Kyle Kirkwood
Kirkwood at theIndianapolis Motor Speedway in 2022
Nationality	American
Born	Kyle MacLean Kirkwood (1998-10-19)October 19, 1998 (age 27) Jupiter, Florida, United States
IndyCar Series career
59 races run over 4 years
Team	No. 27 (Andretti Global)
Best finish	4th (2025)
First race	2022Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg)
Last race	2025Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix (Nashville Superspeedway)
First win	2023Grand Prix of Long Beach (Long Beach)
Last win	2025Bommarito Automotive Group 500 (Gateway)
Wins Podiums Poles 5 6 3
Previous series
2021 2019 2019 2018 2018 2016-17 2015	Indy Lights Euroformula Open Championship Indy Pro 2000 Championship F3 Americas Championship U.S. F2000 National Championship Formula 4 United States Championship F1600 Championship Series
Championship titles
2021 2019 2018 2018 2017	Indy Lights Championship Indy Pro 2000 Championship F3 Americas Championship U.S. F2000 National Championship Formula 4 United States Championship
Awards
2016	Team USA Scholarship

Kyle MacLean Kirkwood (born October 19, 1998) is an Americanauto racing driver.^[1][2] He competes in theIndyCar Series, driving the No. 27 Dallara-Honda forAndretti Global. He is a two-time victor of theGrand Prix of Long Beach, winning in2023 and2025.

Born inJupiter, Kirkwood began karting at a young age, often competing alongside fellow Jupiter nativeOliver Askew.^[3] Throughout his karting career, he amassed multiple titles, including the AM Engines Formula Tag Junior championship in 2012, theSKUSA SuperNationals XVII - S5 Junior championship in 2013 and back-to-back wins at the Florida Winter Tour in 2015 and 2016.^[4][5][6]

In 2015, Kirkwood made his single-seater debut in the F1600 Championship with Chastain Motorsports.^[7] There he took victory in the season opener atRoad Atlanta and contested a further six rounds to finish sixteenth.^[8]

Following his performance in Formula 4 United States, Kirkwood returned to the Formula Ford scene in 2016 to represent Team USA in the Formula Ford Festival andWalter Hayes Trophy event, finishing seventh and fourth overall in both respective events.^{[9][10][11][12]}

In 2016, Kirkwood joined theinaugural Formula 4 United States Championship with Primus Racing, which saw him claim a win atMid-Ohio and finish third in the standings overall.^[13] In September 2016, Kirkwood was awarded with the Team USA scholarship.^[14]

After competing with them in pre-season testing atNOLA, Kirkwood returned to the championship thefollowing year, switching to newcomers Cape Motorsports.^[15][16] He achieved nine victories, including back-to-back hat-tricks atIndianapolis andMotorsport Park, wrapping up the title in theFormula One supporting season finale at theCircuit of the Americas.^[17][18][19] During the season, Kirkwood was once again selected as a candidate for the Team USA scholarship.^[20]

In August 2018, Kirkwood joinedAbel Motorsports to contest theinaugural season of F3 Americas.^[21] The season saw Kirkwood claim fifteen of the seventeen race victories on offer and seal his third consecutive championship at NOLA with a round to spare.^[22][23]

The following year, Kirkwood made a one-off appearance withRP Motorsport in the season finale of theEuroformula Open Championship atMonza, which saw him take a best-placed finish of sixth in race two.^[24][25]

In February 2020, Kirkwood was announced to be partaking in the rookie test at Marrakesh withBMW i Andretti Motorsport.^[26]

In December 2016, Kirkwood partook in theMazda Road to Indy Shootout, but lost out on the scholarship to Askew.^[27]

In 2017, Kirkwood partook in theChris Griffis Memorial Test with Swan-RJB Motorsports.^[28] In February 2018, he reunited with Cape Motorsports to contest the2018 championship.^[29] In only his rookie season, Kirkwood dominated proceedings, taking twelve of the fourteen victories on offer and sealing his second title in a year atMid-Ohio and equallingJ. R. Hildebrand's record of wins across a season.^[30][31]

Kirkwood graduated to the championship in 2019, selecting RP Motorsport Racing as his team.^[32] After faltering in earlier rounds, Kirkwood took his maiden victories in both races atRoad America.^[33] From the second race atToronto onwards, Kirkwood dominated the season and won his fourth consecutive title at the season finale inLaguna Seca despite being taken out byDanial Frost.^[34][35][36]

In December 2019, Kirkwood partook in the post-season test atSebring with reigning championsAndretti Autosport.^[37] The following month, Andretti confirmed Kirkwood would race with them for the2020 season, only for that year's running of the championship to be canceled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.^[38]

Kirkwood won the 2021 Indy Lights Championship for Andretti Autosport. In doing so, he became the first driver to win a championship in every Road to Indy series.^[39]

Throughout2021, Kirkwood was viewed with significant interest by different teams in the IndyCar Series paddock. Andretti Autosport ownerMichael Andretti stated he intended to keep Kirkwood in the Andretti Autosport stable and reiterated this after Kirkwood won the Indy Lights championship.^[40] Andretti stated that he was considering moving Kirkwood toFormula E if a seat did not open up in IndyCar.

As part of winning the Indy Lights championship, Kirkwood was guaranteed to compete in three IndyCar races in2022, including the2022 Indianapolis 500.

On November 10, 2021, it was announced that Kirkwood would drive the No. 14 entry full-time forA. J. Foyt Enterprises during the 2022 IndyCar Series season.^[41][42] He had a best finish of tenth at Long Beach, and ranked 24th in points.

On June 1, 2022, Kirkwood and Andretti Autosport announced he would return to the Andretti stable for the 2023 season to replace the departingAlexander Rossi.^[43] Kirkwood took his first IndyCar win at the2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Kirkwood took a second win at the2023 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix.

With the2020 Indy Lights season cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, Kirkwood drove four races in theIMSA Prototype Challenge and also joinedAIM Vasser Sullivan Racing for a limited GTD schedule.^[44]

^† As Kirkwood was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

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• Official website
• Kyle Kirkwood career summary at DriverDB.com

• 1998 births
• Living people
• Racing drivers from Palm Beach County, Florida
• U.S. F2000 National Championship drivers
• Formula Regional Americas Championship drivers
• Indy Lights drivers
• Indy Lights champions
• IndyCar Series drivers
• Indianapolis 500 drivers
• 24 Hours of Daytona drivers
• Sportspeople from Jupiter, Florida
• WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
• Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers
• Euroformula Open Championship drivers
• RP Motorsport drivers
• Andretti Autosport drivers
• A. J. Foyt Enterprises drivers
• United States F4 Championship drivers
• Abel Motorsports drivers

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