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The Lucas Oil School of Racing and Pippa Mann are pleased to announce their initial group of recipients of the Pippa Mann Scholarship: Hannah Adair, 23, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Lucas Oil POWRi Midget Series Zoey Edenholm, 16, Scottsdale, Arizona. SuperKarts! USA, Rotax Max Challenge Taylor Maas, 14, Caledonia, Wisconsin. Badger Kart Club, Route 66 Sprint Series, United States Pro Kart Series, World Karting Association Arie Venberg, 16, Prior Lake, Minnesota. Route 66 Sprint Series, SuperKarts! USA, United States Pro Kart Series, World Karting Association Adair, Maas, and Venberg will each participate in an upcoming Lucas Oil School of Racing Basic 2-Day program. Edenholm, who recently participated in the Chris Griffis Memorial Test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, will complete a 2-Day Advanced Lapping program in the near future. Abby McLaughlin (above, with Mann), previously announced as a Pippa Mann Scholarship driver, completed her Basic 2-Day recently at Sebring International Raceway. Further, a second set of drivers has been identified, and will be evaluated during the 2018 season possible future participation in the Scholarship program later in the year. “To have the level, and quality of applicants that we had for this scholarship upon announcing it actually gave the panel and I some extremely tough decisions to make”, said Pippa Mann. “To have this opportunity to work with and hopefully help the next generation of female racers has been something of a dream of mine for many years now. I’m incredibly grateful to Neil Enerson, and the Lucas Oil School of Racing for being the catalysts who have enable me to turn this dream into a reality.”  “The goal of the Pippa Mann Scholarship is to find talented young women racers and help them move up through the ranks, to win races and championships”, noted Lucas Oil School of Racing Founder and

BRASELTON, Ga. (October 6, 2017) – Two talented young American race car drivers hailing from entirely different backgrounds have earned an opportunity to represent the Team USA Scholarship following an intensive evaluation program conducted over the past few weeks. Aaron Jeansonne, 19, from Sulphur, La., and Jonathan Kotyk, 23, from Atlantic Beach, Fla., have been selected from an impressive group of six finalists to follow in the footsteps of a long list of accomplished alumni, including IndyCar series champions Jimmy Vasser and Josef Newgarden, by traveling to England this month to contest the prestigious Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch. The duo then will carry the program’s patriotic red-white-and-blue livery on their respective Cliff Dempsey Racing Ray Formula Ford cars in the subsequent Walter Hayes Trophy event at Silverstone. Jeansonne (left, above) and Kotyk also will gain an invitation to the second annual Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 $200k Scholarship Shootout which will take place at the Bondurant Racing School near Chandler, Ariz., in December. The winner will secure a $200,000 prize to graduate onto the first rung of the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires open-wheel development ladder in 2018. Last year’s Team USA Scholarship winner, Oliver Askew, also secured that award, then went on to win the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda and another Mazda Scholarship, worth $325,000, to graduate into the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires in 2018. Aside from a brief foray into dirt-oval karting in his native Louisiana a few years ago, Jeansonne is contesting his first season of racing and has created quite an impression in the Lucas Oil Formula Car Race Series. Kotyk has a longer and more traditional background in karting, achieving much success with the Ocala Gran Prix team before gaining his first opportunity to

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. – The process of determining which two young drivers will carry the patriotic red, white and blue colors of the Team USA Scholarship at the Formula Ford Festival and the Walter Hayes Trophy events later this year in England – and earn an invitation to the end-of-season Mazda Road to Indy $200k USF2000 Scholarship Shootout – will continue with a shootout to be held at the M1 Concourse facility in Pontiac, Mich., on the weekend of September 8/9. The two days of evaluations, both on the track and off, will be held in conjunction with the Lucas Oil School of Racing. The Team USA Scholarship is one of the most successful and longest established driver development programs in the world. Almost a quarter of the drivers in this year’s Verizon IndyCar Series (five out of 21 full-season campaigners: Charlie Kimball, JR Hildebrand, Josef Newgarden, Conor Daly and Spencer Pigot), plus current sports car stand-outs Dane Cameron, Joel Miller, Joey Hand, Andy Lally, Bryan Sellers and Trent Hindman, are all Team USA alumni. Six drivers have been invited to participate in the shootout, drawn from a variety of categories and following individual interviews conducted during the recent Verizon IndyCar Series weekend at Mid-Ohio in front of an illustrious panel of judges representing virtually every aspect of the sport. The finalists are (with age, hometown and current racing affiliation): Sabré Cook, 23, Grand Junction, Colo., SCCA GPfour Championship Road Racing Elliot Finlayson, 21, Yorkville, Ill., SCCA GPfour Championship/F4 US Championship powered by Honda Aaron Jeansonne, 19, Sulphur, La., Lucas Oil School of Racing Jonathan Kotyk, 23, Atlantic Beach, Fla., F1600 Championship Series Jacob Loomis, 17, Corinth, Texas, F4 US Championship/Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda David Osborne, 21, Cincinnati, Ohio, F1600 Championship Series Each candidate will be

The Lucas Oil School of Racing has teamed up with Verizon IndyCar Series driver Pippa Mann to establish the Pippa Mann Scholarship for female racers looking to establish a career in motorsports. The first driver selected to participate is Abby McLaughlin, 18, from Mooresville, Ind., who will complete her Basic 2-Day October 23-24 at Sebring International Raceway. McLaughlin currently competes in the X30 Pro class for Top Kart USA/Team Empower in the SKUSA Pro Tour. Drivers selected for the Pippa Mann Scholarship will be offered a seat in either a Lucas Oil School of Racing Basic 2-Day or 2-Day Advanced Lapping program, based on their experience. During their program, they will work with Mann and Lucas Oil School of Racing instructors. When a driver is recognized as having the potential to succeed with further instruction and seat time, next step(s) will be made available within the program. “When I first moved to the US in 2009 to race in Indy Lights, there was a plethora of talented female racers in the ladder series with me, and 2-3 full time, or semi-regular female racers in the Verizon IndyCar series”, noted Mann. “Sadly, over the past few years, that number has dwindled, and currently we see no full time female athletes in IndyCar, I have been the only regular female competitor at the Indy 500. This is something I feel passionate about changing, and I’m extremely excited to work with the Lucas Oil School of Racing in this effort to get more women involved. I am looking forward to kicking this program off this fall with Abby, and to meet so many of the other talented female racers out there who are currently searching for an opportunity.” “Despite the progress made by drivers like Pippa, women are still seriously underrepresented in all