🏳️ Chris Watson

Chris Watson raced in NASA's Spec E30 class, a single-driver national multiclass championship that runs spec BMW E30 3-series in fields mixing amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals. He competed for three seasons from 2013 to 2015, recording 20 starts and 5 podiums across 10 rounds in his final season before retiring. Watson holds a club-level rating of 1,467, placing him among developing and amateur competitors.[1]

Watson finished 16th in the 2015 NASA championship standings. His record shows regular racing against Bennett McMicking, a club-level NASA regular who typically finished ahead of him, and James Gouveia Jr., a developing driver whom Watson usually beat. He recorded finishes ahead of Sean Quinlan and Aristotle Balogh, both entry-level professionals with extensive racing in NASA and IMSA series, though across the full head-to-head records Watson lost to each substantially more often than he won.[2]

Watson raced primarily for a single BMW E30 operation that fielded him in 18 of his 20 starts. The team's strongest driver was Chris Allen, a semi-professional, and the operation recorded one race win across its indexed history with nine drivers.