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🇻🇪 Alex Popow
Racing driver from Venezuela. USF Juniors. One-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Alex Popow
Born
9 November 1975(b. 1975)
Nationality
Venezuela
Current team
Series
USF Juniors
Status
Retired
Championships
12016
Career wins
4
Career podiums
5
Career starts
30
Career DNFs
1
Racer Rating
3,460
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
3,460Rank 6000 of 40,349 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Silver
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago
Alex Popow is a racing driver from Venezuela who last raced in USF Juniors. Popow is a one-time champion (2016), with 4 wins and 5 podiums from 30 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,460 ranks Popow 6000th of 40,349 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2024 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
| 2024-04-07 | NOLA Motorsports Park | P22 | −191 |
| 2024-04-07 | NOLA Motorsports Park | P17 | −131 |
| 2024-04-06 | NOLA Motorsports Park | P25 | −238 |
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +147 | 6 Hours of the Glen 2015 | IMSA WeatherTech | P4 |
| +145 | Petit Le Mans 2014 | IMSA WeatherTech | P5 |
| +125 | Watkins Glen International 2016 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
| +124 | Belle Isle Street Circuit 2016 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
| +112 | Lime Rock Park 2016 | IMSA WeatherTech | P1 |
Season by season
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ▸USF Juniors | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −561 | 3,460 | |
| 2022 | ▸IMSA Prototype Challenge | Muehlner Motorsports America | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P15 | −17 | 4,021 |
| 2019 | ▸IMSA Pilot Challenge | KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P19 | −694 | 4,037 |
| 2017 | ▸Road to Le Mans | Eurointernational | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | −300 | 4,732 |
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Starworks Motorsport | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P14 | −116 | ||
| 2016 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Starworks Motorsport | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +289 | 4,732 |
| 2015 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Starworks Motorsport | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P26 | +71 | 4,983 |
| 2014 | ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Starworks Motorsport | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P29 | ↑675−10 | 4,815 |
| 2012 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | TriStar Motorsports | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P35 | +2,773 | 4,123 |
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Popow finished ahead vs behind
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 Stephen SimpsonFIA Silver | 4,145 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 Tom Kimber-SmithFIA Gold | 5,193 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 Colin BraunFIA Gold | 4,798 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 James FrenchFIA Silver | 2,749 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 71% |
| 🇧🇷 Bruno JunqueiraFIA Silver | 4,013 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 73% |
| 🇬🇧 Johnny MowlemFIA Gold | 3,820 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 73% |
| 🇺🇸 Mark KvammeFIA Bronze | 3,506 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 73% |
| 🇺🇸 Eric CurranFIA Gold | 5,371 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20% |
| 🇺🇸 Ben KeatingFIA Bronze | 4,660 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 60% |
| 🇨🇦 Christopher CummingFIA Bronze | 4,537 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 60% |
| 🇫🇷 Kevin EstreFIA Platinum, 2× champion | 6,146 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% |
| 🇳🇿 Brendon HartleyFIA Platinum, 3× champion | 6,047 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇵🇹 Timo BernhardFIA Platinum, 1× champion | 5,942 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,349 drivers indexed
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,990 | 🇫🇷 Thomas Bellemin | Zenith Racing Series | 3,463 |
| 5,991 | 🇮🇹 Giovanni Gulinelli | FIA GT Championship | 3,462 |
| 5,992 | 🇩🇪 Maximilian Hackländer | Prototype Cup Germany | 3,462 |
| 5,993 | 🇨🇦 Ty Fisher | Spanish F4 | 3,462 |
| 5,994 | 🇦🇺 George NAKAS | Le Mans Cup | 3,461 |
| 5,995 | 🇵🇹 José Rodrigues | FIA World Touring Car Cup | 3,461 |
| 5,996 | 🇮🇪 Keith Donegan | Formula Regional European | 3,461 |
| 5,997 | 🇺🇸 Larry Caron | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,461 |
| 5,998 | 🇬🇧 Steven Lake | British GT Championship | 3,461 |
| 5,999 | 🇬🇧 Thomas Ashton | Le Mans Cup | 3,461 |
| 6,000 | 🇻🇪 Alex Popow | USF Juniors | 3,460 |
| 6,001 | 🇬🇧 Gee Atherton | Formula Renault Eurocup | 3,460 |
| 6,002 | 🇺🇸 Greg Strelzoff | IMSA Pilot Challenge | 3,460 |
| 6,003 | 🇺🇸 James Walker Jr. | GT4 America | 3,460 |
| 6,004 | 🇫🇷 Marc Sourd | FIA GT Championship | 3,460 |
| 6,005 | 🇺🇸 Todd Szegedy | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,460 |
| 6,006 | 🇨🇦 Daniel ALI | GT World Challenge Europe | 3,459 |
| 6,007 | 🇬🇧 Gregor Ramsay | Formula Renault Eurocup | 3,459 |
| 6,008 | 🇩🇪 Horst Baumann | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,459 |
| 6,009 | 🇺🇸 Joseph Maley | TGRNA GR Cup North America | 3,459 |
| 6,010 | 🇺🇸 Sebastian Asch | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 3,459 |
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