The 2019 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship was the tenth season – since its revival in 2010 – of the U.S. F2000 National Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that is the first step in INDYCAR's Road to Indy ladder, operated by Andersen Promotions.
American Braden Eves of Cape Motorsports won the championship in a tightly contested points race by winning the final race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca over New Zealander Hunter McElrea of Pabst Racing. Eves won six times with two other podium finishes while McElrea, who had won the Road to Indy Shootout to earn his place on the U.S. F2000 grid, won four times with eight other podiums. Danish driver Christian Rasmussen won three races and finished tied for the third most points with American Colin Kaminsky. Rasmussen won third by virtue of Kaminsky not capturing any race wins. Darren Keane won one race and finished fifth in the championship. Australian Cameron Shields, who ended his championship campaign after the Toronto round, was the sole other race winner on the season.
Pabst Racing won its third straight team championship despite their top driver McElrea losing out on the drivers' championship.
Drivers and teams Team DriversStatus RoundsBN Racing 27 Zach Holden 1–4 Matthew Round-Garrido 6–11 28 Anthony Famularo 1–7Cape Motorsports 2 Darren Keane All 3 Reece Gold All 4 Jak Crawford 10–158 Braden Eves All DEForce Racing 12 Manuel Sulaimán All 52 Jak Crawford 3–991 Eduardo Barrichello 12–15 Exclusive Autosport 90 Manuel Cabrera 1–5Jay Howard Driver Development 5 Matthew Round-Garrido 1–5 Josh Green12–13 Wyatt Brichacek14–15 6 Christian Rasmussen All 7 Christian Bogle All Legacy Autosport 14 Alex Baron 1–7 Zach Holden8–15 77 José Sierra 1–2 Dakota Dickerson 3–4 Timmy Pagliuso 10–11 Ayrton Ori 12–15Miller Vinatieri Motorsports 40 Jack William Miller All 41 Eduardo Barrichello 1–11Newman Wachs Racing36 Nolan Siegel All73 Cameron Shields 1–9 Kyle Dupell 12–15 Pabst Racing Services 21 Yuven Sundaramoorthy All 22 Hunter McElrea All 23 Colin Kaminsky All 24 Bruna Tomaselli All Team E-JAY Racing 69 Nate Aranda 1–2 Icon ClassRookie
Schedule A 15-race schedule was announced on September 25, 2018, consisting of five permanent road courses and two street circuits on the NTT IndyCar Series schedule each hosting doubleheaders, and a single race at the Dave Steele Classic on a short oval. IconLegendOval/SpeedwayRoad courseStreet circuit Rd. Date Race name Track Location 1 March 9–10 USF2000 St. Petersburg Grand Prix Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida 2 3 May 10–11USF2000 Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseSpeedway, Indiana 4 5 May 24 Cooper Tires Freedom 75 Lucas Oil Raceway Clermont, Indiana 6 June 22–23Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of Road America Road AmericaElkhart Lake, Wisconsin 7 8 July 13–14 Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix Exhibition PlaceToronto, Ontario 9 10 July 27–28Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseLexington, Ohio 11 12 August 31–September 1Cooper Tires USF2000 Portland Grand Prix Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon 13 14 September 21–22 Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix at WRLS WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California 15
Race results Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race winner Driver Team 1 Streets of St. Petersburg Braden Eves Darren Keane Braden Eves Braden Eves Cape Motorsports 2 Darren Keane Darren Keane Braden Eves Cape Motorsports 3 Braden Eves Darren Keane Braden Eves Braden Eves Cape Motorsports 4 Braden Eves Braden Eves Braden Eves Braden Eves Cape Motorsports 5 Lucas Oil Raceway Colin Kaminsky Cameron Shields Cameron Shields Cameron Shields Newman Wachs Racing 6 Road America Colin Kaminsky Braden Eves Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Pabst Racing Services 7 Hunter McElrea Darren Keane Braden Eves Braden Eves Cape Motorsports 8 Streets of Toronto Darren Keane Darren Keane Darren Keane Cape Motorsports 9 Darren Keane Darren Keane Christian Rasmussen 10 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Hunter McElrea Christian Rasmussen Christian Rasmussen Christian Rasmussen Jay Howard Driver Development 11 Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Pabst Racing Services 12 Portland International Raceway Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Pabst Racing Services 13 Hunter McElrea Christian Rasmussen Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Pabst Racing Services 14 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Braden Eves Hunter McElrea Christian Rasmussen Christian Rasmussen Jay Howard Driver Development 15 Colin Kaminsky Christian Rasmussen Braden Eves Braden Eves Cape Motorsports
Championship standings 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 One point is awarded to the driver who qualifies on pole position. One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in the race. One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.
Drivers' Championship Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH POR LAG Points 1 Braden Eves1* 11*1* 54 1* 4 11 8 7 2 24 1* 361 2 Hunter McElrea 3 2 2 3 11 1*3 3 1421*1*1*2 7 356 3 Christian Rasmussen 415 20 8 6 17 52* 1*1* 2 3 17 1* 2 282 4 Colin Kaminsky 16 5 4 1032 4 6 12 3 3 4 4 3 3 282 5 Darren Keane 7 14* 6 2 7 12 2 1* 2 9 6 5 5 7 6 270 6 Manuel Sulaimán 2 6 3 18 9 5 16 7 4 11 8 7 7 9 11 211 7 Jak Crawford 18 4 4 14 6 12 5 7 5 6 6 5 15 183 8 Bruna Tomaselli 6 7 10 11 19 6 11 11 7 5 10 9 9 12 10 174 9 Zach Holden 5 3 7 21 5 15 10 4 10 3 10 4 170 10 Reece Gold 10 8 14 12 8 8 10 13 9 12 9 12 11 11 8 167 11 Eduardo Barrichello 13 20 19 5 13 9 7 15 17 14 11 8 8 6 5 151 12 Yuven Sundaramoorthy 8 11 12 13 12 7 12 14 8 6 14 15 14 15 9 150 13 Cameron Shields 11 16 5 161* 3 9 17 6 137 14 Matthew Round-Garrido 12 9 13 17 16 15 8 8 3 4 13 122 15 Nolan Siegel 14 12 15 14 10 10 14 16 10 16 17 17 12 14 17 113 16 Jack William Miller 18 17 17 19 17 13 13 9 16 13 12 13 13 17 13 97 17 Christian Bogle 15 19 16 15 15 11 15 10 13 15 15 16 18 18 14 93 18 Alex Baron 21 4 9 6 2 18 17 92 19 Anthony Famularo 9 10 8 9 14 16 18 67 20 Kyle Dupell 14 15 13 12 30 21 Josh Green 11 10 21 22 Manuel Cabrera 19 18 11 20 18 21 23 Ayrton Ori 18 16 16 16 18 24 Wyatt Brichacek 8 18 16 25 Dakota Dickerson 21 7 15 26 José Sierra 17 13 12 27 Timmy Pagliuso 17 16 9 28 Nate Aranda 20 DNS 2 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(DNF) 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 Pabst Racing Services405 2 Cape Motorsports400 3 Jay Howard Driver Development201 4 DEForce Racing196 5 Legacy Autosport135 6 BN Racing99 7 Newman Wachs Racing93 8 Miller Vinatieri Motorsports63 9 Exclusive Autosport20 10 Team E-JAY6
See also 2019 IndyCar Series 2019 Indy Lights 2019 Indy Pro 2000 Championship
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