The 2019 Indy Pro 2000 championship presented by Cooper Tires was the 21st season in series history. A 16-race schedule was announced on 25 September 2018, featuring five permanent road circuits and two street circuits on the NTT IndyCar Series hosting doubleheaders, and single races at the Dave Steele Classic and World Wide Technology Raceway, a flat intermediate oval. Following the departure of Mazda from the Road to Indy program, it was the first championship run under the new "Indy Pro 2000" name instead of the previous "Pro Mazda Championship."
American Kyle Kirkwood of RP Motorsport won nine of the sixteen races yet still found himself in a close fight for the championship with Swedish driver Rasmus Lindh of Juncos Racing. Lindh won only three times, but fifth or better in every race and only finished off the podium three times. Kirkwood only needed to start the final race to clinch the championship and was knocked out by an incident on the first lap of the final race, leaving the final points margin of victory a scant two points. Canadian Parker Thompson of Abel Motorsports won the opening doubleheader of the season but not again for the rest of the season and finished third in points, well back of Kirkwood and Lindh. Sting Ray Robb captured two poles but was winless and finished fourth in points while Singaporean driver Danial Frost won twice and finished fifth, rounding out the season's winners.
Juncos edged out RP for the Teams' championship by a significant margin despite Lindh losing out on the championship on the back of Robb's strong performance in their second car. RP's second car was piloted by three different drivers who tallied only two podium finishes between them.
Drivers and teams Team Drivers Rounds Abel Motorsports 8 Parker Thompson All 51 Jacob Abel 1–5, 8–16 DEForce Racing 6 Moisés de la Vara All 7 Kory Enders All Exclusive Autosport 68 Danial Frost All 90 Nikita Lastochkin All91 Parker Locke 1–2 Phillippe Denes 15–16 FatBoy Racing! 83 Charles Finelli 1–12, 15–16 98 Phillippe Denes 1–11 BN RacingJay Howard Driver Development27 Matthew Round-Garrido13–16 JDL Racing 9 Jacob Loomis 3–4, 6–7 Juncos Racing 2 Sting Ray Robb All 10 Rasmus Lindh All Pserra RacingJay Howard Driver Development 11 Antonio Serravalle 1–11Pserra RacingRP Motorsport Racing13–16 RP Motorsport Racing 5 Damiano Fioravanti 1–2 Ian Rodríguez 3–4, 6–11 Artem Petrov 12–16 28 Kyle Kirkwood All Turn 3 Motorsport 3 Antoine Comeau 10–16
Schedule
Rd. Date Race name Track Location 1 March 9 St. Petersburg 100 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida 2 March 10 3 May 10 Grand Prix of IndianapolisIndianapolis Motor Speedway road courseSpeedway, Indiana 4 May 11 5 May 24 Dave Steele Carb Night Classic Lucas Oil Raceway oval Clermont, Indiana 6 June 22 Mazda Grand Prix of Road AmericaRoad AmericaElkhart Lake, Wisconsin 7 June 23 8 July 13 Grand Prix of TorontoExhibition PlaceToronto, Ontario, Canada 9 July 14 10 July 27 Grand Prix of Mid-OhioMid-Ohio Sports Car CourseLexington, Ohio 11 July 28 12 August 24 Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Oval Challenge of St. Louis Gateway Motorsports Park Madison, Illinois 13 August 31 Grand Prix of Portland Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon 14 September 1 15 September 21 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California 16 September 22
Race results Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner Driver Team 1 St. Petersburg 1 Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Rasmus Lindh Parker Thompson Abel Motorsports 2 St. Petersburg 2 Parker Thompson Kyle Kirkwood Parker Thompson Parker Thompson Abel Motorsports 3 Indianapolis GP 1 Rasmus Lindh Kyle Kirkwood Rasmus Lindh Rasmus Lindh Juncos Racing 4 Indianapolis GP 2 Rasmus Lindh Kyle Kirkwood Rasmus Lindh Rasmus Lindh Juncos Racing 5 Dave Steele Classic Danial Frost Danial Frost Danial Frost Danial Frost Exclusive Autosport 6 Road America 1 Parker Thompson Rasmus Lindh Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 7 Road America 2 Rasmus Lindh Rasmus Lindh Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 8 Toronto 1 Kyle Kirkwood Ian Rodríguez Danial Frost Danial Frost Exclusive Autosport 9 Toronto 2 Kyle Kirkwood Rasmus Lindh Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 10 Mid-Ohio 1 Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 11 Mid-Ohio 2 Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 12 Gateway Rasmus Lindh Kory Enders Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 13 Portland 1 Sting Ray Robb Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 14 Portland 2 Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 15 Laguna Seca 1 Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Kyle Kirkwood RP Motorsport Racing 16 Laguna Seca 2 Rasmus Lindh Rasmus Lindh Rasmus Lindh Rasmus Lindh Juncos Racing
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 () 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 STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH GMP POR LAG Points 1 Kyle Kirkwood 142213 4 1* 1*81*1*1* 1* 1*1* 1 14 419 2 Rasmus Lindh 2* 41*1* 342 23 2 32 5 3 31* 417 3 Parker Thompson11* 5 5 103 3 3 2 11 4 6 3 4 4 2 344 4 Sting Ray Robb 3 5 4 2 2 7 10 11 5 5 2 5 8 2 2* 6 323 5 Danial Frost 4 3 3 31* 11 12 1* 4 13 6 4 2 6 6 12 318 6 Nikita Lastochkin 5 7 7 4 11 5 5 10 8 4 7 8 6 9 9 13 237 7 Kory Enders 13 10 8 10 6 9 9 7 9 DNS DNS 3 11 10 11 3 211 8 Moisés de la Vara 6 6 13 6 7 10 11 13 10 10 13 11 9 11 12 4 198 9 Jacob Abel 9 11 6 7 5 6 7 12 10 12 7 8 7 5 198 10 Antonio Serravalle 7 13 9 9 12 DNS 8 4 13 7 9 4 7 10 8 188 11 Phillippe Denes 8 8 12 8 8 6 7 9 12 6 8 8 7 173 12 Charles Finelli 12 DNS 10 14 9 DNS DNS 12 11 8 12 10 13 11 133 13 Ian Rodríguez 14 12 2 45 6 3 5 132 14 Antoine Comeau 9 11 9 12 13 14 9 76 15 Artem Petrov 7 10 5 5 15 72 16 Jacob Loomis 11 11 8 6 48 17 Matthew Round-Garrido 13 12 15 10 34 18 Damiano Fioravanti 11 9 22 19 Parker Locke 10 12 20 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 notparticipateIn-line notationBoldPole position(1 point)ItalicsRan fastest race lap(1 point)*Led most race laps(1 point)Not awarded if more thanone driver leads most lapsRookie
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
PosTeamPoints 1 Juncos Racing 442 2 RP Motorsport Racing 362 3 Abel Motorsports 282 4 Exclusive Autosport 273 5 DEForce Racing 116 6 Pserra RacingJay Howard Driver Development 105 7 FatBoy Racing! 73 8 Turn 3 Motorsport 31 9 JDL Racing 26 10 BN RacingJay Howard Driver Development 16
See also 2019 IndyCar Series 2019 Indy Lights 2019 U.S. F2000 National Championship
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