2014 Pro Mazda Championship

2014 Pro Mazda Championship
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The 2014 Pro Mazda Championship is the 16th season in series history.

The second season of Andersen Promotions' management of the series saw increased car counts with 20 or more cars in many races and 13 drivers competing in all 14 races compared to 2013's nine.

American Spencer Pigot won the title over Canadian Scott Hargrove in the final race weekend at Sonoma Raceway in controversial fashion. In the first race of the weekend, the two made contact on the fourth lap of the race with Pigot leading. Pigot's race was over while Hargrove went on to finish third. In the second race, Neil Alberico, Hargrove's teammate, made contact with Pigot on the first lap, although both were able to continue. On lap 12, Pigot's teammate Kyle Kaiser's car stopped on track bringing out a caution flag, allowing Pigot, who was running sixth at the time, to close up behind the leaders. After the restart, Hargrove, who was leading, began to experience mechanical trouble, and as he fell back to Pigot, made a move that forced Pigot to swerve around him. Hargrove's race was done while Pigot finished fifth and captured the title by 11 points. Pigot captured six race wins in the fourteen races, including the first four races of the season. With the championship Pigot won a Road to Indy scholarship to compete in Indy Lights in 2015.

Alberico finished third in points without a race win. Andretti Autosport's top challenger, Shelby Blackstock finished fourth in the championship, also without a win. Brazilian Nicolas Costa captured one win and finished fifth in points. Other race winners were Kaiser, Jose Guttierez, who won the wild Sonoma race 2, and Garrett Grist who captured two wins but was inconsistent.

American Bobby Eberle captured the Expert Class championship for drivers over 35 years old largely by virtue of entering the most races among such entrants.

Drivers and teams

All teams are American-registered.

Team	No.	Drivers	Notes
Andretti Autosport[1]	27	Garett Grist[2]
	28	Shelby Blackstock[2]
Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing	2	Neil Alberico[3]
	3	Scott Hargrove[2]
HAVOC Motorsport	21	Brian Lift	Mid-Ohio only
JDC Motorsports	11	Vicky Piria[2]	St. Pete & Barber only
	19	Ryan Booth[2]
	54	Michael Johnson[4]
	91	Kyle Connery[2]	Skipped LOR, Houston & Sonoma
		Clark Toppe	Houston only
Juncos Racing	5	Jose Gutierrez[5]
	6	Julia Ballario[6]
	7	Spencer Pigot[7]
	18	Kyle Kaiser[8]
M1 Racing	9	Felipe Donato	Houston, Mid-Ohio & Sonoma only
	23	Carlos Conde	Mid-Ohio & Sonoma only
	26	Parker Nicklin	Sonoma only
	29	Jason Rabe	IMS only
	37	Jay Horak[2]	St. Pete through IMS, Mid-Ohio
	62	Jason Bedasse[9]	St. Pete only
	99	Nicolas Costa[2]	St. Pete through IMS
Team Pelfrey	80	Dalton Kellett[10]
	81	Pipo Derani[11]	St. Pete through IMS
		Anders Krohn	LOR only
		Jack Aitken	Sonoma only
		Brandon Newey[2]	Mid-Ohio only
	82		St. Pete through IMS
		Nicolas Costa	Houston onwards
	99		LOR only
World Speed Motorsports	8	Stan Kohls	Sonoma only
	13	Bobby Eberle[2]	Skipped LOR & Milwaukee
	14	Jeff Harrison	Barber & Houston only
	16	Michele Bumgarner[2]	Skipped Mid-Ohio & Milwaukee
	34	Joey Bickers	Sonoma only
	61	Alex Keyes	Sonoma only

Race calendar and results

The series schedule, along with the other Road to Indy series, was announced on October 24, 2013. Unlike previous seasons, all races were in support of the IndyCar Series except the race at Lucas Oil Raceway (lower tiers of INDYCAR race at Lucas Oil Raceway to gain oval experience at shorter tracks). All road and street course race weekends were double-headers.^[12] All races were held in the United States.

Rnd	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	March 29	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Juncos Racing
2			March 30	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Juncos Racing
3	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama	April 26	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Juncos Racing
4			April 27	Scott Hargrove	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Juncos Racing
5	Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course	Speedway, Indiana	May 9	Spencer Pigot	Scott Hargrove	Neil Alberico	Scott Hargrove	Cape Motorsports
6			May 10	Spencer Pigot	Scott Hargrove	Scott Hargrove	Scott Hargrove	Cape Motorsports
7	Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis	Clermont, Indiana	May 24	Garett Grist	Spencer Pigot	Garett Grist	Garett Grist	Andretti Autosport
8	Reliant Park	Houston, Texas	June 28	Garett Grist	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Scott Hargrove	Cape Motorsports
9			June 29	Garett Grist	Neil Alberico	Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Juncos Racing
10	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	August 2	Nicolas Costa	Neil Alberico	Nicolas Costa	Nicolas Costa	Team Pelfrey
11			August 3	Nicolas Costa	Nicolas Costa	Garett Grist	Garett Grist	Andretti Autosport
12	Milwaukee Mile	West Allis, Wisconsin	August 16	José Gutiérrez	Scott Hargrove	Scott Hargrove Spencer Pigot	Spencer Pigot	Juncos Racing
13	Sonoma Raceway	Sonoma, California	August 22	Scott Hargrove	Spencer Pigot	Kyle Kaiser	Kyle Kaiser	Juncos Racing
14			August 23	Scott Hargrove	Scott Hargrove	Scott Hargrove	José Gutiérrez	Juncos Racing

Championship standings

Drivers' championships

Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR HOU MOH MIL SON Points Overall 1 Spencer Pigot 1* 1* 1* 1* 8 8 3 9* 1* 4 6 1* 21 5 309 2 Scott Hargrove 3 5 2 2 1 1* 2 1 16 6 3 2* 3 18 299 3 Neil Alberico 6 6 4 6 3* 2 6 17 2 7 5 4 2 12 239 4 Shelby Blackstock 10 4 5 3 2 17 7 5 3 3 19 3 5 3 235 5 Nicolas Costa 8 16 19 8 15 16 4 2 5 1* 2 5 4 2 224 6 Kyle Kaiser 2 2 3 5 13 5 8 8 15 12 7 10 1 DSQ 211 7 José Gutiérrez 20 9 9 9 7 3 9 7 8 5 4 9 11 1 201 8 Garett Grist 17 17 8 7 6 4 1* 6 9 9 1* 12 15 9 199 9 Ryan Booth 7 8 7 10 17 6 10 15 4 2 12 7 8 16 173 10 Dalton Kellett 9 11 10 11 4 19 DNS 3 7 8 8 11 7 10 160 11 Julia Ballario 11 7 20 14 10 7 12 4 10 15 11 6 10 8 152 12 Kyle Connery 5 12 11 17 14 10 11 9 8 93 13 Michael Johnson 15 10 12 20 11 15 11 12 12 17 14 13 18 17 90 14 Pipo Derani 4 3 6 4 9 18 88 15 Michele Bumgarner 12 13 14 15 16 13 13 13 11 12 20 79 16 Bobby Eberle 14 15 18 19 18 12 14 14 13 16 17 14 66 17 Brandon Newey 16 18 16 12 5 14 10 13 63 18 Jay Horak 13 14 17 18 12 11 18 17 48 19 Felipe Donato 10 DNS 16 10 20 13 36 20 Jack Aitken 9 4 31 21 Alex Keyes 6 7 29 22 Jeff Harrison 15 16 11 13 29 23 Joey Bickers 14 6 22 24 Parker Nicklin 13 11 18 25 Anders Krohn 5 17 26 Vicky Piria 19 DNS 13 13 17 27 Carlos Conde 14 18 19 15 17 28 Clark Toppe 16 6 16 29 Jason Rabe 19 9 13 30 Brian Lift 19 15 7 31 Stan Kohls 16 19 6 32 Jason Bedasse 18 19 4 Expert class 1 Bobby Eberle 14 15 18 19 18 12 14 14 13 16 17 14 202 2 Jay Horak 13 14 17 18 14 17 18 17 153 3 Jeff Harrison 15 16 11 13 88 4 Carlos Conde 14 18 19 15 66 5 Stan Kohls 16 19 37 6 Jason Rabe 19 9 23 7 Jason Bedasse 18 19 16 Pos Driver STP BAR IMS LOR HOU MOH MIL SON 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) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position (1 point) Italics Ran fastest race lap (1 point) * Led most race laps (1 point)

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

• Drivers must complete 50% race distance to score main points, otherwise 1 point is awarded.

Teams' championship

Pos	Team	Points
1	Juncos Racing	375
2	Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing	346
3	Team Pelfrey	259
4	Andretti Autosport	238
5	JDC Motorsports	117
6	World Speed Motorsports	52
7	M1 Racing	45
8	HAVOC Motorsport	8

References

1. Pro Mazda – Garett Grist et Shelby Blackstock chez Andretti, "ChequeredFlags.fr", January 13, 2014, Retrieved 2014-01-13
2. "Allied Building Products Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Entry List" (PDF). Pro Mazda Championship. IndyCar. March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
3. Alberico Joins 2014 Championship Fight with Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing, eFormulaCarNews, December 6, 2013, Retrieved 2013-12-6
4. Johnson Moving Up Mazda Road to Indy Ladder with JDC MotorSports, eFormulaCarNews, November 12, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-12
5. Gutierrez Joins Juncos Racing for 2014 Campaign, eFormulaCarNews, February 12, 2014, Retrieved 2014-02-12
6. Juncos Racing Announces Ballario, eFormulaCarNews, February 11, 2014, Retrieved 2014-02-11
7. Pigot Joins Juncos Racing Title Fight, eFormulaCarNews, February 12, 2014, Retrieved 2014-02-12
8. JUNCOS RACING ADDS KYLE KAISER TO 2014 LINE-UP, Juncos Racing, February 13, 2014, Retrieved 2014-02-13
9. "Bedasse will be first Jamaican in Pro Mazda". IndyCar Series. IndyCar. March 20, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
10. Kellett Joins Team Pelfrey for 2014 Campaign, eFormulaCarNews, November 14, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-14
11. Team Pelfrey Signs Brazilian Pipo Derani for 2014 Pro Mazda Championship, Pro Mazda Championship, November 20, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-20
12. Mazda Road to Indy 2014 Schedule Confirmed, Andsersen Promotions PR, October 24, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05

External links

• Pro Mazda Championship Official website