🇺🇸 Brent Holden

Brent Holden is a retired amateur sportscar driver rated 2,538, placing him in the competitive amateur band; this level describes club racers and drivers at the entry end of professional-am fields. His FIA categorisation as Bronze confirms his amateur status within endurance and GT racing. Holden raced across three series between 2022 and 2024, amassing seventeen starts with five podium finishes but no wins. His racing was concentrated in Ferrari Challenge, where he completed thirteen starts for Ferrari of Seattle across three seasons, alongside two brief campaigns in GT America and GT World Challenge America in 2024 for GMG Racing.[1]

Holden's competitive record shows modest success against mid-field rivals but consistent difficulty against stronger professionals. Across his thirteen shared races with Yahn Bernier, a semi-professional driver rated 3,582, Holden finished ahead seven times, indicating a closely matched pairing; however, he finished behind Michael Petramalo, the 2022 Ferrari Challenge S champion, in ten of their twelve meetings. Against Lance Cawley, a driver near Holden's own level, Holden won their head-to-head decisively, finishing ahead ten times in twelve races. His average finishing position of P6.1 reflects performance in the upper-amateur to lower-semi-professional range. He secured isolated results against stronger drivers; he beat Justin Rothberg, an FIA Silver professional and 2024 GT America SRO3 champion, three times across their meetings, though such isolated victories do not establish a pattern against substantially stronger competition.

The bulk of Holden's entries came through Ferrari of Seattle and Ferrari of Newport Beach in single-make racing, a natural proving ground for amateur competitors. His move to the broader GT America and GT World Challenge America fields in 2024, where he immediately scored podiums, suggests he remained competitive at his level in his final season. Holden has since retired from racing.