🇺🇸 Tristan McKee

Tristan McKee is a professional stock car racer competing across multiple national series in the United States. He drives the No. 77 Chevrolet for Pinnacle Racing Group in the ARCA Menards Series East, where he competes full-time, and races part-time in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series West for the same team. He also competes in the Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin for BSI Racing. His Racer Rating of 4,073 places him at professional level, competing against a field mixing semi-professional entrants with graded professionals.[1]

McKee won the 2025 Trans-Am TA2 championship and the 2026 ARCA Menards East title with Chili's. Across three seasons of racing on record, he has compiled eleven wins and twenty-one podiums from thirty-eight starts. His most successful series has been ARCA Menards East, where he has taken four wins and seven podiums from eight starts, almost exclusively on oval tracks. In Trans-Am TA2, he has won four races and reached seven podiums across twelve starts in tube-frame V8 silhouette cars. His ten starts in the national ARCA Menards Series yielded three wins and six podiums, with seven of those starts coming on ovals. He currently holds thirteenth place in the 2026 Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup standings with six rounds still to come.[2]

McKee regularly races against Thomas Annunziata, a professional with thirty-one Trans-Am TA2 starts and dual ARCA experience, and they remain closely matched. He has consistently finished ahead of Michael Maples, a competitive amateur who has completed fifty-four ARCA Menards starts. He has beaten established professionals in occasional meetings, including two finishes ahead of Brent Crews, the 2023 Trans-Am TA2 champion and 2025 ARCA Menards East champion who has raced both series extensively.