ArmsUp Motorsports has been campaigning F2000 cars since its inception in 1998, growing from a one-car prep shop to maintaining a team of 10 F2000 cars. Team owner Gregg Borland has guided the Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin-based team to race wins and championships in SCCA National Formula Continental and Formula Atlantic. No stranger to pro racing, ArmsUp Motorsports has scored podium finishes in the Toyota Atlantic Championship, Cooper Tires USF2000 Zetec Championship and the F2000 Championship Series. In 2018, ArmsUp Motorsports will look to continue its run of success in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda.
BN Racing burst onto the Mazda Road to Indy scene in 2017, in a partial season in USF2000 that included some headline results. The Chicago-based squad’s rise continued in 2018, adding a Pro Mazda Championship team alongside its USF2000 team with a two-car effort.
In a little over a year BN Racing has become an established front running team in both catergories, with race wins, podiums, pole positions and lap records strewn across its impressive first full season in 2018. BN Racing encompasses a professional, modern approach to racing and an instilled desire for success.
The team is led by Englishman Bryn Nuttall, who has an extensive background in many areas of motorsport, including working as a driver coach and manager, mechanic, engineer and engine specialist with most notable success to date in winning the 2015 X30 World Championships.
With leadership from brothers Nicholas and Dominic Cape, Cape Motorsports campaigns cars in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda and the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires.
The goal of Cape Motorsports is to provide unmatched driver development both on and off the track. It is difficult for a young driver to jump into a professional series and win, regardless of talent. Through coaching and mentoring, Cape Motorsports provides young drivers with as much knowledge of motorsports to become as successful as possible.
Exclusive Autosport (EA) is a professional racing team dedicated to the success of its drivers in open-wheel formula car competition in North America. EA operate teams in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda, the Toyo Tires F1600 Championship and the F1600 Canada (Formerly Formula Tour 1600) series in Canada. Exclusive’s drivers have secured numerous driver championships, race wins, podium finishes, pole positions, Rookie of the Year championships and nominations for both the Team USA Scholarship and Team Canada F1600 scholarship program. Exclusive Autosport is the Canadian Spectrum factory team and the Canadian importer and distributor for Spectrum Race Cars manufactured in Australia. Exclusive Management Inc., the team’s parent company, has enjoyed great success in both open-wheel and sports car racing and has worked with standout drivers.
Prominent karting and junior formula team Jay Howard Driver Development (JHDD) will join the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires on a full-time basis in 2019. Led by Verizon IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 veteran Jay Howard, who himself has won championships in both USF2000 and Indy Lights, the team’s expansion furthers its mission of advancing drivers from the karting ranks to junior open-wheel categories.
The expansion to USF2000 and the IndyCar/Road to Indy paddock will represent a homecoming for British-born Howard, who claimed the USF2000 championship in 2005 and added the Indy Lights title one year later. Howard has driven for several teams over the years, including Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and Sarah Fisher Racing, and most recently competed in the 102nd Running of the Indianapolis 500.
Legacy Autosport is a race team ran by the Meyer family, whose grandfather and great grandfather was Louis Meyer, the first three-time champion of the Indianapolis 500. In 2018 the legacy perseveres, with the younger Meyers who continue the winning ways of the family. Legacy Autosport is focused on driver development with a goal of helping drivers become successful in the Mazda Road to Indy and beyond.
Legacy Autosport is based in Lebanon, Indiana. Located just outside of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They are in the heart of the Motor Racing Capital of the World. Louis “Mike” Meyer has a season of experience in USF2000 in the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires as a winning crew chief for Alex Baron, including the Indianapolis Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Mike, the Owner/Team Manager/Crew Chief, has spent the previous 13 years in Indy Lights, winning five championships, countless race wins, pole positions and four Freedom 100 wins at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Louis “Butch” Meyer brings a story book career in automobile racing which includes building IndyCar motors with several manufactures and teams, five years as technical director of the Indy Lights program and ownership of an Indy Lights team.
2018 will mark Team Benik’s second season in the single-seater racing series after years of successful karting seasons in North America. The campaign in USF2000 will be bread through a similar program to the top line US Benik Kart team which has taken several drivers to success. Owned and operated by long-time karting industry members Ben Cruttenden and Nick Mitchell, Team Benik operates out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where the team’s USF2000 cars are prepared. Combining the expertise of personnel from both teams, Team Benik will provide great technical expertise when the Benik squad take to the track.
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