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HOMESTEAD, Fla. – A new Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires racing season kicks off this coming week on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. The event, which will commence with practice and qualifying on Thursday, March 12, will be held on a challenging 1.8-mile downtown street circuit in conjunction with the opening round of the NTT IndyCar Series. Today, a few hundred miles to the south, teams and drivers on the first two of three rungs of the highly acclaimed open-wheel racing development ladder – the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship – completed their preparations with the traditional two-day “Spring Training” test at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Canadian-owned Exclusive Autosport team laid down a marker as last year’s USF2000 champion Braden Eves, from New Albany, Ohio, emerged fastest of the Indy Pro 2000 Championship contingent, while Prescott Campbell, from Newport Beach, Calif., set the pace in USF2000 testing. The third and final step on the ladder, Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, will be in action tomorrow on the 2.21-mile road course situated an hour or so south of Miami, Fla. In all, more than $2.7 million in scholarships and prizes will be distributed among the three open-wheel development series this year, providing opportunities for talented young race car drivers to work their way from the grassroots of the sport all the way to the NTT IndyCar Series and the Indianapolis 500. Campbell Leads the Way in USF2000 A 19-year-old motorsport engineering student at Oxford-Brookes University in England, Campbell earned his opportunity to graduate onto the first step of the Road to Indy by pocketing a scholarship valued at $75,000 for winning last year’s Lucas Oil School Formula Car Series. Clearly he is intent on putting that to good use.

The Lucas Oil School of Racing is pleased to announce the entry list for the inaugural Cooper Tires Karting Scholarship Shoot-out, December 12-14 at Sebring International Raceway: Name, Age, Hometown Matthew Barry, 15, Innisfil, Ontario, Canada Christian Cabangca, 20, Los Banos, Calif. Prescott Campbell, 17, Newport Beach, Calif. Brett Carr, 25, Los Altos, Calif. Matt Christensen, 13, Orlando, Fla. Nicholas d’Orlando, 15, Hartsdale, N.Y. David Dalton, 20, Montclair, N.J. Jack Dorsey, 15, Carmel, Ind. Elio Giovane, 13, Miami, Fla. Joshua Hansen, 15, Burlington, Wis. Alexander Koreiba, 21, Reed Springs, Mo. Joey Kowaleski, 20, Delran, N.J. Maks Kowalski, 16, Barrington, Ill. Kevin Lanyi, 14, Madison, Ala. Jackson Lee, 16, Avon, Ind. Makala Marks, 16, Indianapolis, Ind. Matthew Mockabee, 15, Dayton, Ohio Bryson Morris, 14, Hickory, Tenn. Grant Palmer, 17, St. Charles, Mo. Tommy Parry, 30, San Francisco, Calif. Andrew Patterson, 15, Dayton, Ohio Matthew Roberts, 22, Manassas, Va. Thomas Schrage, 13, Bethel, Ohio Alexander Searle, 15, Plantation, Fla. Giovanni Shadd, 19, San Jose, Calif. Lucas Smalec, 13, Glenview, Ill. Russell Soto, 18, Jersey City, N.J. Hans Thomsen, 18, Mendham, N.J. Brian Van Cleve, 17, Prosper, Tex. Ben Varner, 18, Metamora, Mich. “Congratulations to all the karters who have earned their place in the inaugural 2018 Cooper Tires Karting Scholarship Shoot-out,” said Chris Pantani, Director of Motorsports for Cooper Tire. “Seeing karters as young as 13 years old competing at this level is amazing. The Lucas Oil School of Racing has created this program to educate and guide the future of racing, and we are excited to watch these young drivers, including those who progress to the Road to Indy development series in the coming years.” “We can’t thank Chris Pantani and Cooper Tire enough for their support of the Shoot-out, and all they do for up-and-coming racers,” said Lucas Oil School

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (September 4, 2018) – Six finalists for this year’s coveted Team USA Scholarships will convene this week at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., for a two-day shootout. Ultimately, two American youngsters will be invited to represent their nation at the Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy events later this fall in England. They will also earn an invitation to the Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 $200K Scholarship Shootout, the winner of which in December will secure a $200,000 prize to enter the 2019 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. Courtesy Art Fleischmann This year’s winners will follow in the footsteps of an illustrious alumni list headed by Jimmy Vasser and Bryan Herta, who claimed the first two scholarships in 1990 and 1991, respectively. Other notable recipients include 2004 Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice, current Verizon IndyCar Series drivers Josef Newgarden, Charlie Kimball, Spencer Pigot and Conor Daly, as well as sports car champions Dane Cameron, Connor De Phillippi, Joey Hand, Trent Hindman, Andy Lally and Bryan Sellers. This week’s shootout will take place on the Road America short course in conjunction with the Lucas Oil School of Racing and long-time Team USA Scholarship partner Cooper Tires. The six finalists (listed below with age, hometown and current racing affiliation) represent a variety of racing categories and were selected from an original group of 10 candidates following assessments carried out during the Verizon IndyCar Series event at Mid-Ohio in late July: •    Dario Cangialosi, 18, Chester, N.J., F1600 Championship Series •    Jake Craig, 20, Mission Viejo, Calif., Toyo Tires F1600 Ontario (Canada) •    Braden Eves, 19, New Albany, Ohio, F4 U.S. Championship powered by Honda •    Nicky Hays, 16, Huntington Beach, Calif., SCCA Formula F •    Colin Mullan, 16, Danville, Calif., IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge