Ken Kirkpatrick is a racing driver who competes in NASA for GTR thunderroadster GTR thunderroadster. Kirkpatrick has recorded 17 wins and 23 podiums from 46 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,628 ranks Kirkpatrick 20043th of 40,700 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.
| 2026-09-27 | Sebring International Raceway Thunder Roadster GTR | P5 | +38 |
| 2026-09-26 | Sebring International Raceway Thunder Roadster GTR | P13 | −122 |
| 2026-09-06 | Roebling Road Raceway Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P5 | −145 |
| 2026-09-06 | Roebling Road Raceway Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P1 | +90 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +165 | Road Atlanta 2022 | NASA | P1 |
| +160 | Road Atlanta 2023 | NASA | P1 |
| +156 | Carolina Motorsports Park 2023 | NASA | P1 |
| +144 | Road Atlanta 2023 | NASA | P1 |
| +140 | Carolina Motorsports Park 2023 | NASA | P1 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ▸NASA | GTR thunderroadster GTR thunderroadster | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | −139 | 1,628 |
| 2025 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunder Roadster | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | −123 | 1,767 |
| 2024 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunder Roadster | 9 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +470 | 1,890 |
| 2023 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunder Roadster | 15 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +265 | 1,420 |
| 2022 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunder Roadster | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P4 | +341 | 1,155 |
| 2021 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunder Roadster | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P7 | −536 | 814 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🏳️ Major Long | 1,370 | 41 | 22 | 19 | 54% |
| 🏳️ Lee Roberts | 1,416 | 35 | 18 | 17 | 51% |
| 🏳️ Shawn Childress | 1,462 | 34 | 20 | 14 | 59% |
| 🏳️ Scott Lanford | 1,532 | 29 | 16 | 13 | 55% |
| 🏳️ Antonio Cancel | 752 | 27 | 20 | 7 | 74% |
| 🏳️ Lee Shierts | 661 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 65% |
| 🏳️ Richard Comer | 1,987 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 44% |
| 🏳️ Patrick Altier | 487 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 81% |
| 🏳️ Brandon Wonders | 631 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 54% |
| 🇺🇸 Ryan Mason | 1,561 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇺🇸 Brian TylerHigher-rated | 3,840 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20,033 | 🇩🇪 Klaus Müller | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 1,629 |
| 20,034 | 🇩🇰 Michael Outzen | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 1,629 |
| 20,035 | 🇺🇸 Romain Eugene | American Endurance Racing | 1,629 |
| 20,036 | 🏳️ Ryan Boudreau | American Endurance Racing | 1,629 |
| 20,037 | 🏳️ Timothy Rubright | SVRA | 1,629 |
| 20,038 | 🏳️ Tyler Neill | ChampCar Endurance Series | 1,629 |
| 20,039 | 🏳️ Caglayan Celik | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 1,628 |
| 20,040 | 🏳️ Danny Parkhurst | NASA | 1,628 |
| 20,041 | 🏳️ Frank Widmoser | SCCA Majors | 1,628 |
| 20,042 | 🏳️ Jon Moody | NASA | 1,628 |
| 20,043 | 🏳️ Ken Kirkpatrick | NASA | 1,628 |
| 20,044 | 🏳️ Mario Rodriguez | World Racing League | 1,628 |
| 20,045 | 🏳️ Matt Giuffre | NASA | 1,628 |
| 20,046 | 🏳️ Robert Getz | American Endurance Racing | 1,628 |
| 20,047 | 🇷🇺 Vitalii Elizavetenkov | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 1,628 |
| 20,048 | 🇬🇧 Ben Lyons | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 1,627 |
| 20,049 | 🏳️ Brody Lally | American Endurance Racing | 1,627 |
| 20,050 | 🏳️ Ethan Mackey | SCCA Regionals | 1,627 |
| 20,051 | 🏳️ Fabian Berger | American Endurance Racing | 1,627 |
| 20,052 | 🏳️ Gerald Blauch | American Endurance Racing | 1,627 |
| 20,053 | 🇩🇪 Hans-Olaf Beckmann | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 1,627 |
Ken Kirkpatrick is a club-level driver racing in NASA, a national multiclass sprint championship where fifteen classes share the track in a single race. He drives a tube-frame Thunder Roadster powered by a Hayabusa engine for 600 Racing, an established team that has fielded thirty-eight drivers across the index. Over six seasons from 2021 to 2026, he has taken seventeen wins and twenty-three podiums from forty-six starts.[1]
His record shows consistent front-running pace in the Thunder Roadster class. He won NASA championships in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and he has raced the series every season since 2021. In the current 2026 season, still in progress, he has scored one win and one podium from four rounds raced so far. His wins have come across multiple campaigns, indicating sustained competitiveness rather than a single strong year.[2]
Kirkpatrick races regularly against Major Long and Lee Roberts, both club-level NASA regulars with substantial series experience, and splits results closely with them. He has beaten Brian Tyler, an entry-level professional with ten IndyCar starts and experience in NASCAR Xfinity, once in their meetings. His record against Richard Comer, another long-serving NASA club driver with sixty-one starts, stands at seven wins in their head-to-heads.