🇺🇸 Scott Pruett

Scott Pruett holds the FIA Silver grading for sportscar racing, a professional-level classification denoting a driver usually early in their endurance-racing career or in transition within that discipline. His Racer Rating of 4,238 places him in the professional band; this describes a driver capable of winning national championships or competing at the sharp end of strong feeder series. However, Pruett's record on this database spans only a single season of IMSA WeatherTech competition in 2017, during which he made 12 starts for 3GT Racing without recording a win or podium finish, averaging eleventh place.[1]

That 2017 campaign pitted Pruett against multiple FIA Gold-graded professionals and series champions, yet he finished behind them consistently. He went 6-6 against Colin Braun and Robert Alon, outpaced Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow by significant margins across 12 shared races each, and lost his head-to-head with series-winning drivers like Tristan Vautier and Jens Klingmann. He did occasionally finish ahead of much stronger competitors in individual races, including two-time Supercars champion Shane Van Gisbergen once and IMSA WeatherTech GTDPRO champion Mathieu Jaminet once, but these results stand as isolated outperformances rather than evidence of competitive parity at that level.[2]

The biographical record indicates a storied earlier career spanning IMSA GTO titles, Trans-Am championships, Grand-Am success, and CART competition through the 1980s and beyond, but this database captures only the closing chapter. Pruett has since retired from full-time racing. He now appears as a public figure within the sport, serving as Grand Marshal at professional events and recognised among endurance racing's most accomplished drivers.