🇺🇸 Connor Zilisch

Connor Zilisch is an elite professional racing driver at the FIA Gold grade, competing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for Trackhouse Racing and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity and Truck series. He has raced across multiple national championships in the United States since 2018, with his primary focus on stock cars across the NASCAR ladder and endurance racing in IMSA's prototype classes.[1]

Zilisch took the 2024 ARCA Menards East championship with four wins from eight starts on a circuit dominated by oval racing, and won the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity title with 13 wins from 45 starts across a mixed oval and road-course schedule. In IMSA endurance racing, he has appeared in prototype machinery for Cadillac Whelen, taking two wins and five podiums from seven starts in a field spanning LMP2, GTP and GTDPRO classes. His earlier career included nine wins across 34 starts in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup for BSI Racing, where he finished seventh in the 2024 points after one win and four podiums from eight rounds, and success in SCCA Majors with eight wins from 18 starts. In his 203 career starts across all series, he has recorded 48 wins and 83 podiums.[2]

Zilisch regularly competes against the calibre of established professionals at the national level. He usually finishes ahead of William Sawalich, the 2023 ARCA Menards East and 2024 ARCA Menards Series champion, and runs closely matched with Austin Hill, the 2020 NASCAR Truck champion who has 170 Xfinity starts and 32 Cup starts on his record. On single occasions, he has finished ahead of Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a generational driver and Platinum-graded professional who has raced Formula 1, and Alex Palou, a four-time IndyCar champion and elite professional.