🇺🇸 Melissa KOZYRA

Melissa Kozyra is a competitive amateur racer with a Racer Rating of 2,854, placing her at the front edge of club and regional competition. She has contested 19 races across three seasons from 2024 to 2026, all in the Ferrari Challenge series, where she has recorded 4 wins and 8 podium finishes for Ferrari of Naples. Her average finishing position of P5.7 reflects consistent mid-field competitiveness in a field of drivers rated in the 1,500 to 2,900 range; she has beaten several drivers of comparable or slightly stronger rating, most notably Jeffrey Nunberg on seven occasions and Gabe Hrib five times, while finishing ahead of the weaker drivers in her field decisively, particularly Helen Chu in 12 shared races.[1]

Against her closest rivals, Kozyra's record shows balanced competition rather than dominance. She split her head-to-head results with Nunberg evenly at 7-7 across 14 races, suggesting drivers of similar speed; she held a winning record against Hrib but trailed Michael Owens more often than not. Her most impressive competitive metric is her record against Steve Check, a driver 490 points her junior on the rating scale, whom she outfinished 8 times to 5. She has raced consistently across three seasons and currently remains active in the Ferrari Challenge, where she scored two wins and two podiums in the first four rounds of the 2026 season before finishing seventh overall.