🇺🇸 Phil Saville

Phil Saville, a United States-based driver, compiled 21 starts in the Star Mazda Championship between 2004 and 2007 racing for Andersen Racing Team. His Racer Rating of 3,183 places him at the semi-professional level, meaning he was competitive in pro-am and one-make classes but did not establish himself among full-time professionals. Saville never won a race or secured a podium finish across his career, and his average finishing position of 24th reflects consistent mid-field or back-marker running in a single-series campaign.[1]

The competitive context shows Saville held a narrowly winning head-to-head record against Dan Tomlin Jr., a comparable semi-professional driver, finishing ahead in 11 of 20 shared races. Against stronger competition, the pattern reversed. He finished behind John Faulkner in 13 of 17 meetings and behind Ryan Justice in 12 of 16, both drivers who outranked him in Racer Rating. Saville's occasional results against elite-level drivers such as Graham Rahal and Jonathan Bomarito, both established professionals multiple levels above his standing, represent single instances rather than competitive patterns and do not suggest sustained competitiveness at that tier.

Saville spent most of his racing career with Velocity Motorsports, which fielded him in 13 starts. The team generated a single race win across its index history and had Ricky Taylor, an IMSA endurance champion and elite professional, among its roster. Saville's retirement came in 2007 after four seasons of single-seater racing without breakthrough results.