🏳️ Mark Gaynor

Mark Gaynor's career rating of 1,159 places him in the club racing band. He competed in 24 races across two series over eight seasons, operating at the level of competitive club racing rather than among established professionals. His average finishing position of P3.5 across all starts reflects consistency in mid-field company, though the strength of those fields was modest; his most frequent rivals included several drivers graded as professionals by the FIA, but Gaynor competed primarily against semi-professional and club-level fields.[1]

Gaynor's record against the stronger drivers in his orbit shows limited success against established competition. He finished behind Jack Haberman, a multi-time NASA and American Endurance Racing champion, in eight of their eight shared races. Against Paul Sparta, an FIA Bronze-graded professional and two-time champion, Gaynor won the head-to-head record two races to four. His most competitive runs came against lower-ranked rivals; he beat Michael Gershanok six times in eight races. Gaynor's single championship came in 2023 in American Endurance Racing Class 5, a series where he accumulated ten podiums across his fifteen starts between 2019 and 2023. His American Endurance Racing tenure was his stronger period, yielding his only win and the bulk of his thirteen career podiums. His earlier NASA outings between 2015 and 2018 produced three podiums from nine starts with no wins.