2014 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2014 U.S. F2000 National Championship was 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 was the fifth full season of the series since its revival in 2010. The National Class merged with the Championship class in 2014, resulting in just one class of competition.^[1]

Frenchman Florian Latorre, driving for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing, won the championship by winning the final race of the season over Team E's R. C. Enerson. Enerson started the season on a hot streak, winning three of the first four races, before a cold streak ensued. Meanwhile Latorre had a steadily competitive season, only suffering one DNF in the penultimate race when he could have clinched the championship. Enerson won five races and finished on the podium in nine of the fourteen races. Meanwhile Latorre only won three times and only scored eight podium finishes, his comparative lack of poor finishes gave him the championship. Latorre's championship gives him a Mazda Road to Indy scholarship to participate in the Pro Mazda Championship in 2015.

Latorre's team mate Jake Eidson finished third in the championship, ten points back from Enerson in a season where he scored two wins. ArmsUp Motorsports' Aaron Telitz scored a single win and finished in fourth place. Afterburner Autosport's Victor Franzoni of Brazil captured the season opener but struggled thereafter, and ultimately fell to fifth in points. The series' first trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course resulted in two drivers scoring their first and only wins of the season. Will Owen employed an aggressive tire strategy to win the first race on a drying racetrack after a rainstorm and JAY Motorsports' highly touted rookie Adrian Starrantino won the second race in what was otherwise a lackluster season.

Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing captured their third straight teams' championship, mainly in part, to the performances of Latorre and Eidson.

Drivers and teams

All teams were American-registered.

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Afterburner Autosport	15	Gustavo Myasava[2]	All
	17	Victor Franzoni[2]	All
	18	Jeroen Slaghekke[2]	1-7
ArmsUp Motorsports	5	Aaron Telitz[2]	All
	16	James Dayson	8-14
	24	Peter Portante[2]	All
Belardi Auto Racing	4	Daniel Burkett[2]	All
	14	Florian Latorre[2]	1-7
	44	Jeroen Slaghekke	8-14
	41	Nico Jamin[2]	1-7
Pabst Racing Services	21		8-14
	23	Will Owen[2]	All
	77	Austin Cindric[2]	All
Team E	7	R. C. Enerson[2]	All
Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing	2	Jake Eidson[2]	All
	3	Keyvan Andres Soori[2]	All
	10	Florian Latorre	8-14
D2D Motorsports	61	Andrew List[2]	All
GBI Racing	12	Tim Hollowell	5-6
		Kyle O'Gara	7
JAY Motorsports	91	Adrian Starrantino[2]	All
	96	Henrik Furuseth[2]	All
	98	Colton Herta	3-14
JDC Motorsports	93	Garth Rickards	8-9
	97	Clark Toppe[2]	All
John Cummiskey Racing	33	Nathan Blok	5-6, 8-9
M2 Autosport	13	Juan Maldonado[2]	All
	79	Santiago Lozano[2]	All

Team changes

• 2010 and 2011 team champions Andretti Autosport announced that they would not field U.S. F2000 entries in 2014.^[3]

Race calendar and results

The series schedule, along with the other Road to Indy series, was announced on October 24, 2013. Unlike previous seasons, all races are in support of the IndyCar Series except the race at Lucas Oil Raceway. All road and street course race weekends are double-headers.^[4] The series will race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Barber Motorsports Park, and Sonoma Raceway for the first time in its history. 2014 will be the first season since its revival that will not begin at Sebring Raceway.

Rnd	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	March 29	Victor Franzoni	Victor Franzoni	Victor Franzoni	Victor Franzoni	Afterburner Autosport
2			March 30		R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	Team E
3	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama	April 26	Florian Latorre	R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	Team E
4					Aaron Telitz	R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	Team E
5	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana	May 9	Florian Latorre	Adrian Starrantino	Jake Eidson	Will Owen	Pabst Racing Services
6			May 10		Colton Herta	Victor Franzoni	Adrian Starrantino	JAY Motorsports
7	Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis	Clermont, Indiana	May 24	Florian Latorre	Florian Latorre	Aaron Telitz	Aaron Telitz	ArmsUp Motorsports
8	Streets of Toronto	Toronto	July 20	Florian Latorre	Florian Latorre	Florian Latorre	Jake Eidson	Cape Motorsports
9					Victor Franzoni	R. C. Enerson	Florian Latorre	Cape Motorsports
10	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	August 1	Florian Latorre	Florian Latorre	R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	Team E
11			August 2		Jake Eidson	R. C. Enerson	Jake Eidson	Cape Motorsports
12			August 3		Florian Latorre	Florian Latorre	Florian Latorre	Cape Motorsports
13	Sonoma Raceway	Sonoma, California	August 22	Florian Latorre	Peter Portante	R. C. Enerson	R. C. Enerson	Team E
14			August 23		Florian Latorre	R. C. Enerson	Florian Latorre	Cape Motorsports

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR TOR MOH SNM Points 1 Florian Latorre 7 3 2 5 4 2 6 2* 1 2 4 1* 21 1 310 2 R. C. Enerson 2 1* 1* 1* 7 10 16 3 17* 1* 8* 3 1* 2* 301 3 Jake Eidson 4 2 3 8 2* 9 9 1 2 4 1 8 3 3 291 4 Aaron Telitz 16 12 5 2 3 11 1* 6 3 7 2 7 2 4 246 5 Victor Franzoni 1* DSQ 13 3 15 3* 3 7 4 8 14 5 6 19 202 6 Peter Portante 13 15 12 6 6 7 7 4 19 3 15 2 4 17 173 7 Adrian Starrantino 6 4 7 13 17 1 11 8 21 21 7 21 10 6 157 8 Clark Toppe 15 5 10 11 13 4 5 11 5 12 17 16 12 7 156 9 Nico Jamin 3 14 6 10 9 19 10 20 6 11 5 9 9 8 154 10 Henrik Furuseth 8 13 8 9 21 5 13 18 20 5 3 10 8 5 149 11 Daniel Burkett 5 11 4 4 10 12 12 9 8 6 20 4 20 21 147 12 Will Owen 18 6 11 14 1 8 15 17 22 13 10 12 14 12 133 13 Jeroen Slaghekke 9 7 DSQ 12 16 15 4 19 9 9 19 11 5 10 130 14 Austin Cindric 11 10 9 17 8 21 2 15 18 18 6 6 13 20 125 15 Colton Herta 19 7 5 20 14 5 14 10 16 13 7 9 115 16 Keyvan Andres Soori 10 9 14 15 22 6 8 21 13 20 9 14 11 11 114 17 Andrew List 12 17 18 19 11 18 19 14 10 19 13 18 17 14 72 18 Gustavo Myasava DNS 16 17 20 19 14 17 10 15 14 11 17 16 15 68 19 Santiago Lozano 14 8 15 16 20 22 20 DNS DNS 15 21 15 15 13 61 20 Juan Maldonado 17 DNS 16 18 14 17 21 13 11 16 18 20 18 18 57 21 Nathan Blok 12 13 12 7 40 22 James Dayson DNS 12 17 12 19 19 16 31 23 Garth Rickards 16 16 10 24 Tim Hollowell 18 16 8 25 Kyle O'Gara 18 3 Felipe Donato DNS DNS DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR TOR MOH SNM 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 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

Teams' Championship

References

External links

• U.S. F2000 National Championship official website