Connor
Zilisch
United States
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Stockcar
Date of birth | July 22, 2006 |
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Age | 18 |
Nationality | United States |
Disciplines | Motorsports Various |
Connor Zilisch is proof that you can take a boy out of NASCAR country, but you can’t take NASCAR racing out of the boy. The Weddington, N.C., native was karting before kindergarten. By 8, he was competing nationally. When Zilisch won a U.S. karting title at 11, he earned a ticket to race in the 2017 Mini ROK World Championship in Italy. “I went there with low expectations and ended up winning the world championship my first race in Europe,” Zilisch said.
Three years later, Zilisch became the first American to win the 2020 CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy—an international competition featuring the top 12-to-14-year-old karters.