2016 Mazda Road to Indy Shootout

2016 Mazda Road to Indy Shootout

Race details
Date	December 6 & 7, 2016
Official name	Mazda Road to Indy Shootout
Course	Road course 2.238 mi / 3.602 km
Podium

The 2016 Mazda Road to Indy Shootout will be the first edition of the Road to Indy Shootout. The event will be held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on December 6 and 7. The winner will receive a $200,000 scholarship to compete in the 2017 U.S. F2000 National Championship.^[1]

Entry list

Driver	Age	2016 result
Ryan Norman[2]	18	Atlantic Championship Series champion^6
Will Brown	18	Australian Formula Ford highest eligible driver (2nd).
Niall Murray[3]	21	BRSCC F1600 champion
Oliver White	23	Mountney Formula Ford Super Series
Peter Portante	20	F1600 Formula F Championship runner-up^1
John McCusker	20	F2000 Championship Series runner-up^2 ^6
Jonathan Sugianto[4]	21	Formula Car Challenge champion ^3
Axel Matus[5]	18	Formula Panam champion
Trenton Estep[6]	16	Formula Tour 1600 champion
Marcel Coletta[7]	14	Mazda Road to Indy Brazil champion
Karthik Tharani[8]	22	MMSC 1600 Indian Championship runner-up|-
Michael Scott[9]	21	New Zealand Formula Ford Championship champion
Tim de Silva	20	Pacific F2000 champion
Austin Garrison	18	Rotax Max Challenge
Nigel Saurino	21	SCCA Runoffs – FC
Neil Verhagen[10]	15	SCCA Runoffs – F1600 champion^6
Matt Machiko	25	SCCA Runoffs – FM
Neil MacLennan[11]	18	Scottish Motor Racing Club Formula Ford 1600 Championship champion
Timo Reger	19	Skip Barber Race Series
Oliver Askew	19	Team USA Scholarship
Kyle Kirkwood	18

Notes

^1 Neil Verhagen won the 2016 F1600 Championship Series. But as he was already qualified by winning the Runoffs, runner-up Peter Portante was awarded a place to compete.^[12]

^2 McCusker finished second in the 2016 F2000 Championship Series. The championship was won by Steve Bamford, a masters class competitor, ineligible because of his age. Drivers must be between 14 and 25.

^3 Formula Car Challenge FormulaSpeed champion Sugianto won the shootout invitation over Formula Car Challenge Pro Formula Mazda champion Bruno Carneiro after a video competition.

^4 Brown finished second in the 2016 Australian Formula Ford championship. The championship was won by Leanne Tander, ineligible because of her age (36).

^5 Tharani finished second in the MRF1600 (India) championship, but champion Vikash Anand is facing indictment for drunk driving from a September crash where Anand was driving under the influence, and thereby disqualified.

^6 Verhagen, McCusker and Norman all qualified, but were unable to attend due to prior commitments clashing with the shootout date.

Mazda Road to Indy - Brasil

The 2016 Mazda Road to Indy - Brasil was a karting contest to qualify for the finals at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The event was held at Kartódromo de Interlagos on 27 August 2016. The event was set up by former racing driver Paulo Carcasci.^[13] Eleven drivers from four different Brazilian states and the Federal District competed for a spot in the final at Laguna Seca.^[14]

Result

Rank	Driver	FP[15]	Q[16]	H1[17]	H2[18]	F[19]	Points
1.	Marcel Coletta	3	9		2	1	55
2.	Murilo Coletta	2	8	1		2	51
3.	Vinicius Papareli	1	2		1	3	47
4.	Lucca Croce	6	4		3	4	35
5.	Jean Aguiar	9	1		4	5	33
6.	Pedro Cardoso	8	7	2		9	32
	Italo Barrilari	7	6	5		7
	Evandro Bambirra	4	5	4		8
	Allan Croce	5	3	3		6
	Edgar Henrique	11	11		5	11
	Erick Lutum	10	10		6	10

Format

Judges
Joel Miller	Mazda Motorsports factory driver
Spencer Pigot
Jonathan Bomarito
Andrew Carbonell
Scott Goodyear	former IndyCar Series driver
Kyle Kimball	Mazda Motorsports operational manager
Jim Bowie	owner of Brandrenaline

Lucas Oil School of Racing supplied the 18 scholarship candidates with Formula Ford style cars. The Ray Race Cars GR-RSC was fitted with a 2 litre engine built by Elite Engines. All cars were shod with Cooper Tires. The Shootout started with orientation of the cars and the track on December 5. On the second day drivers were divided in four groups and took to the tracks. For the final Shootout day the group was again divided in four. After initial testing sessions the first drivers were eliminated. The remaining drivers started 30 minute qualifying sessions before the race over 30 minutes.^[20]

References

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