2023 USF Juniors

The 2023 USF Juniors championship was the second season of USF Juniors. The season features a six-round 16-race calendar, which began on March 23 at Sebring International Raceway and concluded on August 27 at the Circuit of the Americas.^[1]

2023 USF Juniors

Drivers' Champion:
Nicolas Giaffone
Teams' Champion:
DEForce Racing

Previous

2022

Next

2024

Parent series:
IndyCar Series
Indy NXT
USF Pro 2000 Championship
USF2000 Championship

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".^[2] The USF Juniors serves as the bottom rung of this ladder.

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
DC Autosport	46	Connor Roberts	14–16
	57	Carson Etter[3]	All
	68	Ethan Ho[4]	1–10
DEForce Racing	16	Quinn Armstrong[5]	All
	17	Lucas Fecury[6]	All
	18	Brady Golan	All
	19	Nicolas Giaffone[7]	All
Exclusive Autosport	90	Erick Schotten[8]	All
	91	Joey Brienza[9]	All
	92	Jack Jeffers[10]	All
	93	Giovanni Cabrera[11]	All
	95	Bianca Bustamante[12]	14–16
Jay Howard Driver Development	3	Ayden Ingratta[13]	11–13
		Aiden Potter	14–16
	4	Hudson Potter[13]	11–16
	5	Ava Dobson[13]	11–13
		Dane Scott	14–16
Ram Racing[14]	55	Juan Felipe Pedraza[14]	4–5
Velocity Racing Development	12	Ethan Barker[15]	All
	29	Hudson Schwartz[16]	4–16
	33	Max Taylor[17]	All
	48	Jimmie Lockhart[18]	All

Schedule

Round	Date	Race name	Circuit	Location
1	March 23–25	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Sebring	Sebring International Raceway	Sebring, FL
2
3
4	April 27–28	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Alabama	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, AL
5
6	June 2–4	Cooper Tires VIR Grand Prix	Virginia International Raceway	Alton, VA
7
8
9	July 6–8	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, OH
10
11	August 11–13	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, WI
12
13
14	August 24–27	Cooper Tires Circuit of The Americas Grand Prix	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, TX
15
16

Race results

Rd.	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race winner
					Driver	Team
1	Sebring International Raceway	Joey Brienza	Joey Brienza	Quinn Armstrong	Quinn Armstrong	DEForce Racing
2		Joey Brienza	Nicolas Giaffone	Joey Brienza	Nicolas Giaffone	DEForce Racing
3		Joey Brienza	Jimmie Lockhart	Joey Brienza	Joey Brienza	Exclusive Autosport
4	Barber Motorsports Park	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	DEForce Racing
5		Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	DEForce Racing
6	Virginia International Raceway	Ethan Ho	Max Taylor	Jack Jeffers	Nicolas Giaffone	DEForce Racing
7		Jack Jeffers	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	DEForce Racing
8		Nicolas Giaffone	Jack Jeffers	Nicolas Giaffone	Jack Jeffers	Exclusive Autosport
9	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	Nicolas Giaffone	DEForce Racing
10		Hudson Schwartz	Hudson Schwartz	Hudson Schwartz	Quinn Armstrong	DEForce Racing
11	Road America	Quinn Armstrong	Ayden Ingratta	Quinn Armstrong	Quinn Armstrong	DEForce Racing
12		Ayden Ingratta	Nicolas Giaffone	Jack Jeffers	Jack Jeffers	Exclusive Autosport
13		Nicolas Giaffone	Max Taylor	Nicolas Giaffone	Max Taylor	Velocity Racing Development
14	Circuit of the Americas	Jack Jeffers	Nicolas Giaffone	Max Taylor	Jack Jeffers	Exclusive Autosport
15		Jack Jeffers	Nicolas Giaffone	Jack Jeffers Jimmie Lockhart	Jimmie Lockhart	Velocity Racing Development
16		Jack Jeffers	Jack Jeffers	Jack Jeffers	Jimmie Lockhart	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 SEB ALA VIR MDO ROA COA Points 1 Nicolas Giaffone 4 1 2 1* 1* 1 1* 2* 1* 14 6 2 2* 3 7 8 389 2 Quinn Armstrong 1* 5 10 2 2 3 14 10 2 1 1* 5 8 13 2 2 324 3 Jack Jeffers 3 3 5 15 8 2* 12 1 3 4 2 1* 3 1 16* 14* 313 4 Jimmie Lockhart 7 10 3 5 3 11 6 4 4 12 9 3 4 4 1* 1 292 5 Joey Brienza 2 2* 1* 4 6 14 2 5 6 13 3 9 9 18 3 5 280 6 Max Taylor 13 13 4 7 5 4 11 3 11 6 13 15 1 2* 14 6 236 7 Ethan Barker 5 6 13 9 9 8 7 12 7 5 4 10 7 5 5 4 228 8 Hudson Schwartz 14 12 7 3 14 5 2* 5 7 5 6 4 3 208 9 Lucas Fecury 6 7 6 3 4 5 5 11 13 7 15 14 12 7 6 17 206 10 Brady Golan 9 8 7 10 11 9 4 8 12 8 7 8 10 8 10 7 202 11 Erick Schotten 10 9 8 8 10 6 9 6 9 9 8 4 6 17 9 11 199 12 Carson Etter 11 11 11 12 14 10 13 7 8 11 16 6 15 15 8 13 155 13 Giovanni Cabrera 12 12 12 13 15 12 8 13 10 10 10 11 16 12 12 18 140 14 Ethan Ho 8 4 9 6 7 13 10 9 14 3 134 15 Hudson Potter 11 13 13 14 13 12 50 16 Ava Dobson 12 12 11 28 17 Bianca Bustamante 9 18 9 27 18 Aiden Potter 11 11 15 26 19 Connor Roberts 16 15 10 22 20 Ayden Ingratta 14 16 14 21 21 Dane Scott 10 17 16 20 22 Juan Felipe Pedraza 11 13 18

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

See also

• 2023 IndyCar Series
• 2023 Indy NXT
• 2023 USF Pro 2000 Championship
• 2023 USF2000 Championship