2021 USF2000 Championship

The 2021 USF2000 Championship was the twelfth season of the USF2000 Championship since its revival in 2010. The championship serves as the first rung of the IndyCar Series's Road to Indy ladder system. An 18 race schedule was announced on October 21, 2020, featuring five permanent road courses, two street circuits, and a single oval in the Dave Steele Classic.^[1]

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Cape Motorsports	2	Thomas Nepveu^[2]	All
	3	Evan Stamer^[3]	All
	4	Michael d'Orlando^[4]	All
	5	Spike Kohlbecker^[3]	All
DEForce Racing	1	Ely Navarro^[5]	All
	10	Nolan Siegel^[5]	All
	11	Prescott Campbell^[5]	All
	12	Kiko Porto^[5]	All
Exclusive Autosport	44	Christian Brooks^[6]	1–16
	90	Grant Palmer^[7]	1–7
	91	Billy Frazer^[8]	All
	92	Matthew Round-Garrido^[9]	1−13
Force Indy^[10]	99	Myles Rowe^[11]	All
Jay Howard Driver Development	6	Bijoy Garg^[8]	All
	7	Chase Hyland	11–13
	8	Jackson Lee^[12]	1−13, 17–18
	9	Peter Vodanovich^[13]	1–16
Joe Dooling Autosports	63	Trey Burke^[14]	All
Michael Myers Racing	42	Michael Myers	3−18
Miller Vinatieri Motorsports	16	Kent Vaccaro^[15]	All
Legacy Autosport	19	Andre Castro^[9]	1–4, 17–18
		Simon Sikes	5–7, 9–13
		Nathan Byrd^[16]	8
	20	Nathan Byrd^[16]	11–16
	20	Simon Sikes^[9]	1–2
Pabst Racing	22	Yuven Sundaramoorthy^[17]	All
	23	Jace Denmark^[18]	All
	24	Josh Pierson^[5]	All
Turn 3 Motorsport	32	Christian Weir	11–18
	33	Josh Green^[19]	All
	34	Dylan Christie^[19]	All
Velocity Racing Development	29	Erik Evans^[5]	1–7, 9–13

Schedule

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	April 17–18	Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of Barber Motorsports Park	R Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
2	April 17–18	Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of Barber Motorsports Park	R Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
3	April 24–25	USF2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Andersen RacePark	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
4	April 24–25	USF2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Andersen Interior Contracting	R Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
5	May 14–15	USF2000 Grand Prix of Indianapolis Presented by Cooper Tires	R Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
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8	May 29*	Cooper Tires Freedom 75	O Lucas Oil Raceway	Brownsburg, Indiana
9	June 19–20	Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Grand Prix of Road America	R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10	June 19–20		R Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
11	July 3–4	Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
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14	August 28–29	Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix	R New Jersey Motorsports Park	Millville, New Jersey
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17	October 3–4	VP Racing Fuels Champhionship Weekend Presented By Cooper Tires	R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
18	October 3–4		R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
References:^[20]

* The race at Lucas Oil Raceway was originally scheduled for May 28, but was postponed due to inclement weather. The October Mid-Ohio race replaced Toronto.

Race results

Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
Round	Race	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Driver	Team
1	Birmingham 1	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Nolan Siegel	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Pabst Racing
2	Birmingham 2	Nolan Siegel	Peter Vodanovich	Prescott Campbell	Prescott Campbell	DEForce Racing
3	St. Petersburg 1	Christian Brooks	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Christian Brooks	Christian Brooks	Exclusive Autosport
4	St. Petersburg 2	Kiko Porto	Christian Brooks	Kiko Porto	Christian Brooks	Exclusive Autosport
5	Indianapolis GP 1	Christian Brooks	Nolan Siegel	Christian Brooks	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Pabst Racing
6	Indianapolis GP 2	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Pabst Racing
7	Indianapolis GP 3	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Kiko Porto	Kiko Porto	DEForce Racing
8	Lucas Oil	Michael d'Orlando	Prescott Campbell	Michael d'Orlando	Michael d'Orlando	Cape Motorsports
9	Road America 1	Kiko Porto	Michael d'Orlando	Kiko Porto	Kiko Porto	DEForce Racing
10	Road America 2	Kiko Porto	Simon Sikes	Thomas Nepveu	Thomas Nepveu	Cape Motorsports
11	Mid-Ohio 1	Kiko Porto	Michael d'Orlando	Kiko Porto	Michael d'Orlando	Cape Motorsports
12	Mid-Ohio 2	Kiko Porto	Jackson Lee	Kiko Porto	Kiko Porto	DEForce Racing
13	Mid-Ohio 3	Kiko Porto	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Michael d'Orlando	Michael d'Orlando	Cape Motorsports
14	New Jersey 1	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Kiko Porto	Kiko Porto	Kiko Porto	DEForce Racing
15	New Jersey 2	Michael d'Orlando	Christian Weir	Kiko Porto	Myles Rowe	Force Indy
16	New Jersey 3	Michael d'Orlando	Billy Frazer	Nolan Siegel	Nolan Siegel	DEForce Racing
17	Mid-Ohio 4	Michael d'Orlando	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	Pabst Racing
18	Mid-Ohio 5	Michael d'Orlando	Kiko Porto	Josh Green	Josh Green	Turn 3 Motorsport

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	3	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	ALA		STP		IMS			LOR	ROA		MOH			NJMP			MOH		Points
1	Kiko Porto	10	4	5	2*	7	3	1*	4	1*	5	2*	1*	5	1*	2*	8	3	3	413
2	Michael d'Orlando	4	9	20	3	2	4	4	1*	2	22	1	2	1*	5	18	4	2	4	365
3	Yuven Sundaramoorthy	1*	10	3	24	1	1*	3	6	8	6	10	14	3	2	20	3	1*	19	329
4	Josh Pierson	3	3	7	10	4	2	2	8	9	3	8	12	11	6	11	5	11	6	291
5	Josh Green	9	7	18	5	5	6	8	7	10	4	9	10	21	4	4	2	4	1*	279
6	Christian Brooks	5	5	1*	1	3*	5	DSQ	5	5	20	11	8	6	3	10	17			257
7	Spike Kohlbecker	7	11	6	6	6	7	7	11	3	8	14	11	10	10	7	11	10	7	235
8	Nolan Siegel	11	2	26	21	23	24	14	9	4	23	5	6	19	8	3	1*	6	2	227
9	Thomas Nepveu	13	8	11	7	9	8	5	15	11	1*	13	5	9	16	13	15	7	8	220
10	Prescott Campbell	2	1*	16	9	22	9	6	2	12	24	27	13	27	11	6	9	21	5	215
11	Jace Denmark	8	12	15	11	10	20	15	3	6	7	7	9	7	7	5	7	20	15	210
12	Billy Frazer	6	13	4	12	12	16	12	13	25	13	4	7	15	9	12	10	8	9	192
13	Myles Rowe	24	6	8	23	21	10	23	12	20	10	28	16	28	13	1	16	5	21	137
14	Simon Sikes	16	17			11	14	21		7	2	3	3	2						136
15	Dylan Christie	21	20	9	13	8	11	24	10	15	9	20	25	26	15	14	13	12	14	121
16	Matthew Round-Garrido	25	22	2	4	25	12	20	24	13	19	12	4	4						116
17	Ely Navarro	18	18	13	16	15	18	13	14	19	14	19	18	17	14	8	12	13	18	105
18	Jackson Lee	12	14	14	18	26	DNS	9	18	23	18	18	26	13				18	12	73
19	Evan Stamer	19	21	23	20	17	23	19	16	18	11	16	15	24	18	16	20	22	11	65
20	Peter Vodanovich	23	23	21	15	19	15	16	23	16	15	15	28	8	17	19	22			63
21	Christian Weir											17	19	20	12	9	6	9	20	57
22	Erik Evans	15	16	22	14	16	13	10		22	25	25	21	14						54
23	Trey Burke	20	26	24	19	18	21	18	22	17	17	22	17	25	23	15	14	17	13	54
24	Kent Vaccaro	17	25	25	DNS	20	19	17	17	24	16	21	22	16	19	21	18	16	16	48
25	Andre Castro	22	19	10	8													14	10	45
26	Michael Myers			17	22	13	DNS	11	19	21	21	24	20	12	21	23	21	19	22	45
27	Bijoy Garg	DSQ	25	19	DNS	24	22	25	20	14	12	6	27	18	20†	22†	19†	15†	17†	43
28	Grant Palmer	14	15	12	17	14	17	22												38
29	Nathan Byrd								21			23	24	22	22	17	23			11
30	Chase Hyland											26	23	23						3

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

† Bijoy Garg was not eligible for points at the New Jersey Motorsports Park and the second Mid-Ohio rounds for exceeding the maximum allotted test days for championship drivers.

References

External links

USF2000 official website

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