2024 USF Juniors

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The 2024 USF Juniors presented by Continental Tire championship will be the third season of USF Juniors. The season features a six-round 16-race calendar, which begins on April 5 at NOLA Motorsports Park and concludes on August 25 at the Portland International Raceway.

The championship serves as the bottom rung of the IndyCar Series's USF Pro Championships ladder system.

Series news[edit]

  • The scholarship for the champion to move up to the USF2000 Championship was slightly increased to $263,700.[1]
  • All three ladder series organized by Andersen Promotions will end their long-running affiliation with Cooper Tires as supplier and presenting partner. Continental will be the new tire supplier and title partner of the series.[2]

Drivers and teams[edit]

Team No. Drivers Rounds
United States DEForce Racing 15 Brazil Vinícius Tessaro[3] 1–3
United States Jeshua Alianell[4] 4–5
16 Brazil Bruno Ribeiro[5] All
17 United States Leandro Juncos[6] All
18 United States Brady Golan[7] All
United States DEForce Racing Driver Development 19 Mexico Patricio Gonzalez[8] All
20 Mexico Rodrigo Gonzalez[8] All
United States Exclusive Autosport 90 Brazil João Vergara[9] All
91 United States Evan Cooley[10] All
92 United States Jack Jeffers[11] All
93 United States Giovanni Cabrera[12] 4–5
95 Canada Anthony Martella[13] All
United States International Motorsport 24 United States Augusto Soto-Schirripa[14] All
25 Israel Ariel Elkin[15] All
United States Jay Howard Driver Development 3 United States G3 Argyros[16] All
4 United States Hudson Potter[17] All
5 United States Ava Dobson[18] All
6 United States Aiden Potter[19] All
7 Canada Ayden Ingratta[20] All
8 France Timothy Carel[21] All
9 United Kingdom Liam McNeilly[22] All
United States Skip Barber Racing 50 United States Jeshua Alianell[23] 1–3
United States Velocity Racing Development 10 United States Michael Suco[24] All
33 United States Max Taylor[25] 1–5
70 United States Christian Cameron[26] 1–5
98 United States Sebastian Wheldon[27] All
United States Zanella Racing 12 United States Diego Guiot[28] All
13 Venezuela Alex Popow[29] 1–3
United States Teddy Musella 4–5
55 Brazil Leonardo Escorpioni[30] All

Schedule[edit]

Round Date Race name Circuit Location
1 April 5–7 Continental Tire Grand Prix of Louisiana NOLA Motorsports Park Avondale, Louisiana
2
3
4 April 25–28 Continental Tire Grand Prix of Alabama Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama
5
6 June 14–16 VIR Grand Prix Virginia International Raceway Alton, Virginia
7
8
9 July 4–7 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
10
11 August 9–11 Grand Prix of Road America Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
12
13
14 August 22–25 Portland Grand Prix Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon
15
16

Race results[edit]

Rd. Track Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race winner
Driver Team
1 NOLA Motorsports Park United Kingdom Liam McNeilly United States Sebastian Wheldon United States Sebastian Wheldon United States Sebastian Wheldon Velocity Racing Development
2 United States Sebastian Wheldon United Kingdom Liam McNeilly United States Sebastian Wheldon
United Kingdom Liam McNeilly
United Kingdom Liam McNeilly Jay Howard Driver Development
3 United Kingdom Liam McNeilly United States Sebastian Wheldon United States Sebastian Wheldon United States Sebastian Wheldon Velocity Racing Development
4 Barber Motorsports Park Israel Ariel Elkin United States Jack Jeffers Israel Ariel Elkin Israel Ariel Elkin International Motorsport
5 Israel Ariel Elkin Israel Ariel Elkin Israel Ariel Elkin Israel Ariel Elkin International Motorsport
6 Virginia International Raceway
7
8
9 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
10
11 Road America
12
13
14 Portland International Raceway
15
16

Championship standings[edit]

Drivers' Championship[edit]

Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th   16th   17th   18th   19th   20th+ 
Points 30 25 22 19 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
  • The driver who qualifies on pole is awarded one additional point.
  • One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in a race.
  • One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.
Pos Driver NOL ALA VIR MDO ROA POR Points
1 United States Sebastian Wheldon 1* 2* 1* 6 2 131
2 Israel Ariel Elkin 5 3 4 1* 1* 123
3 United Kingdom Liam McNeilly 2 1* 3 4 24 101
4 United States Max Taylor 3 6 2 8 5 92
5 United States Augusto Soto-Schirripa 26 4 6 3 3 79
6 United States Jack Jeffers 6 5 7 2 19 73
7 United States Leandro Juncos 12 12 14 7 4 58
8 United States Evan Cooley 14 9 11 5 21 48
9 Canada Ayden Ingratta 9 7 23 13 8 48
10 Brazil João Vergara 10 24 13 9 6 47
11 Brazil Vinícius Tessaro 4 11 5 46
12 United States Christian Cameron 13 13 10 25 11 38
13 Brazil Bruno Ribeiro 11 8 9 19 DNS 37
14 Brazil Leonardo Escorpioni 8 14 8 20 23 35
15 United States G3 Argyros 7 16 22 11 22 31
16 Canada Anthony Martella 17 10 12 15 DNS 30
17 United States Teddy Musella 10 7 25
18 Mexico Rodrigo González 20 17 21 14 10 24
19 Mexico Patricio González 19 20 16 24 9 21
20 United States Michael Suco 22 18 15 17 15 20
21 United States Brady Golan 15 19 20 12 20 19
22 United States Aidan Potter 24 25 19 18 12 16
23 France Timothy Carel 16 DNS DNS 23 14 13
24 United States Ava Dobson 18 15 DNS 21 DNS 10
25 United States Jeshua Alianell Wth Wth Wth 26 13 9
26 United States Giovanni Cabrera 16 17 9
27 United States Diego Guiot 21 21 18 22 18 9
28 United States Hudson Potter 23 23 24 DNS 16 8
29 Venezuela Alex Popow 25 22 17 6

Teams' championship[edit]

Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th+ 
Points 22 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
  • Single car teams received 3 bonus points per race as an equivalency to multi-car teams
  • Only the best two results counted for teams fielding more than two entries

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2024 USF Pro Championships Schedule and Scholarships Announced". www.usfpro2000.com. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  2. ^ "USF Pro Championships Confirms New Presenting Partner". www.usfpro2000.com. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
  3. ^ Wood, Ida (December 23, 2023). "Brazilian F4 Champion Tessaro Picks USF Juniors For Next Step In Career". Formulascout.com. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  4. ^ "Jeshua Alianell Joins Skip Barber Racing for 2024 USF Juniors". usfjuniors.com. April 1, 2024.
  5. ^ Wood, Ida (December 5, 2023). "Champion Giaffone leads USF Juniors stars securing USF2000 seats". Formulascout.com. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
  6. ^ @deforceracing (February 7, 2024). "🔵 WELCOME TO DEForce, Leandro! Leandro Juncos 🇺🇸🇦🇷 signs with DEForce Racing for the 2024 USF Juniors Presented by Continental Tire Championship. Let's do this! 💪🏻" – via Instagram.
  7. ^ "WELCOME BACK, BRADY!". X. December 4, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
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  12. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
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  14. ^ "Augusto Soto-Schirripa Joins InterMS in USF Juniors". Usfjuniors.com. February 8, 2024.
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  17. ^ "Jay Howard Driver Development Adds Hudson Potter to USF Juniors Campaign". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  18. ^ "Ava Dobson Joins Jay Howard Driver Development for 2024". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  19. ^ "Jay Howard Driver Development Adds Aidan Potter for 2024". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
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  21. ^ "Timmy Carel Joins Jay Howard Driver Development for 2024". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
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  24. ^ "MICHAEL SUCO JOINS VRD RACING FOR HIS DEBUT SEASON IN USF JUNIORS". Usfjuniors.com. January 24, 2024.
  25. ^ "NOLA Motorsports Park Set for Busy USF Pro Championships Weekend". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
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  27. ^ "Andretti Development Driver Sebastian Wheldon to Make USF Juniors Debut With VRD Racing". andrettiautosport.com. February 6, 2024.
  28. ^ "Zanella Racing Confirms Diego Guiot for USF Juniors Program". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  29. ^ "Add a third car to the Zanella Racing line-up for the @USFJuniors opener here at NOLA. The team has acquired one of the Team Tonis cars and will run Floridian Alex Popow in a late entry. Popow tested with Exclusive Autosport in December at Sebring and was on pace". X. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  30. ^ "Zanella Racing Announces Leonardo Escorpioni for USF Juniors Program". www.usfjuniors.com. Retrieved November 30, 2023.

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