Bryce Aron

Bryce Aron
Aron in 2024
Nationality	American
Born	(2003-09-30) September 30, 2003 (age 21) Winnetka, Illinois, United States
Indy NXT career
Debut season	2024
Current team	HMD Motorsports
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	39
Starts	14
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	2
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	9th in 2024
Previous series
2023 2021-22 2020 2019	Euroformula Open Championship GB3 Championship UK National Formula Ford US National FF1600 SCCA Majors

Bryce Aron (born September 30, 2003) is an American racing driver who competed in the 2025 24 Hours of Daytona with JDC-Miller MotorSports in the GTP class, finishing 6th overall. Aron returned to America to compete with Andretti Global in the 2024 Indy NXT Championship, where he scored 2 podium finishes. Aron raced in the 2023 Euroformula Open Championship with Motopark Academy where he achieved three wins and five podiums, finishing fourth largely as a result of forgoing the final three races. ^[1] Aron is a 2024 Formula Regional Oceania race winner with M2 Competition and a race winner in the 2022 GB3 Championship with Hitech GP. Bryce is the winner of the 2020 Team USA Scholarship and made history as the first American to finish top 5 in both events receiving a Podium in the Walter Hayes Trophy Grand Final. ^[2]

Career

Formula Ford

BRSCC National Formula Ford Championship

In 2020, Aron moved to the UK to compete with Low Dempsey Racing in the BRSCC National Formula Ford Championship. Due to the pandemic, the championship was shortened to just 3 rounds and 7 races and Aron finished 5th in the standings, having won pole position in the penultimate round at Brands Hatch. In order to supplement the shortened race calendar, Low Dempsey Racing participated in a variety of additional series including the Champion of Brands, Champion of Cadwell and the majority of the Castle Combe Championship. Aron won the Champion of Cadwell. ^[3]

2020 Team USA Scholarship Winner

Aron was one of three winners of the highly coveted 2020 Team USA Scholarship. At the Formula Ford Festival Aron finished 3rd in the semi-final. In the final, Aron “ran strongly in third place until being elbowed down to fifth following a late-race Safety Car interruption.” ^[4] Aron then went on to the Walter Hayes Trophy, where out of 103 drivers he finished on the podium in 3rd place, ^[5] having been the 7th American to finish on the Walter Hayes Podium. Aron made history as the first American to finish with a top 5 and a podium in the two end of year iconic events. ^[6]

GB3 Championship

2021

Aron joined Carlin for 2021, ^[7] progressing to the GB3 Championship alongside teammates O’Sullivan and Mansell. Aron had what was hailed as a stunning debut at Brands Hatch where he made bold moves to end the race weekend with a 4th place finish. ^[8]

2022

In 2022 Aron joined Hitech GP where he contributed to their first GB3 championship team's win. ^[9] Aron scored 8 top 10 finishes, 5 of which came during the last 2 rounds. Aron ended the season by out-qualifying his teammates and then scoring a race 2 podium. ^[10] Aron scored 3 podiums and a win in the 2022 championship. ^[11]

Super Formula

At the end of 2022, Aron partook in Super Formula tests with B-Max Racing at Okayama ^[12] and Suzuka. ^[13] Aron was consistently in the top 5 and as high as 2nd fastest in the sessions in which he participated. ^[14]

Euroformula Open

Aron en-route to win at the Hungaroring in 2023

Aron moved to the Euroformula Open in 2023, with Team Motopark. ^[15] A championship contender for much of the season, ^{[16] [17]} Aron missed the last three races due to a conflict with Indy NXT, ^[18] finishing 4th overall with 3 wins and 5 podiums.

Formula Regional Oceania

Aron competed in the final two rounds of the 2024 Formula Regional Oceania Championship. Aron won at the Highlands Motorsports Park, during the New Zealand Grand Prix race weekend. In his first weekend in the Formula Regional car, Aron scored fastest race lap at Euromarque Motorsports Park. Aron was the only American and the only Indy NXT driver to score a win in the 2024 Formula Regional Oceania Championship. ^[19]

Indy NXT

2024

Aron's 2024 Indy NXT car

Aron moved to America, joining Andretti Global to race in the 2024 Indy NXT Championship. ^[20] Aron scored podium finishes at both WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway ^[21] and Portland International Raceway. ^[22] During the second half of the season, Aron outscored his Andretti teammates with the exception of series champion Louis Foster. ^[23]

2025

Aron moved to HMD Motorsports for his second season of Indy NXT in 2025. ^[24]

Sportscar racing career

IMSA SportsCar Championship

In January 2025, it was announced that Aron would be making his sports car racing debut in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the 24 Hours of Daytona, racing in the GTP class, with JDC-Miller Motorsports in the Porsche 963 Hypercar, alongside teammates Gianmaria Bruni, Tijmen van der Helm, and Pascal Wehrlein. ^[25]

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2019	SCCA Majors Championship Nationwide - Formula F	N/A	6	0	?	?	2	87	10th
	SCCA Hoosier Super Tour - Formula Ford	K-Hill Motorsports	2	0	2	1	2	N/A	NC
	F1600 Championship Series		20	0	0	1	8	639	3rd
	Formula Ford Festival - Pro class - Heats/Semi	Oldfield Motorsport	3	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2020	National FF1600 Championship	Low Dempsey Racing [26]	7	0	1	0	0	?	5th
	Formula Ford Festival - Semi		1	0	0	1	1	N/A	3rd
	Formula Ford Festival		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	Walter Hayes Trophy		1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
	Formula Ford 1600 Castle Combe Championship		6	0	0	2	5	N/A	N/A
	Champion of Cadwell		2	1	2	2	2	N/A	1st
	Champion of Brands		3	0	1	2	3	N/A	N/A
2021	GB3 Championship	Carlin [27]	24	0	0	0	0	237	12th
2022	GB3 Championship	Hitech Grand Prix	24	1	0	0	3	215	12th
2023	Euroformula Open Championship	Team Motopark	20	3	0	1	5	238	4th
2024	Indy NXT	Andretti Global	14	0	0	0	2	302	9th
	Formula Regional Oceania Championship	M2 Competition	6	1	0	1	1	102	15th
2025	IMSA SportsCar Championship - GTP	JDC-Miller MotorSports	1	0	0	0	0	276	6*
	Indy NXT	HMD Motorsports

* Season still in progress

Complete GB3 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2021	Carlin	BRH 1 10	BRH 2 9	BRH 3 44	SIL 1 9	SIL 2 11	SIL 3 DSQ	DON1 1 13	DON1 2 11	DON1 3 42	SPA 1 10	SPA 2 11	SPA 3 14	SNE 1 11	SNE 2 6	SNE 3 13	SIL2 1 10	SIL2 2 11	SIL2 3 7	OUL 1 14	OUL 2 8	OUL 3 13	DON2 1 6	DON2 2 6	DON2 3 14	12th	237
2022	Hitech Grand Prix	OUL 1 12	OUL 2 15	OUL 3 174	SIL1 1 19	SIL1 2 12	SIL1 3 33	DON1 1 12	DON1 2 19	DON1 3 1	SNE 1 11	SNE 2 13	SNE 3 DSQ	SPA 1 9	SPA 2 14	SPA 3 21	SIL2 1 16	SIL2 2 Ret	SIL2 3 147	BRH 1 8	BRH 2 7	BRH 3 101	DON2 1 6	DON2 2 3	DON2 3 135	12th	215

Complete Euroformula Open Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	Pos	Points
2023	Team Motopark	EST 1 5	EST 2 4	EST 3 4	SPA 1 3*	SPA 2 1	SPA 3 5	HUN 1 6	HUN 2 1	HUN 3 4	LEC 1 3	LEC 2 1	LEC 3 4	RBR 1 6	RBR 2 6	RBR 3 6	MNZ 1 7	MNZ 2 Ret	MNZ 3 5	MUG 1 5	MUG 2 8	CAT 1 WD	CAT 2 WD	CAT 3 WD	4th	238

Complete Formula Regional Oceania Championship Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Points
2024	M2 Competition	TAU 1	TAU 2	TAU 3	MAN 1	MAN 2	MAN 3	HMP 1	HMP 2	HMP 3	RUA 1 9	RUA 2 10	RUA 3 4	HIG 1 7	HIG 2 1	HIG 3 6	15th	102

Complete American open–wheel racing results

Indy NXT

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with ^L indicate a race lap led) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2024	Andretti Global	STP 19	BAR 8	IMS 14	IMS 19	DET 20	RDA 8	LAG 16	LAG 3	MDO 18	IOW 8	GMP 6	POR 3	MIL 4	NSH 7	9th	302
2025	HMD Motorsports	STP	BAR	IMS	IMS	DET	GMP	RDA	MDO	IOW	LAG	LAG	POR	MIL	NSH

* Season still in progress.

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2025	JDC-Miller MotorSports	GTP	Porsche	9RD 4.6 L V8	DAY 6	SEB	LBH	LGA	DET	WGL	ELK	IMS	PET	6th*	276*

^* Season still in progress.

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External links

• Official Website
• Team USA Scholarship
• Bryce Aron career summary at DriverDB.com