🇺🇸 Nikita Johnson

Nikita Johnson is a professional racing driver competing at a level that indicates competitive success against established professionals and peers preparing for the final step to top-tier motorsport. Johnson drives for Cape Motorsports powered by ECR in Indy NXT and for RLL Team McLaren in IMSA WeatherTech. In Indy NXT, Johnson drives an open-wheel single-seater; in IMSA, a GT3 car in the GTDPRO class of the championship's multiclass endurance grid. Johnson holds an FIA Silver grading, one step below the full-professional Gold and Platinum grades and typically assigned to drivers on their way up in sportscar racing.[1]

Johnson's record spans four seasons from 2023 to 2026 across single-seater, junior open-wheel, and sports car racing. The breakthrough came in 2024, when Johnson won the USF Pro 2000 championship with nine wins from eighteen starts, establishing himself as a front-runner in that series. Johnson moved up to Indy NXT in 2025 and took the 2026 title with Cape Motorsports, winning twice and taking nine podiums from twenty starts. Alongside Indy NXT, Johnson has raced in GB3 since 2024, taking two wins and four podiums from twenty-seven starts for Hitech TGR, and in Formula 3 in 2025 with eight starts for the same team. Johnson joined IMSA WeatherTech in 2026 with nine starts so far.[2]

Johnson's Indy NXT title came against a field including several drivers on the threshold of top-tier single-seater racing or already racing at that level. Lochie Hughes, a 2022 US F4 champion with extensive experience across junior open-wheel series, has been Johnson's closest regular rival and the two have remained closely matched. In one-off meetings with much stronger opposition, Johnson has beaten Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional and three-time champion including the 2021 Indy NXT title, and Rafael Câmara, the 2025 Formula 3 champion, each once. Johnson has regularly finished ahead of Nicholas Monteiro, an entry-level professional with thirty-five USF Pro 2000 starts across his career. Cape Motorsports has won four races across its entire index record with twelve drivers; Matthew Brabham, the team's strongest representative in this database, is an established professional.