Kyle Kirkwood (R)

Nationality: American

Languages spoken: English

Height/weight: 5’9” / 150 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, contesting two classic endurance events at Petit Le Mans and the Twelve Hours of Sebring

2019

• Won the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires with nine victories (in the final 11 races), five pole positions and podiums in 11 of 16 races
• 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 (the prize was deferred until 2021 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic)
• Made his Euroformula Open debut with his Indy Pro 2000 team, RP Motorsport, finishing ninth and sixth in two races at Monza, Italy

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