2018 Pro Mazda Championship

2018 Pro Mazda Championship

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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.

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

• 2018 IndyCar Series
• 2018 Indy Lights
• 2018 U.S. F2000 National Championship

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". October 17, 2017.
3. "Toby Sowery Joins BN Racing's Pro Mazda Program". www.promazda.com. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
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 February 3, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
8. "Carlos Cunha joins Juncos Racing 2018 Pro Mazda line-up – Juncos Racing". www.juncosracing.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
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). December 14, 2017. Archived from the original on December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
12. "Harrison Scott switches to Pro Mazda together with RP Motorsport". Formula Scout. February 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
13. "Gutierrez Returns to Mazda Road to Indy with Team Pelfrey". mailchi.mp.
14. "Robb Pairs with Team Pelfrey for 2018". www.promazda.com.

External links

• Pro Mazda Championship official website