🇺🇸 Kaylee Bryson

Kaylee Bryson is a competitive amateur racing driver with a Racer Rating of 2,841, placing her in the semi-professional band; she competes consistently at the front of her fields and regularly beats established professionals, though she has not yet demonstrated the sustained speed required at the top professional level. Based on 16 starts across the Trans-Am Series from 2023 through 2026, Bryson has won four races and finished on the podium ten times, averaging a finishing position of 2.9 overall. She won the 2024 Trans-Am SGT championship and the 2025 Trans-Am XGT championship, establishing herself as the class of the regional touring car field during that span.[1]

Her head-to-head record against the regular professionals in her field is mixed. Against established rivals at her level, such as Richard Forsythe, Joshua Carlson, and Lee Saunders, she holds roughly even or losing records, finishing ahead of Forsythe once and behind him four times, and showing a 1–3 deficit to Carlson across four races. However, she has beaten substantially stronger drivers in isolated instances: she finished ahead of Martin Ragginger, rated as a Gold-graded sportscar professional; David Hampton, a Bronze-graded endurance driver; and Boris Said, a Silver-graded professional. Against the established professionals Paul Menard and Matthew Brabham, who both hold ratings above 5,000, she has finished ahead of them in three races each, a notable pattern even if the sample is small.[2]

Bryson's career remains concentrated in Trans-Am, where she has built her championship record, and her recent activity shows limited racing in 2026; she has started three rounds without a top-three finish and currently stands eighth in the championship. She also competes part-time in USAC Silver Crown and previously raced in the ARCA Menards Series, though those efforts have been sporadic. As of mid-2026 she was active in select-race competition with multiple teams.