“Kenny helped us earn back to back National Championships and was a key part of our winning the first ever 24 Hours of Sebring in 2021. Kenny is patient, smart, fast, and safe. I expect that he will continue to excel and contribute to even more Driver and Team Championships in 2023 and beyond.”
Mark Martin – Team Owner at W2W Racing
About Kenny Schmied
From a young age, Kenny was a big fan of motorsports thanks in large part to a passion for it by his dad. Family night as a kid usually consisted of a trip to the local dirt track called Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL. Kenny’s favorite cars to watch were the winged sprint cars of the World of Outlaws, and at just 8 years old Kenny had his first test in a quarter midget at a small dirt track near Gateway Raceway. Some brief discussions ensued about getting Kenny into racing at such a young age, however his racing career would not come to fruition until many years later.
Getting involved in a wheel-to-wheel rental kart racing league in 2017 at the Unser Centennial kart track in Colorado, Kenny fell in love. After a season of rental racing, Schmied had the chance to test a two-stroke race kart in early 2018. Kenny remembers vividly being blown away by the speed and the g-forces in a real race kart, and ordered a KA100 package just a few days later. Kenny began regional kart racing in KA100 with the Podium Race Team in 2018 in a series called the Colorado Karting Tour. A solid year of learning made Schmied eager to compete more frequently and gain more experience. Kenny had his breakout year in 2019 driving double-duty in KA100 and LO206 for Forward Direction Motorsports. He scored multiple podiums in multiple classes, secured his first Regional KA100 victory at Action Karting, and scored his first win in the Colorado Karting Classic 4-hour endurance race alongside co-drivers Adam Rylance and Josh Weis – a victory the team would successfully defend again in 2020.
On the heels of this momentum, Kenny attained his competition racing license in 2019 by attending the Allen Berg Formula School at Laguna Seca, and the Lucas Oil School of Racing at Sebring. Over the winter Kenny explored his options, and ended up reaching out to Mark Martin at Will-to-Win (W2W) Racing. Joining the team for a partial 2020 season in their 2016 Porsche GT4 Clubsport, Kenny quickly got his feet wet in the endurance sportscar world. A breakthrough six-weekend 2021 season was capped off by a victory at the first ever 24-hour race at Sebring International, a win in the eastern and mid-west championships, and the top trophy of the year, the WRL GTO national championship honors for car #983.
After returning with W2W Racing for a third year of WRL competition in 2022, Kenny scored two podiums and finished the season sixth in the WRL national championship standings. After three years with the team, Kenny has announced he is joining AOA Racing in 2023 to mount his professional racing debut in SRO’s TC America series. After a slow start to the championship, Kenny scored his first professional podium with a P3 at Road America and continued to fight and improve through the rest of the season. Schmied finished off the year October 6-8 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where he scored another P3 in the final round of the year helping him and the team secure a 5th place finish in the TCX driver and team championship.
Racing Resume / Past Results
SRO Touring Car America – North American Championship, 2023
Team: AOA Racing Car: #14 BMW M2 CS Racing (Cup) Class: TCX
Full Season Results: Drivers Championship: P5 Team Championship: P5
2023 Results:
04/01 Sonoma Raceway (Race 1) – P6 Overall & in Class
04/02 Sonoma Raceway (Race 2) – P12 Overall / P6 in Class
04/29 NOLA Motorsports Park (Race 1) – P20 Overall / P7 in Class
04/30 NOLA Motorsports Park (Race 2) – Not Classified
05/20 Circuit of the Americas (Race 1) – P24 Overall / P9 in Class
05/21 Circuit of the Americas (Race 2) – P4 Overall & in Class
06/17 Virginia International Raceway (Race 1) – P18 Overall / P8 in Class
06/18 Virginia International Raceway (Race 2) – P5 Overall & in Class
08/19 Road America (Race 1) – P4 Overall & in Class
08/20 Road America (Race 2) – P3 Overall & in Class
09/23 Sebring International Raceway (Race 1) – P5 Overall & in Class
09/24 Sebring International Raceway (Race 2) – P6 Overall & in Class
10/07 Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Race 1) – P8 Overall / P5 in Class
10/08 Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Race 2) – P3 Overall & in Class
World Racing League – U.S. Endurance Championship, 2020-2022
Team: W2W Racing Car: 2016 Porsche GT4 Clubsport MR Class: GTO
2020 & 2021 World Racing League GTO National Champions
2022 Results:
03/05 Barber Motorsports Park (Race 1) – P8 Overall & in Class
03/06 Barber Motorsports Park (Race 2) – P9 Overall & in Class
05/07 Road America (Race 1) – P5 Overall & in Class
05/08 Road America (Race 2) – P46 Overall / P19 in Class
07/08 Road Atlanta (Race 1) – P5 Overall & in Class
07/09 Road Atlanta (Race 2) – P9 Overall & in Class
08/06 High Plains (Race 1) – P3 Overall & in Class
08/07 High Plains (Race 2) – P4 Overall / P3 in Class
09/03 Virginia International (Race 1) – P10 Overall / P9 in Class
09/04 Virginia International (Race 2) – P54 Overall / P26 in Class
10/29 Sebring International Raceway (Race 1) – P7 Overall & in Class
10/30 Sebring International Raceway (Race 2) – P14 Overall / P12 in Class
12/02 Circuit of the Americas (Race 1) – P32 Overall / P22 in Class
12/03 Circuit of the Americas (Race 2) – P20 Overall / P18 in Class
2021 Results:
05/08 Road America (Race 1) – P5 Overall & in Class
05/09 Road America (Race 2) – P7 Overall / P5 in Class
06/05 Daytona (14h) – P15 Overall & in Class
07/17 Road Atlanta (Race 1) – P6 Overall & in Class
07/18 Road Atlanta (Race 2) – P32 Overall / P16 in Class
08/07 High Plains (Race 1) – P2 Overall & in Class
08/08 High Plains (Race 2) – P11 Overall / P5 in Class
10/30 Sebring (24h) – P1 Overall & in Class
12/04 Circuit of the Americas (Race 1) – P23 Overall / P18 in Class
12/05 Circuit of the Americas (Race 2) – P17 Overall / P16 in Class
2020 Results:
06/13 Daytona (14h) – P18 Overall / P8 in Class
07/18 Road Atlanta (Race 1) – P8 Overall / P7 in Class
07/19 Road Atlanta (Race 2) – P7 Overall / P6 in Class
08/08 High Plains (Race 1) – P2 Overall / P1 in Class
08/09 High Plains (Race 2) – P1 Overall & in Class
12/05 Circuit of the Americas (Race 1) – P8 Overall & in Class
12/06 Circuit of the Americas (Race 2) – P11 Overall & in Class
Karting Results
Colorado Karting Tour Special Events
2021 CO Karting Classic 4-Hour Endurance Race – P3
2020 CO Karting Classic 4-Hour Endurance Race – P1
2019 CO Karting Classic 4-Hour Endurance Race – P1
IKF Region 4 – Colorado Karting Tour Season(s)
2019 LO206 Championship Season – P5: One Podium, No Wins
2019 KA100 Championship Season – P3: Three Podiums, One Win
2018 KA100 Championship Season – P3: Four Podiums, No Win
FIA Categorization & Licenses Held
FIA Driver Categorization: Bronze
NASA Competition – Good Thru 12/31/2024, Member #222508
Past: USAC Competition – Expired 12/31/2023, Member #151333889
Past: WRL Competition – Expired 12/31/2022, License #22-0284, Member #1217
Past: SCCA Competition – Expired 6/30/2021, Member #610181