🇺🇸 Austin Cindric

Austin Cindric is an American driver who competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for Ford Multimatic Motorsports. He came up through NASCAR's developmental ranks before establishing himself at the sport's top level, where he has built a career that includes two championships, earned in 2020 and 2021. Across 315 career starts, Cindric has amassed 16 wins and 51 podium finishes, figures that reflect a driver who has been consistently competitive over a substantial body of work in stock car racing. Beyond his NASCAR commitments, he has also ventured into international competition, taking part in the Supercars Championship in Australia, broadening his experience behind the wheel of the Ford Mustang platform in different racing environments.[1]

In the 2026 season, Cindric sits atop the Cup Series standings, having claimed five wins and sixteen podiums through 33 rounds, a return that underscores his current standing as one of the front-runners in the series. His Racer Rating of 4,690 places him 320th among active drivers on the Elo-style scale, a metric where the world's elite cluster between 10,000 and 11,500, indicating that despite his championship pedigree and strong 2026 form, there remains a considerable gap between his rated performance level and that of the sport's very best. Nonetheless, his sustained presence at the front of the field, combined with his two titles and deep well of race starts, marks him as an established and active competitor within the NASCAR Cup Series.[2]