2025 USF2000 Championship

The 2025 USF2000 Championship presented by Continental Tire is the sixteenth season of the USF2000 Championship since its revival in 2010. The championship serves as the second rung of the IndyCar Series's USF Pro Championships ladder system.

2025 USF2000 Championship

Previous

2024

Next

2026

Parent series:
IndyCar Series
Indy NXT
USF Pro 2000 Championship
Support series:
USF Juniors

Series news

• The scholarship for the champion was decreased by over $50,000 to $405,050.^[1]
• The power output by the Elite Mazda engines on road and street circuits was increased, with a heightened rev limit resulting in a power increase of 20 horsepower at the top end.^[2]

Drivers and teams

All drivers compete using Tatuus USF-22 racecars with Elite Mazda 2.0-014A engines and Continental tires.^[3]

Team No. Driver(s) Status Round(s) Benchmark Autosport 58 Ayrton Houk[4] All DEForce Racing 11 Jeshua Alianell[5]  R  All 12 Sebastián Garzón[6]  R  All 18 Brady Golan[7] All TBA Maxwell Jamieson[8] TBA Exclusive Autosport 90 Evan Cooley[9]  R  All 91 Lucas Fecury[10] All 92 Jack Jeffers[11]  R  All Jay Howard Driver Development 6 Liam McNeilly[12]  R  All 7 Brad Majman[13]  R  All 8 Timothy Carel[14]  R  All 9 Anthony Martella[15]  R  All Pabst Racing 23 G3 Argyros[16]  R  All 24 Caleb Gafrarar[17]  R  All Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing 67 Wian Boshoff[18]  R  All Synergy Motorsport 30 Eddie Beswick[19]  R  All VRD Racing 2 Thomas Schrage[20] All 19 Christian Cameron[21]  R  All 25 Teddy Musella[22]  R  All 99 Ryan Giannetta[23]  R  1–2

Icon Status  R  Rookie

Team changes

Both DC Autosport and DD Autosports left the series - DD Autosports had entered the series in 2024, while DC Autosport had been competing since 2023.

Two new teams entered the series in Benchmark Autosport and Synergy Motorsport, both entering one car each.

Driver changes

Reigning Teams' Champions Pabst Racing have an all new driver-lineup after they promoted Drivers' Champion Max Garcia to their USF Pro 2000 lineup and both Hudson Schwartz and Sam Corry left the series.^[24] The team signed two drivers for their full-time debuts in G3 Argyros, who entered ten races in 2024 driving for Jay Howard Driver Development, and Caleb Gafrarar, who steps up from competition in the FF1600 United Formula Ford series.^[16][17]

Only one of Jay Howard Driver Development's six 2024 drivers remained with the team's USF2000 outfit as Evagoras Papasavvas made the jump up to Indy NXT for a part-time campaign with HMD Motorsports, G3 Argyros and Michael Costello both joined Pabst Racing in USF2000 and USFP2000, respectively, while Tanner DeFabis was promoted to JHDD's USFP2000 outfit and Jace Bacon left the series.^{[25][16][26][27]} Three new drivers joined JHDD for the 2025 season: Timothy Carel was promoted from the team's USF Juniors outfit, while Anthony Martella also graduated from the same series after driving there for Exclusive Autosport and Brad Majman stepped up from the Ligier JS F4 Series.^[13][14][15]

VRD Racing also only kept one of its 2024 drivers: Thomas Schrage, who drove for the team in the second half of the 2024 season, was resigned for a full-time campaign, while Max Taylor stepped up to VRD's USFP2000 outfit alongside a part-time Indy NXT campaign with HMD Motorsports and Xavier Kokai did not return after ending his rookie season prematurely.^[20][28][29] The team promoted Christian Cameron from its USF Juniors program and signed reigning Ligier JS F4 Series champion Teddy Musella as well as Skip Barber Formula competitor Ryan Giannetta.^[21][22][23]

DEForce Racing saw Lucas Fecury move to Exclusive Autosport, while Nicolas Giaffone left single-seater racing to compete in the Copa Truck and Qinn Armstrong left the series.^[10][30] Two drivers joined the team to make their USF2000 debut in Jeshua Alianell, who stepped up from USF Juniors, and Sebastian Garzón, who made his single-seater racing debut.^[5][6]

Three of Exclusive Racing's drivers joined other teams in the series: Eddie Beswick moved to new entrant Synergy Motorsport, Thomas Schrage chose to remain at VRD where he also finished his 2024 campaign and Anthony Martella was hired by JHDD.^[19][20][15] 2024 Rookie of the Year Joey Brienza meanwhile stepped up to the team's USFP2000 outfit, while Giovanni Cabrera left the series.^[31] Exclusive Racing rehired two of their part-time drivers in 2024 to full-time campaigns in Jack Jeffers and Evan Cooley and signed Lucas Fecury, who departs DEForce Racing, to drive its third entry.^[11][9][10]

Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing saw Elliot Cox graduate to USFP2000 and join Turn 3 Motorsport.^[32] The team hired single-seater rookie Wian Boshoff to replace him.^[18]

With DC Autosport and DD Autosport departing the series, Carson Etter and Cole Kleck also left the series while new team Benchmark Autosport signed DC Autosport's Ayrton Houk.^[4] The other new team, Synergy Motorsport, signed 2024 Australian Formula Ford Series champion Eddie Beswick, who had also entered two USF2000 races in 2024 for Exclusive Racing.^[19]

Schedule

The 2025 schedule was revealed on September 17, 2024. The championship will visit the same eight circuits as it did in 2024: two street circuits, five road courses and one oval.^[33] All rounds except the weekends at NOLA and Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park will run in support of the IndyCar Series.^[1]

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	February 28–March 2	Foundation Building Materials Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	R  Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida
2
3	April 11–13	Continental Tire Grand Prix of Louisiana	R  NOLA Motorsports Park	Avondale, Louisiana
4
5
6	May 8–10	TBA	R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Speedway, Indiana
7
8	May 22–23	TBA	O  Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park	Brownsburg, Indiana
9	June 19–22	TBA	R  Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
10
11	July 3–6	TBA	R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
12
13
14	July 18–20	TBA	R  Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario
15
16	August 7–10	TBA	R  Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
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Race results

Rd.	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race winner
					Driver	Team
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	Caleb Gafrarar	Liam McNeilly	Liam McNeilly	Liam McNeilly	Jay Howard Driver Development
2		Liam McNeilly	Jack Jeffers	Liam McNeilly	Liam McNeilly	Jay Howard Driver Development
3	NOLA Motorsports Park
4
5
6	Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course
7
8	Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
9	Road America
10
11	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
12
13
14	Exhibition Place
15
16	Portland International Raceway
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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 STP NOLA IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR Points 1 Liam McNeilly 1* 1* 64 2 Jack Jeffers 2 2 51 3 Jeshua Alianell 3 9 34 4 Evan Cooley 4 6 34 5 Sebastián Garzón 11 4 29 6 G3 Argyros 5 10 28 7 Caleb Gafrarar 18 3 26 8 Thomas Schrage 12 7 23 9 Anthony Martella 6 15 21 10 Christian Cameron 8 14 20 11 Teddy Musella 14 8 20 12 Ayrton Houk 9 13 20 13 Brad Majman 19 5 19 14 Lucas Fecury 7 18 17 15 Brady Golan 13 12 17 16 Timothy Carel 15 11 16 17 Eddie Beswick 10 19 13 18 Ryan Giannetta 16 16 10 19 Wian Boshoff 17 17 8 Pos. Driver STP NOLA IMS IRP ROA MOH TOR POR 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 led most laps Rookie

Teams' championship

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th+
Points	22	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

• Single car teams receive 3 bonus points as an equivalency to multi-car teams.
• Only the best two results count for teams fielding more than two entries.

Pos.	Driver	STP		NOLA			IMS		IRP	ROA		MOH			TOR		POR			Points
1	Jay Howard Driver Development	1	1																	62
		6	5
2	Exclusive Autosport	2	2																	56
		4	6
3	DEForce Racing	3	4																	30
		10	9
4	Pabst Racing	5	3																	27
		13	10
5	VRD Racing	7	7																	17
		11	8
6	Benchmark Autosport	8	11																	11
7	Synergy Motorsport	9	13																	9
8	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	12	12																	8
Pos.	Driver	STP		NOLA			IMS		IRP	ROA		MOH			TOR		POR			Points

See also

• 2025 IndyCar Series
• 2025 Indy NXT
• 2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship
• 2025 USF Juniors