TechSport Racing is proud to announce that Christian Weir will be joining the TechSport Racing GR Cup lineup for the VIR and Road America rounds. The seventeen-year-old Naperville, IL native will pilot the #71 TechSport Racing GR Cup car joining teammates Devin Anderson, Alfonso Diaz, Spike Kohlbecker and Ethan Goulart. “We met Christian Weir at a test we held in 2023. We were incredibly impressed by his speed and maturity. Since then, we have been looking for ways to get him into a TechSport race car. We are so excited that we were able to make this happen. I personally cannot wait to see what he can do it the GR Cup series” says Team Principal Kevin Anderson.
Christian Weir is accomplished in both open-wheel and sportscar racing earning his first championship title at the age of 14 in the FRP Eastern Pro 4 Challenge. In the same year, he won several top spots in the Blue Marble Radical Cup North America and is the youngest race winner in Radical Cup history.
In 2021 & 2022 Christian competed in both The ROAD TO INDY USF2000 Championship and select races in the Porsche Sprint Challenge. He also had the honor of competing alongside Formula 1 at the famed Circuit of the Americas in the US F4 Championship and found himself on the world stage with a third-place podium finish.
2023 saw Christian level up to the USF Pro 2000 – two tiers away from INDYCAR. Although he was not able to complete the full season due to budget issues, out of the 13 rounds he contested he had 8 top 10s and a pole position as a rookie. Continuing his development under the watchful eye of Formula Nippon Champion and Super GT Legend Richard Lyons, Weir has developed the skills and race craft to take his career to the next level. Christian has achieved pole positions and podiums in both open-wheel and sports car races as continues to ascend the motorsports ladder.
“I am excited and thrilled to start racing again and being able to do it in a series with competitive and close racing is a perfect opportunity. I can’t thank Kevin Anderson, Deb Popolizio and the TechSport team enough for everything they have done to get this deal to work. VIR is my favorite track and Road America is considered my home track. I have had success at both places and I’m really looking forward to these next two weekends with TechSport” says Christian Weir. “I am also impressed with their driver lineup and look forward to reuniting with my USF teammate Spike Kohlbecker.”
The Virginia International Raceway round of GR Cup with be contested July 19 – 21.
TechSport Racing is a professional race team operating out of Thomasville NC. Since its inception in 2014, TechSport has amassed six Team Championships, three Driver Championships, one Crew of the Year and one Manufacturers Championship (Subaru). TechSport is a family-owned business operated by Kevin Anderson and Deborah Popolizio and managed by Devin Anderson.
