David Cheng is a racing driver who last raced in WEC for Jackie Chan DC Racing. Cheng has recorded 0 wins and 2 podiums from 26 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,433 ranks Cheng 1848th of 15,348 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.
| 2018-06-16 | LE MANS · LMP2 | P8 | +22 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | ▸WEC | Jackie Chan DC Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P36 | +22 | 3,433 |
| 2017 | ▸WEC | Jackie Chan DC Racing | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P17 | −55 | 3,433 |
| 2016 | ▸WEC | Baxi DC Racing Alpine | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −53 | 3,456 |
| 2015 | ▸WEC | Pegasus Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P38 | +12 | 3,495 |
| 2014 | ▸WEC | OAK Racing | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P19 | −2 | 3,515 |
| 2013 | ▸WEC | OAK Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P31 | +8 | 3,508 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇷🇺 Roman Rusinov | 3,974 | 20 | 5 | 15 | 25% |
| 🇧🇷 Bruno Senna | 5,489 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 7% |
| 🇫🇷 Nicolas Lapierre | 5,391 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0% |
| 🇩🇰 Gustavo Menezes | 4,777 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 7% |
| 🇫🇷 Julien Canal | 3,411 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 29% |
| 🇷🇺 Vitaly Petrov | 4,700 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 42% |
| 🇬🇧 Matthew Rao | 2,177 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 42% |
| 🏳️ Ricardo Gonzalez | 3,656 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0% |
| 🇩🇰 David Heinemeier Hansson | 3,623 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 18% |
| 🏳️ Nicolas Minassian | 3,508 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 50% |
David Cheng competed in the World Endurance Championship across six seasons from 2013 to 2018, making 26 starts with Jackie Chan DC Racing. He never won a race but finished on the podium twice; his average finishing position was sixth. He contested a professional endurance series against drivers with credentials ranging from national-level Silver graded professionals to multiple Formula 1 veterans and world champions. In head-to-head competition against such rivals, Cheng consistently finished behind stronger drivers. He faced multiple Platinum graded champions including Bruno Senna, Nicolas Lapierre, and Gustavo Menezes across dozens of shared races and finished ahead of them only once or twice across those encounters. Against Gold graded Roman Rusinov, a two-time champion, he finished ahead in five of twenty meetings but trailed in fifteen.[1]
Against the very strongest drivers Cheng has encountered, his record shows occasional individual results of note. He finished ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne, a two-time champion and Platinum graded professional, four times across his WEC career. He also beat René Rast, a three-time Platinum graded champion, and Ryo Hirakawa, another three-time Platinum graded champion, once each. Felix Rosenqvist, a Gold graded former champion, was beaten once by Cheng. These isolated victories stand out against a pattern of finishing behind elite professionals.[2]
His Racer Rating of 3,433 places him in the semi-professional tier of endurance racing. The pinnacle moment of his career came at the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he achieved an overall and class podium finish with Jackie Chan DC Racing, a result noted in the record though not separately broken out in the race tabulation. His most recent WEC race was in 2018, after which he retired from professional racing. He subsequently competed in the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy, a distinct series not detailed in the WEC record.