2023 USF2000 Championship

The 2023 USF2000 Championship presented by Cooper Tires is the fourteenth season of the USF2000 Championship since its revival in 2010. When the top rung of the Road to Indy ladder system, Indy Lights, was bought by Penske Entertainment (owners of INDYCAR) in 2021 and the lower level series changed sanctioning to the United States Auto Club, changes were made to the other championships in the ladder. This, together with the Indy Lights being rebranded to Indy NXT, effectively ended the "Road to Indy" branding, with the three championships below Indy NXT now collectively called "USF Pro Championships Presented by Cooper Tires".[1] The USF2000 Championship serves as the middle rung of this ladder.

Drivers and teams
Team No. Drivers Rounds
DC Autosport 68 United States Ethan Ho[2] 3–7
DEForce Racing 1 Canada Mac Clark[3] All
10 Mexico Jorge Garciarce[4] All
12 United States Maxwell Jamieson[5] All
Exclusive Autosport 90 New Zealand Jacob Douglas[6] All
91 United States Joey Brienza[7] 1–2
92 United States Nicholas d'Orlando[8] 1–2
Canada Lucas Mann[9] 5–7
93 United States Avery Towns[10] All
95 United States Chase Gardner[11] 1–7
Future Star Racing 56 United States Andre Castro[12] 1–2
58 United States Trey Burke[13] 1–2
Jay Howard Driver Development 6 United States Evagoras Papasavvas[14] All
7 United States Al Morey[15] All
8 Australia Lochie Hughes[16] All
9 Canada Louka St-Jean[17] 1–4
Pabst Racing 22 United States Simon Sikes[11] 1–7
24 United States Max Garcia[18][19] 3–7
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development 67 United States Elliot Cox[20] All
Velocity Racing Development 14 United States Sam Corry[21] All
17 United States Nikita Johnson[22] All
18 United States Danny Dyszelski[23] All
19 United States Gordon Scully[24] All
33 United States Max Taylor[9] 5–7
97 United States Zack Ping[25] All
  • TJ Speed Motorsports took over two cars from Cape Motorsports to enter the championship in 2023, but ultimately decided against it.[26][27]
  • Noah Ping was signed to compete for Velocity Racing Development, but has dropped the programme and instead signed with the VRD-partnered team Arden in GB3.[28][29]

Schedule

The 2023 schedule was revealed on October 17, 2022. It features two street circuits, five road courses and one oval round. The championship will return to Sebring for the first time since 2013. All rounds except the weekends at Sebring and Indianapolis Raceway Park are scheduled to support IndyCar.[30]

Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 March 4–5 Cooper Tires Grand Prix of St. Petersburg  R  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
2 Discount Tire Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
3 March 25–26 Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Sebring  R  Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida
4
5 May 12–13 USF2000 Discount Tire Grand Prix of Indianapolis  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
6
7
8 May 27 USF2000 Cooper Tires Freedom 75  O  Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park Brownsburg, Indiana
9 June 17–18 TBA  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10
11 July 1–2 TBA  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
12
13
14 July 15–16 TBA  R  Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15
16 September 2–3 TBA  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
17
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Race results
Rd. Track Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race winner
Driver Team
1 United States Streets of St. Petersburg Australia Lochie Hughes United States Simon Sikes Australia Lochie Hughes Australia Lochie Hughes Jay Howard Driver Development
2 United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes United States Nikita Johnson United States Nikita Johnson Velocity Racing Development
3 United States Sebring International Raceway United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes Australia Lochie Hughes Australia Lochie Hughes Jay Howard Driver Development
4 United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes Pabst Racing
5 United States Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course United States Nikita Johnson United States Nikita Johnson United States Nikita Johnson United States Sam Corry Velocity Racing Development
6 United States Nikita Johnson United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes Pabst Racing
7 United States Simon Sikes United States Simon Sikes Australia Lochie Hughes Australia Lochie Hughes Jay Howard Driver Development
8 United States Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
9 United States Road America
10
11 United States Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
12
13
14 Canada Exhibition Place
15
16 United States Portland International Raceway
17
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Championship standings

Drivers' Championship
Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th   16th   17th   18th   19th   20th+ 
Points 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 3 2
  • The driver who qualifies on pole is awarded one additional point.
  • One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in a race.
  • One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.
Pos Driver STP SEB IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR Points
1 Australia Lochie Hughes 1* 3 1* 4 2 2 1* 185
2 United States Simon Sikes 4 2 2 1* 13 1* 3 171
3 United States Nikita Johnson 3 1* 16 8 3* 3 2 144
4 United States Evagoras Papasavvas 2 4 3 10 19 7 6 108
5 United States Sam Corry 5 11 8 19 1 5 16 94
6 Canada Mac Clark 11 20 4 2 14 4 10 92
7 Mexico Jorge Garciarce 13 5 9 6 6 10 14 85
8 United States Danny Dyszelski 16 7 10 17 4 9 7 79
9 United States Chase Gardner 12 14 5 9 5 15 15 74
10 New Zealand Jacob Douglas 8 15 13 3 15 6 20 71
11 United States Max Garcia 6 7 18 12 4 60
12 United States Elliot Cox 18 18 7 5 16 8 17 59
13 United States Al Morey 15 10 15 11 7 17 13 59
14 United States Gordon Scully 19 8 12 12 11 18 9 58
15 United States Ethan Ho 18 15 8 11 5 49
16 United States Maxwell Jamieson 17 9 17 14 10 19 19 42
17 United States Avery Towns 20 12 14 16 12 13 18 42
18 United States Zack Ping 21 17 19 13 9 20 11 38
19 United States Trey Burke 7 6 29
20 United States Nicholas d'Orlando 6 13 23
21 Canada Louka St-Jean 14 19 11 18 22
22 United States Max Taylor 17 16 8 22
23 Canada Lucas Mann 20 14 12 17
24 United States Joey Brienza 10 16 16
25 United States Andre Castro 9 21 13
Pos Driver STP SEB IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR 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
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 per race as an equivalency to multi-car teams
  • Only the best two results count for teams fielding more than two entries
Pos Driver STP SEB IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR Points
1 Jay Howard Driver Development 1 3 1 4 2 2 1 197
2 4 3 10 6 7 6
3 Pabst Racing 4 2 2 1 10 1 3 142
6 7 12 11 4
2 Velocity Racing Development 3 1 8 8 1 3 2 149
5 7 10 11 3 5 7
4 DEForce Racing 10 5 4 2 4 4 8 89
11 8 9 6 9 9 10
5 Exclusive Autosport 6 9 5 3 5 6 9 69
8 10 11 9 8 12 11
6 Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development 12 11 7 5 11 8 12 45
7 DC Autosport 12 12 7 10 5 34
8 Future Star Racing 7 6 17
9 12
Pos Driver STP ALA IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR Points

See also

References
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