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MRTI at Portland International Raceway – Friday – Kirkwood betters Hildebrand’s USF2000 track record in pole run – Lindh, Fraga and Kohl the combatants for 2nd will start together – newcomer Eves impresses

For the fifth time this season, Kyle Kirkwood will start on the pole for a Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda race. If Kirkwood can win both races this weekend, he’ll tie J.R. Hildebrand’s season win mark at a dozen. Today,  the 2018 Champion bested a Hildebrand record, Kirkwood’s fastest lap of 1:10.958 seconds, […]

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MRTI at Portland International Raceway – Friday – Lindh leads lone USF2000 practice session

For the second time this season, Pabst Racing rookie Rasmus Lindh has led a USF2000 practice session with a fast lap of 1:11.013, only four-hundredths quicker than his teammate Kaylen Frederick. Lindh’s lap, along with the laps of 17 of the 18 drivers was under the track record of 1:12.748 set by J.R. Hildebrand in […]

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MRTI Update #8 from Mid-Ohio – Saturday – Frederick nabs pole for second USF2000 race – three of the top four are Pabst Racing drivers

By Steve Wittich For the second time, this season Pabst Racing sophomore Kaylen Frederick will start from the pole. Saturday afternoon’s race will be the fifth straight Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda race that the 16-year-old will start on the front row. Starting outside of Frederick is yesterday’s pole sitter Kyle Kirkwood. The […]

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MRTI Update #6 – Saturday – Kaylen Frederick grabs his first career USF2000 pole and goes a full second under the track record

By Steve Wittich A chaotic final five minutes of USF2000 qualifying ended with series sophomore Kaylen Frederick’s first pole and a new track record of 70.770. It is also the first Toronto pole for Pabst Racing. Joining Frederick on the front row with his best start of the year is Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 […]

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MRTI Update From Road America #14 – Kirkwood makes last lap pass to win chaotic USF2000 race

By Steve Wittich Coming into today’s USF2000 race Kyle Kirkwood had led every lap in the last three races. The championship leader’s impressive streak came to an end when he led only one lap. Thankfully for him, it was the right lap.  Kirkwood told TSO that it was satisfying to win from fourth, showing that […]

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Friday – MRTI Update #3 – USF2000 qualifying – Jose Sierra crushes track record on the way to his first career pole

Jose Sierra and DEForce Racing used a last-second flyer to snag the first pole of the 2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. It’s the first pole for the Angleton, Texas-based team and 18-year-old Mexican driver. Sierra’s quick lap of 1:12.549 is a new track record, besting a lap at 1:13.064 set by Matthew […]

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MRTI at Mid-Ohio – Saturday – USF2000 Race #2

By Steve Wittich “Pitter-patter, let’s get at ‘er” is a common refrain heard north of the border in Canada when it’s time to bear down, stop making excuses, and just get the job done. With three trips to the top step of the podium in the last four races, all-Canadian USF2000 team Exclusive Autosport, and […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Sunday – USF2000 Race #2 – notes and results – Thompson and VeeKay are both winners

By Steve Wittich For the third straight race in row the 1.786 mile, 11-Turn Exhibition Place street circuit was kind to fellow Canadian Parker Thompson. After dominating the race on Saturday, the Red Deer, Alberta native needed a little luck to climb to the top step of the podium on Sunday. The Exclusive Autosport veteran […]

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MRTI at Iowa Speedway – Saturday – USF2000 and Indy Lights practice results and notes.

After leading the majority of the 45-minute session, Kaylen Frederick had the top spot on the time sheets taken away from him by yesterday’s test session leader Calvin Ming in the final ten minutes. However a last minute lap at 133.138mph, allowed the 15-year old Team Pelfrey rookie to recapture the top spot. Ming, and […]

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Second and eighth place USF2000 entries disqualified – Team Pelfrey takes blame for unmalicious mistake.

By Steve Wittich A few hours after the first USF2000 Grand Prix of Indianapolis Presented by Royal Purple Supporting the Lupus Foundation took the checkered flag, USF2000 officials issued the official results that disqualified the No. 80 and No. 81 entries from the Team Pelfrey stable. Kaylen Frederick lost his second place finish, and Robert […]

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