🇺🇸 George Kurtz

George Kurtz is an established professional racing driver competing across multiple endurance and sprint series in GT3 machinery. Graded FIA Bronze, he races primarily for Crowdstrike by Riley in single-driver GT America and shared-car GT World Challenge America, and for Crowdstrike Racing by APR in the multiclass endurance championships of Asian Le Mans Series, IMSA WeatherTech and WEC. His record spans eight seasons from 2019 to 2026, with 105 starts across seven series.[1]

Kurtz has won 21 races and taken 59 podiums. In GT America, a national single-driver series, he has six wins and 19 podiums from 29 starts. In GT World Challenge America, racing shared GT3 cars in the Pro-Am class, he has won six times from 18 starts with 14 podiums. His endurance record includes five wins and eight podiums in 11 Asian Le Mans Series starts for Crowdstrike Racing by APR, a team that won the 2024 and 2026 series championships with him as part of the driver roster. In IMSA WeatherTech, he has four wins and 15 podiums across 31 starts since 2021, and he won the 2023 and 2026 drivers' championships in that series. He also won the 2023 GT World Challenge America drivers' championship. His more recent activity includes two starts in WEC, where he is competing this season in shared-car prototype racing.[2]

Kurtz races alongside entry-level and established professionals across his regular series. Against Kyle Washington, a Bronze-graded regular in both GT America and GT World Challenge America with extensive experience in those championships, Kurtz usually finishes ahead. He is closely matched with Tom Dillmann, an established professional graded FIA Gold who won the 2022 Le Mans Cup and the 2024 IMSA WeatherTech LMP2 title and raced in Formula V8 3.5 and the Formula 3 Euro Series. Kurtz has beaten both Pato O'Ward, an elite professional and former IMSA WeatherTech and Indy NXT champion with 123 IndyCar starts, and Scott McLaughlin, a Platinum-graded two-time Supercars champion and IndyCar competitor, in head-to-head racing.