2012 U.S. F2000 National Championship

The 2012 U.S. F2000 National Championship is a season of the U.S. F2000 National Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that is the first step in IndyCar's Road to Indy ladder. It is the third full season of the series since its revival in 2010. Rookie Australian/American driver Matthew Brabham, son of Geoff Brabham, captured the title over is Cape Motosports teammate, second-year American Spencer Pigot by seven points in the final pair of races at Virginia International Raceway. Even though Pigot won the final two races of the season, Brabham's lead was large enough and his finishes in the final two races were high enough to capture the championship. Brabham only won four races compared to Pigot's eight wins. However, Brabham only failed to finish in the top-10 once with a single DNF while Pigot finished outside the top-10 three times in what would ultimately decide the championship. The only other driver to capture a race win during the season was Belardi Auto Racing's Scott Anderson.

Norwegian Henrik Furuseth captured the National Class championship over American R. C. Enerson in the final race of the season when Enerson was involved in an incident in the first lap of the race after passing Furuseth. The crash dropped Enerson to third in points as Mark Eaton finished second in class in the race and edged out Enerson for second place in National Class by four points.

One notable driver to compete in the championship was Michael Johnson of Flint, Michigan who is a paraplegic, having lost use of his legs in a motorcycle racing accident.[1] Johnson finished 15th in points with a best finish of tenth at Road America.

Drivers and teams

Team No. Driver(s) Status Round(s)
Cape Motorsports
w/ Wayne Taylor Racing 		2 Spencer Pigot[3] All
3 Trent Hindman[4] All
13 Henrik Furuseth[5] N All
83 Matthew Brabham[6] All
Belardi Auto Racing 4 Roman Lagudi[7] All
9 Luca Forgeois[8] 1–10
Wayne Boyd U 11–14
11 Colin Thompson[9] All
14 Scott Anderson[10] All
Pabst Racing Services 5 Dalton Kellett[11] All
6 J. R. Smart[11] N 3–4, 6–14
U 5
18 Shannon McIntosh[12] All
Andretti Autosport 7 Thomas McGregor[13] All
8 Shelby Blackstock[14] All
ZSports Midwest w/ Team E Racing 10 R. C. Enerson[15] N 1–4, 6–14
U 5
Robinson Motor Sports 12 Eric Filgueiras[16] N U 1–2
25 Joel Janco N 3–14
92 Mark Eaton N All
97 Paul Alspach[17] N U 1–2, 6–7
Genoa Racing/Primus Racing 13 Isaac Lyons 1–2
ArmsUp Motorsports 15 Luigi Biangardi[18] All
16 James Dayson N U 8–14
59 Bobby Kelley N U 1–2
Afterburner Autosport 17 Timmy Megenbier[19] 1–5
Brian Tomasi U 6–10
21 Heamin Choi[20] 1–10
JDC Motorsports 19 Neil Alberico[21] All
38 Scott Hargrove[22] 1–4, 8–14
54 Michael Johnson[23] All
85 Chris Miller 1–7
Luca Forgeois 13–14
93 Zac Silver[24] 1–4
JAY Motorsports 23 Jason Wolfe[25] All
91 Patrick Gallagher[26] N All
65 Michael Geldart N U 1–2
98 Jim Libecco N 1–7, 11–14
AcceleRace Motorsports 28 Ardie Greenamyer N 1–2
Special Addition Racing 41 Wally Osinga N U 1–4
PRL Motorsports 48 Patryk Tararuj N U 11–12
Patrick Linn N 1–10, 13–14
99 N 11–12
MDL Racing 56 Matthew Di Leo All
Alliance Autosport 71 Scott Rettich[27] N 1–4, 6–7
One Formula Racing 77 Colette Davis N U 1–4
Cruzinc Racing 86 Eric Cruz N All
Icon Legend
N National Class
U Unregistered drivers

Schedule

The race schedule was announced on January 11, 2012. Fourteen races were announced, all at venues that hosted the series in 2011.[28] The final race weekend's location and date were announced on January 17, 2012.[29]

Icon Legend
 O  Oval/Speedway
 R  Road course
 S  Street circuit
Rd. Date Race name Track Location Supporting
1 March 15–16 support event for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring  R  Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida ALMS
2
3 March 24–25 USF2000 St. Petersburg Grand Prix
presented by Allied Building Products 		 S  Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida IndyCar Series
4
5 May 26 Night Before the 500  O  Lucas Oil Raceway Clermont, Indiana USAC Midgets
6 August 4–5 Mid-Ohio Grand Prix presented by Allied Building Products  R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio IndyCar Series
7
8 August 17–18 support event for the Road Race Showcase  R  Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin ALMS
9
10
11 September 1–2 USF2000 Baltimore Grand Prix Presented by Allied Building Products  S  Streets of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland IndyCar Series
12
13 September 14–15 USF2000 Grand Prix of Virginia  R  Virginia International Raceway Danville, Virginia ALMS
14

Race results

Rd. Track Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race winner
Driver Team
1 Sebring International Raceway Luigi Biangardi Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Cape Motorsports with WTR
2 Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
3 Streets of St. Petersburg Spencer Pigot Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
4 Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
5 Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
6 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
7 Spencer Pigot Roman Lagudi Scott Anderson Scott Anderson Belardi Auto Racing
8 Road America Scott Anderson Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot
Matthew Brabham 		Matthew Brabham Cape Motorsports with WTR
9 Matthew Brabham Scott Anderson Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Cape Motorsports with WTR
10 Scott Anderson Spencer Pigot Scott Anderson Scott Anderson Belardi Auto Racing
11 Streets of Baltimore Qualifying abandoned Matthew Brabham Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
12 Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Cape Motorsports with WTR
13 Virginia International Raceway Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR
14 Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Spencer Pigot Cape Motorsports with WTR

Championship standings

Championship Class

Pos Driver SEB STP LOR MOH RAM BAL VIR Points
1 Matthew Brabham 1* 2* 2 2 2 3 25 1* 1* 3 2 1* 4 8 339
2 Spencer Pigot 3 1 1* 1* 1* 1* 23 16* 3 2 1 24 1* 1* 332
3 Scott Anderson 5 8 28 10 4 2 1* 3 2 1* 5 2 26 6 256
4 Matthew Di Leo 12 4 18 3 8 7 2 2 4 5 3 6 7 21 220
5 Trent Hindman 36 30 5 4 5 4 3 4 6 8 25 12 8 3 189
6 Roman Lagudi 2 3 3 5 3 5 16 7 9 28 7 27 173
7 Neil Alberico 9 5 17 34 16 19 6 5 5 6 13 5 2 5 170
8 Shelby Blackstock 7 32 6 8 18 6 5 21 8 4 21 8 6 7 153
9 Thomas McGregor 4 7 7 7 12 27 10 23 28 21 9 9 9 9 134
10 Luigi Biangardi 35 9 4 33 11 29 4 6 7 7 4 27 24 22 129
11 Scott Hargrove 11 11 30 32 8 13 9 6 3 5 4 128
12 Colin Thompson 8 10 31 13 14 8 28 9 10 20 12 4 10 10 103
13 Jason Wolfe 14 34 19 9 10 12 29 26 14 23 10 10 25 13 84
14 Dalton Kellett 10 19 33 14 20 9 7 10 16 22 26 21 11 26 78
15 Michael Johnson 18 27 13 25 17 13 24 11 29 10 14 26 12 11 72
16 Luca Forgeois 33 26 26 6 6 10 22 24 12 27 23 12 66
17 Heamin Choi 16 18 10 12 15 26 15 12 27 12 55
18 Shannon McIntosh 15 23 11 24 13 21 18 25 21 14 24 15 16 20 54
19 Timmy Megenbier 6 6 32 11 9 53
20 Chris Miller 26 15 8 26 19 11 13 22 11 25 52
21 Zac Silver 13 12 34 19 20
22 Isaac Lyons 31 35 2
Unregistered drivers ineligible for points
Wayne Boyd 26 11 3 2
R. C. Enerson 7
Brian Tomasi 17 DNS 13 15 DNS
J. R. Smart 21
Pos Driver SEB STP LOR MOH RAM BAL VIR 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
In-line notation
Championship Class only
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

National Class

Pos Driver SEB STP MOH RAM BAL VIR Points
1 Henrik Furuseth 21 13 12 23 16 8 27 17 11 8 23 13 14 205
2 Mark Eaton 17 14 29 16 30 14 15 19 15 15 7 15 15 191
3 RC Enerson 29 17 9 15 14 11 14 18 13 11 28 14 25 187
4 Jim Libecco 28 22 20 20 20 9 22 13 18 16 98
5 Patrick Gallagher 22 33 15 17 18 26 17 20 24 27 14 95
6 Patrick Linn 23 31 21 22 23 17 DNS 23 17 17 16 17 19 95
7 J. R. Smart 22 21 24 20 28 22 16 16 17 19 17 85
8 Scott Rettich 19 16 14 18 15 27 79
9 Eric Cruz 32 25 25 28 25 21 18 24 18 19 18 20 24 56
10 Joel Janco 23 27 28 19 19 26 26 18 22 22 23 42
11 James Dayson 20 19 21 18 24
12 Ardie Greenamyer 16 30 11
Unregistered drivers ineligible for points
Paul Alspach 30 21 22 12
James Dayson 20 25 19
Bobby Kelley 20 20
Patryk Tararuj 23 20
Michael Geldart 25 24
Collete Davis 24 29 27 31
Wally Osinga 27 DNS 24 29
Eric Filgueiras 34 28
Pos Driver SEB STP MOH RAM BAL VIR Points

Teams'

Pos Team Points
1 Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing 491
2 Belardi Auto Racing 310
3 JDC Motorsports 165
4 Andretti Autosport 144
5 MDL Racing 135
6 ArmsUp Motorsports 77
7 Afterburner Autosport 41
8 Pabst Racing Services 40
9 JAY Motorsports 40
10 ZSports Midwest 26
11 PRL Motorsports 14
12 Alliance Autosport 6
13 AcceleRace Motorsports 2

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