2025 Mazda MX-5 Cup

The 2025 Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented By Michelin is a single-make motor racing championship, the 21st season of the Mazda MX-5 Cup and the 5th sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The series began on January 23 at Daytona International Speedway, and will conclude on October 11 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta after 14 rounds.

Gresham Wagner is the defending champion, having won his second series title in 2024.

Schedule

The schedule was announced on October 16, 2024, featuring 14 rounds across seven double-header weekends.[1] In a change from the 2024 calendar, rounds at St. Petersburg and Barber were added, while events at Sebring and Laguna Seca were dropped. All races are 45 minutes in length.

Round Circuit Location Dates Supporting
1 R1 Daytona International Speedway (Road Course) Daytona Beach, Florida January 22–24 IMSA SportsCar Championship
R2
2 R3 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida February 28 – March 2 IndyCar Series
R4
3 R5 Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama May 2–4 IndyCar Series
R6
4 R7 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio June 6–8 Michelin Pilot Challenge
R8
5 R9 Canadian Tire Motorsports Park Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada July 11–13 IMSA SportsCar Championship
R10
6 R11 Virginia International Raceway Alton, Virginia August 22–24 IMSA SportsCar Championship
R12
7 R13 Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia October 8–10 IMSA SportsCar Championship
R14
NC Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia October 23 NASCAR Cup Series
Source:[2][3]

Entry list

All competitors utilize the Mazda MX-5 Cup car, modified to their homologated racing specification by Flis Performance.

Team No. Driver Class Rounds
Hendricks Motorsports 01 Ruben Caceres-Martos  R  1–2
31 Ashlyn Speed 1–6
51 Will Robinson  R  7
54 Heather Hadley 1–4
JTR Motorsports Engineering 07 Julian DaCosta 1
6 Cody Powell 1, 3–6
8 Justin Gravett  R  7
11 Bailey Cruse  R  1–3
15 Sally Mott All
26 Peter Atwater 1–4, 6–7
68 Steve Weber  R  2–5
69 Glenn McGee 1–5
82 Woody Heimann 4, 7
96 Jared Thomas All
BSI Racing 09 Damon Ockey 3–7
2 Jesse Love  R  4
7 Noah Harmon  R  5–7
13 Westin Workman All
27 Helio Meza  R  All
32 Christian Hodneland All
57 Tyler Gonzalez All
80 Ethan Tyler 1, 3–4, 6
86 Jagger Jones 1–2
87 Selin Rollan 6
95 Farhan Siddiqi 1–2, 4, 6
Julian DaCosta 7
McCumbee McAleer Racing 3 Ren Messinger  R  1–3
5 Gresham Wagner 1, 7
22 Jeremy Fletcher All
23 Justin Adakonis  R  All
44 Bobby Gossett  R  All
83 Nate Cicero 4–7
AAG Racing 9 Chris Clarke 2
28 Christopher Haldeman 1–4
Alex Gutierrez 6
58 Todd Buras 1–2
Skip Brock  R  3
Rocco Pasquarella  R  6–7
76 Frankie Barroso  R  1
Jack Murchison  R  2
Skyler Cottrell  R  3, 6–7
77 Noah Harmon  R  1–4
RAFA Racing Team by MMR 12 Maite Cáceres  R  1–4, 6
Jem Hepworth 5
81 Caroline Candas 1–3
Gresham Wagner 4–6
Saito Motorsport Group 19 Nate Cicero 1–3
Marcello Paniccia  R  5–7
29 Ethan Goulart  R  All
39 Zach Hollingshead 6–7
Spark Performance 33 Alex Bachoura All
50 Grant West All
65 Bryce Cornet 1–6
78 Sally McNulty  R  1–2
Parker DeLong Racing 42 Parker DeLong All
43 Charlotte Traynor  R  3, 6–7
Advanced Autosports 10 Matt Novak  R  7
56 Nathan Nicholson All
98 Vaughn Mishko  R  7
99 2–4
Ethan Jacobs  R  6–7
Sources:[4][5][6][7]

 R  = Eligible for Rookie's Championship

Race results

Bold indicates overall winner.

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver
1 R1 Daytona #19 Saito Motorsport Group #5 McCumbee McAleer Racing #57 BSI Racing
Nate Cicero Gresham Wagner Tyler Gonzalez
R2 #19 Saito Motorsport Group #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing #96 JTR Motorsports Engineering
Nate Cicero Jeremy Fletcher Jared Thomas
2 R1 St. Petersburg #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing #56 Advanced Autosports #96 JTR Motorsports Engineering
Jeremy Fletcher Nathan Nicholson Jared Thomas
R2 #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing #57 BSI Racing
Jeremy Fletcher Jeremy Fletcher Tyler Gonzalez
3 R1 Barber #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing #19 Saito Motorsport Group #57 BSI Racing
Jeremy Fletcher Nate Cicero Tyler Gonzalez
R2 #19 Saito Motorsport Group #13 BSI Racing #57 BSI Racing
Nate Cicero Westin Workman Tyler Gonzalez
4 R1 Mid-Ohio #83 McCumbee McAleer Racing #27 BSI Racing #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing
Nate Cicero Helio Meza Jeremy Fletcher
R2 #81 RAFA Racing Team by MMR #44 McCumbee McAleer Racing #29 Saito Motorsport Group
Gresham Wagner Bobby Gossett Ethan Goulart
5 R1 Mosport #83 McCumbee McAleer Racing #96 JTR Motorsports Engineering #57 BSI Racing
Nate Cicero Jared Thomas Tyler Gonzalez
R2 #83 McCumbee McAleer Racing #27 BSI Racing #81 RAFA Racing Team by MMR
Nate Cicero Helio Meza Gresham Wagner
6 R1 Virginia #23 McCumbee McAleer Racing #27 BSI Racing #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing
Justin Adakonis Helio Meza Jeremy Fletcher
R2 #27 BSI Racing #57 BSI Racing #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing
Helio Meza Tyler Gonzalez Jeremy Fletcher
7 R1 Road Atlanta #83 McCumbee McAleer Racing #13 BSI Racing #22 McCumbee McAleer Racing
Nate Cicero Westin Workman Jeremy Fletcher
R2 #13 BSI Racing #23 McCumbee McAleer Racing #42 Parker DeLong Racing
Westin Workman Justin Adakonis Parker DeLong

Championship standings

Points system

Championship points are awarded at the finish of each event according to the chart below.[8]

Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30+
Points 350 320 300 280 260 250 240 230 220 210 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10

Driver's championship

IMSA recognizes driver champions based on the total number of championship points earned during the season.

Pos. Driver DAY STP BAR MOH MOS VIR ATL Bonus Points
1 Nathan Nicholson 14 4 3 2 18 6 4 2 4 4 20 2640
2 Jeremy Fletcher 8 6 4 4 4 28 1 3 22 2 60 2470
3 Tyler Gonzalez 1 34 16 1 1 1 7 31 1 6 30 2440
4 Jared Thomas  12  1 1 3 15 5 24 6 6 9 10 2420
5 Noah Harmon  R  7 8 6 6 17 3 6 20 11 23 0 2060
6 Helio Meza  R  4 20 30 28 6 8 2 8 2 10 20 2010
7 Nate Cicero 30 7 22 5 2 13 31 4 10 3 100 2000
8 Ethan Goulart  R  2 12 7 30 8 22 21 1 12 8 0 1950
9 Bryce Cornet 3 13 29 9 21 7 8 11 8 19 0 1850
10 Parker DeLong 6 26 15 11 16 12 14 12 7 7 0 1850
11 Justin Adakonis  R  10 29 5 17 5 4 5 27 25 14 0 1710
12 Westin Workman 32 22 17 23 3 2 30 5 5 13 20 1670
13 Sally Mott 23 21 14 10 13 11 16 14 16 12 0 1610
14 Glenn McGee 31 30 2 8 11 9 13 7 23 22 0 1590
15 Grant West 13 15 21 25 19 19 11 18 14 11 0 1450
16 Bobby Gossett  R  16 9 12 7 33 24 15 30 17 15 10 1360
17 Alex Bachoura 15 25 23 26 25 18 12 10 13 16 0 1290
18 Peter Atwater 24 10 9 19 22 16 23 16 0 1110
19 Heather Hadley 18 35 10 21 14 14 18 15 0 1090
20 Gresham Wagner 36 24 3 29 3 1 30 1080
21 Ren Messinger  R  11 3 8 22 9 17 0 1030
22 Ashlyn Speed  R  29 16 18 20 28 25 26 28 15 20 0 850
23 Cody Powell 25 28 12 27 20 19 19 17 0 820
24 Ethan Tyler 5 18 20 20 32 26 0 680
25 Christopher Haldeman 27 23 19 16 29 33 19 23 0 640
26 Christian Hodneland 33 DNS 31 DNS 23 15 22 24 20 21 0 570
27 Maite Cáceres  R  26 32 11 13 31 21 27 32 0 540
28 Vaughn Mishko  R  25 14 DNS DNS 9 25 0 520
29 Caroline Candas 28 17 24 18 27 23 0 510
30 Jagger Jones 9 5 DNS DNS 0 480
31 Marcello Paniccia  R  9 5 0 480
32 Bailey Cruse  R  20 14 28 24 24 31 0 480
33 Damon Ockey 26 30 25 22 21 18 0 450
34 Todd Buras 21 2 32 DNS 0 430
35 Skyler Cottrell  R  10 10 0 430
36 Jesse Love  R  10 13 0 390
37 Ruben Caceres-Martos  R  22 33 20 15 0 380
38 Jack Murchison  R  13 12 0 370
39 Woody Heimann 17 9 0 360
40 Steve Weber  R  26 29 32 26 29 17 24 DNS 0 360
41 Julian DaCosta 17 11 0 340
42 Skip Brock  R  7 31 0 250
43 Farhan Siddiqi 34 31 27 27 28 21 0 230
44 Jem Hepworth 18 24 0 200
45 Frankie Barroso  R  19 27 0 160
46 Sally McNulty  R  35 19 DNS DNS 0 120
47 Charlotte Traynor  R  30 29 0 30
Chris Clarke DNS DNS 0 0
Pos. Driver DAY STP BAR MOH MOS VIR ATL Bonus Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points classification
Blue Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold - Pole position

Italics - Fastest lap

Underline = Most Laps Led

†: Post-event penalty. Car moved to back of class.

References

  1. ^ "Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup Unveils 2025 Schedule". mx-5cup.com. October 16, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  2. ^ "Schedule". mx-5cup.com. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  3. ^ "Martinsville Speedway | RacingCalendar.net". racingcalendar.net. Retrieved August 11, 2025.
  4. ^ "03_MX-5 PreRace Entry List.pdf" (PDF). January 23, 2025. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
  5. ^ "02_MX-5 Official Entry List.pdf" (PDF). June 5, 2025. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  6. ^ "03_MX-5 Official Entry List.pdf" (PDF). July 10, 2025. Retrieved July 12, 2025.
  7. ^ "05_MX-5 Pre-Race Entry List.pdf" (PDF). October 9, 2025. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
  8. ^ "2025 IMSA Sporting Regulations (and SSR) for the MX-5 Cup" (PDF). mx-5cup.com. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
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