The 2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda was the ninth season – since its revival in 2010 – of the U.S. F2000 National Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that is the first step in INDYCAR's Road to Indy ladder, operated by Andersen Promotions. A 14-race schedule was announced on October 17, 2017.[1]

American Kyle Kirkwood driving for Cape Motorsports in a single-car effort dominated the championship, winning twelve of the fourteen races. The only other driver to win was two consecutive races won by former Indy Lights competitor Alexandre Baron for Swan-RJB Motorsports early in the season. Baron left the series after seven races. Swede Rasmus Lindh finished well back in second place driving for Pabst Racing who won the team championship in a close battle. Lindh didn't capture a second place finish until the final race of the season. Just behind Lindh were Brazilians Lucas Kohl and Igor Fraga. Fourteen drivers competed in all fourteen races.

Drivers and teams

Team No. Drivers Rounds
Abel Motorsports 79 United States Jacob Abel[2] 6–7, 10–12
ArmsUp Motorsports 9 United States Dakota Dickerson[3] 6–14
14 United States Max Peichel[4][5] 3–4, 6–9, 13–14
30 Republic of Ireland Keith Donegan[6] 1–5
BN Racing 28 United Kingdom Jamie Caroline[7] 1–4
Republic of Ireland Keith Donegan 6–12
29 United States Russell McDonough All
Cape Motorsports 8 United States Kyle Kirkwood[8] All
DEForce Racing 7 United Kingdom James Raven 10–12
10 United States Zach Holden[9] 1–5
11 United States Kory Enders[10] All
12 Mexico José Sierra[11] All
27 United States Colin Kaminsky[12] All
Exclusive Autosport 90 Mexico Manuel Cabrera[13] 1–7
United States Yuven Sundaramoorthy 10–12
Canada Kellen Ritter 13–14
91 Brazil Igor Fraga[14] All
92 Singapore Danial Frost 6–12
93 Canada Jayson Clunie[15] 1–2
Newman Wachs Racing 36 United States Darren Keane[16] 1–12
37 United States David Osborne[17] 1–7, 10–12
38 United Kingdom Oscar DeLuzuriaga[18] All
41 United States Braden Eves 13–14
Pabst Racing Services 21 Guyana Calvin Ming[19] All
22 Brazil Lucas Kohl[20] All
23 Sweden Rasmus Lindh[10] All
24 United States Kaylen Frederick[21] All
Sol.O Racing 5 Colombia Mathias Soler-Obel[22] 1–7
Swan-RJB Motorsports 19 France Alexandre Baron[23] 1–7
20 Republic of Ireland James Roe[24] 3–4
Team Benik 31 United States Sabré Cook[25] 1–4, 6–7, 10–12
51 United States Michael d'Orlando 1–4, 6–7, 10–12
Team Pelfrey 80 South Africa Julian van der Watt[26] All
81 United States Kyle Dupell[27] All
82 Brazil Bruna Tomaselli[28] All

Schedule

Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 March 10 United States Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
2 March 11
3 May 11 United States Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana
4 May 12
5 May 25 United States Dave Steele Carb Night Classic Lucas Oil Raceway Clermont, Indiana
6 June 23 United States Grand Prix of Road America Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
7 June 24
8 July 14 Canada Grand Prix of Toronto Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 July 15
10 July 27 United States Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
11 July 28
12 July 29
13 September 1 United States Grand Prix of Portland Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
14 September 2

Race results

Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 St. Petersburg 1 Mexico José Sierra France Alexandre Baron United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
2 St. Petersburg 2 France Alexandre Baron France Alexandre Baron France Alexandre Baron France Alexandre Baron Swan-RJB Motorsports
3 Indianapolis GP 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood France Alexandre Baron France Alexandre Baron France Alexandre Baron Swan-RJB Motorsports
4 Indianapolis GP 2 United States Kyle Kirkwood France Alexandre Baron United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
5 Indianapolis United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
6 Road America 1 Sweden Rasmus Lindh United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
7 Road America 2 Sweden Rasmus Lindh United States Kyle Kirkwood Brazil Lucas Kohl United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
8 Toronto 1 United States Dakota Dickerson Sweden Rasmus Lindh United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
9 Toronto 2 United States Kaylen Frederick Sweden Rasmus Lindh United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
10 Mid-Ohio 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood Sweden Rasmus Lindh United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
11 Mid-Ohio 2 United States Kaylen Frederick United Kingdom James Raven United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
12 Mid-Ohio 3 United Kingdom James Raven United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
13 Portland 1 United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports
14 Portland 2 Sweden Rasmus Lindh United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood United States Kyle Kirkwood Cape Motorsports

Championship standings

Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th   16th   17th   18th   19th   20th+ 
Points (R) 30 25 22 19 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Points (O) 45 38 33 29 26 23 21 20 18 17 15 14 12 11 9 8 6 5 4 2
  • One point is awarded to the driver who qualifies on pole position.
  • One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in the race.
  • One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH POR Points
1 United States Kyle Kirkwood 1* 5 2 1* 1* 1* 1 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 440
2 Sweden Rasmus Lindh 10 24 14 3 3 4 18 4 3 10 4 3 4 2 238
3 Brazil Lucas Kohl 13 3 26 7 4 23 3* 9 15 2 2 6 5 5 215
4 Brazil Igor Fraga 8 2 8 17 7 8 5 7 2 17 3 5 15 4 213
5 Guyana Calvin Ming 4 8 6 19 9 6 15 6 11 3 5 7 2 6 206
6 United States Kaylen Frederick 11 9 22 21 2 2 2 3 8 24 23 19 7 15 173
7 South Africa Julian van der Watt 5 11 7 8 19 24 17 10 5 5 8 14 9 3 162
8 United States Kory Enders 19 10 5 6 11 5 19 16 14 9 16 24 3 9 143
9 Republic of Ireland Keith Donegan 14 13 24 11 6 3 13 5 17 4 21 4 139
10 United States Colin Kaminsky 6 22 9 16 13 12 4 12 18 12 7 12 17 8 134
11 Mexico José Sierra 2 6 3 26 5 9 23 18 7 19 19 22 12 17 128
12 France Alexandre Baron 22 1* 1* 2 21 7 7 123
13 United States Dakota Dickerson 14 9 2 6 6 6 18 8 7 120
14 United States Darren Keane 3 12 23 4 8 10 20 17 12 21 17 17 105
15 United States Kyle Dupell 9 15 16 23 17 13 21 15 9 15 14 13 10 10 100
16 Brazil Bruna Tomaselli 7 14 19 22 14 17 11 13 13 20 13 16 18 16 87
17 Singapore Danial Frost 19 16 8 4 7 9 9 77
18 United Kingdom Oscar DeLuzuriaga 20 19 20 13 16 21 12 11 10 22 24 21 13 14 69
19 United States Russell McDonough 23 25 18 12 20 16 26 14 16 23 12 23 16 11 60
20 United States Michael d'Orlando 16 23 25 15 22 6 8 20 8 56
21 Colombia Mathias Soler-Obel 12 16 13 18 12 11 14 56
22 Mexico Manuel Cabrera 25 21 11 9 10 26 8 55
23 United States Jacob Abel 15 10 11 11 11 47
24 United States David Osborne 18 18 15 20 15 18 22 13 15 15 46
25 United Kingdom Jamie Caroline 24 4 4 24 40
26 United States Max Peichel 17 10 20 24 DNS DNS 14 12 35
27 United Kingdom James Raven 18 18 2 33
28 United States Zach Holden 21 7 10 25 18 32
29 United States Yuven Sundaramoorthy 14 10 10 29
30 United States Sabré Cook 15 17 21 14 25 25 16 22 20 27
31 Republic of Ireland James Roe 12 5 26
32 United States Braden Eves 6 18 18
33 Canada Kellen Ritter 11 13 18
34 Canada Jayson Clunie 17 20 5
Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH POR Points
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
Light Blue 6th–10th place
Dark Blue Finished
(Outside Top 10)
Purple Did not finish
(DNF)
Red Did not qualify
(DNQ)
Brown Withdrawn
(Wth)
Black Disqualified
(DSQ)
White Did not start
(DNS)
Blank Did not
participate
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
(1 point)
Italics Ran fastest race lap
(1 point)
* Led most race laps
(1 point)
Not awarded if more than
one driver leads most laps
Rookie

Teams' championship

Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th+ 
Points 22 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
  • Single car teams receive 3 bonus points as an equivalency to multi-car teams
  • Only the best two results count for teams fielding more than two entries
Pos Team Points
1 Pabst Racing 349
2 Cape Motorsports 334
3 DEForce Racing 181
4 Exclusive Autosport 166
5 Swan-RJB Motorsports 104
6 ArmsUp Motorsports 102
7 BN Racing 101
8 Team Pelfrey 101
9 Newman Wachs Racing 69
10 Team BENIK 33
11 Sol.O Racing 28
12 Abel Motorsports 22

See also

2018 IndyCar Series
2018 Indy Lights
2018 Pro Mazda Championship

References

  1. ↑ "Mazda Road to Indy 2018 Schedule Announced". usf2000.com.
  2. ↑ "Abel Motorsports to make USF2000 debut". RACER. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  3. ↑ "Peichel, Dickerson Take on Road America with ArmsUp". usf2000.com. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  4. ↑ "Peichel Supports Better Hearing Month in USF2000 Debut".
  5. ↑ "Arms Up Motorsports Signs Peichel for Remainder of 2018 Season". usf2000.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  6. ↑ "Mazda Scholarship Drivers Select Teams for 2018 Season".
  7. ↑ "British F4 Champ Caroline Joins BN Racing for 2018".
  8. ↑ Boyd/LAT, Image by. "Cape Motorsports brings F4 U.S. champ Kirkwood to USF2000". www.racer.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  9. ↑ @DEForceRacing (March 5, 2018). "🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Fourth is a charm! American 🇺🇸 driver @ZachHolden_2 will be taking our 4th @USF2000 entry for th…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. 1 2 "Enders, Dupell, Lindh to race in USF2000". IndyCar.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  11. ↑ "Mexicano José Sierra estará en la USF2000". IndyCar al Día (in European Spanish). 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  12. ↑ "DEForce Racing Announces Three Car Lineup". usf2000.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  13. ↑ https://exclusiveautosport.ca/exclusive-autosport-signs-manuel-cabrera-for-usf2000-debut/%5B%5D
  14. ↑ "Fraga Joins Exclusive Autosport for Rookie Effort".
  15. ↑ http://exclusiveautosport.ca/jayson-clunie-returns-to-usf2000-with-exclusive-autosport-for-2018/%5B%5D
  16. ↑ "MRTI: Keane set for full USF2000 campaign with Newman Wachs". NBC Sports. 31 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "Newman Wachs Racing Signs Osborne for 2018 USF2000 Campaign".
  18. ↑ "Newman Wachs Signs DeLuzuriaga for 2018".
  19. ↑ "Calvin Ming Returns to USF2000 with Pabst Racing".
  20. ↑ "Kohl rejoins Pabst Racing for USF2000 season". IndyCar.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  21. ↑ "Kaylen Frederick Joins Pabst Racing for 2018". Motorsports Tribune. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  22. ↑ "Mazda Road to Indy Season Kicks off with Spring Training".
  23. ↑ Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
  24. ↑ "Swan-RJB Motorsports Adds Roe for Indy".
  25. ↑ "SABRÉ COOK JOINS TEAM BENIK FOR COOPER TIRES USF2000 POWERED BY MAZDA SEASON OPENER THIS WEEKEND :: RTD Media". Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  26. ↑ "Team Pelfrey". Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  27. ↑ "Dupell Confirmed at Team Pelfrey".
  28. ↑ "Team Pelfrey Adds Bruna Tomaselli to their 2018 USF2000 Roster".

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