Karting (2013–2024) Costa began competitive karting at the age of four in the USA. Racing in Micro karts at the beginning of his career, Costa finished second in the Florida Winter Tour in the Swift class, as well as finishing second in the Rok Cup USA and SKUSA SuperNationals the same year. Costa then spent the next two years racing full-time in Mini karts, most notably finishing fourth in the 2018 Orlando Cup in Mini Rok and fifth in the 2019 IAME International Final in X30 Mini. During this time frame, Costa made his debut in European karts in late 2018, before primarily racing there the following year as he won the rookie title in the
Italian Karting Championship. before stepping up to junior karts midway through the year, finishing sixth in the
Andrea Margutti Trophy and seventh in the
Italian Karting Championship in X30. Switching to
OK-J for the following year, Costa had a mostly quiet year, but capped off his first full year in the category by finishing 10th in the
Karting World Championship. After starting 2022 by finishing fourth in the
WSK Champions Cup for
Fernando Alonso's DPK Racing, returned to the Sauber Karting Team for the rest of the year, most notably finishing second in the WSK Open Cup. During 2022, Costa was also eighth in both the Champions of the Future Winter and Euro Series, as well as finishing fifth in the
WSK Final Cup and fourth in the
Italian Karting Championship. Costa then spent 2023 in Senior karts as a fully-fledged member of the
Sauber Academy, before leaving the stable ahead of 2024 and dabbled between the
OK and
KZ2 classes in his final year of karting.
Formula 4 (2025) Stepping up to single-seaters in 2025, Costa joined
Campos Racing to race in the
F4 Spanish Championship. Starting off the year in the
Eurocup-4 Spanish Winter Championship, Costa took a rookie win and an overall podium in race two at
Navarra as he rounded out the winter eighth in points. Racing in the main championship for the rest of the year, Costa scored a best result of fourth in race one at
Barcelona to end the year 14th in points.
Formula Regional (2026) In 2026, Costa joined
RPM for a dual campaign in the
Formula Regional Middle East Trophy and the
Formula Regional European Championship. In the former, Costa scored his maiden podium in Formula Regional competition in the reverse-grid race of the first
Yas Marina round as he ended the winter 15th in points. == Karting record ==