🇺🇸 Ryan Preece

Ryan Preece is an established professional stock car racing driver competing at 6,391 rating; this is the level of a full-time seat at the sport's highest tier and regular victories against strong national-championship-calibre fields. He has spent nine seasons in NASCAR, accumulating 287 starts across the Cup, Xfinity and Truck series from 2018 through 2026, with four wins and ten podiums to his name. His primary theatre is the NASCAR Cup Series, where he has made 253 starts since 2019, recording one win and three podiums while averaging a P18.9 finish. This record places him firmly in the middle order of a deeply competitive field.[1]

Preece's head-to-head record against the Cup Series' strongest competitors tells the story of a driver holding his own against elite opposition without dominating it. He has finished ahead of seven-time champion Denny Hamlin 50 times across their shared races, and has beaten multiple former champions including Kyle Larson, who won the championship in 2021 and 2023, 62 times. Against Ryan Blaney, who rates at 7,106 as an elite professional, Preece finished ahead 68 times across 247 encounters. However, these represent single victories in a much larger body of races; Blaney, Bubba Wallace and Joey Logano each consistently finished ahead of him by margins of 79 to 101 races across their shared starts. His record against Austin Dillon and Daniel Suarez, drivers of comparable or slightly lower calibre, was more balanced, with head-to-head margins closer to even. Preece's career shows a professional driver who competes effectively against the field but does not break into the front tier that dominates the series.[2]

His more recent activity in the Xfinity and Truck series in 2021 and 2022 brought stronger results proportionally; he scored two wins and five podiums from twelve Truck starts, suggesting he had speed at that level, though his 2022 Xfinity campaign saw him finish outside the points across three races. Preece remains actively engaged in NASCAR competition as of 2026, driving the No. 60 for RFK Racing in the Cup Series.