2010 Skip Barber / F2000 / Star Mazda

[Rob29]

Sorry,this has me baffled,who is THAT Tatiana Calderon? never heard of anyone of that name before.

[JOWT Blog]

Brazilian driver Victor Carbone has just re-signed with Alegra Motorsports and will return to the F2000 Championship for his second full-season.

[NaBUru38]

USF2000 authorities have been announcing other spec providers in Janurary: fuel (VP), brakes (PFC), clutches, starters, (Tilton ) engine control units, wiring harnesses (Pi Research) and now all Élan stuff through the recent Carl Haas distribution deal, including Van Diemen chassis and Hewland gearboxes.

[JOWT Blog]

I just recently finished an article/interview with last year's Skip Barber National Rookie of the Year and aspiring Star Mazda competitor... Court Vernon. For anyone interested, you can read it here.

[NaBUru38]

Star Mazda champions will get an Indy Lights test, starting in... 2009 with Adam Christodoulou.

[alias99]

Patrick McKenna from British Formula Ford is set to race in the USF2000 series.

[gomick]

1st round of the Skip Barber Nationals where held over the weekend at Homestead. Dennis Trebing & Spencer Pigot took out the race wins.

Skip Barber Points

[gomick]

Aussie Daniel Erikkson's season is over before it began - lack of funds...

Star Mazda Sebring Qualifying...

1. Anders Krohn 1:58.053
2. Mikael Grenier 1:58.312
3. Tristan Vautier 1:58.724
4. Conor Daly 1:58.782
5. David Ostella 1:59.030
6. Joao Horto 1:59.223
7. Jorge Goncalvez 1:59.275
8. Richard Kent 1:59.325
9. Caio Lara 1:59.719
10. Connor De Phillippi 1:59.721

[Deemun]

Shame about Erickson. Too many good drivers fall by the wayside due to lack of funding! But I thought he had help from the Australian Motor Sports Association?

Even if he cannot do a full season I'm sure if he could find some money there would be one off drives available to keep him in the game

[NaBUru38]

Skip Barber National - Sebring race 1
1. Isaac Lyons
2. Spencer Pigot
3. Felix Serralles
4. Nick Andries
5. Daniel Lloyd
6. Dennis Trebing
7. Ashley Freiberg
8. Luis Michael Dorrbecker
9. Nicolas Costa
10. Mukul Sud
11. Scott Anderson
12. Jim Norman-S
13. Thomas McGregor
14. Brandon Newey
15. Danilo Estrela

[NaBUru38]

Star Mazda Championship - Sebring race
1. Tristan Vautier
2. Jorge Goncalvez
3. Conor Daly
4. Mikael Grenier
5. Anders Krohn
6. Joao Horto
7. Connor De Phillippi
8. Michael Furfari
9. Chris Miller
10. Caio Lara
11. Rusty Mitchell
12. Gerry Kraut
13. David Ostella
14. Carlos Linares
15. Dom Bastien
16. Carlos Conde
17. JW Roberts
18. Hayden Duerson
19. Juan Piedrahita
20. Tatiana Calderon
21. Court Vernon
22. Ian Harms
23. Richard Kent

[gomick]

Skip Barber - Sebring Race 2, qualifying...

1. Daniel Lloyd, 2:23.020
2. Dennis Trebing, 2:23.032
3. Spencer Pigot, 2:23.204
4. Felix Serralles, 2:23.244
5. Nick Andries, 2:23.808
6. Nicolas Costa, 2:23.889
7. Isaac Lyons, 2:23.986

[NaBUru38]

Skip Barber National - Sebring race 2
1. Dennis Trebing
2. Felix Serralles
3. Spencer Pigot
4. Isaac Lyons
5. Ashley Freiberg
6. Scott Anderson
7. Nick Andries
8. Luis Michael Dorrbecker
9. Nicolas Costa
10. Mukul Sud
11. Daniel Lloyd
12. Thomas McGregor
13. Brandon Newey
14. Danilo Estrela
15. Jim Norman-S

Standings after Homestead and Sebring:
1. Spencer Pigot, 128
2. Isaac Lyons, 121
3. Dennis Trebing, 119
4. Nick Andries, 110
5. Felix Serralles, 107
6. Nicolas Costa, 100
7. Ashley Freiberg, 96
8. Daniel Lloyd, 89
8. Scott Anderson, 89
10. Luis Michael Dörrbecker, 87

[gomick]

Star Mazda Points after Sebring...
St Petersburg this weekend...

[Morris Dancer]

Originally Posted by Deemun

Shame about Erickson. Too many good drivers fall by the wayside due to lack of funding! But I thought he had help from the Australian Motor Sports Association?

Even if he cannot do a full season I'm sure if he could find some money there would be one off drives available to keep him in the game

According to Daniel's website he's still trying to raise the cash to join mid-series or even next year.

He lost the Australian Motor Sport Foundation's support at the end of 2009.

Predictably there was no official explanation, but the AMSF has a record of withdrawing its support just when its 'Rising Star' drivers most need help to progress beyond 'entry level' formulas.

I understand that the AMSF gives its Rising Stars such a small amount of money (around $A50,000 which anyway is supposed to be repaid if and when they become professional drivers) that it's only significant in an 'entry level' formula like FF1600.

It's just a drop in the bucket for 'development' formulas like Star Mazda, F3, GP3, F.Renault2.0, Formula Masters, etc., which makes a joke of the AMSF's mission statement, which includes "The AMSF will directly facilitate the progress of talented young Australians to the pinnacle of international competition ...".

Daniel Erickson would be a strong contender this year considering he nearly matched Anders Krohn's best lap time at MRS Houston in his first drive of a 'wings and slicks' openwheeler last December.

[gomick]

St Petersburg Qualifying - Star Mazda (23 starters)...

1. Conor Daly 1:10.352
2. Joao Horto 1:10.794
3. Caio Lara 1:11.049
4. Anders Krohn 1:11.307
5. Rusty Mitchell 1:11.317
6. Connor De Phillippi 1:11.403
7. David Ostella 1:11.565
8. Chris Miller 1:11.578
9. Court Vernon 1:11.610
10. Michael Furfari 1:11.762

[gomick]

Sage Karam won the 1st round of the USF2000 Championship at St Petersburg - 13 cars entered...

[euro-engines]

Before anyone gets carried away with the reports of the winner of F2000 at St Pete's Indy this weekend... he was running 22lbs under weight to the rest of the field!!!! due to regulations not being set properly by friday,,,, as the organizers had not worked out the engines? Ford/Mazda, wings... well race what you got!!! so lets see how the rest of the field can do when racing under the same rules.... the race should have been a non point scoring weekend... and the 1st official round starting end of May at Indy....

[gomick]

Sage won race 2 aswell... Not a series that i would be getting carried away with, 13 cars, probably couldve been 13 cars entered in another series

Conor Daly won around the streets of St Peterburg, his 2nd career Star Mazda victory. Joao Horto was 2nd, 5.429 seconds behind with Caio Lara rounding out the podium.

Star Mazda Points

[Morris Dancer]

The F2000 Championship Series (http://www.f2000championshipseries.com/), with 33 drivers entered for the opening round at Virginia International Raceway on April 9-11, looks to be much more competitive than the US F2000 series. Shades of IRL & CART?

[mountainstar]

Originally Posted by Morris Dancer

The F2000 Championship Series (http://www.f2000championshipseries.com/), with 33 drivers entered for the opening round at Virginia International Raceway on April 9-11, looks to be much more competitive than the US F2000 series. Shades of IRL & CART?

Seems like there are so many F2000 series about I can't keep track of them.

[NaBUru38]

As I wrote earlier, the USF2000 boss claims that his championship aims at a different market: drivers who want to make it to Indy. F2000CS bosses didn't agree with that vision, so there you have two series.

[Morris Dancer]

That sounds like PR blurb to me. The F2000 series has so many more entries than US F2000 this year that surely it will be the one to watch.

[mountainstar]

Originally Posted by Morris Dancer

That sounds like PR blurb to me. The F2000 series has so many more entries than US F2000 this year that surely it will be the one to watch.

A lot of the teams are planning on servicing both series and many of the competitors driving these cars will end up going to whatever races they can afford or what is convenient to them.

[Morris Dancer]

It's probably fair to say that the demise of the FBMW America series has strengthened F2000, in particular the F2000 Championship Series.