🏳️ Sebastion Rist

Sebastion Rist is a competitive amateur, rated 2,940. This level describes the front of club racing; drivers who are quick and racing seriously but typically finishing mid-pack among full professionals rather than competing at their level. Rist's 2026 season in the Zenith Racing Series represents his first year on the index, with four starts yielding one podium finish and an average result of fifth place. His field included established semi-professional and professional drivers; his repeated competitors Jason Alder (4,406), Clay Magouyrk (3,875), and others representing the sharp end of amateur and lower professional racing. Against this core group, Rist's head-to-head record was largely unfavourable, finishing behind Alder in all four shared races and losing three of four encounters each to Magouyrk, Barker, and Vaughan.[1]

What stands out in Rist's debut season is his occasional ability to beat drivers with considerably stronger credentials. He outran Linus Lundqvist, an established elite professional rated 5,554 and a three-time national and regional champion including the 2020 Formula Regional Americas title, once in the field. He also beat Kevin Boehm, Josh Green, and Hampus Ericsson, all FIA-graded semi-professionals with recent championship wins in GT4 and sportscar racing. These results are isolated instances rather than patterns, but they suggest Rist can occasionally rise above his typical competitive level on his best days. He races for Automatic Racing, a team with two wins in the index across 49 drivers fielded.