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 2019, ArmsUp Motorsports will look to continue its run of success in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship on the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires.
Benik Motorsport Group LLC joined the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires in 2018 after years of successful karting seasons in North America. The campaign in USF2000 will be bred 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 member Nick Mitchell, Benik Motorsport Group operates out of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where the team’s USF2000 cars are prepared. Combining the expertise of personnel from both teams, Benik Motorsport Group will provide great technical expertise when the Benik squad take to the track.
BN Racing burst onto the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires scene in 2017, in a partial season in USF2000 that included some headline results. The Chicago-based squad’s rise continued in 2018, adding an Indy Pro 2000 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 - winning the last eight championship titles in a row, and 12 in total.
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.
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 on the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires 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 the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship in the Road to Indy 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.
Marotti Racing has participated in the 2016 and 2017 Indianapolis 500 with Schmidt-Peterson Motorsports, as well as three other IndyCar races also with SPM. In 2016, Will Marotti became the first active pastor to help lead a team to the 500 (according to Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson). The team continues to work with an IndyCar team (not yet announced) and sponsors to participate in the 2019 Indy 500.
Miller Vinatieri (MVM) Motorsports, LLC is a professional auto racing team owned by three-time Indy 500 starter Dr. Jack Miller and four-time Super Bowl champion and Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri. The Indianapolis, Indiana based team has fielded multiple entries in the F4 United States Championship Powered by Honda program in the past, but has entered the Road to Indy in 2019 with a two-car program. With the goal to expand in 2019, Jack William Miller and Eduardo Barrichello, son of former Ferrari Formula One star Rubens Barrichello, will pilot the MVM entries in the 2019 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship
Pabst Racing has been preparing winning race cars since 1983. The Pabst team was started by Augie Pabst Jr., former sports car racing legend from the 1950s and early 1960s who won many races and championships throughout his career. Current President Augie Pabst III (a former driver as well) took over the business in 1991. By 1998 Augie III decided to focus on owning and maintaining a wide variety of winning racecars including SCCA Spec Racer, Shelby Can-Am, 911 Porsche, Ford Mustang GT-1 and primarily Van Diemen Formula 2000 cars.
Winners of the 2017 and 2018 USF2000 team championship, Pabst Racing will field squads in both the USF2000 Championship and the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires in 2019.
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