🇺🇸 Chris Leichtweis

Chris Leichtweis is a competitive amateur driver rated 2,551, placing him in the club racing band; this level represents the front of club competition and regional racing, typically self-funded drivers racing alongside professionals in entry-level categories. Leichtweis is classified as FIA Bronze, an amateur grading within sportscar and endurance racing that denotes a gentleman driver competing among professionals rather than a full-time professional himself. His career record spans a single season in 2025, with eight starts in McLaren Trophy America for AERO-B Motorsports.[1]

Leichtweis has accumulated two podium finishes across his eight races, averaging a fourth-place classification. In head-to-head competition, his record against established rivals is mixed; he has finished ahead of FIA Silver professionals including Andrew Davis on two occasions and McLaren Trophy America Pro-Am champion Jesse Lazare once, but has consistently trailed these same drivers over a larger sample, finishing behind Lazare and Hainer in five of six shared races each. His most notable result came against Jon Lancaster, an FIA Gold graded professional rated 4,591, whom Leichtweis beat on a single occasion. Against lower-rated Bronze drivers at similar ability levels, Leichtweis shows a competitive record, beating John Dempsey and others sporadically but without establishing dominance.

The driver finished eleventh in McLaren Trophy America Pro-Am standings in his debut season, indicating mid-field competitiveness in a field mixing amateurs and young professionals. As a first-season competitor with limited data, Leichtweis remains in the early stages of establishing a clear trajectory in sportscar racing.