2018 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda was the ninth season – since its revival in 2010 – of the U.S. F2000 National Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that is the first step in INDYCAR's Road to Indy ladder, operated by Andersen Promotions. A 14-race schedule was announced on October 17, 2017.^[1]

American Kyle Kirkwood driving for in a single-car effort dominated the championship, winning twelve of the fourteen races. The only other driver to win was two consecutive races won by former Indy Lights competitor Alexandre Baron for early in the season. Baron left the series after seven races. Swede Rasmus Lindh finished well back in second place driving for who won the team championship in a close battle. Lindh didn't capture a second place finish until the final race of the season. Just behind Lindh were Brazilians Lucas Kohl and Igor Fraga. Fourteen drivers competed in all fourteen races.

Drivers and teams[]

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
	79	Jacob Abel[2]	6–7, 10–12
	9	Dakota Dickerson[3]	6–14
	14	[4][5]	3–4, 6–9, 13–14
	30	[6]	1–5
BN Racing	28	Jamie Caroline[7]	1–4
			6–12
	29		All
	8	Kyle Kirkwood[8]	All
	7		10–12
	10	[9]	1–5
	11	Kory Enders[10]	All
	12	[11]	All
	27	Colin Kaminsky[12]	All
	90	[13]	1–7
		Yuven Sundaramoorthy	10–12
			13–14
	91	Igor Fraga[14]	All
	92	Danial Frost	6–12
	93	[15]	1–2
Newman Wachs Racing	36	[16]	1–12
	37	[17]	1–7, 10–12
	38	[18]	All
	41	Braden Eves	13–14
	21	[19]	All
	22	Lucas Kohl[20]	All
	23	Rasmus Lindh[10]	All
	24	Kaylen Frederick[21]	All
	5	[22]	1–7
	19	Alexandre Baron[23]	1–7
	20	James Roe[24]	3–4
	31	Sabré Cook[25]	1–4, 6–7, 10–12
	51	Michael d'Orlando	1–4, 6–7, 10–12
Team Pelfrey	80	[26]	All
	81	[27]	All
	82	Bruna Tomaselli[28]	All

Schedule[]

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	March 10	Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2	March 11
3	May 11	Grand Prix of Indianapolis	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana
4	May 12
5	May 25	Dave Steele Carb Night Classic	Lucas Oil Raceway	Clermont, Indiana
6	June 23	Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
7	June 24
8	July 14	Grand Prix of Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9	July 15
10	July 27	Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
11	July 28
12	July 29
13	September 1	Grand Prix of Portland	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
14	September 2

Race results[]

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
					Driver	Team
1	St. Petersburg 1		Alexandre Baron	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
2	St. Petersburg 2	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Swan-RJB Motorsports
3	Indianapolis GP 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Swan-RJB Motorsports
4	Indianapolis GP 2	Kyle Kirkwood	Alexandre Baron	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
5	Indianapolis	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
6	Road America 1	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
7	Road America 2	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Lucas Kohl	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
8	Toronto 1	Dakota Dickerson	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
9	Toronto 2	Kaylen Frederick	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
10	Mid-Ohio 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
11	Mid-Ohio 2	Kaylen Frederick		Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
12	Mid-Ohio 3		Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
13	Portland 1	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
14	Portland 2	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports

Championship standings[]

Scoring system

• One point is awarded to the driver who qualifies on pole position.
• One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in the race.
• One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.

Drivers' Championship[]

Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH POR Points 1 Kyle Kirkwood 1* 5 2 1* 1* 1* 1 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 440 2 Rasmus Lindh 10 24 14 3 3 4 18 4 3 10 4 3 4 2 238 3 Lucas Kohl 13 3 26 7 4 23 3* 9 15 2 2 6 5 5 215 4 Igor Fraga 8 2 8 17 7 8 5 7 2 17 3 5 15 4 213 5 4 8 6 19 9 6 15 6 11 3 5 7 2 6 206 6 Kaylen Frederick 11 9 22 21 2 2 2 3 8 24 23 19 7 15 173 7 5 11 7 8 19 24 17 10 5 5 8 14 9 3 162 8 Kory Enders 19 10 5 6 11 5 19 16 14 9 16 24 3 9 143 9 14 13 24 11 6 3 13 5 17 4 21 4 139 10 Colin Kaminsky 6 22 9 16 13 12 4 12 18 12 7 12 17 8 134 11 2 6 3 26 5 9 23 18 7 19 19 22 12 17 128 12 Alexandre Baron 22 1* 1* 2 21 7 7 123 13 Dakota Dickerson 14 9 2 6 6 6 18 8 7 120 14 3 12 23 4 8 10 20 17 12 21 17 17 105 15 9 15 16 23 17 13 21 15 9 15 14 13 10 10 100 16 Bruna Tomaselli 7 14 19 22 14 17 11 13 13 20 13 16 18 16 87 17 Danial Frost 19 16 8 4 7 9 9 77 18 20 19 20 13 16 21 12 11 10 22 24 21 13 14 69 19 23 25 18 12 20 16 26 14 16 23 12 23 16 11 60 20 Michael d'Orlando 16 23 25 15 22 6 8 20 8 56 21 12 16 13 18 12 11 14 56 22 25 21 11 9 10 26 8 55 23 Jacob Abel 15 10 11 11 11 47 24 18 18 15 20 15 18 22 13 15 15 46 25 Jamie Caroline 24 4 4 24 40 26 17 10 20 24 DNS DNS 14 12 35 27 18 18 2 33 28 21 7 10 25 18 32 29 Yuven Sundaramoorthy 14 10 10 29 30 Sabré Cook 15 17 21 14 25 25 16 22 20 27 31 James Roe 12 5 26 32 Braden Eves 6 18 18 33 11 13 18 34 17 20 5 Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH 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 (DNF) 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

Teams' championship[]

Scoring system

• 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

See also[]

2018 IndyCar Series
2018 Indy Lights
2018 Pro Mazda Championship

References[]