2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2010 Cooper Tires presents the U.S. F2000 National Championship powered by Mazda is the first U.S. F2000 National Championship season under the new management, sanctioned by the Indy Racing League. All cars will run Mazda MZR engines built by former driver Steve Knapp.

2010 champion Sage Karam

With victory in the first race at the final round at Road Atlanta, Sage Karam won the championship and a fully funded seat in the 2011 Star Mazda Championship.

Drivers and teams

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Team No Drivers Notes
  Cape Motorsports
w/ Wayne Taylor Racing
2   Patrick McKenna[1]
3   Josh Fielding[2] St. Pete to ORP only
18   Javier Barrales Road Atlanta only
  JDC MotorSports 5   Luke Ellery[3] Road Atlanta only
10   Mikhail Goikhberg[4]
11   Raphael Abbate[4]
19   Martin Sala[4] Skipped ORP, Iowa, Road America, & Road Atlanta
  Pabst Racing Services 6   Martin Scuncio[5] St. Pete only
  Tõnis Kasemets Autobahn & Road America only
9   J. R. Smart[5] Skipped ORP and New Jersey
  Andretti Autosport 7   Zach Veach[6] Beginning at Laguna Seca
8   Sage Karam[7]
  Liberty Motorsports[8] 14   Terrick Mansur[9] St. Pete to Iowa only
  Félix Serrallés[10] Road America & Road Atlanta only
41   Matthew Powers[11] St. Pete, Autobahn, Road America, & Road Atlanta
  Brian Belardi Iowa only
  Fuerza Chile Motorsports 18   Javier Barrales Beginning at ORP, changed teams for Road Atlanta
99   Martin Scuncio Beginning at ORP, skipped Road Atlanta
  ZSports Midwest 20   Benjamin Searcy[12] St. Pete only
  David Cheng Road America only
21   Scott Anderson[13] Road America only
  AcceleRace MotorSports 28   Ardie Greenamyer[5]
  ArmsUp MotorSports 31   Joe Tovo ORP only
  AIM Autosport 77   Anthony Furfari[14] St. Pete only

Race calendar and results

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The schedule was announced on November 24, 2009.[15] All championship rounds will be supporting the Star Mazda Championship. An exhibition meeting with two non-championship rounds will also be held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca over May 22–23, in support of the American Le Mans Series.[16]

Rnd Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Winning driver Winning team Supporting
1 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida March 27   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport IndyCar
2 March 28   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport
NC Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca1 Monterey, California May 23   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Mikhail Goikhberg   Scott Rarick   PR1 Motorsports ALMS
  Sage Karam   Mikhail Goikhberg   Sage Karam   Mikhail Goikhberg   JDC Motorsports
3 O'Reilly Raceway Park Brownsburg, Indiana May 29   Patrick McKenna   Mikhail Goikhberg   Sage Karam   Patrick McKenna   Cape Motorsports USAC Midgets
4 Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa June 19   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport IndyCar
5 New Jersey Motorsports Park Millville, New Jersey June 26   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport Star Mazda
6 June 27   Sage Karam   Mikhail Goikhberg   Patrick McKenna   Patrick McKenna   Cape Motorsports
7 Autobahn Country Club Joliet, Illinois July 31   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Tõnis Kasemets   Tõnis Kasemets   Pabst Racing Services Star Mazda
8 August 1   Sage Karam   Patrick McKenna   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport
9 Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin August 21   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport ALMS
10 August 22   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport
11 Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia September 30   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport ALMS
12 October 1   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Sage Karam   Andretti Autosport

1Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca round was a non-points event run in conjunction with the Pacific F2000 Championship.

Championship standings

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Drivers'

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Pos Driver STP ORP IOW NJ ACC ROA ATL Points
Championship Class
1   Sage Karam 1* 1* 2* 1* 1* 9 2 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 351
2   Patrick McKenna 2 3 1 6 2 1* 3 2 4 7 3 5 269
3   Mikhail Goikhberg 8 7 3 3 3 2 10 11 2 2 9 11 194
4   Raphael Abbate 6 11 8 2 7 3 5 8 5 5 8 6 192
5   Zach Veach 4 5 4 5 7 6 3 3 2 4 189
6   Martin Scuncio 4 12 5 4 5 6 12 5 13 9 119
7   Javier Barrales 7 8 8 7 8 7 6 14 11 7 112
8   Matthew Powers 12 9 4 4 14 6 5 10 97
9   Martin Sala 5 13 6 4 6 9 DNS DNS 79
10   Terrick Mansur 3 4 6 10 57
11   Josh Fielding 7 2 11 40
12   Anthony Furfari 9 6 27
13   Benjamin Searcy 13 5 18
National Class
1   Ardie Greenamyer 9 7 9 8 9 10 12 12 6 9 208
2   J. R. Smart 11 10 9 11 DNS 11 11 7 8 164
3   Joe Tovo 10 1
4   Brian Belardi 11 1
Unregistered drivers
  Tõnis Kasemets 1* 3 7 4 0
  Félix Serrallés 9 8 4 2 0
  Luke Ellery 10 3 0
  Ardie Greenamyer1 10 8 0
  David Cheng 8 10 0
  Scott Anderson 10 13 0
Pos Driver STP ORP IOW NJ ACC ROA ATL 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
(DNP)
Not competing
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
(1 point)
Italics Ran fastest race lap
(1 point)
* Led most race laps
(1 point)

1Ardie Greenamyer switched from Championship to National class at ORP and was subsequently not shown in Championship class standings published by the league.

Teams'

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Pos Team STP ORP IOW NJ ACC ROA ATL Points
1   Andretti Autosport 1 1 2 1 1 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 358
4 5 4 9 7 6 3 3 2 4
2   JDC MotorSports 5 7 3 2 3 2 5 8 2 2 8 3 245
6 11 8 3 6 3 6 9 5 5 9 6
3   Cape Motorsports 2 2 1 6 2 1 3 2 4 7 3 5 235
7 3 11 11 7
4   Liberty Motorsports 3 4 6 10 4 4 10 6 4 2 120
12 9 11 14 8 5 10
5   Pabst Racing Services 4 12 9 1 3 7 4 7 8 81
11 11 11
6   Fuerza Chile Motorsports 5 4 5 6 8 5 6 9 66
7 8 8 7 12 7 13 14
7   AcceleRace Motorsports 10 8 7 9 8 9 10 12 12 6 9 39
8   AIM Autosport 9 6 14
Pos Team STP ORP IOW NJ ACC ROA ATL Points

References

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