🏳️ Kenneth Rutyna

Kenneth Rutyna is a club-level endurance racing driver competing in American Endurance Racing. His Racer Rating of 1,434 places him in the club racing band; this represents a real licence and real results in competitive fields, but not the speed to race full-time against professional drivers. His average finish across 32 starts is 4.8, and he has claimed two wins and ten podiums in the series since 2021.[1]

Rutyna won the 2023 American Endurance Racing Class 3 championship, a result that sits at the heart of his record. His strength against peers is mixed; he trades wins and losses evenly with Jay Parmenter in their dozen shared races, and he holds a stronger record against Paul van Eeden over eleven encounters. However, he has struggled against the series' front-runners. Against David Gausman and Brett Cleer, both multiple Class 3 champions in American Endurance Racing, Rutyna finished ahead only twice in eighteen combined races. He also trails Chris Hebert and Steve Cohen, finishing behind them more often than ahead over their ten mutual starts. His most notable scalps come against much stronger company: he has beaten FIA Bronze-graded Misha Goikhberg twice and Thomas Lee, a two-time American Endurance Racing Class 2 champion, four times across their meetings.

Rutyna's career remains active into 2026, though recent form has declined; his last two starts have yielded no podiums and a thirty-first place finish. His results suggest a capable club driver who found peak form in 2023 but has since faced difficulty maintaining his place among the top Class 3 runners.