🇺🇸 Lawson Aschenbach

Lawson Aschenbach is a professional endurance racing driver, FIA Gold graded, who raced primarily in IMSA WeatherTech across five seasons from 2016 to 2020. He competed in the GTD class, piloting GT3 cars for Riley Motorsports in a multiclass field that mixed amateurs with graded professionals. He also made three starts in NASCAR Xfinity between 2015 and 2019, racing road and street courses for JD Motorsports.[1]

Across 46 IMSA WeatherTech starts he took one win and five podiums. His NASCAR Xfinity effort was limited to a single round in 2019, where he finished 34th in the championship standings. The bulk of his indexed record came through endurance racing in a shared-drive format, competing against established professionals and semi-professionals in a highly competitive national series.[2]

In IMSA WeatherTech, Aschenbach raced regularly against Andy Lally, a Gold-graded professional with an extensive resume in sports car and oval racing, and held his own in closely matched competition. He also faced Cooper MacNeil, a Silver-graded driver with significant international endurance experience including stints in the World Endurance Championship and European Le Mans Series, though he typically finished behind him. Among the strongest drivers he beat were Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional and champion of the 2021 Indy NXT series who has raced IndyCar extensively, and Maro Engel, a Platinum-graded established professional and 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion.