Jake Eidson

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Jake Eidson
Nationality Flag of the United States.svg American
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australian
Born (1995-05-24) May 24, 1995 (age 28)
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Previous series
2013-2015
2013
2011-2013
2011
2010-2011
USF2000
F1600 Championship Series
Formula Skip Barber
New South Wales Formula Ford 1600
Karting
Championship titles
2013
2012-2013
2012
F1600 Championship Series
Skip Barber Winter Series
Skip Barber Summer Series
Awards
2013 Team USA Scholarship

Jake Eidson (born 24 May 1995) is an American Australian racing driver. Eidson is a triple Formula Skip Barber championship winner and won the 2013 F1600 Championship Series season.

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Career

Eidson started his racing career in karts. The young driver won the 2010 Rocky Mountain Challenge in the TAG Jr. class running with the Superkarts! USA organisation. In 2011 Eidson ran four races in the New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 championship. The American Australian drove a Van Diemen RF91 and scored one podium finish. [1]

In 2012, Eidson made the switch to single-seater racing in the United States of America. The young driver competed in the Skip Barber F2000 Series racing a Mazda powered Reynard R/T 2000. Eidson was highly successful. The Colorado native won the Winter Series, Summer Series and the subsequent Winter Series championships. [2] The following year Eidson joined Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing for their F1600 Championship Series campaign. At the beginning of the season, the young driver competed in the USF2000 Winterfest and the first two rounds of the main championship in Florida. Eidson dominated the F1600 season in the Honda L15A7 powered Spectrum 012 winning seven out of twelve races.

For his good results Eidson was awarded a place in Team USA Scholarship, to compete at the Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy in England. At the Formula Ford Festival, the team competed in the highly competitive Kent class. Eidson won one of the qualifying rounds. In the main event, the Team USA Scholarship driver finished fifth outscoring his teammate Joey Bickers. At the Walter Hayes Trophy Eidson finished both qualifying rounds in second place which granted him the second starting position for the main event. Scott Malvern won the race while Eidson finished in seventh position.

2014 was his first full season in the USF2000. Again competing for Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing Eidson won two races. Eidson was placed third in the championship standings behind Team E Racing's RC Enerson and Cape Motorsports teammate Florian Latorre.

U.S. F2000 National Championship

YearTeam12345678910111213141516RankPoints
2013 Afterburner Autosport SEB
6
SEB
24
STP
12
STP
23
LOR
TOR
TOR
MDO
MDO
MDO
LAG
LAG
HOU
HOU
26th26
2014 Cape Motorsports
Wayne Taylor Racing
STP
4
STP
2
BAR
3
BAR
8
IMS
2
IMS
9
LOR
9
TOR
1
TOR
2
MDO
4
MDO
1
MDO
8
SNM
3
SNM
3
3rd291
2015 Pabst Racing Services STP
1
STP
1
NOL
3
NOL
3
BAR
3
BAR
3
IMS
2
IMS
12
LOR
1
TOR
1
TOR
2
MDO
4
MDO
2
MDO
3
LAG
3
LAG
3
2nd385

Pro Mazda Championship

YearTeam12345678910111213141516RankPoints
2016 Cape Motorsports
Wayne Taylor Racing
STP
3
STP
7
ALA
8
ALA
6
IMS
6
IMS
7
LOR
8
ROA
ROA
TOR
TOR
MOH
MOH
LAG
LAG
LAG
9th106

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References

  1. "New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 Championship 2011 standings". DriverDB.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. "About Jake". jacobeidsonracing.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.