🏳️ Douglas DePIETRO

Douglas DePietro is a retired club racer with a rating of 1,802, placing him in the competitive amateur band; this describes a driver quick enough to win consistently in club fields and to race against professionals rather than with them, though typically from outside the front rank of national competition. His career spanned eight seasons from 2009 to 2016 across 58 starts, concentrated almost entirely in PCA Club Racing, where he won 26 races and finished on the podium 42 times in 51 starts. His average finishing position of P2.2 across all classified races reflects a career built on consistency and regular top-three results rather than occasional brilliance; he was rarely out of the points in club competition.[1]

DePietro's record against his peers shows him as a capable if not dominant force in his field. He held a commanding head-to-head record against Louis Betstadt, a 2007 PCA Club Racing E champion, finishing ahead of him 16 times in 18 shared races. He was similarly dominant against James Clemens, Paolo Incampo, and Harry Kintzi, winning those contests by comfortable margins. He also managed wins against several drivers rated substantially higher; he beat Attilio Albani, an established professional, four times, and Karl Poeltl, a multi-time PCA Club Racing champion, twice. These results against stronger opposition suggest a driver at the sharp end of club racing capable of occasional results against semi-professionals, though his most recent seasons showed no further progression into higher categories.