Italian F4

In 2014, Shwartzman graduated to single-seaters, partaking in six races of the Italian F4 Championship with Cram Motorsport. He finished in the points four times out of the six, to rank sixteenth overall with 26 points.

The following year, Shwartzman partook in the championship full-time with Mücke Motorsport. Shwartzman claimed his first single-seater podium at just the first race at Vallelunga. He later took his maiden wins at Adria.^[9][10] Overall, Shwartzman claimed three wins and finished third in the standings with 212 points behind the Prema Powerteam duo of Ralf Aron and Guanyu Zhou.

ADAC F4

During that year, he also partook in the inaugural ADAC Formula 4 championship.^[11] He had a run of six consecutive podiums but did not record a win. He was unable to finish the season, but finished fourth in the standings.

2016

In 2016, Shwartzman moved to Formula Renault 2.0 with reigning series champions Josef Kaufmann Racing after testing with the team at Motorland Aragon.^[12] He claimed two victories in the Northern European Cup and finished sixth in the standings. In the Eurocup, Shwartzman finished eighth.

2017

For 2017, Shwartzman stayed in Formula Renault 2.0, but decided to switch to the R-ace GP team.^[13] He lost thirteen points to his teammate Will Palmer and finished in the third place in the driver standings, but was able to win six races, having podium finish at all rounds excepting Red Bull Ring, and at Circuit Paul Ricard.

2020

Shwartzman joined Prema Racing for the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, partnering Mick Schumacher.^[30] The season was planned to begin in March, but was postponed until July due to COVID-19 pandemic.^[31] On 18 April 2020, Shwartzman's father died of COVID-19 aged 52.^[32] On his rookie season of F2, Shwartzman expected his season as "toughest season of my life" mainly due to his father's death.^[33] Shwartzman qualified eighth on the opening race at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. He made a good start, moving up to fifth and later taking advantage for a mechanical issue for Guanyu Zhou and a mistake from Schumacher.^[34] This led him to take a podium finish on his Formula 2 debut, taking 3rd place in the feature race.^[35] Shwartzman finished in fourth, two places higher than where he started due to retirements from Giuliano Alesi and former Formula 3 teammate Marcus Armstrong. Shwartzman took his first Formula 2 victory at the feature race of the second Red Bull Ring round, having started eighth. He took the lead from Zhou with nine laps to go. Over the cool-down lap, Shwartzman dedicated the victory to his late father.^[36] After the race, Shwartzman described that the red flag "saved" him at the start of the race.^[37] However, in the sprint race, his fortunes were reversed by spinning out on the first lap on his own and retiring.^[38][39]

The next feature race at the Hungaroring saw Shwartzman qualify in 11th position. He left the first turn of the first lap five places ahead in sixth. He had a tire strategy different from the front-runners and had better tyre management. He was in a different world after his pit stop, overtaking Luca Ghiotto and Callum Ilott at the end of lap 29, and taking the lead from Schumacher just a lap later. Eventually, he won the race with a 15-second gap.^[40] In doing so, Shwartzman took the championship lead. In the sprint race, Shwartzman finished in fourth, passing a few drivers in the race.^[41] In Silverstone, Shwartzman qualified a lowly 18th.^[42][43] He struggled for pace in both the feature and sprint races, finishing 14th and 13th respectively. The second Silverstone weekend would prove to be a little better, with Shwartzman qualifying in 11th. He ended the feature race in eighth, passing Dan Ticktum for the reverse-grid position with five laps to go. Shwartzman led the race for the majority of the sprint race, until with thiree laps to go, Schumacher tried to pass him, but smashed into his front-right tyre, damaging Shwartzman's front wing.^[44] They were overtaken by Yuki Tsunoda who went on to win the race.^[45] Shwartzman was soon swarmed by the field, and in the end finished 13th. His result saw him lose the championship lead.^[46] Shwartzman back in top form again in Barcelona, qualifying second and taking the lead from Ilott into the first corner.^[47] On lap 8, however, the British driver would reclaim it back. Shwartzman survived a dramatic late safety car restart to finish in second place, only losing out to a timely pitstop from Nobuharu Matsushita.^[48] During the sprint race, Shwartzman was hit with massive tyre degradation and only managed 13th.

Shwartzman topped free practice for the first time and qualified fourth at Spa-Francorchamps.^[49][50] He fell to seventh on the opening lap but made it up to finish fifth. During the sprint race, Shwartzman passed a slow starting Guanyu Zhou. He grabbed his opportnity after Ticktum and Roy Nissany collided. From then on, he would control the race and eventually win by 9 seconds.^[51][52] Shwartzman improved to ninth after starting 16th at Monza, but was just less than a second away from Louis Delétraz from taking reverse pole. He managed to progress to sixth place in the sprint race, before being promoted a place after Ticktum was disqualified.^[53] Shwartzman qualified ninth for the round at Mugello. He would retire with a car issue at the halfway mark of the feature race.^[54] Shwartzman stormed back to ninth in the sprint race despite a mistake on lap 18 but was not enough to nab points.

At his home event at Sochi Autodrom, Shwartzman qualified seventh. However, a slow pit stop costed Shwartzman and soon slipping down to 11th.^[55] Shwartzman only finished 10th in a red-flagged sprint race, capping off another point-less weekend.^[56] Following the weekend, Shwartzman sat fifth in the standings, a distant 51 points off championship leader Schumacher.^[57] Shwartzman qualified 14th in the first of two rounds in Bahrain. He pushed his way up into fifth place, but fell to eighth after drivers on fresher and softer tyres overtook him. However, he did manage to get reverse pole. He converted it to a dominant win, leading every lap.^[58] Shwartzman qualified fourth at the second Sakhir round.^[59] He improved ahead to second on the first lap, passing both Carlin drivers. He eventually was passed by Tsunoda, and later in the race by Guanyu Zhou and Felipe Drugovich. He finished in fifth, but when Nikita Mazepin was penalised, he was moved to fourth position.^[60] Shwartzman placed 5th in the sprint race. Overall, Shwartzman ranked 4th in the standings with 177 points, but ultimately was beaten by teammate Schumacher who became champion.^[61] During the season, he collected six podiums, a fastest lap and four wins — the most wins of any driver during the season.

2021

He continued with Prema for the 2021 FIA Formula 2 Championship, this time partnering the reigning FIA Formula 3 champion, Oscar Piastri.^[62][63] Shwartzman endured a shaky start on the first round at Bahrain, qualifying 12th.^[64] He improved to fourth on the opening race in Bahrain. He retired in the second race, after making contact with Dan Ticktum. He finished seventh in the feature race.^[65] In Monaco, Shwartzman topped practice and qualified second.^[66][67] Shwartzman brushed the barrier on the first lap during the first sprint race, damaging his front wing and later retired. From last, Shwartzman rose to tenth courtesy of retirements to finish tenth. Shwartzman was on course to take second in the feature race before a slow pit stop caused him to lose positions to Piastri and Felipe Drugovich, ending the race in fourth.^[68]

Shwartzman qualified tenth in Baku, and started from reverse pole in the first race.^[69] He then scored his first win of the season, winning by five seconds.^[70][71] He finished fifth in the second sprint race, and ended the weekend in third place, taking advantage of multiple incidents and penalties for other drivers.^[72] In Silverstone, Shwartzman qualified seventh. He won once again, having a brilliant start to pass Christian Lundgaard, Jüri Vips and Roy Nissany before the first corner.^[73] He described his win as "redemption" following his win being taken away the previous year due to a collision.^[74] In the second sprint race, Shwartzman was running just outside the points when he spun on the penultimate corner on the penultimate lap, dropping him to 15th at the flag. He bounced back to secure fifth in the feature race.^[75]

Shwartzman qualified 12th in Monza. During the first sprint race, Shwartzman benefitted from incidents and failures from other drivers saw him run in third place. However, Shwartzman was awarded a 5-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage at the start of the race.^[76] He was demoted to sixth, and promoted Lundgaard who started 19th to finish on the podium. He managed to claim third in the second sprint, after overtaking Liam Lawson, Vips, and David Beckmann.^[77] Shwartzman rounded off his weekend with a sixth place finish in the feature race.^[78] In Sochi, Shwartzman qualified seventh. Shwartzman got his home podium in mixed conditions by finishing third, after a battle with Jake Hughes and an incident for Lawson.^[79] Following a cancelled sprint 2 due to bad weather,^[80] he raced to fourth place in the feature race, finishing just two seconds shy of 3rd place Jehan Daruvala.^[81][82]

Shwartzman qualified second from following up with fastest in free practice, forming a Prema front row lockout in Jeddah.^[83][84][85] Shwartzman finished fifth in sprint 1, following a battle with Lundgaard. Shwartzman would finish 5th on the road, but following penalties for Lundgaard and Daruvala, he was promoted to third place.^[86] In the red-flagged feature race, Shwartzman finished second behind Piastri.^[87] His performance in Jeddah moved him ahead of Guanyu Zhou into second place in the championship. At the season finale in Abu Dhabi, Shwartzman qualified fourth^[88] and finished in the same place that he qualified in the first sprint race. However, as Piastri finished third, he claimed the title with two races to go, meaning that Shwartzman's title challenge was over.^[89] Shwartzman finished second in the second sprint, making up two places at the start. He then overtook Ticktum and Ralph Boschung whilst benefitting from a retirement by Marcus Armstrong.^[90] Shwartzman ended the feature race in fifth place, after being passed by Théo Pourchaire and Drugovich in the dying stages of the race.^[91] He finished the 2021 season as vice-champion with 2 wins, 3 fastest laps and 8 podiums in total. He also achieved a total of 192 points that year, albeit 60.5 points off champion Piastri. Following his successful two F2 campaigns, Shwartzman left the series.^[92]

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

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