrah for Latifi, who qualified last but scored his first points of the season with a ninth-place finish after fortituously gambling by pitting for intermediate tyres at the end of a safety car restart.