2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship

The 2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship will be the 22nd season in series history. An 18-round schedule was announced on 12 September 2019, featuring six permanent road courses, two street circuits, and two ovals. Except for the two Indianapolis-area rounds, they are NTT IndyCar Series support races. The Indianapolis road course race is a Stand alone race due to the NASCAR Cup Series Big Machine 400 weekend is combined with the GMR Grand Prix weekend as a double header so that weekend is full, and the Lucas Oil Raceway round, normally held on Indianapolis 500 weekend, is part of the USAC Silver Crown Series Dave Steele Classic round. ^[1]

RP Motorsport USA withdrew from the series this season because of travel restrictions due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.^[2]

American Sting Ray Robb, driving for Juncos Racing, clinched the championship with two races remaining on the season.^[3]

Drivers and teams[]

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
	51	Jacob Abel	6–7, 11–15
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport	17	Devlin DeFrancesco^[4]	All
	6	^[5]	1–12, 16–17
	7		3–17
	8	Manuel Sulaimán^[6]	All
	9	Parker Thompson^[7]	All
^[8]	1	Braden Eves^[9]	1–10
^[8]	90	Tristan Charpentier^[10]	16–17
	83	^[11]	1–7, 11–17
Juncos Racing^[8]	2	Sting Ray Robb^[12]	All
	42	Artem Petrov^[13]	All
	69	^[14]	1–6, 8–10, 16–17
	20	Kody Swanson^[15]	6–7
	18	Hunter McElrea^[16]	All
	19	Colin Kaminsky^[17]	All
	57		1–5, 8–12
BN Racing w/	36		1–5, 8–10
BN Racing w/	37	Sabré Cook^[18]	1–5
^[19]	3	^[20]	1–15
	3	Rasmus Lindh^[21]	16–17
	68	Danial Frost^[20]	All

Schedule[]

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	July 9-10	Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Road America Presented by Cooper Tires Honoring First Responders	R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
2	July 9-10		R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
3	July 29–30	Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Presented by Cooper Tires Honoring First Responders	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
4
5
6	August 22	Cooper Tires Freedom 90	O Lucas Oil Raceway	Brownsburg, Indiana
7	August 29	Indy Pro 2000 Oval Challenge of St. Louis Presented by Cooper Tires	O World Wide Technology Raceway	Madison, Illinois
8	September 3–4	Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Indy Grand Prix	R Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
9
10
11	September 11–13	Surgere Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
12	September 11–13	Surgere Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
13	October 9–11	Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix at New Jersey Motorsports Park	R New Jersey Motorsports Park	Millville, New Jersey
14
15
16	October 23–25	Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Cooper Tires	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
17	October 23–25	Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Allied Building Products	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
References: ^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]

Cancelled events
Date	Race name	Track	City
April 25–26	Never announced	R Circuit of the Americas	Austin, Texas
July 10–12^[34]	Never announced	R Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 11–13	Never announced	R Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
September 18–20	Never announced	R WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California

Race results[]

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Driver	Team
1	Road America 1	Devlin DeFrancesco	Manuel Sulaimán	Devlin DeFrancesco	Danial Frost
2	Road America 2	Manuel Sulaimán	Braden Eves	Artem Petrov	Artem Petrov	Juncos Racing
3	Mid-Ohio 1	Braden Eves	Hunter McElrea	Braden Eves	Braden Eves
4	Mid-Ohio 2	Braden Eves		Artem Petrov	Artem Petrov	Juncos Racing
5	Mid-Ohio 3		Danial Frost	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
6	Freedom 90	Manuel Sulaimán	Manuel Sulaimán	Kody Swanson	Kody Swanson
7	Gateway	Devlin DeFrancesco	Braden Eves	Devlin DeFrancesco	Devlin DeFrancesco	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
8	Indianapolis GP 1	Artem Petrov	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
9	Indianapolis GP 2	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
10	Indianapolis GP 3	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
11	Mid-Ohio 4	Danial Frost	Hunter McElrea	Manuel Sulaimán	Manuel Sulaimán
12	Mid-Ohio 5	Manuel Sulaimán	Manuel Sulaimán	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
13	New Jersey 1	Devlin DeFrancesco	Devlin DeFrancesco	Devlin DeFrancesco	Devlin DeFrancesco	Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
14	New Jersey 2	Sting Ray Robb	Colin Kaminsky	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
15	New Jersey 3	Colin Kaminsky	Manuel Sulaimán	Manuel Sulaimán	Manuel Sulaimán
16	St. Petersburg 1	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Juncos Racing
17	St. Petersburg 2	Sting Ray Robb	Sting Ray Robb	Hunter McElrea	Hunter McElrea

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	4	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	ROA		MOH			LOR	GMP	IMS			MOH		NJMP			STP		Points
1	Sting Ray Robb	5	2	10	3	1*	6	4	1*	1*	1*	4	1*	2	1*	3	1*	5	437
2	Devlin DeFrancesco	2*	4	7	2	3	4	1*	4	2	8	14	11	1*	10	10	7	6	341
3	Danial Frost	1	3	2	8	11	5	5	5	5	9	2	5	12	5	7	2	3	329
4	Artem Petrov	13	1*	5	1*	8	9	3	10	3	3	5	4	5	3	11	3	9	326
5	Hunter McElrea	15	15	8	6	2	2	11	2	6	2	3	9	6	4	5	4	1*	320
6	Manuel Sulaimán	16	11	4	5	6	3	7	DNS	14	4	1*	7	3	11	1*	5	10	289
7	Parker Thompson	14	16	3	4	4	10	6	3	4	5	13	2	4	2	4	13	12	283
8	Colin Kaminsky	3	6	6	15	16	8	13	6	11	10	6	6	7	8	2	9	2	252
9		8	7	15	11	7	13	8	7	12	14	9	10	8	7	9			181
10				17	17	5	14	9	8	13	11	8	14	10	9	6	14	7	164
11	Braden Eves	4	5	1*	9	9	7	2	12	DNS	DNS								163
12		7	8	16	7	12	11	15	11	7	6	10	8				8	13	163
13		9	9	12	10	13	DNS		9	9	12						10	8	109
14	Jacob Abel						12	10				7	3	9	6	8			107
15		12	13	14	14	14	DNS	14				12	13	11	DNS	DNS	12	14	92
16		11	12	13	13	10			14	10	13	11	12						91
17		6	14	9	16	DSQ			13	8	7								76
18	Kody Swanson						1*	12											60
19	Sabré Cook	10	10	11	12	15													47
20	Rasmus Lindh																6	4	34
21	Tristan Charpentier																11	11	20

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

References[]

^ Andersen Promotions (September 12, 2019). "Road to Indy: 2020 schedules announced". IndyCar.com. Brickyard Trademarks, Inc. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
^ Wood, Elliot (7 July 2020). "RP Motorsport to miss Indy Pro 2000 season due to coronavirus". formulascout.com.
^ Woollard, Craig (October 11, 2020). "Sulaiman wins in wet at New Jersey, Robb crowned IP2000 champion". FormulaScout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
^ "ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT RETURNS TO ROAD TO INDY WITH STEINBRENNER RACING AND DEFRANCESCO". IndyPro2000.com. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
^ @DEForceRacing (December 5, 2019). "Also on our #IndyPro2000 line-up for the 2020 Season, @Moidlv

[1] Andersen Promotions (September 12, 2019). "Road to Indy: 2020 schedules announced". IndyCar.com. Brickyard Trademarks, Inc. Retrieved December 13, 2019.

[2] Wood, Elliot (7 July 2020). "RP Motorsport to miss Indy Pro 2000 season due to coronavirus". formulascout.com.

[3] Woollard, Craig (October 11, 2020). "Sulaiman wins in wet at New Jersey, Robb crowned IP2000 champion". FormulaScout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved October 11, 2020.

[4] "ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT RETURNS TO ROAD TO INDY WITH STEINBRENNER RACING AND DEFRANCESCO". IndyPro2000.com. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.

[5] @DEForceRacing (December 5, 2019). "Also on our #IndyPro2000 line-up for the 2020 Season, @Moidlv

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