🇺🇸 Simon Sikes

Simon Sikes is an entry-level professional racing driver with a Racer Rating of 3,955, competing in single-seat open-wheel racing in the United States. He races for Pabst Racing and Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing in the USF2000 Championship, a national single-class series for 2-liter Formula Continental cars. He holds an FIA Silver grading, placing him among drivers on the way up in international motorsport rather than established professionals.[1]

Sikes won the 2023 USF2000 championship and has since competed in both USF2000 and its higher rung, USF Pro 2000. Across his indexed record from 2020 onwards he has taken nine wins and twenty podiums in thirty-six starts, including two wins at the SCCA Runoffs in Formula Continental and a full season in USF Pro 2000 in 2024 where he scored two wins and five podiums. He finished sixteenth in the USF2000 standings through two rounds of the current season before moving to a development programme at Indianapolis.[2]

His regular opposition includes Lochie Hughes, a professional who won the 2024 USF Pro 2000 championship and has raced in Indy NXT, against whom Sikes has finished ahead twelve times across their meetings. He has also beaten Nikita Johnson, a professional and 2026 Indy NXT champion, on nine occasions in their races together. Among the multiclass SCCA fields where Sikes competed early in his career, he scored wins in both the Runoffs and the Majors.