Zakkary Best is a racing driver from Australia who competes in Supercars Championship for CoolDrive Racing. Best has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 12 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,386 ranks Best 2251th of 40,105 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.
| 2025-10-09 | Repco Bathurst 1000 | P9 | +87 |
| 2025-09-12 | The Bend Enduro | P24 | −92 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +135 | OTR Supersprint 2022 | Supercars Championship | P5 |
| +126 | Repco Bathurst 1000 2023 | Supercars Championship | P6 |
| +87 | Repco Bathurst 1000 2025 | Supercars Championship | P9 |
| +60 | Penrite Oil Sandown 500 2023 | Supercars Championship | P12 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ▸Supercars Championship | CoolDrive Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P32 | −5 | 4,386 |
| 2023 | ▸Supercars Championship | Tickford Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P30 | +186 | 4,391 |
| 2022 | ▸Supercars Championship | Castrol Racing | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | P23 | −359 | 4,205 |
| 2021 | ▸Supercars Championship | Truck Assist Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P28 | +3,214 | 4,564 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Broc FeeneyFIA Gold | 6,596 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇦🇺 Brodie KosteckiFIA Gold | 6,172 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇦🇺 Cameron Waters | 5,999 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇦🇺 Will BrownFIA Gold | 5,844 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 42% |
| 🇦🇺 Anton De PasqualeFIA Gold | 5,697 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇦🇺 Chaz MostertFIA Platinum | 5,519 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇳🇿 Andre HeimgartnerFIA Gold | 4,990 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 50% |
| 🇦🇺 Scott PyeFIA Gold | 4,972 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 67% |
| 🇦🇺 Lee HoldsworthFIA Gold | 4,901 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 25% |
| 🇦🇺 Mark WinterbottomFIA Gold | 4,697 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 33% |
| 🇦🇺 Matt CampbellFIA Platinum, 3× champion | 6,297 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇦🇺 Jamie WhincupFIA Platinum | 6,252 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,241 | 🇬🇧 Richard Lyons | Super GT | 4,390 |
| 2,242 | 🇦🇺 Martin Berry | WEC | 4,389 |
| 2,243 | 🇯🇵 Yorikatsu Tsujiko | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,389 |
| 2,244 | 🇺🇸 Justin Marks | NASCAR Truck | 4,388 |
| 2,245 | 🇺🇸 Matt Crafton | NASCAR Truck | 4,388 |
| 2,246 | 🇩🇪 Patrick Assenheimer | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,388 |
| 2,247 | 🇺🇸 Tristan McKee | ARCA Menards Series | 4,387 |
| 2,248 | 🇧🇷 Vitor Baptista | Stock Car Pro Series | 4,387 |
| 2,249 | 🇳🇱 Daan Pijl | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,386 |
| 2,250 | 🇺🇸 Robert Ingram | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,386 |
| 2,251 | 🇦🇺 Zakkary Best | Supercars Championship | 4,386 |
| 2,252 | 🇺🇸 Josh Pierson | Indy NXT | 4,385 |
| 2,253 | 🇺🇸 Michael Guasch | Le Mans Cup | 4,385 |
| 2,254 | 🇩🇪 Paul Pietsch | Formula 1 | 4,385 |
| 2,255 | 🇨🇿 Reinhard Kofler | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,385 |
| 2,256 | 🇩🇰 Silas Rytter | Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe | 4,385 |
| 2,257 | 🇯🇵 Tsubasa Kurosawa | Super GT | 4,385 |
| 2,258 | 🇯🇵 Kazuto Kotaka | Super GT | 4,383 |
| 2,259 | 🇨🇭 Marc Basseng | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 4,383 |
| 2,260 | 🇺🇸 Lawson Aschenbach | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,382 |
| 2,261 | 🇺🇸 Jimmy Jackson | SCCA Regionals | 4,381 |
Zakkary Best is a professional-level driver with a Racer Rating of 4,413, placing him in the competitive amateur to professional range. This rating reflects a driver capable of beating semi-professionals and holding their own among established competitors, though not yet consistently winning at the top level. Best's career has centred on the Supercars Championship, Australia's premier touring car series, where he has made 12 starts across four seasons from 2021 to 2025 without securing a win or podium finish. He has averaged a finishing position of P14.7 across classified starts, indicating mid-field pace in a field that includes multiple champions and Gold-graded professionals.[1]
Best's racing has brought him into direct competition with some of the strongest drivers in the Supercars grid. Against the 2023 champion Brodie Kostecki, Best has finished ahead in three of their nine shared races, holding a narrow edge in their head-to-head record; he has also beaten the 2025 champion Broc Feeney twice in eight encounters. Other notable rivals include Lee Holdsworth and Bryce Fullwood, both established professionals, against whom Best trails in head-to-head records of 3–6 and 4–5 respectively. His occasional victories over elite-level drivers such as Feeney, Jamie Whincup and Matthew Payne show occasional competitiveness at the sharp end, but these remain isolated results rather than patterns of dominance.[2]
Best's Supercars Championship tenure has been split between CoolDrive Racing and Opposite Lock Racing. His most recent activity in 2025 saw him finish P39 across two rounds as the season progressed. Beyond his main-series record, Wikipedia indicates that Best has accumulated wins, podiums and pole positions in the Dunlop Super2 Series and competed at the 2025 Bathurst 1000, though these results fall outside the authoritative record supplied.