Who is the Colon Herta? The smallest winner of Indycar in Golf, drums and 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.

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. The race has always been a priority for me. After that, when you grow up, my high school friends will be, and I was living in England on my own. Very different. There are some similarities in my childhood, which was normal and arising, although I did a little different sport. But it is clear that there are some things that were completely different. The pressure was slightly higher.

Are you still playing drums?

I haven’t done for a while. I can. I moved, and I did not prepare the cylinder group. I was very busy. Now, when I have free time. This season, I had nothing. Our season is very crazy now. I enjoy the golf a little more. So I was doing it more if I had any free time.

In your prime, are you better than [fellow INDYCAR driver] Will energy work on drums?

I don’t know how much the intention is. I saw some videos. It looks like a really solid drama player.

Do you know if you are better than [NASCAR driver] Boba Wallace?

I saw Boba playing once on the Internet. It seemed to be at a similar level with the will.

If you have your own cylinder set, what will you play?

I never liked to play with music. I love just jamming and tampering, learn new things and do something of my own.

I do not play the golf game because it requires coordination and patience. How do you find an attempt to learn golf?

It is a frustrating game. It is very difficult, but it is also very rewarding. And I think it is permissible because … you will photograph 90 rounds on your tour and you will be happy with three or four of them. These three or four are what makes you come back, this feeling of watching the ball flies. It’s cold. I was lucky enough to do some things about the golf because of what I do. I have seen some positives playing closely. I have a real estimate of this sport because I know that my inability to do so and how they are surprisingly facilitated.

Las Vegas is now living, you will be able to do a lot in external seasons more than you are in Nashville?

Nashville is difficult. I was really not even a season, too, until I moved to Vegas in the last season. So this is something newer. Although I played here and there, I didn’t completely enter it. I am completely in it now.

You also have rescue dogs?

Yes.

If people are thinking about obtaining a rescue, what is the thing that people do not know about having a rescue dog?

For us, it was very easy. Certainly, there are likely to be the stories and conditions of dogs that may be less behavioral or things due to shock and what they had to deal with. But for us, it was really sweet. As long as you go to a refuge with a good reputation, and they are mostly honest and you know, you understand what you get. Some people love the challenge of having a more challenging dog for training, etc. But our dogs were really the cold. I think we are lucky in this sense.

What do you have?

A hole bull and the other is half the pudding, half of the great Pruntic mountains.

Is there a dog you want?

My first dog was the golden recovery. Gigi was her name. It was a great dog. I always wanted to get a golden recovery. The Great Pyrene Mountains are mixed – it acts exactly like the golden recovery. So perhaps one day.

Do dogs come with you to the path?

sometimes.

What is the key to the presence of dogs in a mobile house?

Oh my God, I don’t know. They are good, so they are good in her burial. And I think if you have a bone dog, this is not the place. But they are really good in hanging.

I just moved to Vigas recently. So what do you discover in Vigas makes it nice? Is it a kind of smuggler from Indianapolis and the Middle West?

It is completely different from the Middle West. There is a lot that people think. There is what is clear, but I do not drink, truly gambling or do anything from this, especially in the season. There is a lot of long -distance walking, mountain bicycles, and the lake there directly, outside Las Vegas, Lake MID. So there are a lot of cold things in the open air. There is a lot of good back. The golf is amazing there. It is important for me, it is really close to my family in California as well. So it is easy to return. It is much easier to have icebergs for dogs for dogs if you need to go somewhere.

You talk about being close to your family. But of course, your father is in sports, and you are actually competing against him on a weekly basis. How does this dynamic look? Did you tell him one day, “Well, you should tell me this strategy. Why do you keep it from me?”

It is open to what is believed to be a good race strategy. Perhaps if it was in a different team, it would be different. But because we are somewhat technical teammates; It is 27 [car of my teammate]. For me, this was a huge addition, especially I grew up with a person like this. This was not only the reason for entering this sport, but I also think it is the reason that made me be able to be very successful early. It is a large part of being ready and able to win at my third start in Indycar. He had a huge influential role. This helped me go out, not only with the teams I got and get to know the people I knew but also from the point of view and understand how to make myself better.

It was not easy for a race car driver. Is there anything you have seen before when he was racing who made you think you may not want to do this because you saw rises and declines?

No, because I was very young. I retired when I was 8 years old. At that point, I thought it was the most wonderful job ever. I didn’t really see this aspect until I was racing, especially at a later time, when I entered the cars. Because in Go-Carts, it’s much more-and I appreciate it to make it in this way-it’s much more fun than it is, “O man, I did it at the end of this week.” I will do badly and then play with my comrades. Nowadays, if you are bad, I am only angry for a while. It is different now. But from this aspect, I really grew up in a really enjoyable environment, and I think this is what made me love it. When you are a child, I was very independent. Like many children, I didn’t want to hear what my parents told me. So if they created an environment that was not like this – [if there was] Pressure, no fun … who knows. Maybe I will not be here.

Bob Pockrass Nascar and Indycar cover for Fox SPORTS. He spent contracts for motorsport coverage, including more than 30 Ditona 500, with a difference in ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR SCENE and (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow it on Twitter @Bobukras.

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