🇲🇽 Pato O'Ward

Pato O'Ward is an elite professional driver rated 7,095 on the Elo scale, competing full-time in IndyCar for Arrow McLaren with FIA Gold grading. He has raced 195 starts across fifteen seasons since 2012, winning 37 races and taking 71 podiums. His career spans single-seater ladder racing through IMSA sportscars and has established him as a regular competitor at the front of the sport's professional fields.[1]

O'Ward won the 2018 Indy NXT championship with Andretti Autosport and the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech title with United Autosports USA, then moved to full-time IndyCar racing in 2018. In his eight seasons with Arrow McLaren, he has taken 12 wins and 35 podiums from 124 starts, racing both oval and road courses. His oval record comprises 53 of those IndyCar starts; he is a regular contender across the entire calendar. Recent headlines confirm back-to-back wins at Milwaukee in September 2026.[2]

The fields he races are among the sport's strongest. In IndyCar he faces Alex Palou, a five-time series champion, and has finished ahead of him 50 times; Christian Lundgaard, an elite professional, 53 times; and regularly meets Josef Newgarden, a two-time IndyCar champion and established professional, on closely matched terms. Colton Herta, another established professional, is his most regular competitor across multiple series and they remain closely matched in their head-to-head meetings.