Hitech Pulse-Eight has announced that Nikita Johnson will race for the team in the 2025 GB3 Championship. The American was one of the most exciting new talents to join the series in 2024, arriving part-way through the season when he had reached his 16th birthday, having already been a multiple race winner on the IndyCar support bill.
The 16-year-old scored a maiden victory at Zandvoort, becoming the youngest-ever race winner in GB3, before ending his campaign with another win at the Brands Hatch season finale. Concurrently, Nikita became the USF Pro 2000 series Vice-Champion as part of a dual programme in the USA and Europe, achieving nine wins, 10 podiums, seven pole positions and nine fastest laps.
Prior to this, at the age of just 15, he became 2023 USF2000 Vice-Champion, claiming eight podiums including a victory in the opening round in his hometown of St Petersburg, Florida. While finishing this campaign, Nikita also made an instant impression across the final five races in the top-tier USF Pro 2000 Championship with a 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 series’ history. Nikita is the only driver to score victories at all three levels of the USF Pro Championships and he is also the youngest race winner in history of 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, achieving three victories, seven further podiums, five poles, and five fastest laps, and he became the youngest-ever winner at Road America. In his debut in USF2000 at Road America that same year, he was 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.
Career history
2025
Formula Regional Oceania Championship - season in progress
2024
USF Pro 2000 Championship - runner-up with eight wins, 10 podiums, six pole positions and seven fastest laps
GB3 Championship - 11th overall with two wins, two podiums and one fastest lap
2023
USF2000 Championship - runner-up with one win, eight podiums, one pole position and two fastest laps
USF Pro 2000 - two wins, four podiums and two fastest laps from six races
2022
YACademy Winter Series - champion with three wins, five podiums, one pole position and three fastest laps from six races
USF Juniors - third overall with three wins, 10 podiums, two pole positions and five fastest laps
USF2000 Championship - one podium and one fastest lap from seven races
2020
Karting - Florida Winter Tour - Junior ROK
Karting - SKUSA Winter Series - X30 Junior
2019
Karting - Orlando Cup - Junior ROK - runner-up
Karting - Biloxi ROK Fest - Junior ROK
Karting - ROK the Rio - Junior ROK - eighth
Karting - Florida Winter Tour - Junior ROK
Karting - Florida Winter Tour - Mini ROK
2018
Karting - Orlando Cup - Mini ROK - champion
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XXII - Mini Swift - runner-up
Karting - ROK the Rio - Mini ROK - third
Karting - ROK Cup International Final - Mini ROK
Karting - SKUSA Winter Series - Mini Swift - fifth
2017
Karting - Florida Winter Tour - Micro Max - fifth
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XXI - Mini Swift - seventh
Karting - ROK Cup Internatioal Final - Mini ROK
Karting - WSK Final Cup - 60 Mini
Karting - 46° Trofeo Delle Industrie - 60 Mini
2016
Karting - SKUSA Supernationals XX - Micro Swift - fourth
Karting - Florida Winter Tour - Micro ROK - ninth
