🏳️ Laura Braverman

Laura Braverman is a developing driver racing in NASA, a multiclass national championship that mixes amateur and professional entrants on the same track. She races Mazda Miata in the Spec Miata class and has competed there since 2018, primarily with the Mazda Miata team.[1]

Across nine seasons and 148 starts, Braverman has taken a single podium finish. In 2026, her current season, she sits 89th in the championship standings with 12 rounds raced so far. She regularly competes against developing drivers of similar pace; she typically finishes ahead of Richard Lucquet, who has 174 NASA starts, and runs closely matched against Tony Senese, who has 236 NASA starts. She has beaten professional-level drivers including Dean Thompson, a former NASCAR Truck and NASCAR Xfinity competitor, on three separate occasions, and Kyle Kaiser, a 2017 Indy NXT champion, once.[2]