🏳️ Josef Paluch II

Josef Paluch II raced Porsche 944 specification cars in NASA competition between 2005 and 2012, accumulating eight starts across four seasons. His rating of 1,067 places him in the club racing category; this reflects a driver competing in regional amateur motorsport against semi-professional fields. He recorded two podium finishes but did not win a race.[1]

Paluch's competitive record shows a driver at the margin of the fields he entered. His average finish of sixth place across all starts masks a head-to-head record against his regular rivals that ran below the balance of parity. Against Norman Hamden, the most frequent competitor in shared races, Paluch finished ahead once in six encounters. He achieved more success against Jim Marks, beating him three times in four meetings, but fell consistently to stronger drivers in the category such as David Dirks, the 2007, 2008, and 2009 NASA 944 Spec champion, whom he beat once. His two podium finishes came in competition with drivers of similar or slightly lower rating; his racing career ended in 2012 with a finishing position of 60th in his final event.