By Patrick Stephan
Kiko Porto – Photo credit: Gavin Baker Photography/Road to Indy
For the second time today, the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship took to the Road America circuit for qualifying.
Lots of drivers again waiting before heading out, though the track was pretty busy by the time we got to five minutes remaining. At this point, Kiko Porto was P1 with a lap of 2:10.8258, followed by Prescott Campbell and Michael d’Orlando.
Nolan Siegel jumped to P2 with 90 seconds remaining in the session, putting DEForce Racing in the Top 3 spots with Porto, Siegel and Campbell.
When the checkered fell and everyone finished their final lap, Porto’s had his second pole of the day. He came in to the weekend 7 points behind Yuven Sundaramoorthy in the championship chase, but with the pair of poles is now just 5 back as they head to their first race tomorrow morning at 11:15am Central Time.
Sundaramoorthy qualified just 9th for race 2 and will start 5th in race 1, so he will certainly be one to watch tomorrow and Sunday as he tries to hang on to his point lead.
Michael Myers again missed the qualifying session as we’ve now heard from Rob Howden (broadcast) that he suffered some wing and rear suspension damage in an incident in today’s practice session.
Race 2 Road America Qualifying Results:
| Pos | Car # | Driver | Best Time | Diff | Total Laps | Best Lap | Gap | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | Kiko | Porto | 2:10.8258 | 7 | 4 | 0.000 | DEForce | Racing | |||
| 2 | 10 | Nolan | Siegel | 2:11.0489 | 0.2231 | 7 | 6 | 0.2231 | DEForce | Racing | ||
| 3 | 11 | Prescott | Campbell | 2:11.1961 | 0.3703 | 6 | 4 | 0.1472 | DEForce | Racing | ||
| 4 | 4 | Michael | d’Orlando | 2:11.2097 | 0.3839 | 4 | 2 | 0.0136 | Cape | Motorsports | ||
| 5 | 24 | Josh | Pierson | 2:11.3603 | 0.5345 | 6 | 4 | 0.1506 | Pabst | Racing | ||
| 6 | 33 | Josh | Green | 2:11.5109 | 0.6851 | 8 | 5 | 0.1506 | Turn | 3 | Motorsport | |
| 7 | 2 | Thomas | Nepveu | 2:11.6342 | 0.8084 | 4 | 2 | 0.1233 | Cape | Motorsports | ||
| 8 | 5 | Spike | Kohlbecker | 2:11.6420 | 0.8162 | 5 | 3 | 0.0078 | Ignite | Autosports | w/Cape | Motorsports |
| 9 | 22 | Yuven | Sundaramoorthy | 2:11.6717 | 0.8459 | 6 | 4 | 0.0297 | Pabst | Racing | ||
| 10 | 19 | Simon | Sikes | 2:11.7209 | 0.8951 | 6 | 2 | 0.0492 | Legacy | Autosport | ||
| 11 | 1 | Ely | Navarro | 2:11.7222 | 0.8964 | 8 | 7 | 0.0013 | DEForce | Racing | ||
| 12 | 6 | Bijoy | Garg | 2:11.7865 | 0.9607 | 8 | 8 | 0.0643 | Jay | Howard | Driver | Development |
| 13 | 92 | Matt | Round-Garrido | 2:11.8276 | 1.0018 | 8 | 5 | 0.0411 | 21:57.5644 | Exclusive | Autosport | |
| 14 | 23 | Jace | Denmark | 2:11.8307 | 1.0049 | 6 | 2 | 0.0031 | Pabst | Racing | ||
| 15 | 44 | Christian | Brooks | 2:11.9143 | 1.0885 | 6 | 6 | 0.0836 | Exclusive | Autosport | ||
| 16 | 34 | Dylan | Christie | 2:11.9469 | 1.1211 | 8 | 1 | 0.0326 | Turn | 3 | Motorsport | |
| 17 | 29 | Erik | Evans | 2:12.0633 | 1.2375 | 5 | 3 | 0.1164 | Velocity | Racing | Development | |
| 18 | 99 | Myles | Rowe | 2:12.3209 | 1.4951 | 6 | 2 | 0.2576 | Force | Indy | ||
| 19 | 3 | Evan | Stamer | 2:12.3526 | 1.5268 | 5 | 2 | 0.0317 | Ignite | Autosports | w/Cape | Motorsports |
| 20 | 8 | Jackson | Lee | 2:12.3542 | 1.5284 | 4 | 3 | 0.0016 | Jay | Howard | Driver | Development |
| 21 | 9 | Peter | Vodanovich | 2:12.5087 | 1.6829 | 8 | 8 | 0.1545 | Jay | Howard | Driver | Development |
| 22 | 91 | Billy | Frazer | 2:12.6009 | 1.7751 | 8 | 6 | 0.0922 | Exclusive | Autosport | ||
| 23 | 63 | Trey | Burke | 2:12.7169 | 1.8911 | 8 | 8 | 0.1160 | Joe | Dooling | Autosports | |
| 24 | 16 | Kent | Vaccaro | 2:13.1860 | 2.3602 | 7 | 5 | 0.4691 | Miller | Vinatieri | Motorsports | |
| 25 | 42 | Michael | Myers | No | Time | — | –.— | — | Michael | Myers | Racing |