🇺🇸 Aristotle Balogh

Aristotle Balogh is an entry-level professional racing driver, FIA Bronze-graded, competing in shared-car endurance racing across IMSA's national championships. He races LMP3 prototypes in IMSA's endurance and sprint series, most recently in the IMSA AirBNB Endurance Challenge and Zenith Racing Series for Toney Driver Development and Morehead Speedworks. His primary series have been NASA's production-car racing and IMSA's multiclass championships, where he has accumulated 144 starts since 2014.[1]

Balogh's record spans 12 seasons, with six podiums in IMSA WeatherTech, three wins across NASA and the IMSA AirBNB Endurance Challenge, and consistent mid-field finishes in national-level fields. He spent his early years in BMW 325i competition at NASA, where he took two wins across 65 starts from 2014 to 2020, and raced IMSA Pilot Challenge and American Endurance Racing in production and near-production machinery. His move into prototype racing in 2021 saw immediate results; he finished on the podium six times in 11 IMSA WeatherTech starts. The 2026 season brought him back to endurance prototypes with a win and two podiums in three starts in the IMSA AirBNB Endurance Challenge before moving to the Zenith Racing Series, where he currently sits 13th in the championship standings with more rounds remaining.[2]

In his most frequent IMSA Pilot Challenge competition, Balogh ran closely matched against Eric Foss, an FIA Silver-graded 2017 IMSA Pilot Challenge ST champion, and James Clay, a 2023 GT4 America Am champion. He has also finished ahead of Chase Briscoe, an elite professional and 2016 ARCA Menards Series champion with significant NASCAR Cup Series experience, on four occasions, and Austin Cindric, an established professional and two-time NASCAR Xfinity champion, twice.