The 2015 Pro Mazda Championship was the 17th season in series history. The series consisted of sixteen races at nine tracks, having expanded from fourteen races in 2014; adding races at NOLA Motorsports Park, the Streets of Toronto, Iowa Speedway and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, while dropping races at Houston, Milwaukee and Sonoma Raceway. The season began on March 28 at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and ended on September 13 at Laguna Seca.

Uruguay's Santiago Urrutia became the first champion from South America since Raphael Matos in 2005, driving for Team Pelfrey. Urrutia, who joined the series for the 2015 season after a year in GP3, won only three races during the season – at NOLA Motorsports Park, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Mid-Ohio – but consistent finishing (finishing 14 of 16 races in the top-5) saw him finish 53 points clear of his nearest rival in the championship standings. Second place in the standings went to Cape Motorsports driver Neil Alberico, holding off a late-season challenge from Juncos Racing's Garett Grist for the position, by a tally of eight points. Alberico won four races during the season – which was the most by any driver, shared with Andretti Autosport's Weiron Tan – while Grist won three of the final six races including a weekend sweep at Laguna Seca.

Tan himself finished fourth in the championship, as five finishes outside the top ten as well as a five-point penalty early in the season hampered his championship bid. The championship top five was completed by France's Timothé Buret of Juncos Racing, one point behind Tan, who was a race-winner at Indianapolis. The only other race winner was Florian Latorre, a compatriot of Buret, who won on the Streets of Toronto for Cape Motorsports. He finished eighth in the drivers' championship, due to the result being one of only three podium finishes during the season. In the teams' championship, Juncos Racing won the title mainly due to the results for Grist and Buret, with other team drivers José Gutiérrez and Will Owen. Juncos finished 39 points clear of Team Pelfrey. The expert drivers' championship for older drivers was won by World Speed Motorsports driver Bobby Eberle, taking 11 class wins during 2015.

Drivers and teams TeamDriversRounds Andretti Autosport22 Weiron TanAll28 Dalton KellettAll Cape Motorsports Wayne Taylor Racing2 Daniel BurkettAll3 Neil AlbericoAll10 Florian LatorreAllJDC MotorSports19 Raoul Owens1–5 Scott Hargrove6–8 26 Parker Nicklin1–8, 15–16 44 Kevin Davis (E)6–8 54 Michael Johnson1–2, 13–1691 Kyle Connery1–8, 10–11, 13–16 Juncos Racing 5 Garett GristAll 6 Timothé BuretAll 7 José GutiérrezAll 23 Will OwenAllKaminsky Racing 57 Bob Kaminsky (E)6–8, 13–14M1 Racing 21 Victor Franzoni6–11, 13–16 33 Carlos Conde (E)6–8 37 Jay Horak (E)1–2, 4–8, 10–11, 15–16 62 Bryson Schutte10–11 Team Pelfrey 80 Raoul Owens6–16 81 Santiago UrrutiaAll 82 Patricio O'WardAll World Speed Motorsports 13 Bobby Eberle (E)1–11, 13–16 14 Alessandro LatifAll Icon Class (E) Expert Class

Race calendar and results

Rnd Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Winning driver Winning team 1 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida March 28 Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Cape Motorsports WTR 2 March 29 Neil Alberico José Gutiérrez Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Cape Motorsports WTR 3 NOLA Motorsports Park New Orleans, Louisiana April 11 Weiron Tan Patricio O'Ward Santiago Urrutia Santiago Urrutia Team Pelfrey – April 12 Weiron Tan Race cancelled 4 Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama April 25 Weiron Tan Timothé Buret Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Andretti Autosport 5 April 26 Weiron Tan Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Cape Motorsports WTR 6 Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana May 7 Weiron Tan Timothé Buret Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Andretti Autosport 7 May 8 Timothé Buret Weiron Tan Timothé Buret Timothé Buret Juncos Racing 8 May 9 Santiago Urrutia Victor Franzoni Santiago Urrutia Santiago Urrutia Team Pelfrey 9 Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Clermont, Indiana May 23 Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Andretti Autosport 10 Streets of Toronto Toronto, Ontario June 13 Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Florian Latorre Cape Motorsports WTR 11 June 14 Garett Grist Garett Grist Garett Grist Garett Grist Juncos Racing 12 Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa July 18 Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Weiron Tan Andretti Autosport 13 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio August 1 Garett Grist Neil Alberico Santiago Urrutia Santiago Urrutia Team Pelfrey 14 August 2 Garett Grist Garett Grist Neil Alberico Neil Alberico Cape Motorsports WTR 15 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California September 12 Garett Grist Garett Grist Garett Grist Garett Grist Juncos Racing 16 September 13 Santiago Urrutia Garett Grist Garett Grist Garett Grist Juncos Racing

Championship standings

Drivers' championship Pos Driver STP LOU ALA IMS LOR TOR IOW MOH LAG Pts 1 Santiago Urrutia 2 4 1* C 3 2 4 3 1* 15 7 4 5 1* 3 2 2 355 2 Neil Alberico 1* 1* 6 C 4 1* 3 17 7 3 14 17 7 2 1* 16 3 302 3 Garett Grist 11 6 11 C 7 3 5 6 8 4 5 1* 11 4 9 1* 1* 294 4 Weiron Tan 16 15 2 C 1* 14 1* 4 21 1* 13 2 1* 6 7 5 9 5 Timothé Buret 17 13 3 C 2 8 2 1* 3 12 3 7 9 3 2 11 7 281 6 Patricio O'Ward 4 14 4 C 5 7 6 10 5 7 2 3 3 7 6 18 6 250 7 Will Owen 8 8 13 C 9 4 8 8 2 2 15 8 10 8 5 3 4 243 8 Florian Latorre 3 16 5 C 8 5 21 2 6 8 1* 14 8 5 17 8 18 222 9 José Gutiérrez 5 2 8 C 16 16 12 7 4 5 16 5 6 12 10 4 8 216 10 Dalton Kellett 7 7 7 C 15 6 11 13 11 13 17 DNS 2 9 8 6 5 187 11 Daniel Burkett 14 3 9 C 10 10 9 9 10 9 18 9 4 11 12 9 11 12 Raoul Owens 6 10 12 C 6 11 18 11 12 14 8 6 12 13 13 7 16 166 13 Alessandro Latif 9 17 10 C 12 12 13 14 14 10 9 13 13 14 11 12 15 140 14 Kyle Connery 10 5 14 C 17 9 20 15 13 6 10 18 14 17 10 122 15 Bobby Eberle 13 12 16 C 14 15 14 18 17 11 11 15 16 16 14 14 101 16 Victor Franzoni 10 5 19 6 4 16 10 4 19 DNS 91 17 Parker Nicklin 12 11 15 C 11 13 19 16 15 13 12 78 18 Jay Horak 15 9 13 17 Wth Wth Wth 12 12 15 17 58 19 Michael Johnson Wth Wth 15 15 10 13 31 20 Scott Hargrove 7 12 9 21 21 Bryson Schutte 10 11 21 22 Bob Kaminsky 15 19 18 17 18 12 23 Kevin Davis 16 20 16 6 24 Carlos Conde 17 21 20 2 Pos Driver STP LOU ALA IMS LOR TOR IOW MOH LAG Pts 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 notparticipate(DNP) Not competingIn-line notationBoldPole position(1 point)ItalicsRan fastest race lap(1 point)*Led most race laps(1 point)1Qualifying cancelledno bonus point awardedRookie Ties in points broken by number of wins, or best finishes. The first race at the Indianapolis road course was a makeup for the canceled race at NOLA. Drivers who were not at NOLA were ineligible to score points in that race.

Teams' championship PosTeamPoints 1Juncos Racing426 2Team Pelfrey387 3Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing352 4Andretti Autosport257 5M1 Racing88 6JDC MotorSports84 7World Speed Motorsports46 8Kaminsky Racing16

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