2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship

The 2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship will be the 22nd season in series history. An 18-round schedule was announced on 12 September 2019, featuring six permanent road courses, two street circuits, and two ovals. Except for the two Indianapolis-area rounds, they are NTT IndyCar Series support races. The Indianapolis road course race is a Stand alone race due to the NASCAR Cup Series Big Machine 400 weekend is combined with the GMR Grand Prix weekend as a double header so that weekend is full, and the Lucas Oil Raceway round, normally held on Indianapolis 500 weekend, is part of the USAC Silver Crown Series Dave Steele Classic round. [1]

2020 Indy Pro 2000 Championship
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RP Motorsport USA withdrew from the series this season because of travel restrictions due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.[2]

American Sting Ray Robb, driving for Juncos Racing, clinched the championship with two races remaining on the season.[3]

Drivers and teams
Team No. Drivers Rounds
Abel Motorsports 51 Jacob Abel 6–7, 11–15
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport 17 Devlin DeFrancesco[4] All
DEForce Racing 6 Moisés de la Vara[5] 1–12, 16–17
7 Kory Enders 3–17
8 Manuel Sulaimán[6] All
9 Parker Thompson[7] All
Exclusive Autosport[8] 1 Braden Eves[9] 1–10
90 Tristan Charpentier[10] 16–17
FatBoy Racing! 83 Charles Finelli[11] 1–7, 11–17
Juncos Racing[8] 2 Sting Ray Robb[12] All
42 Artem Petrov[13] All
69 Nate Aranda[14] 1–6, 8–10, 16–17
Legacy Autosport 20 Kody Swanson[15] 6–7
Pabst Racing 18 Hunter McElrea[16] All
19 Colin Kaminsky[17] All
57 Bob Kaminsky 1–5, 8–12
BN Racing w/ Team Benik 36 Jacob Loomis 1–5, 8–10
37 Sabré Cook[18] 1–5
Turn 3 Motorsport[19] 3 Antoine Comeau[20] 1–15
Rasmus Lindh[21] 16–17
68 Danial Frost[20] All

Schedule
Rd. Date Race name Track Location
1 July 9-10 Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Road America
Presented by Cooper Tires Honoring First Responders		  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
2
3 July 29–30 Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio
Presented by Cooper Tires Honoring First Responders		  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
4
5
6 August 22 Cooper Tires Freedom 90  O  Lucas Oil Raceway Brownsburg, Indiana
7 August 29 Indy Pro 2000 Oval Challenge of St. Louis
Presented by Cooper Tires		  O  World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Illinois
8 September 3–4 Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Indy Grand Prix  R  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course Speedway, Indiana
9
10
11 September 11–13 Surgere Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
12
13 October 9–11 Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix
at New Jersey Motorsports Park		  R  New Jersey Motorsports Park Millville, New Jersey
14
15
16 October 23–25 Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Presented by Cooper Tires R1		  R  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
17 Indy Pro 2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Presented by Allied Building Products R2
References: [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]


Cancelled events
Date Race name Track City
April 25–26 Never announced  R  Circuit of the Americas Austin, Texas
July 10–12[34] Never announced  R  Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 11–13 Never announced  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
September 18–20 Never announced  R  WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California

Race results
Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 Road America 1 Devlin DeFrancesco Manuel Sulaimán Devlin DeFrancesco Danial Frost Turn 3 Motorsport
2 Road America 2 Manuel Sulaimán Braden Eves Artem Petrov Artem Petrov Juncos Racing
3 Mid-Ohio 1 Braden Eves Hunter McElrea Braden Eves Braden Eves Exclusive Autosport
4 Mid-Ohio 2 Braden Eves Jacob Loomis Artem Petrov Artem Petrov Juncos Racing
5 Mid-Ohio 3 Jacob Loomis Danial Frost Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
6 Freedom 90 Manuel Sulaimán Manuel Sulaimán Kody Swanson Kody Swanson Legacy Autosport
7 Gateway Devlin DeFrancesco Braden Eves Devlin DeFrancesco Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
8 Indianapolis GP 1 Artem Petrov Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
9 Indianapolis GP 2 Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
10 Indianapolis GP 3 Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
11 Mid-Ohio 4 Danial Frost Hunter McElrea Manuel Sulaimán Manuel Sulaimán DEForce Racing
12 Mid-Ohio 5 Manuel Sulaimán Manuel Sulaimán Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
13 New Jersey 1 Devlin DeFrancesco Devlin DeFrancesco Devlin DeFrancesco Devlin DeFrancesco Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport
14 New Jersey 2 Sting Ray Robb Colin Kaminsky Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
15 New Jersey 3 Colin Kaminsky Manuel Sulaimán Manuel Sulaimán Manuel Sulaimán DEForce Racing
16 St. Petersburg 1 Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Juncos Racing
17 St. Petersburg 2 Sting Ray Robb Sting Ray Robb Hunter McElrea Hunter McElrea Pabst 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 (O) 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 ROA MOH LOR GMP IMS MOH NJMP STP Points
1 Sting Ray Robb 5 2 10 3 1* 6 4 1* 1* 1* 4 1* 2 1* 3 1* 5 437
2 Devlin DeFrancesco 2* 4 7 2 3 4 1* 4 2 8 14 11 1* 10 10 7 6 341
3 Danial Frost 1 3 2 8 11 5 5 5 5 9 2 5 12 5 7 2 3 329
4 Artem Petrov 13 1* 5 1* 8 9 3 10 3 3 5 4 5 3 11 3 9 326
5 Hunter McElrea 15 15 8 6 2 2 11 2 6 2 3 9 6 4 5 4 1* 320
6 Manuel Sulaimán 16 11 4 5 6 3 7 DNS 14 4 1* 7 3 11 1* 5 10 289
7 Parker Thompson 14 16 3 4 4 10 6 3 4 5 13 2 4 2 4 13 12 283
8 Colin Kaminsky 3 6 6 15 16 8 13 6 11 10 6 6 7 8 2 9 2 252
9 Antoine Comeau 8 7 15 11 7 13 8 7 12 14 9 10 8 7 9 181
10 Kory Enders 17 17 5 14 9 8 13 11 8 14 10 9 6 14 7 164
11 Braden Eves 4 5 1* 9 9 7 2 12 DNS DNS 163
12 Moisés de la Vara 7 8 16 7 12 11 15 11 7 6 10 8 8 13 163
13 Nate Aranda 9 9 12 10 13 DNS 9 9 12 10 8 109
14 Jacob Abel 12 10 7 3 9 6 8 107
15 Charles Finelli 12 13 14 14 14 DNS 14 12 13 11 DNS DNS 12 14 92
16 Bob Kaminsky 11 12 13 13 10 14 10 13 11 12 91
17 Jacob Loomis 6 14 9 16 DSQ 13 8 7 76
18 Kody Swanson 1* 12 60
19 Sabré Cook 10 10 11 12 15 47
20 Rasmus Lindh 6 4 34
21 Tristan Charpentier 11 11 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 not
participate
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
(1 point)
Italics Ran fastest race lap
(1 point)
* Led most race laps
(1 point)
Not awarded if more than
one driver leads most laps
Rookie

See also

References
  1. Andersen Promotions (September 12, 2019). "Road to Indy: 2020 schedules announced". IndyCar.com. Brickyard Trademarks, Inc. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  2. Wood, Elliot (7 July 2020). "RP Motorsport to miss Indy Pro 2000 season due to coronavirus". formulascout.com.
  3. Woollard, Craig (October 11, 2020). "Sulaiman wins in wet at New Jersey, Robb crowned IP2000 champion". FormulaScout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  4. "ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT RETURNS TO ROAD TO INDY WITH STEINBRENNER RACING AND DEFRANCESCO". IndyPro2000.com. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  5. @DEForceRacing (December 5, 2019). "Also on our #IndyPro2000 line-up for the 2020 Season, @Moidlv 🇲🇽! ¡Vamos Moi, con todo!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. @DEForceRacing (January 24, 2020). "🚨 #FRIDAY News! Continuing with our 2020 Line-up, we're excited to welcome back @manuelsulaiman, to our @IndyPro2000 team! 💥 Let's get it, Manuel! 🏆🇲🇽" (Tweet). Retrieved January 24, 2020 – via Twitter.
  7. "THOMPSON JOINS DEFORCE RACING IN 2020". December 15, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  8. "Mix of New and Experienced Drivers set for Chris Griffis Road to Indy Test". IndyPro2000.com. Andersen Promotions. October 15, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  9. "SCHOLARSHIP WINNER EVES JOINS EXCLUSIVE AUTOSPORT FOR 2020". December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  10. "🚨 DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Exclusive Autosport is pleased to announce the addition of Tristan Charpentier for the #RoadToIndy season finale in St. Petersburg, FL. Charpentier will drive the #90 Indy Pro 2000 Championship car for the #EhTeam this coming weekend. "I am extremely excited to welcome Tristan to the Exclusive Autosport Indy Pro 2000 line up for St. Petersburg. I was very impressed with his pace when I first watched him test an Indy Lights car earlier this year. He brings with him a wealth of experience on-track, so I look forward to seeing him in the #90 Exclusive Autosport car very soon." - Team Owner, Michael Duncalfe #RoadToIndy // #TeamCooperTire // #EhTeam // #CambridgeFX". 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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  12. "Robb Returns to Juncos Racing for 2020". March 7, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  13. "ARTEM PETROV TO CONTEST 2020 WITH JUNCOS RACING". February 27, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  14. "ARANDA JOINS JUNCOS RACING DRIVER LINE UP". March 26, 2020.
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  21. "🚨TEAM NEWS🚨 We are excited to have @rasmus_lindh join us for the #IndyPro2000 season finale at the @gpstpete this weekend! 🏁 Rasmus will be filling in for Antoine in the #3 ACR/T3M car. Full story in bio ➡️ #RoadtoIndy #TeamCooperTire #SeasonFinale #GPSTPETE @roadtoindyinsider @roadtoindy_official @roadtoindytv @danialnielsenfrost @danial_frost". October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
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