Karts to an Indy Pro 2000 title, a single Indy Lights win at Laguna Seca and several midfield IndyCar seasons with Juncos Hollinger.
Sting Ray Robb is an American IndyCar driver who won the 2020 Indy Pro 2000 title with Juncos Racing. He won once in Indy Lights, at Laguna Seca in 2022, and has raced for three IndyCar teams since 2023, with a best finish of ninth.
Sting Ray Robb is an American racing driver who competes in the IndyCar Series for Juncos Hollinger Racing, in the No. 77 Dallara-Chevrolet. He won the Indy Pro 2000 championship in 2020 and his only Indy Lights race at Laguna Seca in 2022. Since 2023 he has been a midfield regular in IndyCar, and he has started the Indianapolis 500 in two of those seasons.
How did a go-kart driver move up the ladder?
Robb received a go-kart at five, and he started running nationally at eight, competing in Cadet division events from 2010 to 2013. He won a national Rotax Junior Max championship in 2015. That same year he finished second at the Karts to Car Scholarship Shootout, which earned him a US$15,000 scholarship to race in the Skip Barber Race Series.
He switched from karts to cars in 2015, racing in the Skip Barber Winter Series, where he finished second in the standings. He also raced go-karts in Portugal during his junior years, and he drove part-time for World Speed Motorsports in the Formula Car Challenge, winning a race there.
Robb's parents are Chevrolet enthusiasts who named him after the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. He attended Payette High School, where he played basketball and ran cross country.
From karts to an Indy Pro 2000 title, then a run of midfield IndyCar seasons that started with a 31st place at the Indianapolis 500.
What did the Pro Mazda seasons of 2017 and 2018 bring?
Robb was the youngest driver on the 2017 Pro Mazda grid, and he finished sixth in the points with a string of fourth-place finishes. He opened with fourth at St. Petersburg, then added fourth places at Road America and Watkins Glen and a fifth at Mid-Ohio.
He stayed in Pro Mazda for 2018, this time with Team Pelfrey. His best result was a last-lap pass on teammate Andres Gutierrez at Indianapolis, and he added three further top-five finishes. The championship ended with him seventh in the standings.
How did Robb win the 2020 Indy Pro 2000 title?
Robb returned to Juncos Racing for 2020 and won his first Indy Pro 2000 race at Mid-Ohio, inheriting the lead and holding off Hunter McElrea in the closing laps. He swept a three-race weekend at Indianapolis and clinched the title with two races to spare, finishing the season with seven victories, five poles and eleven podiums.
The 2019 season with Juncos had already shown what he could do. He finished third at the St. Petersburg opener, scored his maiden pole at Portland and finished fourth in the championship.
At Portland he was punted into a spin at the start by Artem Petrov, yet he came back to finish second in race two. He took pole there in 2019 and led the most laps, but strong tyre wear in the closing laps and an off at turn 5 let Kyle Kirkwood through, and Robb settled for second.
Robb also won the New Jersey round from pole in race two, and he stood on all three steps of the podium that weekend. His 2020 road to the title included a second at Road America and a third in race two at Mid-Ohio.
What did the move to Indy Lights involve?
Robb used his Indy Pro scholarship to move up to Indy Lights with Juncos in 2021, finishing eighth in the points standings. He then joined Andretti Autosport full-time for the 2022 Indy Lights season, a step up from the Indy Pro 2000 series he had just won.
The 2022 season at Andretti brought a podium at Barber, third in race one at Indianapolis and a pole position at Road America, where he finished second. He also finished second in the Nashville street race, and he added a sixth at Mid-Ohio and a fifth in Iowa along the way.
At Laguna Seca he dominated race one from pole and built an 11-second gap to take his first and only Indy Lights win. He narrowly lost race two to Christian Rasmussen, which left him second in both the race and the overall points table.
How did his first IndyCar season go?
Robb stepped up to the IndyCar Series for 2023, rather than stay in the renamed Indy NXT series. He was confirmed as the full-time driver for Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing, partnering David Malukas. His early races brought a number of incidents, including a mistake at Texas on his first IndyCar oval race that saw him slide into the wall.
He also collided with Malukas at the Indianapolis road course and afterwards apologised for the lap two incident that ended the team's day.
In May he qualified for his first Indianapolis 500 with a speed of 229.549 mph in the Last Chance session, lining up 32nd. He crashed in turn one near the midpoint and finished 31st. At Iowa he was later disqualified from race two when a wheel came loose after a pit stop.
His best finish of the year was 12th at Laguna Seca, and he ended the season 23rd in the standings. Benjamin Pedersen was the only full-time driver beaten by Robb.
Why did 2024 with A.J. Foyt Racing matter?
Robb moved to A.J. Foyt Racing for 2024, a team that had just formed a technical partnership with Team Penske. He scored his maiden top-10 finish with ninth at Gateway, and he finished the season 20th in the championship.
The season had hard moments. At Iowa race two he was lightly injured in a last-lap crash, unable to avoid the back of Alexander Rossi's slowing car, and he landed on his own car's aeroscreen. At Toronto he retired from a multi-car crash.
Robb caused two cautions in race two at Milwaukee before the season ended.
How did the 2025 season go with Juncos Hollinger?
Robb returned to Juncos Hollinger Racing in 2025, reunited with the team that had won him the Indy Pro 2000 title, with Townsend Lucas as his race engineer. He finished 25th in the points, third-lowest of the full-time drivers.
The results moved up and down. At St. Petersburg he held up eventual winner Alex Palou near the end of the race in an attempt to stay on the lead lap, and he finished 21st. At Long Beach he was one of six drivers to start on prime tyres, led for 12 laps and finished ninth in a caution-free race.
The Indianapolis 500 was a hard race. He qualified 19th, later 17th after two penalties for Team Penske, and was taken out mid-race after a spin by Kyle Larson. At Detroit he started 26th and progressed to 15th in a chaotic race.
At Road America he went out in a crash after nearly striking Marcus Armstrong's rear while braking, and he hit the turn two wall hard in race two at Iowa. Reports said he had been working with driver coach Rob Wilson to improve his performances.
What did the 2026 season look like?
Robb was retained by Juncos Hollinger Racing for 2026, where he joined Rinus VeeKay. He finished the season 25th in the points, the same standing he had held in 2025, with a best result of 11th.
Career results at a glance
| Season | Team | Series | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Juncos Racing | Indy Pro 2000 | Fourth overall, maiden pole at Portland |
| 2020 | Juncos Racing | Indy Pro 2000 | Champion with seven wins |
| 2021 | Juncos Racing | Indy Lights | Eighth overall |
| 2022 | Andretti Autosport | Indy Lights | Second overall, one win at Laguna Seca |
| 2023 | Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing | IndyCar | 23rd overall |
| 2024 | A.J. Foyt Racing | IndyCar | 20th overall, maiden top-10 finish |
| 2025 | Juncos Hollinger Racing | IndyCar | 25th overall |
| 2026 | Juncos Hollinger Racing | IndyCar | 25th overall, best finish 11th |
How did he start in NASCAR?
In late 2016 Robb made his NASCAR K&N Pro Series West debut in Utah, becoming the youngest driver ever to take part in the series. He finished tenth at the 2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208.
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