Kristy Kester is a racing driver from United States who last raced in Star Mazda Championship for Kester Racing with Team 3G. Kester has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 19 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,753 ranks Kester 4737th of 40,200 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, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2009-07-10 | Iowa | P10 | +30 |
| 2009-06-19 | Milwaukee | P15 | −35 |
| 2009-06-12 | New Jersey Motorsports Park | P13 | +20 |
| 2009-06-12 | New Jersey Motorsports Park | P13 | +15 |
| 2009-05-15 | Miller | P16 | +14 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +112 | Portland International Raceway 2008 | Star Mazda Championship | P4 |
| +65 | Sebring International Raceway 2008 | Star Mazda Championship | P8 |
| +61 | Road America 2008 | Star Mazda Championship | P7 |
| +36 | Laguna Seca 2008 | Star Mazda Championship | P10 |
| +30 | Iowa 2009 | Star Mazda Championship | P10 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | ▸Star Mazda Championship | Kester Racing with Team 3G | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −35 | 3,756 |
| 2008 | ▸Star Mazda Championship | Kester Racing | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +2,441 | 3,791 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Alex Ardoin | 4,259 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 21% |
| 🇮🇪 Peter DempseyFIA Bronze | 4,186 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 16% |
| 🇧🇷 Caio Lara | 4,092 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 37% |
| 🇺🇸 Billy Goshen | 3,905 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 26% |
| 🇺🇸 Joel MillerFIA Gold | 3,671 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 16% |
| 🇨🇦 Taylor Hacquard | 3,592 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 53% |
| 🇺🇸 Jeffery Kester | 3,405 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 63% |
| 🇨🇦 Christopher CummingFIA Bronze | 4,420 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 67% |
| 🇨🇦 Rusty Mitchell | 4,688 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 63% |
| 🇺🇸 Gerry KrautFIA Bronze | 3,733 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 77% |
| 🇺🇸 Conor DalyFIA Gold, 1× champion | 5,440 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇺🇸 John Michael EdwardsHigher-rated, 1× champion | 5,078 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 9% |
| 🇨🇦 David OstellaFIA Silver | 4,663 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,727 | 🇧🇷 Ernesto Otero | Star Mazda Championship | 3,754 |
| 4,728 | 🇫🇷 François Labhardt | FIA GT Championship | 3,754 |
| 4,729 | 🇨🇴 Jairo Avila, Jr. | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,754 |
| 4,730 | 🇩🇪 Paco Orti | FIA GT Championship | 3,754 |
| 4,731 | 🏳️ Richard Feller | 24H Series | 3,754 |
| 4,732 | 🇬🇧 Thomas Bleiner | FIA GT Championship | 3,754 |
| 4,733 | 🇬🇧 Alex Fores | GB3 | 3,753 |
| 4,734 | 🇺🇸 Bob Shreeves | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,753 |
| 4,735 | 🇺🇸 Darryl Sage | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,753 |
| 4,736 | 🇲🇽 Katherine Legge | NASCAR Cup Series | 3,753 |
| 4,737 | 🇺🇸 Kristy Kester | Star Mazda Championship | 3,753 |
| 4,738 | 🇦🇺 Luis Leeds | S5000 | 3,753 |
| 4,739 | 🇮🇹 Simone Cunati | Italian F4 | 3,753 |
| 4,740 | 🇬🇧 Marco Panzavuota | FIA GT Championship | 3,752 |
| 4,741 | 🇺🇸 Roy Payne | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,752 |
| 4,742 | 🇬🇧 Tim O'Kennedy | FIA GT Championship | 3,752 |
| 4,743 | 🇨🇭 Christoph Ulrich | Road to Le Mans | 3,751 |
| 4,744 | 🇺🇸 James Sofronas | Porsche Carrera Cup NA | 3,751 |
| 4,745 | 🇫🇷 Julien Piguet | TCR World Tour | 3,751 |
| 4,746 | 🇺🇸 Steve Lawrence | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,751 |
| 4,747 | 🇩🇪 Thomas Holzer | WEC | 3,751 |
Kristy Kester is a semi-professional driver whose rating of 3,753 places her among the mid-tier entrants of club and regional racing; this rating reflects a driver competing regularly among full professionals without consistently beating them. Her career on record spans two seasons, 2008 to 2009, conducted entirely in the Star Mazda Championship. Across 19 starts she recorded no wins and no podium finishes, averaging a twelfth-place result.[1]
The competitive context of Kester's career shows her racing regularly against drivers of stronger calibre. Her most frequent rival was Peter Dempsey, an FIA Bronze graded driver rated substantially higher; Kester finished ahead of Dempsey only 3 times across 19 shared races. Similar patterns held against other regulars: she beat Alex Ardoin 4 times in 19 meetings, Caio Lara 7 times in 19, and Billy Goshen 5 times in 14. She achieved isolated results against notably stronger drivers, finishing ahead of Conor Daly, the 2010 Star Mazda champion, twice, and Adam Christodoulou, the 2009 Star Mazda champion, once. Taylor Hacquard represented her most competitive matchup among frequent rivals, with Kester ahead in 10 of 19 encounters.
Kester retired after the 2009 season. Her career was conducted through Kester Racing, which accounted for 12 of her 19 starts and recorded no wins across its history in the index.