🇯🇵 Harry King

Harry King is a British sportscar and endurance racing driver competing at established professional level, holding an FIA Gold grading and a Racer Rating of 5,021. This places him among the sharp end of a strong field; he wins in professional competition and has proven capable of beating elite-tier drivers in isolated results, though he does not maintain a consistent record against the very strongest. His 65 career starts since 2021 span multiple international championships, with his record showing 5 wins and 19 podiums, but the calibre of opposition and context vary significantly between them.[1]

King's primary platform has been the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, where he has completed a full four-year tenure with BWT Lechner Racing, accumulating 27 starts, 4 wins and 13 podiums. This one-make series has furnished him with extensive racing against established Gold-graded professionals; over 28 shared races with Laurin Heinrich, a former champion graded at 5,490, King finished ahead 11 times but behind 17, and against Larry Ten Voorde, a three-time champion rated 5,760, his head-to-head shows 20 defeats against 9 victories across 29 meetings. Against Loek Hartog, a lower-graded Silver professional rated 3,963, King has won 15 of their 25 shared races, a dominant pattern that defines the realistic ceiling of his performance; he is stronger than one level down, competitive against his peers, and outmatched by the elite. His broader sportscar programme has been less successful. In the Asian Le Mans Series and IMSA WeatherTech, professional-level endurance fields where he has competed for Proton Competition and AO Racing respectively, he scored just 1 win and 4 podiums across 23 starts, averaging deeper in the field than his Supercup average. A striking outlier came at the 2024 Bathurst 12 Hour, where King won outright for The Bend Manthey EMA; he has also recorded occasional top-tier finishes, notably beating Max Verstappen and Sho Tsuboi in separate races, though such results are isolated moments rather than patterns against drivers of that standard. His 2025 forays into GT World Challenge Europe and Super GT yielded no podiums in ten starts, suggesting difficulty adapting to unfamiliar machinery and fields. As of 2026, King continues active racing across multiple championships, recently competing in WEC, the Nürburgring 24 Hours and European Le Mans Series alongside his ongoing Supercup campaign.[2]