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MonteCristo wrote: 2 years ago Manuel Sulaiman secures 2022 Indy Lights seat with HMD Motorsport

https://formulascout.com/manuel-sulaima ... orts/89853

Still nothing from Exclusive. I'd count them out now. But in any case it's at a decent 13 cars now, albeit with 5 of the cars run by HMD!
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Antonio Serravalle with Abel Motorsports for one or two races in Lights.

https://formulascout.com/abel-motorspor ... ener/89919

Always enjoy the odd random in feeder categories.
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Cool.
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MonteCristo wrote: 2 years ago

Cool.
Great story.... Loved the bit about having just driven the hauler to arace track and having a nap in the truck when he got a random phone call from a number he did not recognise, the voice on the other end says Hi this is Roger Penske.... WTF. Get woken up to the words Hi this is Roger Penske, get your ass on a plane and come see me and lets talk. I would have assumed it was someone having a laugh with me and told them to stop messing around bugger off. :haha:

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Lights qualifying results from St Pete:
Rank Car Driver Name C/E/T Time Speed Diff Gap Best Lap Total Laps
1 26 Lundqvist, Linus D/ /C 01:05.7856 98.502 --.---- --.---- 19 28
2 28 Rasmussen, Christian (R) D/ /C 01:05.8080 98.468 0.0224 0.0224 20 25
3 27 McElrea, Hunter (R) D/ /C 01:05.9255 98.293 0.1399 0.1175 25 27
4 2 Robb, Sting Ray D/ /C 01:05.9283 98.289 0.1427 0.0028 21 28
5 68 Frost, Danial D/ /C 01:06.0430 98.118 0.2574 0.1147 25 28
6 24 Pedersen, Benjamin D/ /C 01:06.2077 97.874 0.4221 0.1647 18 27
7 83 Brabham, Matthew D/ /C 01:06.2305 97.840 0.4449 0.0228 19 27
8 21 Simpson, Kyffin (R) D/ /C 01:06.4293 97.547 0.6437 0.1988 20 25
9 51 Abel, Jacob (R) D/ /C 01:06.6003 97.297 0.8147 0.1710 18 26
10 59 Sulaiman, Manuel D/ /C 01:06.8476 96.937 1.0620 0.2473 8 13
11 7 Bogle, Christian D/ /C 01:06.8717 96.902 1.0861 0.0241 20 26
12 12 Roe Jr, James (R) D/ /C 01:06.9903 96.730 1.2047 0.1186 21 26
13 11 Serravalle, Antonio D/ /C 01:07.4548 96.064 1.6692 0.4645 24 24
14 99 Francis Jr, Ernie (R) D/ /C 01:07.9249 95.399 2.1393 0.4701 8 9
Report: https://www.indycar.com/news/2022/02/02 ... ghts-quals

Given he's been a tin-topper his whole career, can't expect too much from Francis Jr at this stage, but hopefully he makes up some ground in coming races.
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MonteCristo wrote: 2 years ago Well, Exclusive Autosport have announced their Indy Pro 2000 Championship driver.

Like to leave it late, with about 2.5 weeks until the season opener. They previously announced last year that they'd have two Lights cars. So fingers crossed that happens still! Not holding too much hope at this stage.

But while we're talking Indy Pro 2000 Championship... This is what it looks like at the moment:

DEForce Racing
Kiko Porto
Nolan Siegel

Exclusive Autosport
Louis Foster
Christian Brooks

Jay Howard Driver Development
Wyatt Brichacek
Braden Eves

Juncos Hollinger Racing
Reece Gold

Legacy Autosport
Casey Putsch (an older YouTuber!)

Pabst Racing
Yuven Sundaramoorthy
Jordan Missig

Turn 3 Motorsport
Jonathan Browne
Josh Green

Newman Wachs Racing
???? Have bought two cars though.

Not a huge grid either, but not dire.

Meanwhile, the bottom-rung USF2000 has got a decent 15 full time cars announced.
We've already got a YouTuber (who I note didn't start at St Pete...?).

But Indy Pro 2000 just got a whole lot more influential with Instagrammer Lindsay Brewer joining the field. Maybe in Casey's seat?
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https://racer.com/2022/05/09/pruett-the ... conundrum/

Myles Rowe leads the 2022 U.S. F2000 National Championship, but might be out of it after Sunday due to lack of funding.
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MonteCristo wrote: 1 year ago https://racer.com/2022/05/09/pruett-the ... conundrum/

Myles Rowe leads the 2022 U.S. F2000 National Championship, but might be out of it after Sunday due to lack of funding.
A bit of a sad story.... a 50% win rate and leading the title race but cant find backing. Nice to see that Roger Penske seems to have been an anonymous donor that got him to this stage of the year with a 200K drop into Rowe's "Fund Me" account.
Hope he manages to secure the 175K he needs to finish the year.

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Everso Biggyballies wrote: 1 year ago
MonteCristo wrote: 1 year ago https://racer.com/2022/05/09/pruett-the ... conundrum/

Myles Rowe leads the 2022 U.S. F2000 National Championship, but might be out of it after Sunday due to lack of funding.
A bit of a sad story.... a 50% win rate and leading the title race but cant find backing. Nice to see that Roger Penske seems to have been an anonymous donor that got him to this stage of the year with a 200K drop into Rowe's "Fund Me" account.
Hope he manages to secure the 175K he needs to finish the year.

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And let the record show that after another solid weekend with a win in R2 following a lap 1 tangle in R1, Linus left IMS with an increased series lead.
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John wrote: 1 year ago https://racer.com/2022/05/16/rowes-usf2 ... e-funding/

Rowe's season saved.
Nice one Roger :twothumbs:.
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MonteCristo wrote: 1 year ago
John wrote: 1 year ago https://racer.com/2022/05/16/rowes-usf2 ... e-funding/

Rowe's season saved.
Nice one Roger :twothumbs:.
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Something different: Indy Pro 2000 and USF2000 races at the Indianapolis Raceway Park oval.

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Lundqvist sweeps Detroit qualifying.
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