Damien Faulkner is a racing driver who last raced in IMSA Pilot Challenge for Winward Racing / HTP Motorsport. Faulkner has recorded 0 wins and 1 podium from 14 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,707 ranks Faulkner 8670th of 12,418 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.
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | IMSA Pilot Challenge | Winward Racing / HTP Motorsport | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P10 | +553 | 2,063 |
| 2017 | IMSA Pilot Challenge | CJ Wilson Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P29 | +160 | 1,510 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Dillon Machavern | 3,370 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 14% |
| 🇺🇸 Trent Hindman | 3,187 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 43% |
| 🇺🇸 Matt Plumb | 2,238 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 57% |
| 🇺🇸 Alan Brynjolfsson | 3,202 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 62% |
| 🇺🇸 Paul Holton | 2,320 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 54% |
| 🏳️ Jack Roush Jr | 1,730 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 54% |
| 🇨🇦 Jesse Lazare | 3,093 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 Hugh Plumb | 2,114 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 36% |
| 🇺🇸 Guy Cosmo | 2,787 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 60% |
| 🇨🇦 Scott Maxwell | 2,323 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% |
Damien Faulkner is an Irish race car driver from Moville, County Donegal, whose motorsport career began in Formula Vauxhall Junior in 1995 before progressing through the Formula Ford Festival and Formula Palmer Audi in the late 1990s, where podium finishes in series points opened the door to a taste of F3000 machinery with Arden. That single-seater grounding gave way over time to a sports car focused chapter of his career, most recently in the IMSA Pilot Challenge with Winward Racing / HTP Motorsport. Across 14 career starts in the series, Faulkner has yet to record a win, but has claimed one career podium, a marker of steady if modest returns at this level of competition.[1]
In the 2026 season, Faulkner competed across six rounds for Winward Racing / HTP Motorsport, taking one podium finish without a win and settling tenth in the final standings. His Racer Rating of 1,707, placing him 8,670th among active drivers on the database's Elo-style scale, reflects a career now in its retired phase, positioned well below the elite tier of the sport but consistent with a competitor who built a long-running presence in sports car racing after an earlier grounding in European single-seaters. With no championships to his name across his tracked career, Faulkner's record stands as that of a durable, journeyman entrant whose participation across 14 starts and a solitary podium forms the core of his Racer DB profile.[2]