2019 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2019 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship was the tenth 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 15-race schedule was announced on September 25, 2018, consisting of five permanent road courses and two street circuits on the NTT IndyCar Series schedule each hosting doubleheaders, and a single race at the Dave Steele Classic on a short oval.^[1]

2019 U.S. F2000 National Championship

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American Braden Eves of Cape Motorsports won the championship in a tightly contested points race by winning the final race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca over New Zealander Hunter McElrea of Pabst Racing. Eves won six times with two other podium finishes while McElrea, who had won the Road to Indy Shootout to earn his place on the U.S. F2000 grid, won four times with eight other podiums. Danish driver Christian Rasmussen won three races and finished tied for the third most points with American Colin Kaminsky. Rasmussen won third by virtue of Kaminsky not capturing any race wins. Darren Keane won one race and finished fifth in the championship. Australian Cameron Shields, who ended his championship campaign after the Toronto round, was the sole other race winner on the season.

Pabst Racing won its third straight team championship despite their top driver McElrea losing out on the drivers' championship.

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
BN Racing	27	Zach Holden[2]	1–4
		Matthew Round-Garrido	6–11
	28	Anthony Famularo[3]	1–7
Cape Motorsports	2	Darren Keane[4]	All
	3	Reece Gold[5]	All
	4	Jak Crawford	10–15
	8	Braden Eves[6]	All
DEForce Racing	12	Manuel Sulaimán[7]	All
	52	Jak Crawford[8]	3–9
	91	Eduardo Barrichello	12–15
Exclusive Autosport	90	Manuel Cabrera[9]	1–5
Jay Howard Driver Development	5	Matthew Round-Garrido[10]	1–5
		Josh Green	12–13
		Wyatt Brichacek	14–15
	6	Christian Rasmussen[11]	All
	7	Christian Bogle[12]	All
Legacy Autosport[13]	14	Alex Baron[14]	1–7
		Zach Holden	8–15
	77	José Sierra[15]	1–2
		Dakota Dickerson[16]	3–4
		Timmy Pagliuso	10–11
		Ayrton Ori	12–15
Miller Vinatieri Motorsports[17]	40	Jack William Miller[17]	All
	41	Eduardo Barrichello[18]	1–11
Newman Wachs Racing	36	Nolan Siegel[19]	All
	73	Cameron Shields[20]	1–9
		Kyle Dupell	12–15
Pabst Racing Services[13]	21	Yuven Sundaramoorthy[21]	All
	22	Hunter McElrea[22][23]	All
	23	Colin Kaminsky[24]	All
	24	Bruna Tomaselli[25]	All
Team E-JAY Racing	69	Nate Aranda[26]	1–2

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 31	Grand Prix of Portland	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
13	September 1
14	September 21	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California
15	September 22

Race results

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
					Driver	Team
1	St. Petersburg 1	Braden Eves	Darren Keane	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	Cape Motorsports
2	St. Petersburg 2	Darren Keane	Christian Rasmussen	Darren Keane	Braden Eves	Cape Motorsports
3	Indianapolis GP 1	Braden Eves	Darren Keane	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	Cape Motorsports
4	Indianapolis GP 2	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	Cape Motorsports
5	Indianapolis	Colin Kaminsky	Cameron Shields	Cameron Shields	Cameron Shields	Newman Wachs Racing
6	Road America 1	Colin Kaminsky	Braden Eves	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Pabst Racing Services
7	Road America 2	Hunter McElrea	Darren Keane	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	Cape Motorsports
8	Toronto 1	Christian Rasmussen	Darren Keane	Darren Keane Christian Rasmussen	Darren Keane	Cape Motorsports
9	Toronto 2	Darren Keane	Darren Keane	Christian Rasmussen	Christian Rasmussen	Jay Howard Driver Development
10	Mid-Ohio 1	Hunter McElrea	Christian Rasmussen	Christian Rasmussen	Christian Rasmussen	Jay Howard Driver Development
11	Mid-Ohio 2	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Pabst Racing Services
12	Portland 1	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Pabst Racing Services
13	Portland 2	Hunter McElrea	Christian Rasmussen	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea	Pabst Racing Services
14	Laguna Seca 1	Braden Eves	Hunter McElrea	Christian Rasmussen	Christian Rasmussen	Jay Howard Driver Development
15	Laguna Seca 2	Colin Kaminsky	Christian Rasmussen	Braden Eves	Braden Eves	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 LAG Points 1 Braden Eves 1* 1 1* 1* 5 4 1* 4 11 8 7 2 2 4 1* 361 2 Hunter McElrea 3 2 2 3 11 1* 3 3 14 2 1* 1* 1* 2 7 356 3 Christian Rasmussen 4 15 20 8 6 17 5 2* 1* 1* 2 3 17 1* 2 282 4 Colin Kaminsky 16 5 4 10 3 2 4 6 12 3 3 4 4 3 3 282 5 Darren Keane 7 14* 6 2 7 12 2 1* 2 9 6 5 5 7 6 270 6 Manuel Sulaimán 2 6 3 18 9 5 16 7 4 11 8 7 7 9 11 211 7 Jak Crawford 18 4 4 14 6 12 5 7 5 6 6 5 15 183 8 Bruna Tomaselli 6 7 10 11 19 6 11 11 7 5 10 9 9 12 10 174 9 Zach Holden 5 3 7 21 5 15 10 4 10 3 10 4 170 10 Reece Gold 10 8 14 12 8 8 10 13 9 12 9 12 11 11 8 167 11 Eduardo Barrichello 13 20 19 5 13 9 7 15 17 14 11 8 8 6 5 151 12 Yuven Sundaramoorthy 8 11 12 13 12 7 12 14 8 6 14 15 14 15 9 150 13 Cameron Shields 11 16 5 16 1* 3 9 17 6 137 14 Matthew Round-Garrido 12 9 13 17 16 15 8 8 3 4 13 122 15 Nolan Siegel 14 12 15 14 10 10 14 16 10 16 17 17 12 14 17 113 16 Jack William Miller 18 17 17 19 17 13 13 9 16 13 12 13 13 17 13 97 17 Christian Bogle 15 19 16 15 15 11 15 10 13 15 15 16 18 18 14 93 18 Alex Baron 21 4 9 6 2 18 17 92 19 Anthony Famularo 9 10 8 9 14 16 18 67 20 Kyle Dupell 14 15 13 12 30 21 Josh Green 11 10 21 22 Manuel Cabrera 19 18 11 20 18 21 23 Ayrton Ori 18 16 16 16 18 24 Wyatt Brichacek 8 18 16 25 Dakota Dickerson 21 7 15 26 José Sierra 17 13 12 27 Timmy Pagliuso 17 16 9 28 Nate Aranda 20 DNS 2

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 Services	405
2	Cape Motorsports	400
3	Jay Howard Driver Development	201
4	DEForce Racing	196
5	Legacy Autosport	135
6	BN Racing	99
7	Newman Wachs Racing	93
8	Miller Vinatieri Motorsports	63
9	Exclusive Autosport	20
10	Team E-JAY	6

See also

• 2019 IndyCar Series
• 2019 Indy Lights
• 2019 Indy Pro 2000 Championship