2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship

The 2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship presented by Continental Tire is the 27th season of the junior series two levels below the IndyCar series. It is the third season under the USF Pro 2000 moniker after the most recent rebrand in 2023.

2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship

Drivers' Champion: Max Garcia
Teams' Champion: Pabst Racing

Previous

2024

Next

2026

Parent series:
IndyCar Series
Indy NXT
Support series:
USF2000 Championship
USF Juniors

Pabst Racing's Max Garcia claimed the Drivers' Championship with three races to spare, while his team defended their Teams' Championship title for the third year in a row.

Series news

• The scholarship for the champion was decreased by over $100,000 to $546,500.^[1]
• The power output by the Elite Mazda engines on road and street circuits was increased, with a heightened rev limit from 7850 rpm to 8350 rpm resulting in a power increase of up to 40 horsepower.^[2]

Drivers and teams

All drivers compete using Tatuus IP-22 racecars with Elite Mazda 2.0-014A engines and Continental tires.

Team No. Driver(s) Status Round(s) Comet/NCMP Racing 21 Logan Adams[3] 1–8, 10–16 DEForce Racing 8 Owen Tangavelou[4] R 6–8 9 Nicholas Monteiro[5] 1–5 10 Jorge Garciarce[6] All Exclusive Autosport 90 Mac Clark[7] All 91 Joey Brienza[8] R All 92 Carson Etter[9] R All FatBoy Racing! 83 Charles Finelli[3] 1–12 Jay Howard Driver Development 4 Tanner DeFabis[10] R 1–2, 6–9 Nick Gilkes[11] R 13–16 6 Frankie Mossman[12] 1–5 Liam McNeilly[13] R 15–16 Pabst Racing 18 Max Garcia[14] R All 19 Jacob Douglas[15] R All 20 Michael Costello[16] R All TJ Speed Motorsports 26 Jace Denmark[17] 1–9 27 Ariel Elkin[18] R All 28 Sebastian Manson[19] R All Turn 3 Motorsport 2 Cooper Becklin[20] All 3 Titus Sherlock[21] R 1–2 Brady Golan[22] R 6–9, 13–18 Joseph Loake[23] R 10–12 22 Elliot Cox[21] R 1–2 Nicholas Monteiro[22] 6–18 33 Tyke Durst[24] All 44 Alessandro de Tullio[25] All Velocity Racing Development 84 Owen Tangavelou[26] R 1–5 Frankie Mossman[27] 6–8, 10–18 88 Max Taylor[28] R All

Icon Status R Rookie

Team changes

BN Racing, which only returned to competition in the series in 2024, did not confirm its presence in the 2025 championship or any driver signings ahead of the season.

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champions Pabst Racing took on three new drivers as Jace Denmark moved to TJ Speed Motorsports and Simon Sikes and Christian Brooks left the championship.^[17] Reigning USF2000 Champion Max Garcia remained with the team for his move up to USF Pro 2000, while Jacob Douglas returned to Pabst, with whom he came sixth in USF2000 in 2023.^[14][15] Michael Costello, the only newcomer to the Pabst Racing fold, stepped up to USFP2000 after coming ninth in USF2000 with JHDD to complete the team's lineup.^[16]

Only one of Turn 3 Motorsport's five drivers remained in the series as Drivers' Champion Lochie Hughes graduate to Indy NXT with Andretti Global, Danny Dyszelski left the team and Adam Fitzgerald and Ethan Ho had already departed mid-way through the 2024 season.^[29] Alessandro de Tullio, who entered six races with BN Racing in 2024, replaced Hughes in the No. 44 car, while Cooper Becklin, who entered nine races with TJ Speed Motorsports in 2024, pilots the No. 2 car.^[25][20] Two more drivers joined the team for the first race weekend in Titus Sherlock, who moved over from FR Americas after coming fourth in 2024 driving for Crosslink Kiwi Motorsports, and Elliot Cox, who stepped up from USF2000 after finishing sixth driving for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development.^[21]

Velocity Racing Development's Nikita Johnson moved to GB3, where he joined Hitech Grand Prix, while also taking on a part-time Indy NXT campaign with HMD Motorsports.^[30] To replace him, VRD promoted Max Taylor after he won the USF Juniors title and came third in USF2000 in 2024 with the team.^[28] Eurocup-3 race winner Owen Tangavelou also joined the team for the opening two rounds of the season.^[26]

TJ Speed Motorsports took on three new drivers for their three cars. The No. 27 car previously occupied by Hunter Yeany before his mid-season departure is piloted by Formula Regional Japanese runner-up Sebastian Manson on his USFP2000 debut.^[18] Turn 3-bound Cooper Becklin, who spent the second half of the 2024 season in the team's No. 28 car, was replaced by Ariel Elkin, who jumps up from USF Juniors after finishing the 2024 season in fourth driving for International Motorsport.^[19] Liam Sceats joined HMD Motorsports for a part-time Indy NXT campaign, and USF2000 driver Evagoras Papasavvas was initially announced to replace him in the No. 28 car.^[31] Ahead of the season opener, Jace Denmark was instead announced to be the third driver in TJ Speed's lineup, returning to USFP2000 where he finishing third in 2024 with Papst Racing after being unable to secure a drive in Indy NXT.^[17]

With BN Racing not entering the 2025 season, three of their four drivers left the championship in Nicolás Baptiste, Ricardo Escotto - who will join Andretti Cape in Indy NXT - and Arturo Flores, while Alessandro de Tullio moved to Turn 3 Motorsport.^[32][25]

Jay Howard Driver Development saw Frankie Mossman returning for a second season.^[12] Tanner DeFabis, who raced for the team at the 2024 season finale, remain with the team for a part-time campaign, entering the events at St. Petersburg, Indianapolis and more events to be confirmed at a later date.^[10]

DEForce Racing saw Mac Clark leave the team to join Exclusive Autosport.^[7]

Exclusive Autosport, who did not have a full-time driver in 2024 after Braden Eves had to end his campaign early due to budget issues, have three new drivers in 2025. The team promoted two USF2000 drivers to its lineup in Joey Brienza, who came fifth in 2024, also with Exclusive Autosport, and Carson Etter, who came 16th with DC Autosport.^[8][9] Mac Clark completed the team's lineup, embarking on his second year in the series after finishing his 2024 campaign with DEForce Racing in eleventh despite missing the final two races.^[7]

Mid-season changes

Turn 3 Motorsport only ran three cars at NOLA Motorsports Park, with Titus Sherlock and Elliot Cox both leaving the team.^[33] For the third round at Indianapolis, they were replaced by Brady Golan, who steps up from the USF2000 Championship, and DEForce Racing driver Nicholas Monteiro respectively.^[22] Velocity Racing Development also welcomed a new driver in Frankie Mossman, who departed Jay Howard Driver Development to replace Owen Tangavelou for the remainder of the season.^[27] Tangavelou in turn moved to DEForce Racing for the Indianapolis event.^[4]

Comet/NCMP Racing's Logan Adams and VRD's Frankie Mossmann both skipped the oval event at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.^[34]

Adams and Mossmann returned for the Grand Prix of Road America, while DeFabis, Denmark and Golan were all absent. The former two were not replaced by their teams, leading to JHDD fielding no cars for the weekend, while Golan's No. 3 Turn 3 Motorsport was piloted by ex-FIA F3 driver and series debutant Joseph Loake.^[23]

JHDD returned to the championship at Mid-Ohio after announcing that Nick Gilkes would take over the team's No. 7 car for that and the following event.^[11] Turn 3 Motorsport saw Loake depart as Golan returned to the team, while Charles Finelli did not enter the Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio.^[35]

Ahead of the Grand Prix of Toronto, JHDD announced that Liam McNeilly would make his series debut in Canada, returning the USF Pro ladder after winning the first five races of the 2025 USF2000 Championship before being forced out of competition due to visa issues.^[13]

Schedule

The 2025 schedule was revealed on September 17, 2024. The championship will visit the same eight circuits as it did in 2024: two street circuits, five road courses and one oval.^[36] All rounds except the weekends at NOLA and Indianapolis Raceway Park will run in support of the IndyCar Series.^[1]

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	February 28 – March 2	Andersen Interior Contracting Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	R  Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2
3	April 11–13	Continental Tire Grand Prix of Louisiana	R  NOLA Motorsports Park	Avondale, Louisiana
4
5
6	May 8–10	VP Racing Grand Prix of Indianapolis	R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
7
8
9	May 22–23	Continental Tire Freedom 90	O  Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park	Brownsburg, Indiana
10	June 19–22	Elite Engines Grand Prix of Road America	R  Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
11
12
13	July 3–6	PFC Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
14
15	July 18–20	Continental Tire Grand Prix of Toronto	R  Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
16
17	August 7–10	Continental 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	Alessandro de Tullio	Alessandro de Tullio	Alessandro de Tullio	Alessandro de Tullio	Turn 3 Motorsport
2		Alessandro de Tullio	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
3	NOLA Motorsports Park	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Alessandro de Tullio	Alessandro de Tullio	Turn 3 Motorsport
4		Alessandro de Tullio	Ariel Elkin	Alessandro de Tullio	Alessandro de Tullio	Turn 3 Motorsport
5		Max Garcia	Jacob Douglas	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
6	Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Ariel Elkin	Max Garcia	Ariel Elkin	Ariel Elkin	TJ Speed Motorsports
7		Ariel Elkin	Alessandro de Tullio	Ariel Elkin	Jacob Douglas	Pabst Racing
8		Ariel Elkin	Jacob Douglas	Ariel Elkin	Ariel Elkin	TJ Speed Motorsports
9	Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park	Mac Clark	Ariel Elkin	Ariel Elkin	Ariel Elkin	TJ Speed Motorsports
10	Road America	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
11		Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
12		Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Taylor	Max Taylor	Velocity Racing Development
13	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
14		Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
15	Exhibition Place	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Max Garcia	Pabst Racing
16		Alessandro de Tullio	Max Garcia	Frankie Mossman	Alessandro de Tullio	Turn 3 Motorsport
17	Portland International Raceway
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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 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 NOL IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR Points 1 Max Garcia 2 1* 2 2 1* 4 3 4 4 1* 1* 4 1* 1* 1* 9 431 2 Ariel Elkin 18 DNS 5 3 5 1* 5* 1* 1* 7 4 3 2 5 10 5 315 3 Mac Clark 4 2 3 17 18 2 2 5 3 2 3 2 10 3 3 10 312 4 Alessandro de Tullio 1* 18 1* 1* 2 15 9 20 2 4 6 5 4 7 17 1 302 5 Jacob Douglas 20 3 4 4 4 14 1 17 9 3 2 8 5 2 2 3 290 6 Max Taylor 5 4 7 5 3 3 13 19 8 8 5 1* 3 8 DSQ 19 239 7 Michael Costello 3 21 6 6 6 5 20 3 7 18 18 9 14 6 15 6 190 8 Nicholas Monteiro 7 13 15 15 10 6 6 6 6 17 12 6 6 15 12 7 185 9 Cooper Becklin 6 16 13 16 8 9 16 2 12 13 11 10 8 9 11 8 179 10 Frankie Mossman 21 10 12 7 14 13 10 13 9 7 17 16 4 4 2* 168 11 Joey Brienza 13 11 8 12 16 11 7 10 18 6 10 12 7 14 7 16 160 12 Jorge Garciarce 12 9 14 8 13 21 11 18 17 11 13 7 18 DNS 6 12 128 13 Tyke Durst 14 19 10 14 17 10 14 11 15 14 15 11 15 10 8 14 128 14 Logan Adams 9 17 11 10 12 20 12 16 10 9 14 12 13 14 11 125 15 Sebastian Manson 19 8 16 13 11 8 21 7 14 12 17 13 9 16 16 18 123 16 Jace Denmark 8 6 9 11 7 7 4 15 11 118 17 Carson Etter 15 12 17 18 19 17 18 12 13 15 14 15 13 12 18 17 95 18 Owen Tangavelou 11 5 19 9 9 18 15 9 74 19 Brady Golan 16 19 21 5 11 11 9 13 74 20 Tanner DeFabis 10 7 19 8 8 10 70 21 Charles Finelli 16 14 18 19 15 12 17 14 16 16 16 16 66 22 Liam McNeilly 5 4 36 23 Joseph Loake 5 8 18 33 24 Nick Gilkes 17 17 13 15 22 25 Titus Sherlock 22 15 7 26 Elliot Cox 17 20 5 Pos Driver STP NOL 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 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	STP		NOL			IMS			IRP	ROA			MOH		TOR		POR		Points
1	Pabst Racing	2	1	2	2	1	4	1	3	4	1	1	4	1	1	1	2			498
		3	3	4	4	4	5	3	4	7	3	2	8	5	2	2	6
2	Turn 3 Motorsport	1	14	1	1	2	6	6	2	2	4	6	5	4	6	8	1			297
		6	15	9	12	7	8	9	6	5	5	8	6	6	8	9	7
3	TJ Speed Motorsports	8	6	5	3	5	1	4	1	1	7	4	3	2	5	10	8			249
		15	8	8	10	6	7	5	7	9	12	13	10	8	11	13	12
4	Exclusive Autosport	4	2	3	11	14	2	2	5	3	2	3	2	7	3	3	9			241
		13	11	7	14	15	9	7	10	10	6	10	9	9	9	7	11
5	Velocity Racing Development	5	4	6	5	3	3	10	11	6	8	5	1	3	4	4	3			214
		11	5	15	8	8	11	13	15		9	7	13	11	7	DSQ	5
6	Jay Howard Driver Development	10	7	11	6	12	13	8	8	8				12	12	5	4			85
		16	10													11	14
7	DEForce Racing	7	9	12	7	9	12	12	9	12	11	11	7	13	DNS	6	13			69
		12	12	13	13	11	15	14	14
8	Comet/NCMP Racing	9	16	10	9	10	14	11	13		10	9	11	10	10	12	10			64
9	FatBoy Racing!	14	13	14	15	13	10	15	12	11	13	12	12							48
Pos	Team	STP		NOL			IMS			IRP	ROA			MOH		TOR		POR		Points

See also

• 2025 IndyCar Series
• 2025 Indy NXT
• 2025 USF2000 Championship
• 2025 USF Juniors