Chris Pither is a racing driver from New Zealand who last raced in Supercars Championship for Coca-Cola Racing. Pither has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 70 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,858 ranks Pither 6362th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2022-12-02 | VALO Adelaide 500 | P19 | −9 |
| 2022-12-02 | VALO Adelaide 500 | P16 | +29 |
| 2022-10-28 | Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 | P16 | +34 |
| 2022-10-28 | Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 | P9 | +120 |
| 2022-10-06 | Repco Bathurst 1000 | P21 | −15 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | ▸Supercars Championship | Coca-Cola Racing | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P35 | −12 | 1,858 |
| 2021 | ▸Supercars Championship | Coca-Cola Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P32 | +47 | 1,870 |
| 2020 | ▸Supercars Championship | Team Sydney | 27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P23 | −1,295 | 1,823 |
| 2019 | ▸Supercars Championship | Boost Mobile Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P41 | −182 | 2,492 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Cameron Waters | 6,060 | 65 | 5 | 60 | 8% |
| 🇳🇿 Shane Van Gisbergen | 5,778 | 65 | 6 | 59 | 9% |
| 🇦🇺 Mark Winterbottom | 3,778 | 65 | 9 | 56 | 14% |
| 🇦🇺 Lee Holdsworth | 3,744 | 64 | 8 | 56 | 13% |
| 🇦🇺 Chaz Mostert | 5,666 | 63 | 8 | 55 | 13% |
| 🇦🇺 Anton De Pasquale | 5,288 | 62 | 4 | 58 | 6% |
| 🇦🇺 Nick Percat | 3,406 | 62 | 11 | 51 | 18% |
| 🇳🇿 Jack Smith | 1,245 | 62 | 41 | 21 | 66% |
| 🇦🇺 David Reynolds | 3,409 | 61 | 6 | 55 | 10% |
| 🇦🇺 James Courtney | 3,308 | 61 | 6 | 55 | 10% |
Chris Pither is a retired New Zealand racing driver who contested the Supercars Championship across four seasons from 2019 to 2022, accumulating 70 starts with Coca-Cola Racing and its successor team PremiAir Racing. His background included multiple national championships in Australian and New Zealand domestic series, including the NZ V8 Ute Championship and the combined ANZ V8 Ute Racing Series. However, his Supercars campaign proved uncompetitive at the top level of Australian touring cars, where he faced a grid dominated by significantly stronger drivers and did not record a single podium finish.[1]
Pither's on-track record against his most frequent rivals illustrates the gulf in performance. He finished behind front-running professionals such as Cameron Waters, Shane Van Gisbergen, and Chaz Mostert in the vast majority of their shared races, with head-to-head records of 5–60, 6–59, and 8–55 respectively. Even against graded Gold professionals with lower ratings, such as Mark Winterbottom and Lee Holdsworth, he accumulated losing records of 9–56 and 8–56. His average classified finish across the championship stood at 18th place. The scale of the challenge is underscored by isolated instances in which he finished ahead of elite drivers such as Scott McLaughlin and Jamie Whincup, moments that stood out precisely because they were exceptional rather than representative of competitive parity.[2]
By 2022 his final season, Pither finished 35th in the championship standings. He retired from racing thereafter, his Supercars tenure marking the extent of his record on the international racing database.