🏳️ Kartik Chandar

Kartik Chandar is a developing amateur racer with a Racer Rating of 400, placing him among the entry level of competitive motorsport; this rating reflects consistent racing against a field substantially stronger than himself with results that do not yet demonstrate competitive pace. Across five seasons from 2020 to 2026, Chandar has made 38 starts in NASA racing, all in a BMW 330i, without recording a win or podium finish. His average finishing position of 8.4 places him mid-field in his most frequent races, but this masks a consistent pattern of defeat against the drivers who share his schedule most often.[1]

Chandar's head-to-head record tells the story plainly. Against Peter Oneppo and Larry Noble, both club-level drivers, he has finished ahead only occasionally, winning 4 and 3 races respectively across 27 and 33 shared outings. Against semi-professional and professional company his record is starker: he has beaten Casey Mashore, a three-time NASA Spec E46 champion and a driver rated 2,955, once in 28 races; Lucas Weisenberg, an FIA Silver graded professional and 2022 NASA Spec E46 champion, once in 22 races; and Ryan Bittner once in 23 races. These isolated victories are notable only for being rare. Most recent activity in 2026 shows two rounds without points and a 52nd-place finish, indicating no trajectory toward improvement in the field.

The BMW 330i team Chandar races with has produced 62 wins across its 59 drivers, including much stronger competitors like Aristotle Balogh at the 3,845 professional level, but Chandar remains at the bottom of that operation's driver roster. His racing remains active but without development toward the semi-professional level where consistent results against stronger fields would begin to register.