🏳️ Phil Rader

Phil Rader competed in club racing during 2009, his sole season on record. He made 14 starts across NASA and PCA Club Racing, finishing on average in ninth position with no wins or podiums. His rating of 432 places him in the developing category; he was competing at the entry level of club racing against fields that did not include established professionals.[1]

Rader's head-to-head record against his most frequent rivals shows mixed results. He finished behind the stronger competitors in the field more often than ahead of them; he was behind Ashley Burt, a driver who would go on to win the NASA 944 Spec championship in consecutive years, in 10 of their 11 shared races, though he beat Burt once. Against Sean Thul, another semi-professional, Rader finished ahead twice in ten meetings but behind eight times. He held a marginally better record against Charles Taylor and David Wright, beating each of them more than half the time, and matched patrick phillips in their ten shared races with five wins apiece. His occasional results against David Dirks, a three-time NASA 944 Spec champion, showed two finished ahead across their meetings. Rader raced primarily for Colorado Springs CO, which fielded six drivers across the index with a win record of seven races; his strongest teammate was Phil Cummings, rated 1,538.