2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship

The 2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship will be the 22nd season in series history. An 18-round schedule was announced on 12 September 2019, featuring six permanent road courses, two street circuits, and two ovals. Except for the two Indianapolis-area rounds, they are NTT IndyCar Series support races. The Indianapolis road course race is a Stand alone race due to the NASCAR Cup Series Big Machine 400 weekend is combined with the GMR Grand Prix weekend as a double header so that weekend is full, and the Lucas Oil Raceway round is a standalone Dave Steele Classic round. [1]

2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship
Previous: 2019 Next: 2021

RP Motorsport USA withdrew from the series this season because of travel restrictions due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.[2]

Drivers and teams
Team No. Drivers Rounds
Abel Motorsports 51 Jacob Abel 6
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport 17 Devlin DeFrancesco[3] 1–6
DEForce Racing 6 Moisés de la Vara[4] 1–6
7 Kory Enders 3–6
8 Manuel Sulaimán[5] 1–6
9 Parker Thompson[6] 1–6
Exclusive Autosport[7] 1 Braden Eves[8] 1–6
FatBoy Racing! 83 Charles Finelli[9] 1–6
Juncos Racing[7] 2 Sting Ray Robb[10] 1–6
42 Artem Petrov[11] 1–6
69 Nate Aranda[12] 1–6
Pabst Racing 18 Hunter McElrea[13] 1–6
19 Colin Kaminsky[14] 1–6
57 Bob Kaminsky 1–5
BN Racing w/ Team Benik 36 Jacob Loomis 1–5
37 Sabré Cook[15] 1–5
Turn 3 Motorsport[16] 3 Antoine Comeau[17] 1–6
68 Danial Frost[17] 1–6

Schedule
Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 July 9-10 Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Road America
Presented by Cooper Tires Honoring First Responders[18][19]		  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
2
3 July 29–30 Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio
Presented by Cooper Tires Honoring First Responders[20]		  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
4
5
6 August 22 Cooper Tires Freedom 90[21]  O  Lucas Oil Raceway Speedway, Indiana
7 August 29 TBA  O  Gateway Motorsports Park Madison, Illinois
8 September 3–4 TBA  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
9
10
11 October 9-11 TBA  R  New Jersey Motorsports Park Millville, New Jersey
12
13
14 October 23–25[22] TBA  R  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
15
Postponed Events
August 7–9 Surgere Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio[23]  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
References: [24][25]


Cancelled events
Date Race name Track City
April 25–26 Never announced  R  Circuit of the Americas Austin, Texas
July 10–12[26] Never announced  R  Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 11–13 Never announced  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
September 18–20 Never announced  R  WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California

Race results
Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 Road America 1 Devlin DeFrancesco Manuel Sulaimán Devlin DeFrancesco Danial Frost Turn 3 Motorsport
2 Road America 2 Manuel Sulaimán Braden Eves Artem Petrov Artem Petrov Juncos Racing
3 Mid-Ohio 1 Braden Eves Hunter McElrea Braden Eves Braden Eves Exclusive Autosport
4 Mid-Ohio 2 Braden Eves Jacob Loomis Artem Petrov Artem Petrov Juncos Racing
5 Mid-Ohio 3 Jacob Loomis Danial Frost Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
6 Carb Night Classic
7 Gateway
8 Indianapolis GP 1
9 Indianapolis GP 2
10 Indianapolis GP 3
11 New Jersey 1
12 New Jersey 2
13 New Jersey 3
14 St. Petersburg 1
15 St. Petersburg 2

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 ROA MOH MOH LOR GMP IMS NJMP STP Points
1 Devlin DeFrancesco 2* 4 7 2 3 107
2 Sting Ray Robb 5 2 10 3 1* 106
3 Danial Frost 1 3 2 8 11 101
4 Artem Petrov 13 1* 5 1* 8 100
5 Braden Eves 4 5 1* 9 9 94
6 Parker Thompson 14 16 3 4 4 72
7 Manuel Sulaimán 16 11 4 5 6 68
8 Hunter McElrea 15 15 8 6 2 66
9 Colin Kaminsky 3 6 6 15 16 63
10 Antoine Comeau 8 7 15 11 7 57
11 Moisés de la Vara 7 8 16 7 12 55
12 Nate Aranda 9 9 12 10 13 52
13 Sabré Cook 10 10 11 12 15 47
14 Bob Kaminsky 11 12 13 13 10 46
15 Jacob Loomis 6 14 9 16 DSQ 41
16 Charles Finelli 12 13 14 14 14 38
17 Kory Enders 17 17 5 25
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

See also

References
  1. Andersen Promotions (September 12, 2019). "Road to Indy: 2020 schedules announced". IndyCar.com. Brickyard Trademarks, Inc. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  2. Wood, Elliot (7 July 2020). "RP Motorsport to miss Indy Pro 2000 season due to coronavirus". formulascout.com.
  3. "ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT RETURNS TO ROAD TO INDY WITH STEINBRENNER RACING AND DEFRANCESCO". IndyPro2000.com. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. @DEForceRacing (December 5, 2019). "Also on our #IndyPro2000 line-up for the 2020 Season, @Moidlv 🇲🇽! ¡Vamos Moi, con todo!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. @DEForceRacing (January 24, 2020). "🚨 #FRIDAY News! Continuing with our 2020 Line-up, we're excited to welcome back @manuelsulaiman, to our @IndyPro2000 team! 💥 Let's get it, Manuel! 🏆🇲🇽" (Tweet). Retrieved January 24, 2020 – via Twitter.
  6. "THOMPSON JOINS DEFORCE RACING IN 2020". December 15, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  7. "Mix of New and Experienced Drivers set for Chris Griffis Road to Indy Test". IndyPro2000.com. Andersen Promotions. October 15, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  8. "SCHOLARSHIP WINNER EVES JOINS EXCLUSIVE AUTOSPORT FOR 2020". December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  9. "Indy Pro 2000 Current Drivers". Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  10. "Robb Returns to Juncos Racing for 2020". March 7, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  11. "ARTEM PETROV TO CONTEST 2020 WITH JUNCOS RACING". February 27, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  12. "ARANDA JOINS JUNCOS RACING DRIVER LINE UP". March 26, 2020.
  13. "MCELREA MOVES UP THE ROAD TO INDY LADDER WITH PABST RACING". March 7, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  14. "Kaminsky to Indy Pro 2000 with Pabst for 2020". IndyPro2000.com. Andersen Promotions. November 6, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  15. "SABRÉ COOK RETURNS TO ROAD TO INDY WITH TEAM BENIK IN INDY PRO 2000". February 18, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  16. "Ninth Annual Chris Griffis Memorial Mazda Road to Indy Open Test Entry List" (PDF).
  17. "TURN 3 MOTORSPORT CONFIRMS TEAM LINEUP FOR INDY PRO 2000 PROGRAM". June 30, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
  18. https://www.indypro2000.com/docs/default-source/results/indypro2000-race-results-r12f071212f48769988125ff0000a718d1.pdf?sfvrsn=22807b5b_0
  19. https://www.indypro2000.com/docs/default-source/results/indypro2000-race-results-r25d081212f48769988125ff0000a718d1.pdf?sfvrsn=5c8f7b5b_0
  20. https://www.usf2000.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2020-mid-ohio-schedule---b-v4.pdf?sfvrsn=c83ab031_0
  21. https://www.usf2000.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2020-lor-schedule-v1.pdf?sfvrsn=6839b031_0
  22. "Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg set for Oct. 25 as 2020 INDYCAR season finale". IndyCar.com. May 13, 2020.
  23. https://www.usf2000.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2020-mid-ohio-schedule-v1.pdf?sfvrsn=3f25b031_0
  24. "ROAD TO INDY ANNOUNCES REVISED 2020 SCHEDULE". March 26, 2020.
  25. https://www.usf2000.com/news/andersen-promotions-confirms-2020-usf2000-indy-pro-2000-schedules
  26. "Toronto City cancellations prompt IndyCar race postponement". racer.com. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
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