About - Colton Herta

At just 25 years old, Colton Herta is a 2x winner of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, 9x INDYCAR winner, and the overall winner of the 2024 Sebring 12 Hours.  Herta became the youngest driver ever to win an INDYCAR race with his first INDYCAR victory in his Rookie season in 2019, and is one of the most successful American racers of his time.

Herta is returning for his seventh season in INDYCAR, driving the #26 GAINBRIDGE/Honda for Andretti Global.

Herta finished his last INDYCAR season second in the championship with two wins at Toronto and Nashville.

Herta returned to the winners circle in 2022, driving the #26 GAINBRIDGE Honda, when he won the GMR Grand Prix at Indianapolis. He led mutliple rounds in 2022  and ended the season with one victory, two pole positions and one podium finish.

2021, his third season of INDYCAR competition was another banner year for Herta. Driving the #26 GAINBRIDGE Honda for Andretti Autosport, Herta scored three victories and three pole positions, he started on the front row and led 50% off the races, and earned five podium finishes overall.

Herta had several commanding performances in 2021, but his wins from pole position at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey were dominant drives, where he led all but four laps in each race.

Herta closed the season with back-to-back victories in his home state of California with wins at Laguna Seca and the Grand Prix of Long Beach, where he passed 13 cars for the victory at the historic race.

Coming off his record-setting Rookie season in 2019, Herta challenged for the 2020 title through the final round and finished third in the NTT INDYCAR Series Championship with one victory, 1 pole position, and 11 top-ten finishes in his sophomore season.

In 2019, Herta became the youngest winning INDYCAR driver in INDYCAR history after his victory at Circuit of The Americas in 2019 with Harding Steinbrenner Racing by winning at 18 years, 359 days old. He also holds the record as youngest pole winner in INDYCAR competition with his first pole award at Road America at the age of 19 years, 83 days. The California-native went on to collect a second victory at the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season finale at Laguna Seca and two additional pole positions at Portland and Laguna Seca, finishing seventh in the championship standings.

Driving with BMW Team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Colton co-drove to victory in the 2019 Rolex 24 At Daytona. In 2018 he won the Indy Lights Freedom 100 at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Second-generation driver Colton Herta is the youngest driver in American history to have won major events at two of America’s most iconic tracks, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Daytona International Speedway.