Jake Eidson

Jake Eidson (born 24 May 1995) is an American-Australian former racing driver. Eidson is a triple Formula Skip Barber championship winner and won the 2013 F1600 Championship Series season.

Jake Eidson
Nationality	American Australian
Born	(1995-05-24) May 24, 1995 (age 30) Littleton, Colorado, United States
Previous series
2013-2015 2013 2011-2013 2011 2010-2011	USF2000 F1600 Championship Series Formula Skip Barber New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 Karting
Championship titles
2013 2012-2013 2012	F1600 Championship Series Skip Barber Winter Series Skip Barber Summer Series
Awards
2013	Team USA Scholarship

Career

Eidson started his racing career in karts. The young driver won the 2010 Rocky Mountain Challenge in the TAG Jr. class running with the Superkarts! USA organisation. In 2011 Eidson ran four races in the New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 championship. The American Australian drove a Van Diemen RF91 and scored one podium finish.^[1]

In 2012, Eidson made the switch to single-seater racing in the United States of America. The young driver competed in the Skip Barber F2000 Series racing a Mazda powered Reynard R/T 2000. Eidson was highly successful. The Colorado native won the Winter Series, Summer Series and the subsequent Winter Series championships.^[2] The following year Eidson joined Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing for their F1600 Championship Series campaign. At the beginning of the season, the young driver competed in the USF2000 Winterfest and the first two rounds of the main championship in Florida. Eidson dominated the F1600 season in the Honda L15A7 powered Spectrum 012 winning seven out of twelve races.

For his good results Eidson was awarded a place in Team USA Scholarship, to compete at the Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy in England. At the Formula Ford Festival, the team competed in the highly competitive Kent class. Eidson won one of the qualifying rounds. In the main event, the Team USA Scholarship driver finished fifth outscoring his teammate Joey Bickers. At the Walter Hayes Trophy Eidson finished both qualifying rounds in second place which granted him the second starting position for the main event. Scott Malvern won the race while Eidson finished in seventh position.

2014 was his first full season in the USF2000. Again competing for Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing Eidson won two races. Eidson was placed third in the championship standings behind Team E Racing's RC Enerson and Cape Motorsports teammate Florian Latorre.

U.S. F2000 National Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points
2013	Afterburner Autosport	SEB 6	SEB 24	STP 12	STP 23	LOR	TOR	TOR	MOH	MOH	MOH	LAG	LAG	HOU	HOU			26th	26
2014	Cape Motorsports Wayne Taylor Racing	STP 4	STP 2	BAR 3	BAR 8	IMS 2	IMS 9	LOR 9	TOR 1	TOR 2	MOH 4	MOH 1	MOH 8	SNM 3	SNM 3			3rd	291
2015	Pabst Racing Services	STP 1	STP 1	NOL 3	NOL 3	BAR 3	BAR 3	IMS 2	IMS 12	LOR 1	TOR 1	TOR 2	MOH 4	MOH 2	MOH 3	LAG 3	LAG 3	2nd	385

Pro Mazda Championship

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points
2016	Cape Motorsports Wayne Taylor Racing	STP 3	STP 7	ALA 8	ALA 6	IMS 6	IMS 7	LOR 8	ROA	ROA	TOR	TOR	MOH	MOH	LAG	LAG	LAG	9th	106