2018 Pro Mazda Championship

The 2018 Pro Mazda Championship was the 20th season in series history. It was the final season using the Pro Mazda name, as the series was re-branded as "Indy Pro 2000" for the 2019 season.[1] A 16-race schedule was announced on 17 October 2017.[2] This was the first season to use the new Tatuus PM-18 chassis and Mazda MZR piston engine. All prior engine packages for the series included a Mazda Wankel engine.

2018 Pro Mazda Championship
Previous: 2017 Next: 2019

Drivers and teams
Team No. Drivers Rounds
BN Racing 78 Kris Wright 1–6, 10–13
Toby Sowery[3] 8–9
79 David Malukas[4] All
83 Charles Finelli 1–14
Cape Motorsports 3 Oliver Askew[5] All
8 Nikita Lastochkin[6] All
DEForce Racing 11 Kory Enders 3–4
12 James Raven 1–2
Moisés de la Vara 12–16
Exclusive Autosport 90 Parker Thompson[7] All
91 Antonio Serravalle 1–11
Juncos Racing 1 Carlos Cunha[8] 1–13
2 Rinus VeeKay[9] All
9 Robert Megennis[10] All
RP Motorsport[11] 10 Harrison Scott[12] 1–11, 14
Felipe Drugovich 12–13
27 Lodovico Laurini[12] 1–7
Raúl Guzmán 8–11
Mathias Soler-Obel 12–14
Team Pelfrey 80 Rafael Martins 1–4
81 Andrés Gutiérrez[13] 1–6, 8–13
82 Sting Ray Robb[14] 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 April 21 Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama
4 April 22
5 May 11 Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana
6 May 12
7 May 25 Dave Steele Carb Night Classic Lucas Oil Raceway Clermont, Indiana
8 June 23 Grand Prix of Road America Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
9 June 24
10 July 14 Grand Prix of Toronto Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 July 15
12 July 28 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
13 July 29
14 August 25 St Louis Pro Mazda Oval Challenge Gateway Motorsports Park Madison, Illinois
15 September 1 Grand Prix of Portland Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
16 September 2

Race results
Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 St. Petersburg 1 Oliver Askew Sting Ray Robb Parker Thompson Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
2 St. Petersburg 2 Rinus VeeKay Carlos Cunha Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
3 Birmingham 1 Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Exclusive Autosport
4 Birmingham 2 Parker Thompson David Malukas Harrison Scott Harrison Scott RP Motorsport
5 Indianapolis GP 1 Oliver Askew David Malukas Rinus VeeKay Harrison Scott RP Motorsport
6 Indianapolis GP 2 Oliver Askew Parker Thompson Carlos Cunha Parker Thompson Exclusive Autosport
7 Indianapolis Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Exclusive Autosport
8 Road America 1 David Malukas Toby Sowery David Malukas David Malukas BN Racing
9 Road America 2 David Malukas Parker Thompson David Malukas David Malukas BN Racing
10 Toronto 1 Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
11 Toronto 2 Rinus VeeKay Oliver Askew Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
12 Mid-Ohio 1 Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
13 Mid-Ohio 2 David Malukas Robert Megennis Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
14 Gateway Harrison Scott Parker Thompson Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Juncos Racing
15 Portland 1 Rinus VeeKay Rinus VeeKay Oliver Askew Oliver Askew Cape Motorsports
16 Portland 2 Rinus VeeKay Oliver Askew David Malukas David Malukas BN Racing

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 STP BAR IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH GMP POR Points
1 Rinus VeeKay 1 1* 5 4 3* 14 4 5 5 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 2 2 412
2 Parker Thompson 2* 5 1* 2 5 1 1* 4 4 8 8 5 6 6 3 5 345
3 Oliver Askew 5 6 7 12 2 4 6 9 8 4 2 6 3 5 1* 3 303
4 David Malukas 7 2 3 5 7 10 11 1* 1* 9 9 2 13 8 4 1* 293
5 Robert Megennis 3 16 14 6 14 8 3 8 10 12 3 3 2 2 5 7 269
6 Carlos Cunha 4 3 10 3 4 2* 2 6 6 2 10 4 12 252
7 Sting Ray Robb 6 4 9 10 13 3 5 11 9 11 7 9 4 9 6 6 231
8 Harrison Scott 9 12 2 1* 1 12 12 3 3 13 14 3 223
9 Nikita Lastochkin 8 7 11 11 6 9 9 12 11 5 4 11 8 11 7 4 209
10 Charles Finelli 13 15 15 DNS 11 7 10 14 13 6 6 14 11 10 143
11 Andrés Gutiérrez 14 8 4 7 12 5 10 7 10 12 12 DNS 137
12 Kris Wright 12 14 13 14 10 6 7 5 10 10 110
13 Antonio Serravalle 11 13 16 DNS 9 11 8 13 12 14 11 92
14 Lodovico Laurini 10 11 12 9 8 13 7 84
15 Moisés de la Vara 13 9 4 8 8 75
16 Toby Sowery 2 2 51
17 Raúl Guzmán 7 14 3 13 51
18 Mathias Soler-Obel 8 7 7 48
19 Rafael Martins 16 9 6 8 45
20 Felipe Drugovich 7 5 31
21 Kory Enders 8 13 21
22 James Raven 15 10 17
Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH GMP 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 leads most laps
Rookie

Teams' championship
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
Pos Team Points
1 Juncos Racing 477
2 Cape Motorsports 254
3 BN Racing 244
4 Exclusive Autosport 239
5 RP Motorsport 196
6 Team Pelfrey 167
7 Fatboy Racing 76
8 DEForce Racing 58

See also

References
  1. "Road to Indy middle step renamed Indy Pro 2000 Championship". Racer.com. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. December 12, 2018. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  2. "Mazda Road To Indy reveals all three 2018 schedules, altered points".
  3. "Toby Sowery Joins BN Racing's Pro Mazda Program". www.promazda.com. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  4. "My Mazda Road to Indy: BN Racing". promazda.com.
  5. "Mazda Scholarship Drivers Select Teams For 2018 Season". promazda.com.
  6. "Cape Motorsports Confirms Lastochkin Return". promazda.com.
  7. Crask, Andrew. "Thompson, Exclusive Autosport moving up to Pro Mazda". www.racer.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-03. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  8. "Carlos Cunha joins Juncos Racing 2018 Pro Mazda line-up – Juncos Racing". www.juncosracing.com.
  9. "VeeKay joins Juncos Racing for Pro Mazda title chase".
  10. "Juncos adds Megennis to potent Pro Mazda lineup for 2018".
  11. "RP Motorsport Racing lancia la sfida americana e approda nel Pro Mazda Championship - RP Motorsport Racing". RP Motorsport Racing (in Italian). 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  12. "Harrison Scott switches to Pro Mazda together with RP Motorsport". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  13. "Gutierrez Returns to Mazda Road to Indy with Team Pelfrey". mailchi.mp.
  14. "Robb Pairs with Team Pelfrey for 2018". www.promazda.com.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.