🇺🇸 Kyle Connery

Kyle Connery is a semi-professional driver whose rating of 3,192 places him in the competitive amateur band; this level describes drivers who race frequently in strong fields and beat semi-professionals comfortably, though they do not win races or consistently run at the sharp end. Connery's career was confined to three seasons in the Pro Mazda Championship between 2013 and 2015, a period in which he started 25 races without recording a win or podium finish. His average finishing position of 11th across those starts places him in the middle order of the field.[1]

The competitive context of Connery's record reveals a driver outmatched by the stronger runners in the series. He finished behind Jose Gutiérrez, an FIA Silver graded professional, in 20 of 25 shared races, and behind Garett Grist, also FIA Silver, in 18 of 23 encounters. Against Neil Alberico, another Silver-graded rival, Connery's record was 4 ahead and 19 behind in 23 races. He showed a clearer advantage only against Bobby Eberle and Jay Horak, drivers at or near his own level, winning those head-to-head contests by comfortable margins. Notably, Connery finished ahead of Pato O'Ward twice and Kyle Kaiser twice; both would go on to win major championships, though these isolated results came in a field where both were still developing and do not indicate a consistent pattern of outperforming them.

Connery raced for JDC Motorsports in 23 of his 25 starts. His most recent activity was the 2015 Pro Mazda season, in which he competed in 14 rounds and finished fourteenth in points. He has been retired from racing since that season ended.