Sean Walkinshaw is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in GT World Challenge Europe for Madpanda Motorsport. Walkinshaw has recorded 3 wins and 5 podiums from 39 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,821 ranks Walkinshaw 4351th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2022-09-30 | Barcelona | P23 | +50 |
| 2022-07-28 | TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa | P23 | +53 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +169 | Fuji 2017 | Super GT | P1 |
| +153 | Autopolis 2017 | Super GT | P3 |
| +148 | Motegi 2017 | Super GT | P2 |
| +144 | TI Aida 2017 | Super GT | P5 |
| +141 | Buriram 2017 | Super GT | P4 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | ▸GT World Challenge Europe | Madpanda Motorsport | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P43 | +103 | 3,821 |
| 2021 | ▸Super GT | Arto Ping An Team Thailand | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −248 | 3,718 |
| 2020 | ▸Super GT | Arto Ping An Team Thailand | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P27 | −318 | 3,758 |
| 2019 | ▸Super GT | Panther Arto Team Thailand | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −500 | 4,152 |
| ▸GT World Challenge Europe | Team WRT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P38 | −32 | ||
| 2018 | ▸Super GT | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P2 | +456 | 4,577 |
| 2017 | ▸Super GT | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P3 | +3,179 | 4,529 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Nobuteru TaniguchiFIA Silver | 5,236 | 36 | 9 | 27 | 25% |
| 🇯🇵 Tatsuya KataokaFIA Gold | 5,122 | 36 | 9 | 27 | 25% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki YoshidaFIA Silver | 5,093 | 36 | 18 | 18 | 50% |
| 🇯🇵 Naoya GamouFIA Gold | 5,042 | 36 | 8 | 28 | 22% |
| 🇯🇵 Kazuki Hoshino | 4,795 | 36 | 14 | 22 | 39% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki KatohFIA Bronze | 4,684 | 36 | 20 | 16 | 56% |
| 🇯🇵 Takuto IguchiFIA Silver | 4,540 | 36 | 12 | 24 | 33% |
| 🇯🇵 Hideki YamauchiFIA Gold | 4,478 | 36 | 12 | 24 | 33% |
| 🇯🇵 Kouki Saga | 4,460 | 36 | 16 | 20 | 44% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki YoshimotoFIA Gold | 4,451 | 36 | 11 | 25 | 31% |
| 🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion | 7,659 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇯🇵 Sho TsuboiFIA Platinum, 5× champion | 6,576 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 53% |
| 🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaFIA Platinum, 1× champion | 6,267 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,341 | 🇩🇪 Marcel Lasee | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 3,824 |
| 4,342 | 🇨🇭 Max de Terra | Formula 1 | 3,824 |
| 4,343 | 🇨🇦 Nelson Mason | Formula V8 3.5 | 3,824 |
| 4,344 | 🇺🇸 Bryce Aron | Indy NXT | 3,823 |
| 4,345 | 🏳️ Camden Gruber | SCCA Majors | 3,823 |
| 4,346 | 🇫🇮 Jukka Honkavuori | 24H Series | 3,823 |
| 4,347 | 🇩🇪 Tom Kalender | DTM | 3,823 |
| 4,348 | 🇯🇵 Motoaki Ishikawa | WEC | 3,822 |
| 4,349 | 🇬🇧 Rob Schirle | FIA GT Championship | 3,822 |
| 4,350 | 🇺🇸 Zac Anderson | GT4 America | 3,822 |
| 4,351 | 🇬🇧 Sean Walkinshaw | GT World Challenge Europe | 3,821 |
| 4,352 | 🇬🇧 Sennan FIELDING | Le Mans Cup | 3,821 |
| 4,353 | 🇯🇵 Takamori.com | Super GT | 3,821 |
| 4,354 | 🇩🇪 Tim Scheerbarth | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,821 |
| 4,355 | 🇺🇸 Bubba Pollard | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,820 |
| 4,356 | 🇦🇺 Cameron Shields | IMSA Pilot Challenge | 3,820 |
| 4,357 | 🇩🇪 Christian Hohenadel | IMSA Pilot Challenge | 3,820 |
| 4,358 | 🇬🇧 Geoff Crossley | Formula 1 | 3,820 |
| 4,359 | 🇺🇸 Jim McWithey | Formula 1 | 3,820 |
| 4,360 | 🇺🇸 Joe James | Formula 1 | 3,820 |
| 4,361 | 🇬🇧 Johnny Mowlem | WEC | 3,820 |
Sean Walkinshaw is a British semi-professional sportscar driver with a Racer Rating of 3,798, placing him in the semi-professional band. This categorisation reflects a driver who competes at a professional level in GT and endurance racing but typically lacks the consistency or outright pace to break through to sustained front-running. His FIA Silver grading confirms this positioning within sportscar competition; Silver denotes a professional-level driver who is usually young or early-career, a step below the full professionals graded Gold and Platinum. Walkinshaw's career spanned six seasons from 2017 to 2022 across 34 starts, concentrated in Super GT where he made 31 appearances for Arto Ping An Team Thailand.[1]
Walkinshaw competed consistently against established professionals, regularly sharing grids with drivers rated significantly higher. His primary rivals in Super GT included multiple champions: Sho Tsuboi, Ryo Hirakawa, Kazuki Hiramine and Kazuya Oshima, all rated above 6,400. Against this elite professional field, Walkinshaw finished ahead of Hirakawa and Oshima in 29 and 29 races respectively out of 30 shared starts, a notably strong head-to-head record. He also beat the three-time champion Naoki Yamamoto three times in their shared races and the four-time Super GT champion Sho Tsuboi nine times in 30 encounters. However, his overall average finishing position across all classified starts was P27, and he managed no wins or podiums across his entire career, indicating that his competitive moments came as isolated results rather than patterns of consistent excellence.[2]
The most recent activity on record shows Walkinshaw competing in the 2021 Super GT season finishing P33 across six rounds. He is now retired from active racing.