The2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda was the ninth season – since its revival in 2010 – of theU.S. F2000 National Championship, anopen wheelauto racing series that is the first step inINDYCAR'sRoad to Indy ladder, operated by Andersen Promotions.

AmericanKyle Kirkwood driving forCape Motorsports in a single-car effort dominated the championship, winning twelve of the fourteen races. The only other driver to win was two consecutive races won by formerIndy Lights competitorAlexandre Baron for Swan-RJB Motorsports early in the season. Baron left the series after seven races. SwedeRasmus Lindh finished well back in second place driving forPabst Racing who won the team championship in a close battle. Lindh didn't capture a second place finish until the final race of the season. Just behind Lindh were BraziliansLucas Kohl andIgor Fraga. Fourteen drivers competed in all fourteen races.

Team No. Driver(s) Status Round(s) Abel Motorsports 79 Jacob Abel[1] R 6–7, 10–12 ArmsUp Motorsports 9 Dakota Dickerson[2] 6–14 14 Max Peichel[3][4] R 3–4, 6–9, 13–14 30 Keith Donegan[5] R 1–5 BN Racing 28 Jamie Caroline[6] R 1–4 Keith Donegan R 6–12 29 Russell McDonough R All Cape Motorsports 8 Kyle Kirkwood[7] R All DEForce Racing 7 James Raven R 10–12 10 Zach Holden[8] R 1–5 11 Kory Enders[9] All 12 José Sierra[10] R All 27 Colin Kaminsky[11] All Exclusive Autosport 90 Manuel Cabrera[12] R 1–7 Yuven Sundaramoorthy R 10–12 Kellen Ritter R 13–14 91 Igor Fraga[13] R All 92 Danial Frost R 6–12 93 Jayson Clunie[14] 1–2 Newman Wachs Racing 36 Darren Keane[15] 1–12 37 David Osborne[16] R 1–7, 10–12 38 Oscar DeLuzuriaga[17] R All 41 Braden Eves R 13–14 Pabst Racing Services 21 Calvin Ming[18] All 22 Lucas Kohl[19] All 23 Rasmus Lindh[9] R All 24 Kaylen Frederick[20] All Sol.O Racing 5 Mathias Soler-Obel[21] R 1–7 Swan-RJB Motorsports 19 Alexandre Baron[22] 1–7 20 James Roe[23] R 3–4 Team Benik 31 Sabré Cook[24] R 1–4, 6–7, 10–12 51 Michael d'Orlando R 1–4, 6–7, 10–12 Team Pelfrey 80 Julian van der Watt[25] R All 81 Kyle Dupell[26] R All 82 Bruna Tomaselli[27] All

Icon Class R Rookie

A 14-race schedule was announced on October 17, 2017.^[28]

Rd.	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race winner
					Driver	Team
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	José Sierra	Alexandre Baron	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
2		Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Swan-RJB Motorsports
3	Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course	Kyle Kirkwood	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Alexandre Baron	Swan-RJB Motorsports
4		Kyle Kirkwood	Alexandre Baron	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
5	Lucas Oil Raceway	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
6	Road America	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
7		Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Lucas Kohl	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
8	Streets of Toronto	Dakota Dickerson	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
9		Kaylen Frederick	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
10	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Kyle Kirkwood	Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
11		Kaylen Frederick	James Raven	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
12		James Raven	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
13	Portland International Raceway	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports
14		Rasmus Lindh	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Kyle Kirkwood	Cape Motorsports

Scoring system

• One point is awarded to the driver who qualifies on pole position.
• One point is awarded to the driver who leads the most laps in the race.
• One point is awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap during the race.

Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH POR Points 1 Kyle Kirkwood 1* 5 2 1* 1* 1* 1 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 1* 440 2 Rasmus Lindh 10 24 14 3 3 4 18 4 3 10 4 3 4 2 238 3 Lucas Kohl 13 3 26 7 4 23 3* 9 15 2 2 6 5 5 215 4 Igor Fraga 8 2 8 17 7 8 5 7 2 17 3 5 15 4 213 5 Calvin Ming 4 8 6 19 9 6 15 6 11 3 5 7 2 6 206 6 Kaylen Frederick 11 9 22 21 2 2 2 3 8 24 23 19 7 15 173 7 Julian van der Watt 5 11 7 8 19 24 17 10 5 5 8 14 9 3 162 8 Kory Enders 19 10 5 6 11 5 19 16 14 9 16 24 3 9 143 9 Keith Donegan 14 13 24 11 6 3 13 5 17 4 21 4 139 10 Colin Kaminsky 6 22 9 16 13 12 4 12 18 12 7 12 17 8 134 11 José Sierra 2 6 3 26 5 9 23 18 7 19 19 22 12 17 128 12 Alexandre Baron 22 1* 1* 2 21 7 7 123 13 Dakota Dickerson 14 9 2 6 6 6 18 8 7 120 14 Darren Keane 3 12 23 4 8 10 20 17 12 21 17 17 105 15 Kyle Dupell 9 15 16 23 17 13 21 15 9 15 14 13 10 10 100 16 Bruna Tomaselli 7 14 19 22 14 17 11 13 13 20 13 16 18 16 87 17 Danial Frost 19 16 8 4 7 9 9 77 18 Oscar DeLuzuriaga 20 19 20 13 16 21 12 11 10 22 24 21 13 14 69 19 Russell McDonough 23 25 18 12 20 16 26 14 16 23 12 23 16 11 60 20 Michael d'Orlando 16 23 25 15 22 6 8 20 8 56 21 Mathias Soler-Obel 12 16 13 18 12 11 14 56 22 Manuel Cabrera 25 21 11 9 10 26 8 55 23 Jacob Abel 15 10 11 11 11 47 24 David Osborne 18 18 15 20 15 18 22 13 15 15 46 25 Jamie Caroline 24 4 4 24 40 26 Max Peichel 17 10 20 24 DNS DNS 14 12 35 27 James Raven 18 18 2 33 28 Zach Holden 21 7 10 25 18 32 29 Yuven Sundaramoorthy 14 10 10 29 30 Sabré Cook 15 17 21 14 25 25 16 22 20 27 31 James Roe 12 5 26 32 Braden Eves 6 18 18 33 Kellen Ritter 11 13 18 34 Jayson Clunie 17 20 5 Pos Driver STP IMS LOR ROA TOR MOH POR 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 (DNF) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) 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

Scoring system

• Single car teams receive 3 bonus points as an equivalency to multi-car teams
• Only the best two results count for teams fielding more than two entries

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