🇺🇸 Bryce Ward

Bryce Ward is a professional-level endurance racer competing in IMSA Pilot Challenge for Winward Racing, where he also serves as team principal. He drives a GT4-level production-based sports car in the series' GS class. Graded FIA Bronze, he races in multiclass fields that mix amateur and semi-professional drivers with graded professionals, and competes alongside co-drivers who share the car during endurance rounds. His indexed record spans eight seasons from 2018 onwards, beginning with occasional starts in the 24H Series before establishing himself as a regular in IMSA Pilot Challenge from 2019 through the present.[1]

Ward has taken three wins and seventeen podiums across 77 starts in IMSA Pilot Challenge and endurance racing. In the current 2026 IMSA Pilot Challenge season, still in progress with ten rounds completed, he holds third place in the championship with one win and three podiums so far. His record reflects consistent mid-field performance against the drivers he races regularly; he finishes closely matched with Gregory Liefooghe, an entry-level professional with nearly a century of Pilot Challenge starts, while usually finishing behind Jeff Westphal, a FIA Gold professional and the 2019 IMSA Pilot Challenge GS champion. He has finished ahead of Chase Briscoe, an elite professional who has competed across NASCAR's national series, on five occasions.[2]

Winward Racing, the team fielding Ward's car, operates at an established level within the index, having won 45 races across its entries and fielded drivers ranging from developing competitors to generational talent. Ward's standing within this context is that of a reliable driver in a professionally competitive operation, producing regular podium finishes in a series where he meets graded professionals and experienced semi-professional racers in every round.