Enzo Fittipaldi wins the IndyNXT race at Mid-Ohio – IndyNXT Photo
LEXINGTON, Ohio (Sunday, July 5, 2026) – Enzo Fittipaldi completed a
flawless weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, leading every lap
for the second straight race to sweep the INDY NXT by Firestone
doubleheader.
Fittipaldi crossed the finish line 12.7469 seconds ahead of HMD
Motorsports teammate Jack Beeton to earn his fourth career series
victory and second in as many days. Fittipaldi’s victory margin was
the second largest in INDY NXT history at Mid-Ohio, trailing only Jack
Harvey’s 17.3403-second victory in Race 1 of the 2014 doubleheader.
Driving the No. 67 HMD Motorsports entry, Fittipaldi was untouchable all
weekend. The grandson of two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time
Indianapolis 500 winner and 1989 INDYCAR SERIES champion Emerson
Fittipaldi topped Friday’s practice, earned both poles, including a
track-record lap Saturday, led all 65 laps across the two races and also
posted the fastest lap in each event.
“I’m just so happy,” Fittipaldi said. “What a weekend, absolute
domination from all of HMD. It’s crazy. First practice, double pole and
double victories, so it can’t get any better than this.”
Beeton finished a career-best second in the No. 45 HMD Motorsports
entry, improving on Saturday’s third-place finish. Nikita Johnson
finished third in the No. 21 Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR entry,
preventing HMD Motorsports from sweeping the podium for a second
consecutive day.
After HMD Motorsports claimed the top four finishing positions Saturday,
Johnson charged from fifth on the grid to third after finishing seventh
in Race 1.
JM Correa climbed from ninth to finish fourth in the No. 68 Cusick
Morgan Motorsports entry, while Tymek Kucharczyk completed the top five
in the No. 71 HMD Motorsports car in the caution-free race. Correa now
has three top-seven finishes in the last four races, with the lone
exception coming after contact with the Turn 12 tire barrier on Lap 21
of Saturday’s race.
Beeton moved into second on Lap 2 after Alessandro de Tullio attempted
to pass Fittipaldi around the outside of Turn 4. De Tullio ran off
course at corner exit, rejoined in eighth and recovered to sixth before
slipping back to eighth at the finish.
Fittipaldi became the sixth driver to sweep an INDY NXT weekend at
Mid-Ohio, joining Jack Harvey (2014), Santiago Urrutia (2016), Pato
O’Ward (2018), Oliver Askew (2019) and Kyle Kirkwood (2021).
The dominant performance also vaulted Fittipaldi from third in the
championship standings, 27 points behind entering the weekend, to a
17-point lead over Kucharczyk. Johnson sits third, 20 points behind.
“Just all race managing the tires,” Fittipaldi said. “I’m always good at
long-distance races and managing tires. It’s kind of my specialty. I use
my tools to my advantage, so a lot of work with the brake bias and the
bars every lap, every corner, just keeping the car where I wanted it to
be.
“Obviously the car was very fast today. I think it was a combination of
many things, and our pace was rapid. I did a 1:09.9 (lap), which was
only about five-tenths off my qualifying lap yesterday. I don’t know how
many miles were on the tires, so I was quite happy with that.”
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