2023 USF2000 Championship

The 2023 USF2000 Championship presented by Cooper Tires was 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 served as the middle rung of this ladder.

2023 USF2000 Championship

Drivers' Champion: Simon Sikes
Teams' Champion: Pabst Racing

Previous

2022

Next

2024

Parent series:
IndyCar Series
Indy NXT
USF Pro 2000 Championship
Feeder series:
USF Juniors

Simon Sikes won the Drivers' Championship at the final race weekend at Portland with two races to spare. His team, Pabst Racing, won their second consecutive and fifth all-time championship.

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
DC Autosport	57	Carson Etter[2]	11–13, 16–18
	68	Ethan Ho[3]	3–7, 9–13, 16–18
DEForce Racing	1	Mac Clark[4]	All
	10	Jorge Garciarce[5]	All
	11	Brady Golan[2]	11–13
		Lucas Fecury[6]	16–18
	12	Maxwell Jamieson[7]	All
Exclusive Autosport	90	Jacob Douglas[8]	1–7
		Thomas Schrage[9]	11–13, 16–18
	91	Joey Brienza[10]	1–2, 8, 14–15
	92	Nicholas d'Orlando[11]	1–2
		Lucas Mann[12]	5–7
		Jack Jeffers[13]	9–10
	93	Avery Towns[14]	1–15
	95	Chase Gardner[15]	1–15
Future Star Racing	56	Andre Castro[16]	1–2
	58	Trey Burke[17]	1–2
Jay Howard Driver Development	6	Evagoras Papasavvas[18]	All
	7	Al Morey[19]	All
	8	Lochie Hughes[20]	All
	9	Louka St-Jean[21]	1–4
		Dane Scott[22]	9–10
		Logan Adams[2]	11–15
		Ava Dobson[23]	16–18
Pabst Racing	22	Simon Sikes[15]	All
	23	Jacob Douglas[24]	9–18
	24	Max Garcia[25][26]	3–18
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development	67	Elliot Cox[27]	All
Velocity Racing Development	2	Nico Christodoulou[28]	14–15
	14	Sam Corry[29]	All
	17	Nikita Johnson[30]	All
	18	Danny Dyszelski[31]	1–13
	19	Gordon Scully[32]	All
	33	Max Taylor[12]	5–7, 9–13, 16–18
	97	Zack Ping[33]	1–7, 9–13

• TJ Speed Motorsports took over two cars from Cape Motorsports to enter the championship in 2023, but ultimately decided against it.^[34][35]
• Noah Ping was signed to compete for Velocity Racing Development, but dropped out and instead signed with VRD-partnered team Arden in GB3.^[36][37]

Schedule

The 2023 schedule was revealed on October 17, 2022. It featured two street circuits, five road courses and one oval round. The championship returned to Sebring for the first time since 2013. All rounds except the weekends at Sebring and Indianapolis Raceway Park supported the IndyCar Series.^[38]

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	Discount Tire Grand Prix of Road America	R  Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10
11	July 1–2	Discount Tire Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
12
13
14	July 15–16	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Toronto	R  Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15
16	September 2–3	Discount Tire Grand Prix of Portland	R  Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
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Race results

Rd.	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race winner
					Driver	Team
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	Lochie Hughes	Simon Sikes	Lochie Hughes	Lochie Hughes	Jay Howard Driver Development
2		Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development
3	Sebring International Raceway	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Lochie Hughes	Lochie Hughes	Jay Howard Driver Development
4		Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Pabst Racing
5	Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
6		Nikita Johnson	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Pabst Racing
7		Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Lochie Hughes	Lochie Hughes	Jay Howard Driver Development
8	Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
9	Road America	Lochie Hughes	Mac Clark	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Pabst Racing
10		Mac Clark	Danny Dyszelski	Lochie Hughes	Lochie Hughes	Jay Howard Driver Development
11	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Evagoras Papasavvas	Nikita Johnson	Evagoras Papasavvas	Evagoras Papasavvas	Jay Howard Driver Development
12		Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
13		Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Pabst Racing
14	Exhibition Place	Evagoras Papasavvas	Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Simon Sikes	Pabst Racing
15		Simon Sikes	Nico Christodoulou	Simon Sikes	Nico Christodoulou	Velocity Racing Development
16	Portland International Raceway	Jacob Douglas	Evagoras Papasavvas	Jacob Douglas	Jacob Douglas	Pabst Racing
17		Jacob Douglas	Simon Sikes	Jacob Douglas	Jacob Douglas	Pabst Racing
18		Jacob Douglas	Jacob Douglas	Simon Sikes	Simon Sikes	Pabst 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	3	2

• The driver who qualified on pole was awarded one additional point.
• One point was awarded to the driver who led the most laps in a race.
• One point was awarded to the driver who set the fastest lap during the race.

Pos Driver STP SEB IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR Points 1 Simon Sikes 4 2 2 1* 13 1* 3 3 1* 10 2 17* 1* 1 2* 3 2 1* 447 2 Nikita Johnson 3 1* 16 8 3* 3 2 5 3 5 5 4 2 7* 18 4 3 7 344 3 Lochie Hughes 1* 3 1* 4 2 2 1* 6 12 1* 4 19 22 15 3 5 13 10 335 4 Evagoras Papasavvas 2 4 3 10 19 9 6 2 8 19 1* 2 4 6 7 2 5 6 323 5 Mac Clark 11 20 4 2 14 4 10 1* 16 2 3 1 3 4 13 8 4 9 318 6 Jacob Douglas 8 15 13 3 15 6 20 2 6 23 6 15 13 5 1* 1* 2 249 7 Sam Corry 5 11 8 19 1 5 16 12 19 20 7 3 5 9 6 16 17 3 222 8 Jorge Garciarce 13 5 9 6 6 10 14 10 9 4 8 8 20 14 4 17 6 14 212 9 Max Garcia 6 7 18 12 4 7 15 3 20 5 7 2 15 6 18 5 207 10 Chase Gardner 12 14 5 9 5 15 15 4 4 7 10 7 6 8 17 193 11 Al Morey 15 10 15 11 7 17 13 8 18 13 9 16 10 12 9 7 10 13 172 12 Elliot Cox 18 18 7 5 16 7 17 9 5 18 22 23 23 17 14 10 8 12 145 13 Danny Dyszelski 16 7 10 17 4 8 7 16 10 8 12 15 8 141 14 Ethan Ho 18 15 8 11 5 7 9 6 9 12 19 7 11 137 15 Gordon Scully 19 8 12 12 11 18 9 15 14 14 18 14 16 16 16 9 12 15 133 16 Maxwell Jamieson 17 9 17 14 10 19 19 13 17 16 16 11 17 10 10 14 14 18 121 17 Avery Towns 20 12 14 16 12 13 18 11 21 15 21 18 11 11 8 101 18 Max Taylor 17 16 8 6 21 11 22 19 11 9 8 86 19 Zack Ping 21 17 19 13 9 20 11 20 11 14 20 18 60 20 Thomas Schrage 13 10 9 18 19 4 55 21 Nico Christodoulou 5 1 48 22 Logan Adams 15 21 21 3 11 40 23 Carson Etter 19 13 14 15 11 16 38 24 Joey Brienza 10 16 14 18 12 37 25 Trey Burke 7 6 29 26 Nicholas d'Orlando 6 13 23 27 Louka St-Jean 14 19 11 18 22 28 Brady Golan 17 12 13 21 29 Jack Jeffers 11 12 19 30 Lucas Fecury 12 15 17 19 31 Lucas Mann 20 14 12 17 32 Ava Dobson 13 16 19 15 33 Andre Castro 9 21 13 34 Dane Scott 13 17 12 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 led 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 received 3 bonus points per race as an equivalency to multi-car teams
• Only the best two results counted for teams fielding more than two entries

Pos	Driver	STP		SEB		IMS			IRP	ROA		MOH			TOR		POR			Points
1	Pabst Racing	4	2	2	1	10	1	3	3	1	3	2	5	1	1	2	1	1	1	476
				6	7	12	11	4	7	2	6	12	6	7	2	5	3	2	2
2	Jay Howard Driver Development	1	3	1	4	2	2	1	2	8	1	1	2	4	3	3	2	5	5	413
		2	4	3	10	6	7	6	6	10	11	4	12	9	6	7	5	10	8
3	Velocity Racing Development	3	1	8	8	1	3	2	5	3	5	5	3	2	5	1	4	3	3	372
		5	7	10	11	3	5	7	11	6	8	7	4	5	7	6	7	9	6
4	DEForce Racing	10	5	4	2	4	4	8	1	9	2	3	1	3	4	4	6	4	7	272
		11	8	9	6	9	9	10	9	12	4	8	8	11	9	9	9	6	11
5	Exclusive Autosport	6	9	5	3	5	6	9	4	4	7	9	7	6	8	8	11	12	4	157
		8	10	11	9	8	12	11	10	11	10	10	10	8	10	10
6	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development	12	11	7	5	11	8	12	8	5	12	13	12	13	11	11	8	8	10	109
7	DC Autosport			12	12	7	10	5		7	9	6	9	10			10	7	9	74
												11	11	12			12	11	12
8	Future Star Racing	7	6																	17
		9	12
Pos	Driver	STP		ALA		IMS			IRP	ROA		MOH			TOR		POR			Points

See also

• 2023 IndyCar Series
• 2023 Indy NXT
• 2023 USF Pro 2000 Championship
• 2023 USF Juniors