🇺🇸 Ryan Nash

Ryan Nash is an entry-level professional racing in single-class and multiclass national championships in the United States. He competed primarily in the Lucas Oil Formula Car Race Series from 2017 to 2019, racing formula cars in its Championship class, and made a brief foray into endurance racing with IMSA Pilot Challenge in 2019 and 2020, driving a Porsche in the GS class for M1 Racing LLC. His Racer Rating of 3,623 places him in the entry-level professional band; he holds an FIA Silver grading in endurance racing, a standing below the full-professional Gold and Platinum grades.[1]

Across 43 starts, Nash took five wins and seventeen podiums. In the Lucas Oil Formula Car Race Series, where he contested 32 starts over three seasons, he won five times and finished on the podium sixteen times, with his most recent season in 2019 yielding one win and two additional podiums from three rounds before the series ended. He finished fifteenth in the 2019 championship standings. His IMSA Pilot Challenge entry consisted of eleven starts spanning 2019 and 2020, producing one podium finish from that multiclass endurance grid.[2]

In the formula car series, Nash regularly outran Jeff Stern, a competitive amateur and 2019 Lucas Oil Formula Car Race Series Masters champion, and ran closely matched against Cameron Tedder, another competitive amateur with an FIA Silver grade. His strongest scalp came in endurance racing, where he finished ahead of Colin Braun, a professional and two-time IMSA endurance champion with 103 WeatherTech starts to his name, once in their single meeting.