🇺🇸 Steve Smith

Steve Smith is an amateur sportscar racer with a Racer Rating of 640, placing him outside the competitive mainstream of professional motorsport. His FIA Bronze categorisation reflects his status as a gentleman driver competing in endurance and GT racing. Across 44 starts spanning 2017 to 2026, Smith has secured three podium finishes but remains winless. His most substantial racing tenure is in the SVRA, where he has made 42 appearances since 2024 with a modest average finishing position of P13.3 across classified races.[1]

Smith's competitive record reflects a driver typically outpaced by the fields he enters. Among his most frequent rivals, he holds losing head-to-head records against nearly all; he trails Maxwell Waithman, a one-time champion, 0 wins to 14 starts, and David Lecko, a fellow Bronze-graded driver, 2 wins to 12 losses across 14 shared races. His victories over stronger drivers are isolated incidents rather than patterns; he has finished ahead of professionals graded FIA Gold and a one-time champion, but only once each. The bulk of Smith's competitive peers rate significantly below him on the Elo scale, yet he typically trails them over a season of racing. His racing has been sparse and episodic, marked by his sole IMSA WeatherTech entry in 2017 for Manthey Racing and a brief outing in the 2026 Velocity Invitational, where he finished P68.[2]