Who Is Colton Herta? INDYCAR's Youngest Winner On Golf, Drums & Rescue Dogs

What were you doing at 18 years old?

Well, Colton Herta was winning at racing's highest levels. 

In 2019, he became the youngest driver ever (and still is) to win an INDYCAR race with a victory at Circuit of the Americas. Considering his father, Bryan, raced in INDYCAR, owned a race team that twice won the Indianapolis 500 and is now a strategist for Andretti Global, it was likely Colton's destiny to follow the family's racing legacy.

Racing is in the blood of father Bryan and son Colton Herta.

Herta, who moved from Nashville to Las Vegas in the offseason last year, talked about everything from growing up around racing and his drumming ability to his golf game and his rescue dogs.

Who is Colton Herta?

Who is Colton Herta? I’m a 25-year-old Southern California native, INDYCAR driver and American.

How would your friends describe you?

Probably, like, quiet. Not really outgoing. I guess maybe a little bit more outgoing on race weekends and for this sort of thing. But for the most part, I just keep to myself and avoid people.

You're the youngest winner ever in the series ... does that mean you had no childhood?

I guess not in the normal sense. From a young age, while kids were going to soccer practice and whatnot and on the weekends they'd go to soccer games, I'd get pulled out of school on Friday morning and go to the go-kart track for the weekend. So I guess normal in the sense that I knew a lot of kids my age from the go-kart track but definitely not the traditional sense of sports. I played normal sports growing up. I played soccer, football and baseball but never really past [ages] 8-10. Racing was always kind of a priority for me. And then, when I got older, my friends would be in high school, and I was living in