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 U.S. F2000 National Championship
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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
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

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 Clermont, 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

Drivers'
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'
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
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References
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