2019 Indy Pro 2000 Championship

The 2019 Indy Pro 2000 championship presented by Cooper Tires was the 21st season in series history. A 16-race schedule was announced on 25 September 2018, featuring five permanent road circuits and two street circuits on the NTT IndyCar Series hosting doubleheaders, and single races at the Dave Steele Classic and World Wide Technology Raceway, a flat intermediate oval.^[1] Following the departure of Mazda from the Road to Indy program, it was the first championship run under the new "Indy Pro 2000" name instead of the previous "Pro Mazda Championship."^[2]

2019 Indy Pro 2000 Championship

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American Kyle Kirkwood of RP Motorsport won nine of the sixteen races yet still found himself in a close fight for the championship with Swedish driver Rasmus Lindh of Juncos Racing. Lindh won only three times, but fifth or better in every race and only finished off the podium three times. Kirkwood only needed to start the final race to clinch the championship and was knocked out by an incident on the first lap of the final race, leaving the final points margin of victory a scant two points. Canadian Parker Thompson of Abel Motorsports won the opening doubleheader of the season but not again for the rest of the season and finished third in points, well back of Kirkwood and Lindh. Sting Ray Robb captured two poles but was winless and finished fourth in points while Singaporean driver Danial Frost won twice and finished fifth, rounding out the season's winners.

Juncos edged out RP for the Teams' championship by a significant margin despite Lindh losing out on the championship on the back of Robb's strong performance in their second car. RP's second car was piloted by three different drivers who tallied only two podium finishes between them.

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Abel Motorsports	8	Parker Thompson[3]	All
	51	Jacob Abel[4]	1–5, 8–16
DEForce Racing	6	Moisés de la Vara[5]	All
	7	Kory Enders[5]	All
Exclusive Autosport	68	Danial Frost[6]	All
	90	Nikita Lastochkin[7]	All
	91	Parker Locke[8]	1–2
		Phillippe Denes	15–16
FatBoy Racing!	83	Charles Finelli[9]	1–12, 15–16
	98	Phillippe Denes[9]	1–11
BN Racing Jay Howard Driver Development	27	Matthew Round-Garrido	13–16
JDL Racing	9	Jacob Loomis[10]	3–4, 6–7
Juncos Racing	2	Sting Ray Robb[11]	All
	10	Rasmus Lindh[12]	All
Pserra Racing Jay Howard Driver Development	11	Antonio Serravalle[13]	1–11
Pserra Racing RP Motorsport Racing			13–16
RP Motorsport Racing	5	Damiano Fioravanti[14]	1–2
		Ian Rodríguez[15]	3–4, 6–11
		Artem Petrov[16]	12–16
	28	Kyle Kirkwood[14]	All
Turn 3 Motorsport	3	Antoine Comeau	10–16

Schedule

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	March 9	St. Petersburg 100	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2	March 10
3	May 10	Grand Prix of Indianapolis	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana
4	May 11
5	May 24	Dave Steele Carb Night Classic	Lucas Oil Raceway oval	Clermont, Indiana
6	June 22	Mazda Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
7	June 23
8	July 13	Grand Prix of Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9	July 14
10	July 27	Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
11	July 28
12	August 24	Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Oval Challenge of St. Louis[17]	Gateway Motorsports Park	Madison, Illinois
13	August 31	Grand Prix of Portland	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
14	September 1
15	September 21	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
16	September 22

Race results

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
					Driver	Team
1	St. Petersburg 1	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Rasmus Lindh	Parker Thompson	Abel Motorsports
2	St. Petersburg 2	Parker Thompson	Kyle Kirkwood	Parker Thompson	Parker Thompson	Abel Motorsports
3	Indianapolis GP 1	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Rasmus Lindh	Rasmus Lindh	Juncos Racing
4	Indianapolis GP 2	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Rasmus Lindh	Rasmus Lindh	Juncos Racing
5	Dave Steele Classic	Danial Frost	Danial Frost	Danial Frost	Danial Frost	Exclusive Autosport
6	Road America 1	Parker Thompson	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
7	Road America 2	Rasmus Lindh	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
8	Toronto 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Ian Rodríguez	Danial Frost	Danial Frost	Exclusive Autosport
9	Toronto 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
10	Mid-Ohio 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
11	Mid-Ohio 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
12	Gateway	Rasmus Lindh	Kory Enders	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
13	Portland 1	Sting Ray Robb	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
14	Portland 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
15	Laguna Seca 1	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Kyle Kirkwood	RP Motorsport Racing
16	Laguna Seca 2	Rasmus Lindh	Rasmus Lindh	Rasmus Lindh	Rasmus Lindh	Juncos Racing

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	4	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 IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH GMP POR LAG Points 1 Kyle Kirkwood 14 2 2 13 4 1* 1* 8 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1 14 419 2 Rasmus Lindh 2* 4 1* 1* 3 4 2 2 3 2 3 2 5 3 3 1* 417 3 Parker Thompson 1 1* 5 5 10 3 3 3 2 11 4 6 3 4 4 2 344 4 Sting Ray Robb 3 5 4 2 2 7 10 11 5 5 2 5 8 2 2* 6 323 5 Danial Frost 4 3 3 3 1* 11 12 1* 4 13 6 4 2 6 6 12 318 6 Nikita Lastochkin 5 7 7 4 11 5 5 10 8 4 7 8 6 9 9 13 237 7 Kory Enders 13 10 8 10 6 9 9 7 9 DNS DNS 3 11 10 11 3 211 8 Moisés de la Vara 6 6 13 6 7 10 11 13 10 10 13 11 9 11 12 4 198 9 Jacob Abel 9 11 6 7 5 6 7 12 10 12 7 8 7 5 198 10 Antonio Serravalle 7 13 9 9 12 DNS 8 4 13 7 9 4 7 10 8 188 11 Phillippe Denes 8 8 12 8 8 6 7 9 12 6 8 8 7 173 12 Charles Finelli 12 DNS 10 14 9 DNS DNS 12 11 8 12 10 13 11 133 13 Ian Rodríguez 14 12 2 4 5 6 3 5 132 14 Antoine Comeau 9 11 9 12 13 14 9 76 15 Artem Petrov 7 10 5 5 15 72 16 Jacob Loomis 11 11 8 6 48 17 Matthew Round-Garrido 13 12 15 10 34 18 Damiano Fioravanti 11 9 22 19 Parker Locke 10 12 20

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 as an equivalency to multi-car teams
• Only the best two results count for teams fielding more than two entries

Pos	Team	Points
1	Juncos Racing	442
2	RP Motorsport Racing	362
3	Abel Motorsports	282
4	Exclusive Autosport	273
5	DEForce Racing	116
6	Pserra Racing Jay Howard Driver Development	105
7	FatBoy Racing!	73
8	Turn 3 Motorsport	31
9	JDL Racing	26
10	BN Racing Jay Howard Driver Development	16

See also

• 2019 IndyCar Series
• 2019 Indy Lights
• 2019 U.S. F2000 National Championship