2017 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2017 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda will be the eighth 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 September 14, 2016.^[1]

The 2017 season will see the introduction of the Tatuus USF-17 car for the Championship class.^[2] SCCA Formula Continental chassis (including the previous Van Diemen\Elan DP08) were slated to compete in National Class, but after the first weekend there were no race entries in that class and it was abandoned.

2016 Mazda Road to Indy Shootout champion Oliver Askew of Cape Motorsports came out strong, winning five of the first six races. However, he faltered at the Road America round and Dutch driver Rinus Veekay won both races there, opening the door to a tighter championship fight. Askew won two more races down the stretch while Veekay won only one more, the final race at Watkins Glen International, where Askew finished second, good enough to claim the championship. Canadian Parker Thompson won three races in the second half of the season and finished third in points. Robert Megennis won the season's first race at St. Petersburg and was the only other driver to win a race. He finished sixth in points, as he did not finish on the podium again the rest of the season.

Drivers and teams

Team No. Drivers Rounds ArmsUp Motorsports 4 Alexandre Baron 9–11, 14 7 Devin Wojcik[3] All 8 Bruna Tomaselli[4] (N) 1–2 97 Bruna Tomaselli[4] 3–8, 12–14 BN Racing 72 Zach Holden[5] 14 79 David Malukas 5–8, 10–14 Cape Motorsports 2 Ricky Donison[6] 1–8, 10–11 3 Oliver Askew[7] All DEForce Racing[8] 10 José Sierra 10–11 Andrés Gutiérrez 12–14 11 Kory Enders All 12 Moisés de la Vara 1–13 Exclusive Autosport[9] 90 Parker Thompson[10] All 91 Luke Gabin[11] 1–6 92 Dev Gore[12] All 93 Jayson Clunie 5–8, 10–14 John Cummiskey Racing[13] 27 Colin Kaminsky 3–8, 12–13 33 Bayley Mickler[14] 3–4 34 Kris Wright[15] 1–6 Kaminsky Racing 27 Colin Kaminsky[15] 1–2 Newman Wachs Racing[16] 36 Dakota Dickerson[17] 1–6 Darren Keane 7–8, 10–14 37 Andre Castro[18] 1–4 Jacob Abel 12–13 Niall Murray 14 38 Cameron Das[19] 1–2 Flinn Lazier 3–4 Pabst Racing Services[20] 21 Rinus VeeKay[21] All 22 Calvin Ming[22] All 23 Lucas Kohl[23] All RJB Motorsports[24] 20 Chandler Horton[25] 1–8 Team BENIK 31 Toby Sowery 3–4 Callan O'Keeffe 5–6, 14 32 Darren Keane 3–6 Team Pelfrey[26] 80 Robert Megennis[27] All 81 Kaylen Frederick[15] All 82 Ayla Ågren[28] 1–6, 9 Jacob Loomis 7–8 Phillippe Denes 12–14

Icon Class (N) National Class

Race calendar and results

Rnd	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	March 11	Robert Megennis	Oliver Askew	Robert Megennis	Robert Megennis	Team Pelfrey
2			March 12	Parker Thompson	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
3	Indy Grand Prix of Alabama	Birmingham, Alabama	April 21	Oliver Askew	Kaylen Frederick	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
4			April 22	Oliver Askew	Kaylen Frederick	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
5	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana	May 12	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
6			May 13	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
7	Grand Prix of Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	June 23	David Malukas	Oliver Askew	Rinus VeeKay	Rinus VeeKay	Pabst Racing Services
8			June 24	Rinus VeeKay	Calvin Ming	Rinus VeeKay	Rinus VeeKay	Pabst Racing Services
9	Iowa Speedway	Newton, Iowa	July 9	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
10	Grand Prix of Toronto	Toronto, Canada	July 16	Parker Thompson	Rinus VeeKay	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Exclusive Autosport
11			July 17	Oliver Askew	Rinus VeeKay	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Exclusive Autosport
12	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	July 28	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Oliver Askew	Cape Motorsports
13			July 29	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Exclusive Autosport
14	Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York	September 2	Oliver Askew	Rinus VeeKay	Rinus VeeKay	Rinus VeeKay	Pabst Racing Services

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver STP BAR IMS ROA IOW TOR MOH WGL Points Championship class 1 Oliver Askew 2 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 17 3 1* 2 12 1* 4 2 351 2 Rinus VeeKay 3 2 3 4 6 2 1* 1* 2 3 2 3 2 1* 344 3 Parker Thompson 5 3 5 3 19 4 5 5 12 1* 1* 2 1* 16 269 4 Kaylen Frederick 4 5 2 2 DSQ 3 6 4 6 17 3 7 3 4 240 5 Calvin Ming 7 10 7 21 2 19 4 2 3 14 11 5 5 3 207 6 Robert Megennis 1* 19 4 6 DSQ 7 7 15 5 13 5 17 7 10 173 7 Lucas Kohl 12 11 23 16 16 9 3 6 7 5 15 4 8 9 160 8 Devin Wojcik 19 7 12 24 11 13 8 9 9 7 6 11 10 14 140 9 Kory Enders 15 8 17 7 20 5 16 7 11 11 7 8 19 7 138 10 David Malukas 9 18 2 14 15 14 6 6 5 108 11 Darren Keane 16 11 17 11 10 18 10 4 9 16 8 104 12 Moisés de la Vara 9 18 15 9 8 14 13 13 10 8 DNS DSQ DSQ 98 13 Dev Gore 17 16 18 17 18 23 12 11 13 12 10 10 12 17 94 14 Dakota Dickerson 6 6 6 10 4 10 86 15 Ricky Donison 13 17 21 23 3 8 15 10 16 DNS 75 16 Luke Gabin 11 4 10 13 10 6 74 17 Ayla Ågren 21 12 8 8 7 12 8 72 18 Colin Kaminsky 16 14 19 15 12 22 9 8 13 17 68 19 Jayson Clunie 15 16 14 16 9 9 14 15 18 64 20 Alexandre Baron 4 6 13 11 52 21 Bruna Tomaselli 15 18 14 20 19 12 15 14 15 49 22 Chandler Horton 20 13 20 14 13 15 18 17 39 23 Andres Gutierrez 12 11 6 35 24 José Sierra 4 8 32 25 Kris Wright 14 15 13 19 21 17 28 26 Toby Sowery 11 5 27 27 Callan O'Keeffe 5 21 12 27 28 Cameron Das 8 9 25 29 Andre Castro 10 20 9 22 25 30 Phillippe Denes 18 18 13 15 31 Jacob Abel 16 13 14 32 Jacob Loomis 11 19 13 33 Flinn Lazier 22 12 10 34 Niall Murray 19 2 35 Bayley Mickler 24 20 2 36 Zach Holden 20 1 National class 1 Bruna Tomaselli 18 21 44 Pos Driver STP BAR IMS ROA IOW TOR MOH WGL 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

Pos	Team	Points
1	Pabst Racing	369
2	Cape Motorsports	277
3	Team Pelfrey	258
4	Exclusive Autosport	215
5	DEForce Racing	110
6	Newman Wachs Racing	102
7	ArmsUp Motorsports	85
8	John Cummiskey Racing	42
9	RJB Motorsports	32
10	Team BENIK	30

References

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2. "New-for-2017 Tatuus USF-17 Unveiled at Indianapolis Motor Speedway".
3. ArmsUp Motorsports [@ArmsUpAieee] (11 November 2016). "We're so excited to announce @devinwojcikrac1 as the 1st driver to join us for #USF2000 2017! Welcome him to the te…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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5. "Zach Holden Joins BN Racing for USF2000 in Watkins Glen".
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11. "EXCLUSIVE AUTOSPORT ADDS GABIN TO LINEUP". Retrieved 24 February 2017.
12. "Dev Gore Joins Exclusive Autosport for 2017".
13. "Coming Soon! JCR Unveils Usf-17 Liveries".
14. "Bayley Mickler to Drive for John Cummiskey Racing at Barber".
15. "Hi-Tide Boat Lifts Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (Race 1)" (PDF). usf2000.com. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
16. "Newman Wachs to return, joins 2017 USF2000 series".
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18. "Newman Wachs Racing signs Castro for 2017".
19. "Newman Wachs Racing Adds Third Driver for GP of St. Pete".
20. "Christmas in September at Pabst Racing".
21. "Rinus VeeKay Signs with Pabst Racing for 2017".
22. "Pabst Racing Announces Calvin Ming for 2017".
23. "Pabst Racing Announces Lucas Kohl for 2017". February 14, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
24. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-23. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
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External links

• Official website