🇳🇿 Ryan Yardley

Ryan Yardley is a professional-level racing driver rated 4,406, placing him in the professional band; he competes across GT and endurance racing and has spent six seasons in single-seaters and sportscar competition. He holds the FIA Silver categorisation, the professional grading for sportscar and endurance drivers. His primary home has been the Porsche Carrera Cup NA, where he scored two wins and sixteen podiums across 32 starts between 2023 and 2025 before capturing the 2025 Porsche Carrera Cup NA Pro championship. Across all his racing, he has accumulated four wins and thirty-one podiums from seventy-six starts, finishing on average in fifth place.[1]

Yardley's most consistent competition has come against Silver-graded professionals of comparable standing. He owns a strong head-to-head record against Jimmy Llibre, finishing ahead of him in 25 of 32 shared races, and similarly dominated Michael McCann and Sabré Cook, two drivers rated below the professional threshold. His most significant achievement in comparative terms came against Riley Dickinson, the 2023 and 2025 Porsche Carrera Cup NA Pro champion; Yardley finished ahead of Dickinson in 18 of their 28 meetings, a notably successful record against a driver who won the same championship twice. He has also occasionally run with much stronger drivers; he beat Kyffin Simpson, the 2021 Formula Regional Americas champion, three times across their shared races, and has isolated wins over established professionals including Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin and former Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean.[2]

In 2026, Yardley has moved into the GT World Challenge America series with Wright Motorsports, scoring his first win and two podiums in four starts, and has competed sporadically in higher-level endurance racing with IMSA WeatherTech and the Porsche Endurance Challenge. He was selected to Porsche Motorsport North America's driver roster that year, signalling further opportunity in the marque's pipeline.