2011 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2011 U.S. F2000 National Championship is a season 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. It is the second full season of the series since its revival in 2010. It follows the first 2011 U.S. F2000 Winterfest winter championship. It consists of 12 races held over 7 race weekends on seven different tracks – two street circuits, two ovals, and three permanent road courses.

2011 U.S. F2000 National Championship
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Finnish driver Petri Suvanto, in his first season racing in North America, won the championship with five wins and five second-place finishes by 47 points over American Spencer Pigot, the 2010 Skip Barber National Championship winner. British driver Wayne Boyd won two races and finished third while Zach Veach won the season opener but struggled during the second half of the season to wind up fourth in points. Sixteen-year-old New Yorker Luca Forgeois won the National Class over his only full-time National Class rival J. R. Smart.

Drivers and teams
Team No Drivers Notes
Cape Motorsports
w/ Wayne Taylor Racing		 2 Shannon McIntosh[1]
3 Petri Suvanto[2]
32 Vincent Beltoise[3] Sebring to Indianapolis only[4]
Belardi Auto Racing 4 Wayne Boyd[5]
9 Cole Morgan[5] Sebring & St. Pete only
Luigi Biangardi Mid-Ohio onwards
Pabst Racing Services 5 Tõnis Kasemets St. Pete only
Luca Forgeois National Class; Indianapolis onwards[6]
6 J. R. Smart[7] National Class
16 Rodin Younessi National Class; Indianapolis only[8]
Andretti Autosport 7 Zach Veach[9]
8 Spencer Pigot[10]
JDC Motorsports 10 Roman Lagudi Indianapolis,[8] Mid-Ohio onwards
16 Rodin Younessi National Class; Mid-Ohio onwards
19 Juan Piedrahita[11]
85 Luke Ellery[12] Sebring through Milwaukee only
Chris Miller Road America only[13]
Auriana Racing 11 Joe Colasacco National class; Mid-Ohio[6] and Baltimore only[14]
K-Hill Motorsports 12 Bruce Hamilton National class; Baltimore only[14]
65 Joe Woodward National class; Baltimore only[14]
Jensen MotorSport 13 Ryan Tveter Baltimore only[14]
ArmsUp Motorsports 15 Rick Balsley National class; Road America only[13]
56 Revere Greist Road America only[13]
71 Jim Victor National class; Road America only[13]
Sick Tea Motorsports 17 Timmy Megenbier[15]
MidAtlantic Motorsports
Eric Langbein Racing		 25 Joe Blacker National class; Baltimore only[14]
53 Eric Langbein National class; Baltimore only[14]
AcceleRace Motorsports 28 Ardie Greenamyer[7] National class; Mid-Ohio[6] and Baltimore only[14]
29 National Class; Sebring & St. Pete only
Jonathan Scarallo National class; Mid-Ohio only
Brian Stewart Racing 33 Matthew Di Leo[7]
Stevenson Motorsports 97 Luca Forgeois National class; Sebring, St. Pete only[16]

Race calendar and results

The race schedule was announced on October 12, 2010.[17]

Rnd Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Winning driver Winning team Supporting
1 Sebring Raceway Sebring, Florida March 17 Zach Veach Zach Veach Zach Veach Zach Veach Andretti Autosport ALMS
2 March 18 Zach Veach Luke Ellery Petri Suvanto
Luke Ellery		 Luke Ellery JDC MotorSports
3 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida March 26 Spencer Pigot Petri Suvanto Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Andretti Autosport IndyCar Series
4 March 27 Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Cape Motorsports
5 Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Clermont, Indiana May 28 Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Cape Motorsports USAC Midgets
6 Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin June 19 Zach Veach Luke Ellery Wayne Boyd Wayne Boyd Belardi Auto Racing IndyCar Series
7 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio August 6 Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Cape Motorsports IndyCar Series
8 August 7 Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto Cape Motorsports
9 Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin August 19 Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Wayne Boyd
Spencer Pigot		 Spencer Pigot Andretti Autosport ALMS
10 August 20 Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Wayne Boyd
Spencer Pigot		 Petri Suvanto Cape Motorsports
11 Streets of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland September 3 Petri Suvanto Spencer Pigot Wayne Boyd Wayne Boyd Belardi Auto Racing IndyCar Series
12 September 4 Spencer Pigot Petri Suvanto Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Andretti Autosport

Championship standings

Drivers'
Pos Driver SEB STP ORP MIL MDO RA BAL Points
Championship Class
1 Petri Suvanto 2 3* 2 1* 1* 5 1* 1* 2 1 2 2 328
2 Spencer Pigot 3 2 1* 2 4 6 3 4 1* 2* 11 1* 281
3 Wayne Boyd 11 6 7 3 5 1* 2 2 10* 3* 1* 15 229
4 Zach Veach 1* 8 3 4 2 2 5 7 3 5 12 16 223
5 Matthew Di Leo 9 11 4 7 6 8 6 5 7 6 3 13 174
6 Timmy Megenbier 7 14 15 6 7 7 4 3 5 4 17 7 151
7 Juan Piedrahita 6 5 12 9 3 3 7 8 6 15 16 14 145
8 Shannon McIntosh 14 12 8 13 11 9 13 12 17 17 8 11 101
9 Luke Ellery 4 1* 14 8 13 4 92
10 Luigi Biangardi 8 6 11 8 4 12 78
11 Vincent Beltoise 8 13 6 5 9 58
12 Cole Morgan 5 4 5 15 54
National Class
1 Luca Forgeois 10 9 9 10 10 10 12 14 16 9 9 5 220
2 J. R. Smart 13 10 10 12 12 11 15 16 12 10 18 10 166
3 Ardie Greenamyer 12 7 11 11 DNS 16 13 96
4 Rodin Younessi 14 14 15 15 12 19 17 68
unregistered drivers
Roman Lagudi 8 9 9 8 13 5 3
Joe Colasacco 10 10 6 4
Chris Miller 4 7
Eric Langbein 7 6
Ryan Tveter 10 8
Revere Greist 9 14
Joe Woodward 9 14
Jonathan Scarallo 11 11
Jim Victor 13 11
Tõnis Kasemets 13 14
Joe Blacker 13 DNS
Rick Balsley 14 16
Bruce Hamilton 15 18
Pos Driver SEB STP ORP MIL MDO RA BAL 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 not
participate
(DNP)
Not competing
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
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20+
Points 30 25 22 19 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Teams'
Pos Team Points
1 Andretti Autosport 314
2 Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing 259
3 Belardi Auto Racing 196
4 JDC Motorsports 174
5 Sick Tea Racing 81
6 Brian Stewart Racing 65
7 Pabst Racing Services 29
8 Accelerace Motorsports 12
9 Stevenson Motorsports 8
10 ArmsUp Motorsports 7
11 Jensen MotorSport 5

References
  1. Cavin, Curt. Feb. 11: Pit Pass on Schmidt, Cunningham Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, Indianapolis Star, February 11, 2011, Retrieved 2011-02-11
  2. Suvanto Joins Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing for USF2000 Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, Cape Motorpsorts, February 7, 2011, retrieved 2011-02-12
  3. Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing Ready for Start of USF2000 Season with Three-Car Assault Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, US F2000, March 11, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-11
  4. Milwaukee Entry List Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, US F2000, Retrieved 2011-06-15
  5. Wayne Boyd and Cole Morgan join Belardi in the US F2000 cars, Belardi Auto Racing, March 8, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-08
  6. Mid-Ohio entry list Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, US F2000, Retrieved 2011-08-02
  7. Talented Contenders From Around the World Set for USF2000 Season Opener Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. F2000, March 14, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-014
  8. Lucas Oil Raceway Entry List Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. F2000, May 26, 2011, Retrieved 2011-05-26
  9. "Andretti Autosport re-signs Zach Veech for USF2000". Racer. Haymarket Publications. December 9, 2010. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  10. "Spencer Pigot joins Andretti Autosport for USF2000". Racer. Haymarket Publications. December 10, 2010. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  11. EJDC MotorSports Signs Piedrahita as part of Title Charge Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, March 2, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-02
  12. Ellery Rejoins JDC MotorSports in 2011 Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, February 28, 2011, Retrieved 2011-02-28
  13. Road America entry list Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. F2000, August 16, 2011, Retrieved 2011-08-17
  14. Baltimore Entry List Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, USF2000, Retrieved 2011-08-31
  15. Sick Tea Racing Joins USF2000 National Championship Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, U.S. F2000, March 14, 2011, Retrieved 2011-03-014
  16. USF2000: Stevenson Motorsports Joins Series with Forgeois Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, February 11, 2011, Retrieved 2011-02-11
  17. USF2000 Announces 2011 Schedule Consisting of 14 Races from March to Sept., U.S. F2000 PR, October 12, 2010, Retrieved 2010-10-20
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