2018 U.S. F2000 National Championship

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	Jacob Abel[2]	6–7, 10–12
ArmsUp Motorsports	9	Dakota Dickerson[3]	6–14
	14	Max Peichel[4][5]	3–4, 6–9, 13–14
	30	Keith Donegan[6]	1–5
BN Racing	28	Jamie Caroline[7]	1–4
		Keith Donegan	6–12
	29	Russell McDonough	All
Cape Motorsports	8	Kyle Kirkwood[8]	All
DEForce Racing	7	James Raven	10–12
	10	Zach Holden[9]	1–5
	11	Kory Enders[10]	All
	12	José Sierra[11]	All
	27	Colin Kaminsky[12]	All
Exclusive Autosport	90	Manuel Cabrera[13]	1–7
		Yuven Sundaramoorthy	10–12
		Kellen Ritter	13–14
	91	Igor Fraga[14]	All
	92	Danial Frost	6–12
	93	Jayson Clunie[15]	1–2
Newman Wachs Racing	36	Darren Keane[16]	1–12
	37	David Osborne[17]	1–7, 10–12
	38	Oscar DeLuzuriaga[18]	All
	41	Braden Eves	13–14
Pabst Racing Services	21	Calvin Ming[19]	All
	22	Lucas Kohl[20]	All
	23	Rasmus Lindh[10]	All
	24	Kaylen Frederick[21]	All
Sol.O Racing	5	Mathias Soler-Obel[22]	1–7
Swan-RJB Motorsports	19	Alexandre Baron[23]	1–7
	20	James Roe[24]	3–4
Team Benik	31	Sabré Cook[25]	1–4, 6–7, 10–12
	51	Michael d'Orlando	1–4, 6–7, 10–12
Team Pelfrey	80	Julian van der Watt[26]	All
	81	Kyle Dupell[27]	All
	82	Bruna Tomaselli[28]	All

Schedule

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	March 10	Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2	March 11
3	May 11	Grand Prix of Indianapolis	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana
4	May 12
5	May 25	Dave Steele Carb Night Classic	Lucas Oil Raceway	Clermont, Indiana
6	June 23	Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
7	June 24
8	July 14	Grand Prix of Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9	July 15
10	July 27	Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
11	July 28
12	July 29
13	September 1	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	José Sierra	Alexandre Baron	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
2	St. Petersburg 2	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Swan-RJB Motorsports
3	Indianapolis GP 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Swan-RJB Motorsports
4	Indianapolis GP 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Alexandre Baron	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
5	Indianapolis	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
6	Road America 1	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
7	Road America 2	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Lucas Kohl	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
8	Toronto 1	Dakota Dickerson	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
9	Toronto 2	Kaylen Frederick	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
10	Mid-Ohio 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
11	Mid-Ohio 2	Kaylen Frederick	James Raven	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
12	Mid-Ohio 3	James Raven	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
13	Portland 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
14	Portland 2	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports

Championship standings

Scoring system

• 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 Kyle Kirkwood 1* 5 2 1* 1* 1* 1 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 440 2 Rasmus Lindh 10 24 14 3 3 4 18 4 3 10 4 3 4 2 238 3 Lucas Kohl 13 3 26 7 4 23 3* 9 15 2 2 6 5 5 215 4 Igor Fraga 8 2 8 17 7 8 5 7 2 17 3 5 15 4 213 5 Calvin Ming 4 8 6 19 9 6 15 6 11 3 5 7 2 6 206 6 Kaylen Frederick 11 9 22 21 2 2 2 3 8 24 23 19 7 15 173 7 Julian van der Watt 5 11 7 8 19 24 17 10 5 5 8 14 9 3 162 8 Kory Enders 19 10 5 6 11 5 19 16 14 9 16 24 3 9 143 9 Keith Donegan 14 13 24 11 6 3 13 5 17 4 21 4 139 10 Colin Kaminsky 6 22 9 16 13 12 4 12 18 12 7 12 17 8 134 11 José Sierra 2 6 3 26 5 9 23 18 7 19 19 22 12 17 128 12 Alexandre Baron 22 1* 1* 2 21 7 7 123 13 Dakota Dickerson 14 9 2 6 6 6 18 8 7 120 14 Darren Keane 3 12 23 4 8 10 20 17 12 21 17 17 105 15 Kyle Dupell 9 15 16 23 17 13 21 15 9 15 14 13 10 10 100 16 Bruna Tomaselli 7 14 19 22 14 17 11 13 13 20 13 16 18 16 87 17 Danial Frost 19 16 8 4 7 9 9 77 18 Oscar DeLuzuriaga 20 19 20 13 16 21 12 11 10 22 24 21 13 14 69 19 Russell McDonough 23 25 18 12 20 16 26 14 16 23 12 23 16 11 60 20 Michael d'Orlando 16 23 25 15 22 6 8 20 8 56 21 Mathias Soler-Obel 12 16 13 18 12 11 14 56 22 Manuel Cabrera 25 21 11 9 10 26 8 55 23 Jacob Abel 15 10 11 11 11 47 24 David Osborne 18 18 15 20 15 18 22 13 15 15 46 25 Jamie Caroline 24 4 4 24 40 26 Max Peichel 17 10 20 24 DNS DNS 14 12 35 27 James Raven 18 18 2 33 28 Zach Holden 21 7 10 25 18 32 29 Yuven Sundaramoorthy 14 10 10 29 30 Sabré Cook 15 17 21 14 25 25 16 22 20 27 31 James Roe 12 5 26 32 Braden Eves 6 18 18 33 Kellen Ritter 11 13 18 34 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

• 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

See also

2018 IndyCar Series
2018 Indy Lights
2018 Pro Mazda Championship

References

See also

• 2018 IndyCar Series
• 2018 Indy Lights
• 2018 Pro Mazda Championship

External links

• USF2000 official website

This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 00:14