🇮🇪 James Roe

James Roe is an entry-level professional driver competing in Indy NXT for Chip Ganassi Racing. Rated 3,740, he holds an FIA Silver grade, marking him as a developing driver in sportscar and endurance racing rather than an established professional. His career spans six seasons of racing from 2020 to 2026, split between open-wheel single-seater competitions in the United States and multiclass endurance racing in IMSA's top prototype and GT categories.[1]

Roe's primary platform has been Indy NXT, where he has made 65 starts across five seasons with Chip Ganassi Racing and earlier with TJ Speed Motorsports, taking two podiums from that body of work. In 2026, his current season with Ganassi, he runs 20th in the championship standings with 14 rounds completed and more racing still to come. His only other indexed wins or podiums came through that Indy NXT campaign. He contested Formula Regional Americas in 2020 with 17 starts and has sampled IMSA WeatherTech endurance racing in both 2025 and 2026, accumulating eight starts there across GTD and LMP2 machinery with Lone Star Racing. His career total stands at 90 starts.[2]

The field Roe races in regularly combines entry-level and semi-professional drivers with established professionals and graded racers. His most frequent opponents are Jacob Abel and Josh Pierson, both Silver-graded professionals; Roe typically finishes behind Abel but sits closely matched with Pierson across their meetings. He has finished ahead of Scott McLaughlin, a Platinum-graded former Supercars champion who has competed in both IndyCar and IMSA, and once outfinished António Félix da Costa, a Platinum-graded established professional and Formula E champion, though such results represent single race occasions rather than sustained patterns against that calibre of opposition.