🇺🇸 Clifton Lipple

Clifton Lipple is a competitive amateur racing in a national multiclass endurance series. He drives a production-based car in the ZR3 class for AOA Racing in the Zenith Racing Series, where each car is shared among two or more drivers over the course of a race. His only prior indexed start came in TC America's TCX touring car class in 2023.[1]

Through nine rounds of the 2026 Zenith Racing Series season so far, Lipple has taken one win and seven podiums and sits first in the championship standings. He typically finishes ahead of his regular opponents; he has beaten the semi-professional Silver-graded driver Dai Yoshihara once and the entry-level professional Silver-graded driver Tom O'Gorman once in the same series.[2]

Lipple races in a field mixing amateur and semi-professional entrants with graded professionals. His regular rivals include semi-professional competitors with extensive endurance and national-level touring experience, and he has consistently outpaced them across the season.