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.

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[edit]

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

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
17
18

Race results[edit]

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

Championship standings[edit]

Drivers' Championship[edit]

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 United States Simon Sikes 4 2 2 1* 13 1* 3 3 1* 10 2 17* 1* 1 2* 3 2 1* 447
2 United States Nikita Johnson 3 1* 16 8 3* 3 2 5 3 5 5 4 2 7* 18 4 3 7 344
3 Australia Lochie Hughes 1* 3 1* 4 2 2 1* 6 12 1* 4 19 22 15 3 5 13 10 335
4 Cyprus Evagoras Papasavvas 2 4 3 10 19 9 6 2 8 19 1* 2 4 6 7 2 5 6 323
5 Canada Mac Clark 11 20 4 2 14 4 10 1* 16 2 3 1 3 4 13 8 4 9 318
6 New Zealand Jacob Douglas 8 15 13 3 15 6 20 2 6 23 6 15 13 5 1* 1* 2 249
7 United States Sam Corry 5 11 8 19 1 5 16 12 19 20 7 3 5 9 6 16 17 3 222
8 Mexico Jorge Garciarce 13 5 9 6 6 10 14 10 9 4 8 8 20 14 4 17 6 14 212
9 United States Max Garcia 6 7 18 12 4 7 15 3 20 5 7 2 15 6 18 5 207
10 United States Chase Gardner 12 14 5 9 5 15 15 4 4 7 10 7 6 8 17 193
11 United States Al Morey 15 10 15 11 7 17 13 8 18 13 9 16 10 12 9 7 10 13 172
12 United States Elliot Cox 18 18 7 5 16 7 17 9 5 18 22 23 23 17 14 10 8 12 145
13 United States Danny Dyszelski 16 7 10 17 4 8 7 16 10 8 12 15 8 141
14 Taiwan Ethan Ho 18 15 8 11 5 7 9 6 9 12 19 7 11 137
15 United States Gordon Scully 19 8 12 12 11 18 9 15 14 14 18 14 16 16 16 9 12 15 133
16 United States Maxwell Jamieson 17 9 17 14 10 19 19 13 17 16 16 11 17 10 10 14 14 18 121
17 United States Avery Towns 20 12 14 16 12 13 18 11 21 15 21 18 11 11 8 101
18 United States Max Taylor 17 16 8 6 21 11 22 19 11 9 8 86
19 United States Zack Ping 21 17 19 13 9 20 11 20 11 14 20 18 60
20 United States Thomas Schrage 13 10 9 18 19 4 55
21 Canada Nico Christodoulou 5 1 48
22 United States Logan Adams 15 21 21 3 11 40
23 United States Carson Etter 19 13 14 15 11 16 38
24 United States Joey Brienza 10 16 14 18 12 37
25 United States Trey Burke 7 6 29
26 United States Nicholas d'Orlando 6 13 23
27 Canada Louka St-Jean 14 19 11 18 22
28 United States Brady Golan 17 12 13 21
29 United States Jack Jeffers 11 12 19
30 Brazil Lucas Fecury 12 15 17 19
31 Canada Lucas Mann 20 14 12 17
32 United States Ava Dobson 13 16 19 15
33 United States Andre Castro 9 21 13
34 United States 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[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

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