🏳️ Ben Bettenhausen

Ben Bettenhausen is a developing amateur racer with a rating of 1,014, placing him at the entry level of competitive racing. His record spans three seasons from 2020 to 2022 across club and endurance series; he started eight times without a win, accumulated two podium finishes, and retired after competing in SCCA Majors in 2022.[1]

The podiums came in endurance racing; one from American Endurance Racing in 2020 and another in NASA Mazda Miata racing in 2021. His sustained racing came in SCCA Majors, where he entered four rounds in 2022 but finished well outside the points, recording a final position of P105. Against his most frequent rivals in those SCCA Majors races, he competed four times against Danny Steyn, the four-time series STL class champion, and finished behind him all four times. He held a mixed record against Greg Sorg, winning two encounters and losing two, but was faster than Stephen Hoch, M. Rose Hawley, and Dan Harding in all their meetings. He finished ahead of several stronger drivers once each, including Capers Zentmeyer, champion of the 2023 NASA Spec Miata series, though these isolated results do not indicate a pattern. His average finishing position across all starts was P16.6, reflecting a career spent competing against a mix of club-level and semi-professional drivers but unable to establish consistency at any level.[2]