Kyle Kaiser


Kyle Kaiser is an American racing driver from Santa Clara, California, and 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 8 races, and finishing on the podium in 11 out of the 14 races.

Pro Mazda

He 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. 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 6th in points, recording four podium finishes and earning his first professional victory at Sonoma Raceway in the season finale.

Indy Lights

For 2015, Juncos Racing promoted Kaiser to Indy Lights. He scored two podiums and seven top 5s out of 16 races, finishing sixth in the season standings. In 2016, he claimed two wins and eight podiums in 18 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.

Motorsports career results

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

YearTrackCarEngineClassFinishStartStatus
2014Laguna SecaMazda MiataMazdaSpec MiataDSQ2Running

Pro Mazda Championship

Indy Lights

IndyCar Series

YearTeamChassisEngine1234567891011121314151617RankPoints
2018Juncos RacingDallara DW12ChevroletSTPPHX
21		LBH
16		ALAIMS
19		INDY
29		DETDETTXSROAIOWTORMDOPOCGTWPORSNM30th45
2019Juncos RacingDallara DW12ChevroletSTP
COA
18		ALA
LBH
IMS
INDY
31		DET
DET
TXS
RDA
TOR
IOW
MDO
POC
GTW
POR
LAG
32nd22

* Season still in progress.

Indianapolis 500

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

YearEntrantClassMakeEngine12345678910RankPoints
2019Juncos RacingDPiCadillac DPi-V.RCadillac 5.5 L V8DAY
8		SEBLBH
7		MDO
9		DETWGLMOSELKLGAPET21st69