🏳️ Jeff Ippolito

Jeff Ippolito held a Racer Rating of 759, placing him in the developing category; this represents a driver with very limited racing experience and results at the entry level of competition. His record spans two seasons from 2018 to 2019 in American Endurance Racing, where he started ten times and recorded two podium finishes without a win. His average finishing position of fifth across classified starts masks an inconsistent campaign, as his most recent season in 2019 saw him finish thirty-fourth in the final standings despite one podium in five rounds.[1]

Ippolito competed primarily against drivers rated in the semi-professional range, significantly stronger than his own level. Against his most frequent rivals, he struggled; he finished behind the 2018 and 2019 American Endurance Racing Class 2 champions, Jeromey Mizer and Jason Shultz, in all four shared races with each. He also lost four of four races to Mizer, a competitor rated 1,385. His only significant showings against stronger drivers came in isolated races, where he beat Christopher Matos (a 3,964-rated NASA Spec E30 champion) and Marc Cefalo (a three-time SCCA Majors T4 champion rated 3,042), but these were single-race results rather than patterns of competitiveness.

Ippolito's career ended in 2019 and remains retired from competition. His ten starts in endurance racing represent a brief amateur effort against a field of more experienced racers, with his podium finishes suggesting occasional competence but insufficient consistency or pace to sustain a racing career.