Jace Denmark-Gessel (born July 1, 2004) is an American racing driver. He competes in the 2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship driving for TJ Speed Motorsports. Denmark previously competed in the 2024 USF Pro 2000 Championship for Pabst Racing.
Career
USF2000 Championship
2021 On April 1, 2021, Pabst Racing announced that it had signed Denmark to drive in the U.S. F2000 National Championship. He got his first podium at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Denmark finished eleventh in the championship.
2022 Denmark would return to the USF2000 series for the 2022 season again driving for Pabst Racing. He got his maiden win at the first race of the season at St. Petersberg after a crash with Myles Rowe and Thomas Nepveu promoted Denmark to the lead. In the second race, Denmark reached the podium again, finishing second.
Denmark continued to have multiple wins throughout the season at Road America and Toronto, before heading into the three-race season finale in Portland.
Season finale At the beginning of the Portland race weekend, Denmark was sitting third in the championship with 321 points, just behind Michael d'Orlando (323 points) and Myles Rowe (346 points). After a successful qualifying, Denmark was in first for all three races and won Race 1 despite some contact in the opening lap. This put Denmark to within four points of Rowe (Rowe: 357, Denmark: 353 , d'Orlando: 337).
In Race 2, Denmark started in pole position, however his teammate and championship leader Rowe drove over the back of Denmark's car at turn one, causing Denmark to retire. Rowe subsequently finished sixteenth, with fellow championship contender d'Orlando finishing fourth.
Denmark (357 points) was once again on pole for Race 3 and was just six points behind championship leader Rowe (363 points), with d'Orlando just one point behind (356 points). Denmark led the way heading into turn one, but another driver, this time Thomas Nepveu made contact with Denmark's rear spinning Denmark around. This knocked Denmark out of the points. Rowe also experience contact in the opening lap, and despite making up ten places, finished the race in fifth. d'Orlando won the race, and thus won the championship.
Alongside the third place championship trophy, Denmark also received the championship's Spirit Award for the USF2000 2022 season.
USF Pro 2000 Championship In 2023, Denmark signed with Pabst Racing for the USF Pro 2000 Championship. In the first four races, Denmark has had three top-five finishes, with one podium.
Racing record
Career summary SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsPosition2020Formula 4 United States ChampionshipDC Autosport30000623rd2021F1600 Championship SeriesK-Hill Motorsports3000210027thU.S. F2000 National ChampionshipPabst Racing18000121011th2022U.S. F2000 National ChampionshipPabst Racing1846193633rd 2023 USF Pro 2000 Championship Pabst Racing1801132527th2024 USF Pro 2000 Championship Pabst Racing1801193453rd2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship TJ Speed Motorsports9000011816th2026Trans-Am Series - TA2 * Season still in progress.
American open-wheel racing results
U.S. F2000 National Championship (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led) YearTeam123456789101112131415161718RankPoints2021Pabst RacingALA1ALA2STP1STP2IMS1IMS2IMS3LORROA1ROA2MOH1MOH2MOH3NJMP1NJMP2NJMP3MOH4MOH5 11th 2102022Pabst RacingSTP1STP2ALA1ALA2IMS1IMS2IMS3IRPROA1ROA2MOH1MOH2MOH3TOR1TOR2POR1POR2POR3 3rd 363
USF Pro 2000 Championship (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led) YearTeam123456789101112131415161718RankPoints2023 Pabst RacingSTP1STP2SEB1SEB2IMS1IMS2IRPROA1ROA2MOH1MOH2TOR1TOR2COTA1COTA2POR1POR2POR3 7th 2522024Pabst RacingSTP1STP2LOU1LOU2LOU3IMS1IMS2IMS3IRPROA1ROA2ROA3MOH1MOH2TOR1TOR2POR1POR2 3rd 3452025 TJ Speed MotorsportsSTP1STP2LOU1LOU2LOU3IMS1IMS2IMS3IRPROA1ROA2ROA3MOH1MOH2TOR1TOR2POR1POR2 16th 118
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