🇺🇸 Paul Holton

Paul Holton is a semi-professional sportscar racing driver competing primarily in IMSA endurance series, rated 3,772 in the Elo scale and categorized as FIA Gold within sportscar and GT racing, meaning a full professional in that discipline. Across nine seasons from 2016 to 2026, Holton has recorded 82 starts yielding four wins and 17 podiums; he averages a ninth-place finish. His career has centered on the IMSA Pilot Challenge, where he has competed for TeamTGM across 57 starts since 2016, scoring three wins and 12 podiums. He has also contested the higher-tier IMSA WeatherTech Championship with one podium in 19 starts, raced in International GT with two starts, and in 2026 moved to McLaren Trophy America for Forte Racing, where he won once and podiumed all four times entered.[1]

Holton's record against his peer group tells a mixed story typical of the semi-professional level. He holds a winning head-to-head record against Ted Giovanis, a Bronze-graded driver 1,054 points his junior, finishing ahead in 35 of 51 shared races. Against Hugh Plumb, another Bronze driver and a 2018 Pilot Challenge champion, Holton leads 29 to 18 across 47 races. However, against stronger opposition Holton struggles; he finishes behind Trent Hindman, a multi-time champion and Gold-graded driver 708 points his superior, in 29 of 48 races, and trails Robby Foley, a 2025 GT World Challenge Pro-Am champion also Gold-graded and 1,270 points stronger, 26 to 19 in 45 shared outings. Against occasional elite single-seater visitors his record is sparse but notable: he has beaten Chase Briscoe, an established professional racer, five times across their meetings, and has taken isolated victories over Raffaele Marciello, a Platinum-graded GT driver and three-time champion, and Austin Cindric, a two-time NASCAR Xfinity champion.[2]

The recent shift to McLaren Trophy America in 2026 has proven successful; Holton won in his debut round and has maintained podium finishes across four appearances, suggesting momentum in a new class. His standing as a factory-backed McLaren driver from 2018 to 2022 ended some years ago, and his current form reflects a career sustained at the professional level of sportscar endurance racing rather than a trajectory toward higher-profile single-seater or top-tier prototype competition.