Photo credit: Gavin Baker Photography/USF Pro Championships

Calculated aggression.

It’s the art of knowing not just how to make a move, but when and where. For 15-year-old Californian racer G3 Argyros, it’s a philosophy that defines his every lap.

Behind the wheel, Argyros isn’t just a driver—he’s his own strategist. Each corner is a problem to solve, each competitor a variable in his equation. He watches, he waits, and when the time is right, he strikes.

“When I need to go, I pull the aggression out,” Argyros said. “But I can also be smart enough in my own head to calm down and drive the right lines.”

When it works out, Argyros has pulled off masterclasses in his limited time in USF2000. His win in the season finale in a chaotic, multiple safety car bout at Portland International Raceway from fourteenth on the grid was a textbook example of racecraft well ahead of his age.

The shining moment may have been on a lap 14 restart, when Argyros kept his cool as chaos ensued in the opening chicane. While other drivers reacting to the wreck ahead of them cut across and damaged their cars, Argyros kept his head down and made the corner, making up seven spots from eighth to the lead in the matter of seconds.

In the past fifteen years, its the furthest someone has come from the back of the grid to win a race in the series.

That win was not the first time Argyros has used patience to work his way through chaotic fields. In his partial season in USF2000 where he ran 10 races, he finished 6 positions or more ahead of his starting spot in nearly half of them. But that Portland win in particular was enough to land Argyros his large prize for 2025, a promotion to series powerhouse team Pabst Racing in USF2000 next year.

“The wealth of knowledge around the paddock with Pabst is so high,” Argyros said. “I have all the tools I need to go fastest.”

A taste of the high potential of the Pabst-Argyros partnership was evident during the USF Pro Championships fall combine.

In the six sessions, Argyros was in the top five in every session. He was in the top three in four and topped the first one outright. It’s promising signs for a Pabst side that dominated fall testing last year with Sam Corry and Max Garcia, drivers who went on to finish top two in the championship who have since been promoted to the Trans-Am series and USF Pro 2000 respectively.

This also shows an upward trajectory in testing results for Argyros across seasons. As he was progressing out of a career in offroad racing and karting last year, he impressed in the series test for USF Juniors last year at NOLA Motorsports Park but did not reach the top fives that he was able to find at Indianapolis this fall

Argyros, with an ear-to-ear smile that seems almost emblematic of the young driver by now, discussed how excited he was with the results and how they resemble the progress he has made in the year since moving to open-wheel racing.

“I grew a lot in maturity, just knowing and analyzing as I got more comfortable with these drivers who had more experience in cars or the series,” Argyros said. “I was getting used to how it was ran, the rule set, and then also learning the difference between race craft in karts and race craft in cars.”

The next season will carry its own challenges for Argyros, having not only moved to a new team and to a new full-time series but also, like all USF2000 drivers, Argyros will have to adapt to an increase in around 20 horsepower next season.

Describing how the change has felt in testing, Argyros mentioned how noticeable the increase of power truly is and why he thinks it will improve the quality of racing in USF2000 next season.

“The way you drive the cars has changed,” Argyros said. “You now have more power to get out of sticky situations…It’s gonna allow drivers to take more than one line and still get off the corner.”

That will add even more possibilities and calculations to the risk that Argyros sees when he plans his moves throughout the field in 2025. He capitalized on those opportunities in 2024 in USF Juniors enough to reach seventh in the standings.

Entering the next year with a whole bunch of pace, he aims higher for the next.

“(If I) keep surrounding myself with the people at Pabst and learning and taking in all the knowledge they’re giving me, I feel like I have no doubt that we’ll be holding that trophy,” Argyros said.