🇮🇹 Matteo Nannini

Matteo Nannini is a professional racing driver competing in Indy NXT for Cape Motorsports powered by ECR. He holds an FIA Silver grade, placing him below the full-professional Platinum and Gold ranks in sportscar and endurance racing. Nannini races single-seaters in a North American championship that fields amateurs and semi-professionals alongside graded professionals, currently sitting 12th in points after 17 rounds of the 2026 season, with two wins and two podiums so far.[1]

His career spans five seasons from 2019 onwards across international single-seater formulae. He began in Formula Renault Eurocup before moving to Formula 3, where he spent two seasons with HWA Racelab and took a win and three podiums across multiclass fields in 13 countries. A brief stint in Formula 2's multiclass championship followed in 2021, then a three-year absence from the index before joining Indy NXT in 2023. In his time in the North American series he has taken two wins from 23 starts across four seasons, with his latest victory coming at Nashville in 2026.[2]

Nannini races regularly against established professionals. He has finished behind Enzo Fittipaldi, a FIA Gold-graded driver and 2018 Italian F4 champion with extensive single-seater experience, in their shared races. He has also consistently finished behind Alexander Smolyar, an established professional with 54 Formula 3 starts. His strongest single result came when he finished ahead of Oscar Piastri, a generational talent now racing in Formula 1 who was Formula 2 champion in 2021, in one race; he has also beaten Liam Lawson, an elite professional and Formula 1 driver, once.