🇺🇸 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is an established professional stock car racer competing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series. His Racer Rating of 5,636 places him among the stronger drivers in mid-field competition; he sits at the level of a full-time seat at the top level with occasional wins in strong fields. Across nine seasons from 2018 to 2026, Stenhouse has started 328 times in the Cup Series, accumulating 2 wins and 9 podiums while averaging a finishing position of P20.3. His record against the regular front-runners shows the pattern of his standing: he has beaten established professionals and former champions, including Kyle Larson (a two-time Cup champion and Gold-graded driver), Ryan Blaney, and the 2025 Cup champion Denny Hamlin, but loses the head-to-head repeatedly to drivers of equivalent or slightly higher standing such as Daniel Suarez and Chris Buescher, finishing ahead of them in only about 40 percent of shared races.[1]

Stenhouse's tenure in the Cup Series reflects a steady career without championship acceleration. His wins have come against fields strong enough to be notable but not frequent enough to mark him as a race-winner at the very top. He raced sparingly in the Truck Series in 2026 and made two starts in the Xfinity Series in 2022, both without podium finishes. The biographical record notes significant earlier success: he was the 2013 Cup Rookie of the Year and won back-to-back Nationwide Series championships in 2011 and 2012, though those results sit outside the authoritative record for this database. His recent activity, in mid-2026, includes continued full-time competition and community outreach, suggesting his career remains active despite the modest results his rating reflects.[2]