Kyle Kaiser

Kyle Kaiser (born March 5, 1996) is an American racing driver from Santa Clara, California. He won the 2017 Indy Lights Championship with Juncos Racing. He is also currently enrolled in classes part-time at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

Racing career

Karting From 2003 to 2009, Kaiser competed in the International Kart Federation, in the IKF Regional Race Series, 2-Cycle Sprint Grand Nationals, and the Stars of Karting. In 2008, he claimed his first national championship in the HPV-1 class. In 2009, he won the Infinion Raceway 3 hr Karting Enduro.

Skip Barber Kaiser joined Skip Barber Racing School's 2009/10 Western Regional Championship, earning second place and Rookie of the Year. In 2011, he returned to the series, earning third place in the championship. That year, he also participated in the Skip Barber Karting Scholarship shootout, earning a partial season scholarship with the race series.

Formula Car Challenge In 2012, Kaiser competed in the Formula Car Challenge for World Speed Motorsports, in the Pro Mazda and FormulaSPEED classes. He earned the Pro Mazda championship title by winning eight races, and finishing on the podium in eleven out of the fourteen races.

Pro Mazda Kaiser made his professional open wheel racing debut in September 2012 in the Star Mazda Championship at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. For the 2013 season, Kaiser joined World Speed Motorsports to race full-time in the Pro Mazda Championship. He finished seventh in the championship with a best finish of fifth (three times). He returns to the series for 2014, but switched teams to past series champions Juncos Racing. He finished on the podium in the first race of the 2014 Pro Mazda Winterfest. He finished the 2014 season sixth in points, recording four podium finishes and earning his first professional victory at Sonoma Raceway in the season finale.

Indy Lights For 2015, Kaiser moved up to Indy Lights with juncos racing . He scored two podiums and seven top-fives out of sixteen races, finishing sixth in the season standings. In 2016, he claimed two wins and eight podiums in eighteen races, which put him third in the final classification. He signed with Juncos Racing for a third Indy Lights season in 2017 and won the Championship to claim the $1 million scholarship to race in IndyCar.

IndyCar Kaiser announced he would move up to the Verizon IndyCar series with Juncos Racing for four races in 2018.

Kaiser competed in select IndyCar Series events with Juncos between 2018 and 2019. He is best known for knocking two time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso out of the 2019 Indianapolis 500 by qualifying in the last possible spot on the grid, ending Alonso's joint McLaren/Carlin effort. Kaiser would not compete in either the 2020 IndyCar Series or 2021 IndyCar Series, as Juncos was trying to recoup financial losses brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and would not be able to run their traditional Indianapolis 500 specific program which Kaiser had run in the past.

When Juncos Racing was rebranded as Juncos Hollinger Racing, Kaiser was one of the drivers that Ricardo Juncos and, new team co-owner, Brad Hollinger would consider for their first full-time IndyCar entry, which was due to be entered in the final three rounds of 2021 and from 2022 onward. The team ultimately chose Scuderia Ferrari test driver Callum Ilott for the full-time entry. Juncos however did not rule out bringing Kaiser on for a second car on a part time basis, including for the Indianapolis 500.

Motorsports career results SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year Track Car Engine Class Finish Start Status 2014 Laguna Seca Mazda Miata Mazda Spec Miata DSQ 2 Running

Pro Mazda Championship Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points 2013 World Speed Motorsports AUS AUS STP STP IND IOW TOR TOR MOS MOS MOH MOH TRO TRO HOU HOU 7th 209 2014 Juncos Racing STP STP BAR BAR IMS IMS LOR HOU HOU MOH MOH MIL SON SON 6th 211

Indy Lights Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Rank Points 2015 Juncos Racing STP STP LBH ALA ALA IMS IMS INDY TOR TOR MIL IOW MOH MOH LAG LAG 6th 237 2016 Juncos Racing STP STP PHX ALA ALA IMS IMS INDY RDA RDA IOW TOR TOR MOH MOH WGL LAG LAG 3rd 334 2017 Juncos Racing STP STP ALA ALA IMS IMS INDY RDA RDA IOW TOR TOR MOH MOH GMP WGL 1st 330

IndyCar Series (key) Year Team No. Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Rank Points Ref 2018 Juncos Racing 32 Dallara DW12 Chevrolet STP PHX21 LBH16 ALA IMS19INDY29 DET DET TXS ROA IOW TOR MOH POC GTW POR SNM 30th 45 2019 STP COA ALA LBH IMS INDY DET DET TXS RDA TOR IOW MOH POC GTW POR LAG 32nd 22

Season still in progress.

Indianapolis 500 Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team 2018 Dallara Chevrolet 17 29 Juncos Racing 2019 Dallara Chevrolet 33 31 Juncos Racing

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rank Points 2019 Juncos Racing DPi Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 5.5 L V8 DAY SEB LBH MOH DET WGL MOS ELK LGA PET 21st 69