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 Cape Motorsports 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 Swan-RJB Motorsports early in the season. Baron left the series after seven races. Swede Rasmus Lindh finished well back in second place driving for Pabst Racing 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.
Championship standings [ 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 ( 45 38 33 29 26 23 21 20 18 17 15 14 12 11 9 8 6 5 4 2
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. [ edit ] 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 Calvin Ming 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 19 10 5 6 11 5 19 16 14 9 16 24 3 9 143 9 Keith Donegan 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 Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify Brown Withdrawn Black Disqualified White Did not start Blank Did not
In-line notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Led most race laps Rookie
[ 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 receive 3 bonus points as an equivalency to multi-car teams Only the best two results count for teams fielding more than two entries 2018 IndyCar Series 2018 Indy Lights 2018 Pro Mazda Championship
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Jacob Abel[2] 
Keith Donegan[6] 
Jamie Caroline[7] 
José Sierra[11] 
Kellen Ritter 
Igor Fraga[14] 
Danial Frost 
Calvin Ming[19] 
Rasmus Lindh[10] 
Mathias Soler-Obel[22] 
Alexandre Baron[23] 
Julian van der Watt[26] 
