2014 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2014 U.S. F2000 National Championship was a season of the U.S. F2000 National Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that is the first step in IndyCar's Road to Indy ladder. It was the fifth full season of the series since its revival in 2010. The National Class merged with the Championship class in 2014, resulting in just one class of competition.[1]

2014 U.S. F2000 National Championship
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Frenchman Florian Latorre, driving for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing, won the championship by winning the final race of the season over Team E's R. C. Enerson. Enerson started the season on a hot streak, winning three of the first four races, before a cold streak ensued. Meanwhile Latorre had a steadily competitive season, only suffering one DNF in the penultimate race when he could have clinched the championship. Enerson won five races and finished on the podium in nine of the fourteen races. Meanwhile Latorre only won three times and only scored eight podium finishes, his comparative lack of poor finishes gave him the championship. Latorre's championship gives him a Mazda Road to Indy scholarship to participate in the Pro Mazda Championship in 2015.

Latorre's team mate Jake Eidson finished third in the championship, ten points back from Enerson in a season where he scored two wins. ArmsUp Motorsports' Aaron Telitz scored a single win and finished in fourth place. Afterburner Autosport's Victor Franzoni of Brazil captured the season opener but struggled thereafter, and ultimately fell to fifth in points. The series' first trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course resulted in two drivers scoring their first and only wins of the season. Will Owen employed an aggressive tire strategy to win the first race on a drying racetrack after a rainstorm and JAY Motorsports' highly touted rookie Adrian Starrantino won the second race in what was otherwise a lackluster season.

Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing captured their third straight teams' championship, mainly in part, to the performances of Latorre and Eidson.

Drivers and teams

All teams were American-registered.

Team No. Drivers Rounds
Afterburner Autosport 15 Gustavo Myasava[2] All
17 Victor Franzoni[2] All
18 Jeroen Slaghekke[2] 1-7
ArmsUp Motorsports 5 Aaron Telitz[2] All
16 James Dayson 8-14
24 Peter Portante[2] All
Belardi Auto Racing 4 Daniel Burkett[2] All
14 Florian Latorre[2] 1-7
44 Jeroen Slaghekke 8-14
41 Nico Jamin[2] 1-7
Pabst Racing Services 21 8-14
23 Will Owen[2] All
77 Austin Cindric[2] All
Team E 7 R. C. Enerson[2] All
Cape Motorsports
w/ Wayne Taylor Racing		 2 Jake Eidson[2] All
3 Keyvan Andres Soori[2] All
10 Florian Latorre 8-14
D2D Motorsports 61 Andrew List[2] All
GBI Racing 12 Tim Hollowell 5-6
Kyle O'Gara 7
JAY Motorsports 91 Adrian Starrantino[2] All
96 Henrik Furuseth[2] All
98 Colton Herta 3-14
JDC Motorsports 93 Garth Rickards 8-9
97 Clark Toppe[2] All
John Cummiskey Racing 33 Nathan Blok 5-6, 8-9
M2 Autosport 13 Juan Maldonado[2] All
79 Santiago Lozano[2] All

Team changes
  • 2010 and 2011 team champions Andretti Autosport announced that they would not field U.S. F2000 entries in 2014.[3]

Race calendar and results

The series schedule, along with the other Road to Indy series, was announced on October 24, 2013. Unlike previous seasons, all races are in support of the IndyCar Series except the race at Lucas Oil Raceway. All road and street course race weekends are double-headers.[4] The series will race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Barber Motorsports Park, and Sonoma Raceway for the first time in its history. 2014 will be the first season since its revival that will not begin at Sebring Raceway.

Rnd Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Winning driver Winning team
1 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida March 29 Victor Franzoni Victor Franzoni Victor Franzoni Victor Franzoni Afterburner Autosport
2 March 30 R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson Team E
3 Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama April 26 Florian Latorre R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson Team E
4 Aaron Telitz R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson Team E
5 Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana May 9 Florian Latorre Adrian Starrantino Jake Eidson Will Owen Pabst Racing Services
6 May 10 Colton Herta Victor Franzoni Adrian Starrantino JAY Motorsports
7 Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Clermont, Indiana May 24 Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Aaron Telitz Aaron Telitz ArmsUp Motorsports
8 Streets of Toronto Toronto July 20 Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Jake Eidson Cape Motorsports
9 Victor Franzoni R. C. Enerson Florian Latorre Cape Motorsports
10 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio August 1 Florian Latorre Florian Latorre R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson Team E
11 August 2 Jake Eidson R. C. Enerson Jake Eidson Cape Motorsports
12 August 3 Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Cape Motorsports
13 Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California August 22 Florian Latorre Peter Portante R. C. Enerson R. C. Enerson Team E
14 August 23 Florian Latorre R. C. Enerson Florian Latorre Cape Motorsports

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship
Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR TOR MOH SNM Points
1 Florian Latorre 7 3 2 5 4 2 6 2* 1 2 4 1* 21 1 310
2 R. C. Enerson 2 1* 1* 1* 7 10 16 3 17* 1* 8* 3 1* 2* 301
3 Jake Eidson 4 2 3 8 2* 9 9 1 2 4 1 8 3 3 291
4 Aaron Telitz 16 12 5 2 3 11 1* 6 3 7 2 7 2 4 246
5 Victor Franzoni 1* DSQ 13 3 15 3* 3 7 4 8 14 5 6 19 202
6 Peter Portante 13 15 12 6 6 7 7 4 19 3 15 2 4 17 173
7 Adrian Starrantino 6 4 7 13 17 1 11 8 21 21 7 21 10 6 157
8 Clark Toppe 15 5 10 11 13 4 5 11 5 12 17 16 12 7 156
9 Nico Jamin 3 14 6 10 9 19 10 20 6 11 5 9 9 8 154
10 Henrik Furuseth 8 13 8 9 21 5 13 18 20 5 3 10 8 5 149
11 Daniel Burkett 5 11 4 4 10 12 12 9 8 6 20 4 20 21 147
12 Will Owen 18 6 11 14 1 8 15 17 22 13 10 12 14 12 133
13 Jeroen Slaghekke 9 7 DSQ 12 16 15 4 19 9 9 19 11 5 10 130
14 Austin Cindric 11 10 9 17 8 21 2 15 18 18 6 6 13 20 125
15 Colton Herta 19 7 5 20 14 5 14 10 16 13 7 9 115
16 Keyvan Andres Soori 10 9 14 15 22 6 8 21 13 20 9 14 11 11 114
17 Andrew List 12 17 18 19 11 18 19 14 10 19 13 18 17 14 72
18 Gustavo Myasava DNS 16 17 20 19 14 17 10 15 14 11 17 16 15 68
19 Santiago Lozano 14 8 15 16 20 22 20 DNS DNS 15 21 15 15 13 61
20 Juan Maldonado 17 DNS 16 18 14 17 21 13 11 16 18 20 18 18 57
21 Nathan Blok 12 13 12 7 40
22 James Dayson DNS 12 17 12 19 19 16 31
23 Garth Rickards 16 16 10
24 Tim Hollowell 18 16 8
25 Kyle O'Gara 18 3
Felipe Donato DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR TOR MOH SNM 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

Teams' Championship
Pos Team Points
1 Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing 372
2 ArmsUp Motorsports 242
3 Team E Racing 232
4 JAY Motorsports 168
5 Belardi Auto Racing 141
6 Afterburner Autosport 135
7 Pabst Racing 115
8 JDC Motorsports 95
9 D2D Motorsports 56
10 M2 Autosport 37
11 John Cummiskey Racing 21
12 GBI Racing 12

References
  1. Portante and Dayson to race with ArmsUp Motorsports in 2014, Motorsport.com, December 31, 2013, Retrieved 2014-1-1
  2. "Peninsula Pipeline Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Entry List" (PDF). U.S. F2000 National Championship. IndyCar. March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  3. DiZinno, Tony. Andretti Autosport reveals IndyCar liveries, full 2014 plans, NBC Sports, January 13, 2014, Retrieved 2014-1-31
  4. Mazda Road to Indy 2014 Schedule Confirmed, Andsersen Promotions PR, October 24, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
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