Nikita Johnson joins Hitech’s 2025 GB3 campaign
Hitech GP is pleased to announce that Nikita Johnson will race for the team in the 2025 GB3 Championship. Nikita, the first of three drivers to be announced by the team, was one of the most exciting new talents to join the championship in 2024, arriving part-way through the season when he had reached his 16th birthday, despite already being a multiple race winner on the IndyCar support bill.
Whilst racing in GB3 in 2024 and scoring a maiden win in Zandvoort, becoming the youngest-ever race winner in GB3, Nikita became the USF Pro 2000 series Vice-Champion as part of a dual programme in the USA and the UK/Europe that saw him cross the Atlantic seven times during the summer. In the USF PRO 2000 18-race series, he tallied nine of 18 on-track wins, including 10 podiums, seven poles, nine fastest laps, and eight most laps led.
The season prior, at the age of just 15, he became the 2023 USF2000 Vice-Champion, claiming eight podiums including a victory in the opening round in his hometown of St Petersburg, Florida. While finishing his USF2000 campaign, Nikita also made an instant impression across the final five races in the top-tier USF Pro 2000 Championship with a historic win at the Circuit of The Americas, another victory at Portland, and two further podium finishes. With the COTA win, he became the youngest race-winner in the USF PRO 2000 series’ history. Nikita is the only driver to win at all three levels of the USF Pro Championships (USF Junior, USF 2000 and USF PRO 2000) and also the youngest race winner in history in each series.
At the age of 13, Nikita won the 2022 YACademy Winter Series F4 title with three wins from six races and two additional podium finishes. He added to this successful winter campaign with third place in the 2022 USF Juniors Championship with 3 victories from 16 races, with seven further podiums, five poles, five fastest laps and became the youngest-ever winner at Road America. At the end of the year, he made his debut in USF2000 with VRD at Road America and placed second at Portland.
With a victory in the YACademy series at the start of 2021, he became the youngest-ever winner of a race for contemporary F4 machinery at just 12-years-old.
In addition to his success in single-seaters, he was crowned the 2021 Legends Road Course World Champion and finished third in the Legends Asphalt Oval USA National Championship. In 2020, Nikita was Vice Champion in Legends Dirt USA Nationals.
Prior to that, he enjoyed a glittering karting career, with titles in the National, Midwest and Florida Micro-ROK Championships in 2016. He was the winner of the Florida Winter Tour Mini-ROK Ocala Gran Prix in the following season and raced in WSK in Europe for two seasons. In 2018, he won the Ocala Grand Prix Junior Championship and a paid university scholarship before moving into car racing.
Nikita Johnson
“I want to thank my management team of my father, Obie Johnson, and Harry Soden at Infinity Sports Management for working with Hitech to place me in this top-tier team.”
Nikita continued:
“They have demonstrated the ability to develop young drivers, such as George Russell, and I am focused on working with the team to advance.”
Phil Blow, Hitech’s GB3 Championship Team Manager, commented:
“As ever in racing, no sooner has one season ended than another begins, and we’re excited to begin looking to our driver line-up for 2025. We welcome Nikita to the team, a driver who is still only 16 years of age but already brings a wealth of experience in single-seater racing. I’m sure he will make a significant contribution to another strong season for Hitech in GB3.”