Caio Collet

Caio Jotta Collet (born 3 April 2002) is a Brazilian racing driver who competes in the IndyCar Series for A. J. Foyt Racing.

Born and raised in São Paulo, Collet began his single-seater career in 2018, winning the French F4 title that year. He then moved up to Formula Renault Eurocup for two years and finished runner-up in 2020, before racing in FIA Formula 3 from 2021 to 2023, taking three wins. He then switched to Indy NXT with HMD Motorsports for 2024 and finished third, and placed runner-up the year after.

Collet served as the reserve and simulator driver for the Nissan Formula E Team, making his Formula E debut with Nissan at the 2024 Portland ePrix. He is a former member of the Alpine Academy and the Winfield Racing School.

Collet began his career in karting at the age of seven, claiming multiple titles in his native Brazil, before moving to Europe where his performances led him to being signed to the Birel ART team in 2016 and eventually Nicolas Todt's All Road Management scheme.

At the start of 2018, Collet made his single-seater debut for Silberpfeil Energy Dubai in the 2017–18 Formula 4 UAE Championship. Collet impressed as he finished his first race in third position behind Leon Köhler and David Schumacher, Collet only competed in the third and fourth rounds of the season however in those seven races he finished on the podium in every race bar one. It included winning the third race at the Yas Marina Circuit. This amounted in 124 points and 6th position in the championship standings.

Racing under the number 23, Collet was the only Brazilian on the French F4 grid in 2018. Collet finished the first four races on the podium including taking his first of seven wins that season at the Pau Grand Prix. Multiple wins followed, and Collet sat 54.5 points in the lead of the standings following Magny Cours. Collet had the opportunity to win the championship a round early at Jerez, In the first race, Collet took pole and slowly built is advantage over Adam Eteki who qualified second. The race ended with Collet first, title rival Arthur Leclerc second and guest driver Alessandro Ghiretti finished third. In the reverse grid race, Collet started tenth due to his win the round previously where he climbed through the field to finish fifth between Ulysse de Pauw and Leclerc. A dominant final race which he won confirmed his place as champion regardless of where his rivals finished that race. Collet collected 303.5 points that season along with eleven podiums and three pole positions, he finished with 66.5 more than closest championship rival Ugo de Wilde.

Due to his success in the 2018 French F4 Championship, Collet was given a drive in the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup championship with R-ace GP alongside Oscar Piastri, Aleksandr Smolyar and Grégoire Saucy. Collet finished on the podium for the first time in round three at Monaco where he finished third. Collet would go on to finish the season with five podiums, the best of which was second place at Spa-Francorchamps. Collet finished fifth in the standings with 207 points which was 113 points behind champion and teammate Oscar Piastri.

Collet would remain with R-ace GP for the 2020 season. His season started out in strong fashion, with three podiums in the first three races, which included his first Eurocup victory at the Imola Circuit. Though at the third round at the Nürburgring the Brazilian missed out on the podium altogether, as his former Renault stablemate Victor Martins took both wins. The next few rounds would see first and second-place finishes from Collet and Martins at Magny-Cours and Zandvoort respectively, however, at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Martins was able to regain control of the championship with two victories. The seventh event of the season at Spa-Francorchamps was even worse for Collet's title hopes, as, for the first time in four rounds he didn't end up on the rostrum, whilst his rival did. In round eight at Imola Collet bounced back and won race one, but was taken out from second place on the first lap by David Vidales, losing more ground to the French ART driver. And although Collet won race one at Hockenheim, he wasn't able to get any closer to Martins in the standings, due to a mechanical issue in the second race. At the penultimate race of the season Martins clinched the title, with 44 points splitting Martins and Collet at the end of the year.