Shawn Childress is a racing driver who competes in NASA for 600 Racing Thunderroadster. Childress has recorded 1 win and 16 podiums from 38 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 1,462 ranks Childress 22220th of 40,700 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.
| 2025-12-06 | Road Atlanta Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P3 | +53 |
| 2025-11-02 | Carolina Motorsports Park Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P3 | +36 |
| 2025-11-02 | Carolina Motorsports Park Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P2 | +89 |
| 2025-11-01 | Carolina Motorsports Park Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P3 | +40 |
| 2025-04-06 | Roebling Road Raceway Thunder Roadster Xtreme | P2 | +95 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +136 | Carolina Motorsports Park 2023 | NASA | P1 |
| +132 | Carolina Motorsports Park 2023 | NASA | P2 |
| +126 | Roebling Road Raceway 2023 | NASA | P2 |
| +126 | Roebling Road Raceway 2023 | NASA | P2 |
| +119 | Road Atlanta 2022 | NASA | P3 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunderroadster | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P2 | +416 | 1,462 |
| 2024 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunderroadster | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P5 | −186 | 1,046 |
| 2023 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunderroadster | 10 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P5 | +587 | 1,233 |
| 2022 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunderroadster | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P6 | +21 | 645 |
| 2021 | ▸NASA | 600 Racing Thunderroadster | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P6 | −725 | 625 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🏳️ Major Long | 1,370 | 37 | 13 | 24 | 35% |
| 🏳️ Ken Kirkpatrick | 1,628 | 34 | 14 | 20 | 41% |
| 🏳️ Lee Roberts | 1,416 | 31 | 12 | 19 | 39% |
| 🏳️ Scott Lanford | 1,532 | 26 | 6 | 20 | 23% |
| 🏳️ Antonio Cancel | 752 | 22 | 16 | 6 | 73% |
| 🏳️ Richard Comer | 1,987 | 18 | 3 | 15 | 17% |
| 🏳️ Lee Shierts | 661 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 56% |
| 🇺🇸 Ryan Mason | 1,561 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🏳️ Patrick Altier | 487 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 100% |
| 🏳️ Brandon Wonders | 631 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 82% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22,210 | 🏳️ Nick Stagl | SCCA Regionals | 1,463 |
| 22,211 | 🏳️ Pedro Castro-Santos | NASA | 1,463 |
| 22,212 | 🏳️ Richard Wolsifer | SVRA | 1,463 |
| 22,213 | 🏳️ Stuart Killian | NASA | 1,463 |
| 22,214 | 🏳️ Tom Tobin | American Endurance Racing | 1,463 |
| 22,215 | 🏳️ Glen Gatlin | PCA Club Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,216 | 🏳️ Jeremy Patterson | NASA | 1,462 |
| 22,217 | 🏳️ Mathew Bell | BMW CCA Club Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,218 | 🏳️ Paul Bonderson Jr. | Porsche Sprint Challenge North America Cayman | 1,462 |
| 22,219 | 🏳️ Seth Bacon | Radical Cup NA | 1,462 |
| 22,220 | 🏳️ Shawn Childress | NASA | 1,462 |
| 22,221 | 🏳️ Steve Rawlins | American Endurance Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,222 | 🏳️ Thomas Tice | BMW CCA Club Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,223 | 🏳️ Timothy Trayhan | American Endurance Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,224 | 🏳️ Tyler Comat | PCA Club Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,225 | 🏳️ Vinh Chau | BMW CCA Club Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,226 | 🏳️ Wayne Hussey | SCCA Regionals | 1,462 |
| 22,227 | 🏳️ Wyatt Wunderlin | American Endurance Racing | 1,462 |
| 22,228 | 🇮🇪 Aidan Mulready | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 1,461 |
| 22,229 | 🏳️ Curtis Easterling | SCCA Regionals | 1,461 |
| 22,230 | 🏳️ Fred Wright | BMW CCA Club Racing | 1,461 |
Shawn Childress competes in NASA, a national multiclass championship where 15 classes share the track in a single race. He drives a purpose-built tube-frame roadster in the Thunder Roadster classes for 600 Racing, a small operation that has fielded two drivers across the index. He is a club-level competitor with a rating of 1,462.[1]
Childress has contested 38 starts across five seasons from 2021 to 2025, taking one win and 16 podiums. In 2025 so far, across six rounds raced to date, he has taken six podiums and sits second in the championship standings. His consistency has come against a regular field of closely matched club-level opponents; he has raced Major Long and Ken Kirkpatrick repeatedly and finished ahead of Kirkpatrick 14 times across their meetings.[2]