2022 USF Juniors

The 2022 USF Juniors championship was the inaugural season of USF Juniors. It became the new first rung of the Road to Indy ladder.^[1] The season featured a six-round 16-race calendar, which began April 23 at Ozarks International Raceway and concluded on September 18 at the Circuit of the Americas.^[2]

2022 USF Juniors

Drivers' Champion:
Mac Clark
Teams' Champion:
VRD Racing

Previous

none

Next

2023

Parent series:
IndyCar Series
Indy Lights
Indy Pro 2000 Championship
U.S. F2000 National Championship

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Barker Racing	12	Ethan Barker	5–16
Crosslink Kiwi Motorsports	28	Lucas Fecury	5–10, 14–16
	31	Titus Sherlock[3]	All
	37	Madison Aust	8–10, 14–16
	39	Bryson Morris	14–16
	44	Bailey Cruse	14–16
	66	Ryan Shehan	5–7, 14–16
	87	Jeremy Fairbairn[4]	All
DC Autosport w/Cape Motorsports	24	Earl Tucker[5]	1–10
	61	Nicholas d'Orlando[6]	1–4
	71	Ethan Ho[7]	All
DEForce Racing	16	Quinn Armstrong	5–16
	17	Mac Clark[8]	All
	18	Maxwell Jamieson[9]	All
	19	Jake Bonilla[9]	All
Future Star Racing	8	David Burketh[10]	3–4
IGY6 Motorsports	9	Bianca Bustamante[11]	1–4
	25	Jacob Bolen[9]	1–4, 11–13
International Motorsport	21	Maite Cáceres	11–16
	23	André Castro[12]	All
	32	Giorgio Carrara	8–16
	53	Alan Isambard[13]	1–13
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development	67	Elliot Cox[9]	1–13
Velocity Racing Development	7	Nikita Johnson[14]	All
	14	Sam Corry[9]	All
	20	Alessandro de Tullio[15]	All
	55	Noah Ping[16]	1–4

Schedule

Round	Date	Race name	Circuit	Location
1	April 22–24	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of The Ozarks1	Ozarks International Raceway	Gravois Mills, MO
2
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3	April 28–29	Andersen Interior Contracting Grand Prix of Alabama	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, AL
4
5	June 3–5	Cooper Tires VIR Grand Prix	Virginia International Raceway	Alton, VA
6
7
8	July 7–9	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, OH
9
10
11	July 29–31	Fleet Farm Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, WI
12
13
14	September 16–18	Cooper Tires Circuit of the Americas Grand Prix Finale	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, TX
15
16

• ¹ The round at Ozarks International Raceway was scheduled to have 3 races, but the third race was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. To make up for the cancelled race, a third race was added for the event at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.^[17]

Race results

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
						Driver	Team
1	R1	Ozarks International Raceway	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
2	R2		Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
-	-		Race cancelled due to inclement weather
3	R1	Barber Motorsports Park	Mac Clark	Sam Corry	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
4	R2		Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
5	R1	Virginia International Raceway	Jeremy Fairbairn	Alessandro de Tullio	Sam Corry	Alessandro de Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
6	R2		Mac Clark	Alessandro de Tullio	Mac Clark	Alessandro de Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
7	R3		Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Alessandro de Tullio	Alessandro de Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
8	R1	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Mac Clark	Alessandro de Tullio	Mac Clark	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
9	R2		Mac Clark	Alessandro de Tullio	Mac Clark	Alessandro de Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
10	R3		Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
11	R1	Road America	Mac Clark	Sam Corry	Sam Corry	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
12	R2		Sam Corry	Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development
13	R3		Sam Corry	Alessandro de Tullio	Sam Corry	Alessandro de Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
14	R1	Circuit of the Americas	Sam Corry	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development
15	R2		Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Bryson Morris	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
16	R3		Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development

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

• 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 OIR ALA VIR MOH ROA COA Points 1 Mac Clark 1* 1* C 1* 1* 4 10* 2 2* 2* 1* 15 3 4 2 3 3 393 2 Sam Corry 3 3 C 2 4 3* 12 3 1 4 5 1* 2 2* 4 1 2 369 3 Nikita Johnson 2 6 C 3 5 2 13 4 4 3 2 3 1* 3 1* 10 1* 352 4 Alessandro de Tullio 6 2 C 4 DNS 1 1 1* 3 1 3 2 DSQ 1 10 14 9 314 5 Andre Castro 4 4 C 5 2 10 6 8 8 7 12 12 4 6 17 5 7 233 6 Jeremy Fairbairn 5 13 C 6 3 11 14 10 6 6 7 17 13 8 6 4 14 201 7 Ethan Ho 12 7 C 7 8 6 16 9 9 13 8 13 5 7 16 17 4 182 8 Titus Sherlock 11 5 C 16 9 5 2 6 12 16 10 6 15 15 8 18 12 178 9 Jake Bonilla 8 14 C 10 16 9 4 7 14 18 16 7 10 10 18 6 11 160 10 Alan Isambard 7 15 C 18 DNS 7 3 5 18 8 6 5 6 9 151 11 Elliot Cox 9 8 C 11 11 12 5 16 7 10 11 4 16 16 140 12 Quinn Armstrong 8 7 12 13 9 9 16 8 11 9 19 8 123 13 Giorgio Carrara 5 5 4 8 9 5 11 15 10 122 14 Ethan Barker 13 9 15 11 11 17 9 7 17 7 7 19 110 15 Maxwell Jamieson DNS DNS C 14 13 17 17 DNS 17 14 13 10 11 14 15 8 13 97 16 Ryan Shehan 16 8 11 5 9 6 72 17 Lucas Fecury 14 11 13 10 12 14 13 16 16 70 18 Bryson Morris 3 2* 5 65 19 Earl Tucker 13 9 C 13 14 15 15 14 16 17 DNS 63 20 Noah Ping 10 12 C 9 7 46 21 Maite Cáceres 11 12 13 19 11 15 45 22 Nicholas d'Orlando DNS 11 C 8 6 39 23 Jacob Bolen 15 DNS C 17 15 14 14 12 39 24 Madison Aust 15 15 15 14 12 17 38 25 Bianca Bustamante 14 10 C 15 12 32 26 David Burketh 12 10 20 27 Bailey Cruse 12 13 18 20 Pos Driver OIR ALA VIR MOH ROA COA 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) Race cancelled (C) 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

See also

• 2022 IndyCar Series
• 2022 Indy Lights
• 2022 Indy Pro 2000 Championship
• 2022 U.S. F2000 National Championship