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Nikita joins Hitech for his first full season of GB3 Championship. The Gulfport, Florida native 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 16^th birthday, despite already being a multiple race winner on the IndyCar support bill. The IndyCar 2024 USF PRO 2000 and 2023 USF2000 Vice-Champion, and 2022 USF Junior Championship’s third placed driver has amassed an impressive tally of victories and podiums in multiple single-seater championships. While 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 of 2024. 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. 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.

2022
YACademy Winter Series
USF Juniors
USF2000 Championship

2023
USF2000 Championship
USF Pro 2000 Championship

2024
USF2000 Championship
GB3 Championship