Kyle Kirkwood
Nationality: American
Languages spoken: English
Height/weight: 5’9” / 130 lbs.
Education: High school graduate
Hobbies: Spear fishing, fishing, surfing
Bucket list: Tank dive a "Blue Hole"
Favorite food: Fish and watermelon
Guilty food pleasure: Motts gummies
Pet peeves: Disorganization, and having to repeat myself more than twice
Unusual routines/habits: I have a weird superstition about shoe brands that I can wear to the track
Racing goal: To win the Indianapolis 500
Racing hero: Rubens Barrichello
Career results:
2020
- Competed in four IMSA Prototype Challenge races, with a victory at Daytona, two podiums and four fastest race laps
- Made his IMSA WeatherTech Championship debut with AiM Vasser Sullivan in the GTD class, helping the team to an eighth-place finish at Petit Le Mans
2019
- Won the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires with nine victories (all in the final 11 races), five pole positions and podiums in 11 of 16 races
- Also set new track records at Indianapolis and Toronto
- Captured the scholarship totaling $596,700 to advance toward the 2020 Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires
- Made his Euroformula Open debut with his Indy Pro 2000 team, RP Motorsport, finishing ninth and sixth in two races at Monza
2018
- Won the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship with a dominant performance, scoring 12 wins in 14 races and six pole positions
- Earned Cape Motorsports' eighth-consecutive driver championship
- Tied the record for wins in a season set by JR Hildebrand in 2006, who also won the championship for Cape Motorsports
- Won 16 of 17 races to take the F3 United States Championship Powered by Honda
- Won the first sports car race and first endurance race in which he competed, taking the four-hour Michelin IMSA SportsCar Encore at Sebring with co-driver Roman DeAngelis
- The victory put his season total at a stunning 29 of 32 races
2017
- Won the F4 United States Championship Powered by Honda in dominant fashion, taking nine wins, six pole positions, 10 fastest laps and 15 total podiums in 20 races
2016
- Finished third in the inaugural F4 United States Championship Powered by Honda with one race win and eight additional podium finishes
- Won a Team USA Scholarship, which enabled him to compete at the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch and the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone in England
- Rose from 23rd to fourth in the wet Walter Hayes Trophy Grand Final
- Contested the inaugural Road to Indy USF2000 $200K Scholarship Shootout at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
- Repeated as National Champion in the Florida Winter Tour Rotax Senior Max and RokCup USA Senior karting divisions
- Won the US Open Shifter Kart event in Utah
2015
- Earned National Championships in the Florida Winter Tour Rotax Senior Max and ROK Cup USA Senior karting divisions
- Won the Rotax Senior Max National Championship
- Won on his debut in the F1600 Championship Series at Road Atlanta, setting a new lap record in his second race and finishing third in the final race of the weekend during a limited campaign
- Participated in the Chris Griffis Memorial Mazda Road to Indy Test at Circuit of The Americas after being awarded an invitation via the MAXSpeed Group Driver Advancement Program
2014
- Continued with the Ocala Gran Prix karting team
- Highlights included sweeping the ROK Cup USA in Ocala, Fla., as a rookie in the Senior category and winning the SKUSA Dallas Spring Nationals as a rookie S2 driver
2013
- Selected to join the Ocala Gran Prix karting team
- Became the first American to qualify on the pole and start a Pre-Final on the pole at the Rotax Grand Finals in New Orleans
- Won the SKUSA SuperNationals in Las Vegas as a rookie S5 (shifter class) driver
2012
- Was selected as the first winner of A.J. Allmendinger's Walldinger Racing/Shell Pennzoil Scholarship
- Won the Florida Winter Tour Formula Kart Championship
- Won a Skip Barber Racing Scholarship, gaining his first experience in cars and contesting several Mazdaspeed MX-5 races
- Claimed two victories and three second-place finishes