2022 USF Juniors

The 2022 USF Juniors championship was the inaugural season of USF Juniors. It became the new first rung of the Road to Indy ladder.^[1] The season featured a six-round 16-race calendar, which began April 23 at Ozarks International Raceway and concluded on September 18 at the Circuit of the Americas.^[2]

Drivers and teams

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Barker Racing	12	Ethan Barker	5–16
Crosslink Kiwi Motorsports	28	Lucas Fecury	5–10, 14–16
	31	Titus Sherlock^[3]	All
	37	Madison Aust	8–10, 14–16
	39	Bryson Morris	14–16
	44	Bailey Cruse	14–16
	66	Ryan Shehan	5–7, 14–16
	87	Jeremy Fairbairn^[4]	All
DC Autosport w/Cape Motorsports	24	Earl Tucker^[5]	1–10
	61	Nicholas d'Orlando^[6]	1–4
	71	Ethan Ho^[7]	All
DEForce Racing	16	Quinn Armstrong	5–16
	17	Mac Clark^[8]	All
	18	Maxwell Jamieson^[9]	All
	19	Jake Bonilla^[9]	All
Future Star Racing	8	David Burketh^[10]	3–4
IGY6 Motorsports	9	Bianca Bustamante^[11]	1–4
IGY6 Motorsports	25	Jacob Bolen^[9]	1–4, 11–13
International Motorsport	21	Maite Cáceres	11–16
	23	André Castro^[12]	All
	32	Giorgio Carrara	8–16
	53	Alan Isambard^[13]	1–13
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development	67	Elliot Cox^[9]	1–13
Velocity Racing Development	7	Nikita Johnson^[14]	All
	14	Sam Corry^[9]	All
	20	Alessandro De Tullio^[15]	All
	55	Noah Ping^[16]	1–4

Schedule

Round	Date	Race name	Circuit	Location
1	April 22–24	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of The Ozarks¹	Ozarks International Raceway	Gravois Mills, MO
2
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3	April 28–29	Andersen Interior Contracting Grand Prix of Alabama	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, AL
4	April 28–29	Andersen Interior Contracting Grand Prix of Alabama	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, AL
5	June 3–5	Cooper Tires VIR Grand Prix	Virginia International Raceway	Alton, VA
6
7
8	July 7–9	Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, OH
9
10
11	July 29–31	Fleet Farm Grand Prix of Road America	Road America	Elkhart Lake, WI
12
13
14	September 16–18	Cooper Tires Circuit of the Americas Grand Prix Finale	Circuit of the Americas	Austin, TX
15
16

¹ The round at Ozarks International Raceway was scheduled to have 3 races, but the third race was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. To make up for the cancelled race, a third race was added for the event at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.^[17]

Race results

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race Winner
Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Driver	Team
1	R1	Ozarks International Raceway	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
2	R2		Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
-	-		Race cancelled due to inclement weather
3	R1	Barber Motorsports Park	Mac Clark	Sam Corry	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
4	R2	Barber Motorsports Park	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
5	R1	Virginia International Raceway	Jeremy Fairbairn	Alessandro De Tullio	Sam Corry	Alessandro De Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
6	R2		Mac Clark	Alessandro De Tullio	Mac Clark	Alessandro De Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
7	R3		Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Alessandro De Tullio	Alessandro De Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
8	R1	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Mac Clark	Alessandro De Tullio	Mac Clark	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
9	R2		Mac Clark	Alessandro De Tullio	Mac Clark	Alessandro De Tullio	Velocity Racing Development
10	R3		Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Mac Clark	Mac Clark	DEForce Racing
11	R1	Road America	Mac Clark	Sam Corry	Sam Corry	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
12	R2		Sam Corry	Mac Clark	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development
13	R3		Sam Corry	Alessandro De Tulio	Sam Corry	Alessandro De Tulio	Velocity Racing Development
14	R1	Circuit of the Americas	Sam Corry	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development
15	R2		Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Bryson Morris	Sam Corry	Velocity Racing Development
16	R3		Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Nikita Johnson	Velocity Racing Development

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th+
Points	30	25	22	19	17	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

The driver who qualifies on pole is awarded one additional point.
One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in a race.
One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.

Pos	Driver	OIR			ALA		VIR			MDO			ROA			COA			Points
1	Mac Clark	1*	1*	C	1*	1*	4	10*	2	2*	2*	1*	15	3	4	2	3	3	393
2	Sam Corry	3	3	C	2	4	3*	12	3	1	4	5	1*	2	2*	4	1	2	369
3	Nikita Johnson	2	6	C	3	5	2	13	4	4	3	2	3	1*	3	1*	10	1*	352
4	Alessandro De Tullio	6	2	C	4	DNS	1	1	1*	3	1	3	2	DSQ	1	10	14	9	314
5	Andre Castro	4	4	C	5	2	10	6	8	8	7	12	12	4	6	17	5	7	233
6	Jeremy Fairbairn	5	13	C	6	3	11	14	10	6	6	7	17	13	8	6	4	14	201
7	Ethan Ho	12	7	C	7	8	6	16	9	9	13	8	13	5	7	16	17	4	182
8	Titus Sherlock	11	5	C	16	9	5	2	6	12	16	10	6	15	15	8	18	12	178
9	Jake Bonilla	8	14	C	10	16	9	4	7	14	18	16	7	10	10	18	6	11	160
10	Alan Isambard	7	15	C	18	DNS	7	3	5	18	8	6	5	6	9				151
11	Elliot Cox	9	8	C	11	11	12	5	16	7	10	11	4	16	16				140
12	Quinn Armstrong						8	7	12	13	9	9	16	8	11	9	19	8	123
13	Giorgio Carrara									5	5	4	8	9	5	11	15	10	122
14	Ethan Barker						13	9	15	11	11	17	9	7	17	7	7	19	110
15	Maxwell Jamieson	DNS	DNS	C	14	13	17	17	DNS	17	14	13	10	11	14	15	8	13	97
16	Ryan Shehan						16	8	11							5	9	6	72
17	Lucas Fecury						14	11	13	10	12	14				13	16	16	70
18	Bryson Morris															3	2*	5	65
19	Earl Tucker	13	9	C	13	14	15	15	14	16	17	DNS							63
20	Noah Ping	10	12	C	9	7													46
21	Maite Cáceres												11	12	13	19	11	15	45
22	Nicholas d'Orlando	DNS	11	C	8	6													39
23	Jacob Bolen	15	DNS	C	17	15							14	14	12				39
24	Madison Aust									15	15	15				14	12	17	38
25	Bianca Bustamante	14	10	C	15	12													32
26	David Burketh				12	10													20
27	Bailey Cruse															12	13	18	20
Pos	Driver	OIR			ALA		VIR			MDO			ROA			COA			Points

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	4th & 5th place
Light Blue	6th–10th place
Dark Blue	Finished (Outside Top 10)
Purple	Did not finish
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Brown	Withdrawn (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
White	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position (1 point)
Italics	Ran fastest race lap (1 point)
*	Led most race laps (1 point) Not awarded if more than one driver leads most laps
Rookie

References

^ "Meet USF Juniors, the newest entry-level feeder series in the United States". F1 Feeder Series. September 30, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
^ Wood, Ida (November 8, 2021). "USF Juniors unveils calendar for inaugural season". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "NEW SERIES, NEW DRIVERS AND NEW TRACK THIS WEEKEND FOR CROSSLINK KIWI MOTORSPORT". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "JEREMY FAIRBAIRN JOINS CROSSLINK KIWI MOTORSPORT IN USF JUNIORS". usfjuniors.com. Andersen =Promotions. April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "DC AUTOSPORT WITH CAPE MOTORSPORTS SIGNS EARL TUCKER". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. March 9, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "NICHOLAS D'ORLANDO SET FOR DC AUTOSPORT WITH CAPE MOTORSPORTS DEBUT". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "Ethan Ho gets USF Juniors ride". SpeedSport.com. Turn 3 Media, LLC. April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "US F4 runner-up Mac Clark makes sideways move to USF Juniors". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. February 8, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e USF Juniors Ozark International Raceway Entry List
^ USF Juniors Barber Motorsports Park Entry List
^ Yumol, David Tristan (April 21, 2022). "Bianca Bustamante to race in USF Juniors tilt ahead of W Series debut". cnnphilippines.com. Cable News Network. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ Wood, Ida (April 19, 2022). "Team USA's Andre Castro steps down from USF2000 to USF Juniors". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "Karters Garat, Isambard moving to USF Juniors along with their team". racer.com. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. December 17, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "NIKITA JOHNSON TO CAMPAIGN THE ALL-NEW USF JUNIORS WITH VRD RACING". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. October 30, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "ALESSANDRO DE TULLIO JOINS VELOCITY RACING DEVELOPMENT AND USF JUNIORS". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. April 20, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ "VRD Racing adds USF Juniors entry for Noah Ping". SpeedSport.com. Turn 3 Media, LLC. December 24, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
^ Wood, Ida (April 24, 2022). "Mac Clark dominates USF Juniors' first ever event". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved April 28, 2022.

External links

USF Juniors website

[1] "Meet USF Juniors, the newest entry-level feeder series in the United States". F1 Feeder Series. September 30, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2022.

[2] Wood, Ida (November 8, 2021). "USF Juniors unveils calendar for inaugural season". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[3] "NEW SERIES, NEW DRIVERS AND NEW TRACK THIS WEEKEND FOR CROSSLINK KIWI MOTORSPORT". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[4] "JEREMY FAIRBAIRN JOINS CROSSLINK KIWI MOTORSPORT IN USF JUNIORS". usfjuniors.com. Andersen =Promotions. April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[5] "DC AUTOSPORT WITH CAPE MOTORSPORTS SIGNS EARL TUCKER". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. March 9, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[6] "NICHOLAS D'ORLANDO SET FOR DC AUTOSPORT WITH CAPE MOTORSPORTS DEBUT". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[7] "Ethan Ho gets USF Juniors ride". SpeedSport.com. Turn 3 Media, LLC. April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[8] "US F4 runner-up Mac Clark makes sideways move to USF Juniors". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. February 8, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[Ozarks_entry_list-9] USF Juniors Ozark International Raceway Entry List

[10] USF Juniors Barber Motorsports Park Entry List

[11] Yumol, David Tristan (April 21, 2022). "Bianca Bustamante to race in USF Juniors tilt ahead of W Series debut". cnnphilippines.com. Cable News Network. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[12] Wood, Ida (April 19, 2022). "Team USA's Andre Castro steps down from USF2000 to USF Juniors". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[13] "Karters Garat, Isambard moving to USF Juniors along with their team". racer.com. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. December 17, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[14] "NIKITA JOHNSON TO CAMPAIGN THE ALL-NEW USF JUNIORS WITH VRD RACING". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. October 30, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[15] "ALESSANDRO DE TULLIO JOINS VELOCITY RACING DEVELOPMENT AND USF JUNIORS". usfjuniors.com. Andersen Promotions. April 20, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[16] "VRD Racing adds USF Juniors entry for Noah Ping". SpeedSport.com. Turn 3 Media, LLC. December 24, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.

[17] Wood, Ida (April 24, 2022). "Mac Clark dominates USF Juniors' first ever event". formulascout.com. Formula Scout. Retrieved April 28, 2022.

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