Matthew Connolly is a racing driver who competes in American Endurance Racing. Connolly has recorded 5 wins and 24 podiums from 88 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,022 ranks Connolly 15571th of 23,088 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.
| 2026-06-27 | Summit Point · Class 2 | P10 | −94 |
| 2026-06-26 | Summit Point · Class 2 | DNF | −143 |
| 2026-05-30 | VIR · Class 2 | P4 | +23 |
| 2026-05-29 | VIR · Class 2 | P6 | −30 |
| 2026-05-03 | Watkins Glen · Class 2 | P2 | +115 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P9 | −144 | 1,022 | |
| 2025 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P15 | +146 | 1,166 | |
| 2024 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P55 | +11 | 1,020 | |
| 2023 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P23 | +142 | 1,010 | |
| 2022 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P11 | +103 | 868 | |
| 2021 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P7 | +36 | 765 | |
| 2020 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P27 | −50 | 597 | |
| 2019 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 14 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P5 | −52 | 721 | |
| 2018 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P31 | −37 | 1,078 | |
| 2017 | ▸American Endurance Racing | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P29 | −131 | 755 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🏳️ Iain Barber | 2,419 | 29 | 9 | 20 | 31% |
| 🏳️ Thomas Lee | 2,682 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 31% |
| 🏳️ Chris Hebert | 721 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 31% |
| 🏳️ Shawn Dewey | 2,391 | 23 | 9 | 14 | 39% |
| 🏳️ Carl Becker | 1,395 | 23 | 8 | 15 | 35% |
| 🏳️ Brian Cincera | 1,397 | 22 | 6 | 16 | 27% |
| 🏳️ Sam Keller | 1,199 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 32% |
| 🇬🇧 Adam George | 2,899 | 21 | 5 | 16 | 24% |
| 🏳️ Panagioti Theodorakopoulos | 1,964 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 43% |
| 🏳️ Trevor Dawe | 1,996 | 20 | 5 | 15 | 25% |
| 🇺🇸 Aristotle BaloghFIA BRONZE | 3,925 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 Mike SkeenFIA SILVER · 1× CHAMPION | 3,891 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 Jaden LanderFIA SILVER · 1× CHAMPION | 3,633 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15,561 | 🏳️ Russ Brown 647218 | SCCA Regionals | 1,023 |
| 15,562 | 🏳️ Trevor Bond | SVRA | 1,023 |
| 15,563 | 🇨🇳 Yunfeng Zou | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 1,023 |
| 15,564 | 🏳️ Daniel Mount | SCCA Regionals | 1,022 |
| 15,565 | 🏳️ Grant Janish | SCCA Regionals | 1,022 |
| 15,566 | 🏳️ Griff Manvinder | SCCA Majors | 1,022 |
| 15,567 | 🏳️ Jason Walsh | SCCA Majors | 1,022 |
| 15,568 | 🏳️ Jim Bassett | SCCA Regionals | 1,022 |
| 15,569 | 🏳️ John Warren | SCCA Majors | 1,022 |
| 15,570 | 🏳️ Luke Bittenbinder | Velocity Invitational | 1,022 |
| 15,571 | 🏳️ Matthew Connolly | American Endurance Racing | 1,022 |
| 15,572 | 🏳️ Michael Novak | SCCA Majors | 1,022 |
| 15,573 | 🏳️ Michael Sussman | American Endurance Racing | 1,022 |
| 15,574 | 🏳️ Mitchel Grabeal | SCCA Majors | 1,022 |
| 15,575 | 🏳️ Nicholas Soriano | SCCA Regionals | 1,022 |
| 15,576 | 🏳️ Rick Stengard | American Endurance Racing | 1,022 |
| 15,577 | 🏳️ Robert Simpson | SCCA Regionals | 1,022 |
| 15,578 | 🇺🇸 Scott Lovett | American Endurance Racing | 1,022 |
| 15,579 | 🏳️ Steve Spano | American Endurance Racing | 1,022 |
| 15,580 | 🏳️ Steven Nelson | SCCA Regionals | 1,022 |
| 15,581 | 🏳️ Terry Abbott | SCCA Majors | 1,022 |
Matthew Connolly is a club-level endurance racing driver competing in American Endurance Racing since 2017. His Racer Rating of 1,022 places him in the developing bracket, describing a driver at the entry end of the professional spectrum or the front of club fields. Across ten seasons and 88 starts, Connolly has recorded five wins and 24 podium finishes, with an average finishing position of 5.7.[1]
Connolly's record in American Endurance Racing shows a pattern of racing among semi-professional and amateur competitors. His most frequent rivals, drivers such as Iain Barber (semi-professional level), Shawn Dewey (semi-professional level), and Carl Becker (competitive amateur), represent the calibre of field he typically encounters. Against these rivals, Connolly holds losing head-to-head records; he trails Barber 9–20 in 29 shared races and Dewey 9–14 in 23 shared races. His strongest isolated result came against professional-level opposition: he has finished ahead of Jaden Lander, a Silver-graded sportscar driver and 2024 GT4 America Am champion, on three occasions. More typical of his overall standing are the single occasions he has beaten drivers like Aristotle Balogh (a Bronze-graded professional) and Mike Skeen (2020 Trans-Am TA2 champion).
Connolly remains active as of 2026, having scored one podium in seven rounds of American Endurance Racing that year to finish ninth overall in his class. His career represents sustained entry-level professional competition in endurance racing over a decade without progression to stronger fields.