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🇳🇿 Chris van der Drift

Racing driver from New Zealand. Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia, VSR.
Driver facts
Full name
Chris van der Drift
Born
8 March 1986(b. 1986)
Nationality
New Zealand
Current team
VSR
Series
Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia
Status
Active
Career wins
9
Career podiums
17
Career starts
54
Career DNFs
0
Racer Rating
4,482
Chris van der Drift
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
4,482
Rank 2008 of 38,983 indexed, +36 this season
FIA Categorisation
Gold
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Chris van der Drift is a racing driver from New Zealand who competes in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia for VSR. van der Drift has recorded 9 wins and 17 podiums from 54 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 4,482 ranks van der Drift 2008th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFBRAITAITAITAITAITAITAMYSMYSCHNCHNKORKORUSAUSA
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2026-08-01Road America ProAmLamborghini Super Trofeo NAP10−216
2026-07-31Road America ProAmLamborghini Super Trofeo NAP5−65
2026-07-18Inje Speedium ProAmLamborghini Super Trofeo AsiaP1+17
2026-07-17Inje Speedium ProAmLamborghini Super Trofeo AsiaP1+20
2026-05-24Ningbo International Speedpark ProAmLamborghini Super Trofeo AsiaP1+54
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+125Zolder 2006Formula Renault EurocupP2
+118Spa-Francorchamps 2011Formula V8 3.5P3
+113Misano 2006Formula Renault EurocupP1
+113Donington 2006Formula Renault EurocupP1
+101Istanbul 2006Formula Renault EurocupP4
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Misano World Circuit4 starts+48
Motorland4 starts+3
Struggles
Catalunya4 starts-6
Nurburgring4 starts-1
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Lamborghini Super Trofeo AsiaVSR666000P1+3174,482
▸Lamborghini Super Trofeo NAXONINE RACING200000P10−281
2025▸Asian Le Mans SeriesAbsolute Racing500000P16−6584,446
▸Lamborghini Super Trofeo AsiaVSR212000—+76
▸Lamborghini Super Trofeo World FinalVSR202000—+93
2023▸Lamborghini Super Trofeo World FinalAbsolute Racing200000—−1554,935
2015▸Stock Car Pro SeriesUnião Química Racing100000P34−1005,089
2011▸Formula V8 3.5Mofaz Racing701000P12+2335,189
2009▸Formula V8 3.5Epsilon Euskadi1401000P13↑349−694,956
2006▸Formula Renault EurocupJD Motorsport1325020P2+3,3264,676
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times van der Drift finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Bertrand BaguetteFIA Platinum5,7012691735%
🇪🇸 Jaime Alguersuari6,01725131252%
🇳🇿 Brendon HartleyFIA Platinum6,0022519676%
🇪🇪 Sten PentusFIA Silver4,3332520580%
🇷🇺 Daniil MoveFIA Bronze4,2871981142%
🇦🇹 Walter Grubmüller4,7461715288%
🇫🇷 Tom DillmannFIA Gold5,6941661038%
🇯🇵 Fairuz FauzyFIA Gold4,250146843%
🇷🇺 Anton Nebylitskiy4,0061412286%
🇪🇸 Dani Clos5,509137654%
🇦🇺 Daniel RicciardoFIA Platinum, 1× champion6,73563350%
🇮🇹 Edoardo MortaraFIA Platinum, 1× champion6,552119282%
🇨🇭 Sébastien BuemiFIA Platinum, 6× champion6,28953260%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
1,998🏳️ G. TonicNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,488
1,999🇩🇪 Marc GassnerNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,488
2,000🇺🇸 Austin GreenNASCAR Xfinity4,487
2,001🇯🇵 Daisuke NakajimaSuper GT4,487
2,002🇫🇷 Florian LatorreWEC4,487
2,003🇩🇪 Andreas GüldenNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,486
2,004🇺🇸 Michai StephensGT World Challenge America4,485
2,005🇩🇪 Pascal KochemFormula Renault Eurocup4,485
2,006🇬🇧 Ethan Jeff-HallBritish F44,484
2,007🇨🇭 Gary HirschWEC4,483
2,008🇳🇿 Chris van der DriftLamborghini Super Trofeo Asia4,482
2,009🇿🇦 Jackie PretoriusFormula 14,482
2,010🇮🇹 Lorenzo CaséWEC4,482
2,011🏳️ Petru UmbrärescuWEC4,481
2,012🇬🇧 Benjamin BarkerIMSA WeatherTech4,480
2,013🇵🇹 João BarbosaIMSA WeatherTech4,480
2,014🇺🇸 Kyle PettyNASCAR Xfinity4,480
2,015🇺🇸 Jeff BurtonGT World Challenge America4,479
2,016🇮🇹 Patrik FraboniLamborghini Super Trofeo Europe4,479
2,017🇯🇵 Hideki YamauchiSuper GT4,478
2,018🇮🇹 Stefano ProettoFormula 3 Euro Series4,478
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Chris van der Drift is a professional sportscar and endurance racing driver rated 4,478, which places him in the professional band. He competes in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia ProAm class for VSR, driving a Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo in a multiclass endurance championship run across five countries. He also races in the Asian Le Mans Series for Absolute Racing, a single-class endurance series mixing amateurs with graded professionals. He holds an FIA Gold grading, the full-professional classification in sportscar racing.[1]

Van der Drift's early career ran through single-seater racing. He took five podiums in 13 Formula Renault Eurocup starts in 2006, including two wins, then competed in Formula V8 3.5 for three seasons from 2009 to 2011, collecting two podiums from 21 starts. A single appearance in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series in 2015 marked the end of his indexed activity until his return to racing in 2025. Since then he has built a sustained presence in Lamborghini single-make racing, with eight starts across the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia seasons of 2025 and 2026 yielding seven wins and eight podiums, and four starts in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final from 2023 to 2025 producing two podiums. He won the 2026 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia championship.[2]

In Formula V8 3.5, van der Drift raced regularly against Bertrand Baguette and Brendon Hartley, both Platinum-graded elite professionals. Baguette went on to win the 2009 championship that season and later became a Super GT champion; van der Drift finished behind him more often than ahead. He ran ahead of Hartley consistently, who would later win the 2016 World Endurance Championship LMP1 title and the 2023 HYPERCAR championship. Van der Drift also finished ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, who would become a Formula 1 driver with 257 starts and won the 2010 Formula V8 3.5 championship, on three occasions. The Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia field includes multiple champions and professionals across its classes; van der Drift leads the ProAm category.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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