🇺🇸 Ford Koch

Ford Koch is an entry-level professional racing in national sprint and endurance series in the United States. He races primarily in the TGRNA GR Cup North America, a single-class championship for Toyota GR86 cup cars, where he finished ninth in the 2024–2025 season points standings with Copeland Motorsports. He has also competed in the IMSA Pilot Challenge as a shared-driver endurance entry in the GS class, and in the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America in its Cayman Pro-Am class, where he has taken three wins and four podiums across four starts to date.[1]

Over three indexed seasons from 2024, Koch has accumulated 41 starts across four national championships. His most substantive record comes in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Cayman class, where he has won three times in four appearances. In the TGRNA GR Cup, where he has made 24 starts, he remains a mid-pack regular. The IMSA Pilot Challenge, shared-driver racing across a multiclass endurance field, has yielded one podium from 11 starts.[2]

In the TGRNA field Koch races closely with Lucas Weisenberg, an entry-level professional and 2022 NASA Spec E46 champion who is a regular competitor in the same championship. Weisenberg has split wins and losses with Koch across their meetings. Koch usually finishes behind Westin Workman, the 2025 TGRNA GR Cup Am champion, a professional-level driver with 32 starts in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup. He has finished ahead of Nolan Siegel, an established professional and Gold-graded driver with 46 IndyCar starts and 19 in Indy NXT, once, and has beaten Guilherme Salas, an established professional with 170 Stock Car Pro Series starts, twice.