The 2023 USF2000 Championship presented by Cooper Tires was the fourteenth season of the USF2000 Championship since its revival in 2010. When the top rung of the Road to Indy ladder system, Indy Lights, was bought by Penske Entertainment (owners of IndyCar) in 2021 and the lower level series changed sanctioning to the United States Auto Club, changes were made to the other championships in the ladder. This, together with the Indy Lights being rebranded to Indy NXT, effectively ended the "Road to Indy" branding, with the three championships below Indy NXT now collectively called "USF Pro Championships Presented by Cooper Tires". The USF2000 Championship served as the middle rung of this ladder.
Simon Sikes won the Drivers' Championship at the final race weekend at Portland with two races to spare. His team, Pabst Racing, won their second consecutive and fifth all-time championship.
Drivers and teams Team Drivers RoundsDC Autosport57 Carson Etter11–13, 16–1868 Ethan Ho3–7, 9–13, 16–18DEForce Racing1 Mac ClarkAll10 Jorge GarciarceAll 11 Brady Golan11–13 Lucas Fecury16–1812 Maxwell JamiesonAllExclusive Autosport90 Jacob Douglas1–7 Thomas Schrage11–13, 16–1891 Joey Brienza1–2, 8, 14–1592 Nicholas d'Orlando1–2 Lucas Mann5–7 Jack Jeffers9–1093 Avery Towns1–1595 Chase Gardner1–15Future Star Racing56 Andre Castro1–258 Trey Burke1–2Jay Howard Driver Development6 Evagoras PapasavvasAll7 Al MoreyAll8 Lochie HughesAll9 Louka St-Jean1–4 Dane Scott9–10 Logan Adams11–15 Ava Dobson16–18Pabst Racing22 Simon SikesAll23 Jacob Douglas9–1824 Max Garcia3–18Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development67 Elliot CoxAllVelocity Racing Development2 Nico Christodoulou14–1514 Sam CorryAll17 Nikita JohnsonAll18 Danny Dyszelski1–1319 Gordon ScullyAll33 Max Taylor5–7, 9–13, 16–1897 Zack Ping1–7, 9–13
TJ Speed Motorsports took over two cars from Cape Motorsports to enter the championship in 2023, but ultimately decided against it. Noah Ping was signed to compete for Velocity Racing Development, but dropped out and instead signed with VRD-partnered team Arden in GB3.
Schedule The 2023 schedule was revealed on October 17, 2022. It featured two street circuits, five road courses and one oval round. The championship returned to Sebring for the first time since 2013. All rounds except the weekends at Sebring and Indianapolis Raceway Park supported the IndyCar Series. Rd.DateRace nameTrackLocation1March 4–5Cooper Tires Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Streets of St. PetersburgSt. Petersburg, Florida2Discount Tire Grand Prix of St. Petersburg 3March 25–26Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Sebring Sebring International RacewaySebring, Florida45May 12–13USF2000 Discount Tire Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road CourseSpeedway, Indiana678May 27USF2000 Cooper Tires Freedom 75 Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway ParkBrownsburg, Indiana9June 17–18Discount Tire Grand Prix of Road America Road AmericaElkhart Lake, Wisconsin1011July 1–2Discount Tire Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car CourseLexington, Ohio121314July 15–16Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Toronto Exhibition PlaceToronto, Ontario, Canada1516September 2–3Discount Tire Grand Prix of Portland Portland International RacewayPortland, Oregon1718
Race results Rd.TrackPole positionFastest lapMost laps ledRace winnerDriverTeam1 Streets of St. Petersburg Lochie Hughes Simon Sikes Lochie Hughes Lochie HughesJay Howard Driver Development2 Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Nikita Johnson Nikita JohnsonVelocity Racing Development3 Sebring International Raceway Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Lochie Hughes Lochie HughesJay Howard Driver Development4 Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Simon SikesPabst Racing5 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Nikita Johnson Nikita Johnson Nikita Johnson Sam CorryVelocity Racing Development6 Nikita Johnson Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Simon SikesPabst Racing7 Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Lochie Hughes Lochie HughesJay Howard Driver Development8 Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park Mac Clark Mac Clark Mac Clark Mac ClarkDEForce Racing9 Road America Lochie Hughes Mac Clark Simon Sikes Simon SikesPabst Racing10 Mac Clark Danny Dyszelski Lochie Hughes Lochie HughesJay Howard Driver Development11 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Evagoras Papasavvas Nikita Johnson Evagoras Papasavvas Evagoras PapasavvasJay Howard Driver Development12 Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Mac ClarkDEForce Racing13 Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Simon Sikes Simon SikesPabst Racing14 Exhibition Place Evagoras Papasavvas Mac Clark Nikita Johnson Simon SikesPabst Racing15 Simon Sikes Nico Christodoulou Simon Sikes Nico ChristodoulouVelocity Racing Development16 Portland International Raceway Jacob Douglas Evagoras Papasavvas Jacob Douglas Jacob DouglasPabst Racing17 Jacob Douglas Simon Sikes Jacob Douglas Jacob DouglasPabst Racing18 Jacob Douglas Jacob Douglas Simon Sikes Simon SikesPabst 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 3 2 The driver who qualified on pole was awarded one additional point. One point was awarded to the driver who led the most laps in a race. One point was awarded to the driver who set the fastest lap during the race.
Pos DriverSTPSEBIMSIRPROAMOHTORPOR Points 1 Simon Sikes 4 2 2 1* 13 1* 3 3 1* 10 2 17* 1* 1 2* 3 2 1* 447 2 Nikita Johnson 3 1* 16 8 3* 3 2 5 3 5 5 4 2 7* 18 4 3 7 344 3 Lochie Hughes 1* 3 1* 4 2 2 1* 6 12 1* 4 19 22 15 3 5 13 10 335 4 Evagoras Papasavvas 2 4 3 10 19 9 6 2 8 19 1* 2 4 6 7 2 5 6 323 5 Mac Clark 11 20 4 2 14 4 10 1* 16 2 3 1 3 4 13 8 4 9 318 6 Jacob Douglas 8 15 13 3 15 6 20 2 6 23 6 15 13 5 1* 1* 2 249 7 Sam Corry 5 11 8 19 1 5 16 12 19 20 7 3 5 9 6 16 17 3 222 8 Jorge Garciarce 13 5 9 6 6 10 14 10 9 4 8 8 20 14 4 17 6 14 212 9 Max Garcia 6 7 18 12 4 7 15 3 20 5 7 2 15 6 18 5 207 10 Chase Gardner 12 14 5 9 5 15 15 4 4 7 10 7 6 8 17 193 11 Al Morey 15 10 15 11 7 17 13 8 18 13 9 16 10 12 9 7 10 13 172 12 Elliot Cox 18 18 7 5 16 7 17 9 5 18 22 23 23 17 14 10 8 12 145 13 Danny Dyszelski 16 7 10 17 4 8 7 16 10 8 12 15 8 141 14 Ethan Ho 18 15 8 11 5 7 9 6 9 12 19 7 11 137 15 Gordon Scully 19 8 12 12 11 18 9 15 14 14 18 14 16 16 16 9 12 15 133 16 Maxwell Jamieson 17 9 17 14 10 19 19 13 17 16 16 11 17 10 10 14 14 18 121 17 Avery Towns 20 12 14 16 12 13 18 11 21 15 21 18 11 11 8 10118 Max Taylor 17 16 8 6 21 11 22 19 11 9 8 86 19 Zack Ping 21 17 19 13 9 20 11 20 11 14 20 18 6020 Thomas Schrage 13 10 9 18 19 45521 Nico Christodoulou 5 14822 Logan Adams 15 21 21 3 114023 Carson Etter 19 13 14 15 11 1638 24 Joey Brienza 10 16 14 18 12 37 25 Trey Burke 7 6 29 26 Nicholas d'Orlando 6 13 23 27 Louka St-Jean 14 19 11 18 2228 Brady Golan 17 12 132129 Jack Jeffers 11 121930 Lucas Fecury 12 15 171931 Lucas Mann 20 14 121732 Ava Dobson 13 16 1915 33 Andre Castro 9 21 1334 Dane Scott 13 1712 Pos DriverSTPSEBIMSIRPROAMOHTORPOR 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 notparticipateIn-line notationBoldPole position(1 point)ItalicsRan fastest race lap(1 point)*Led most race laps(1 point)Not awarded if more thanone driver led most lapsRookie
Teams' championship
Scoring system
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th+ Points221815121086421
Single car teams received 3 bonus points per race as an equivalency to multi-car teams Only the best two results counted for teams fielding more than two entries
Pos DriverSTPSEBIMSIRPROAMOHTORPOR Points1Pabst Racing422110133132511211147667121147261267253222Jay Howard Driver Development131422128112433255413243106766101141296751083Velocity Racing Development3188132535532514333725710113571168745767964DEForce Racing1054244819231344647272118969910912488119996115Exclusive Autosport69535694479768811124157810119812111011101010810106Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development121175118128512131213111188101097DC Autosport121271057969101079741111121211128Future Star Racing7617912 Pos DriverSTPALAIMSIRPROAMOHTORPOR Points
See also
2023 IndyCar Series 2023 Indy NXT 2023 USF Pro 2000 Championship 2023 USF Juniors
References