2024 F1600 Championship Series

The 2024 F1600 Championship Series season was the thirteenth season of the F1600 Championship Series.

Races21

Start dateMarch 21

End dateAugust 18

Drivers' champion

Mateo Naranjo

Quick facts Season, Races ...

2024 F1600 season
Season
Races	21
Start date	March 21
End date	August 18
Awards
Drivers' champion	Mateo Naranjo
Manufacturers' Cup	Mygale
← 2023 2025 →

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The prior year's winner was Porter Aiken from Chillout Motorsports.

The national F1600 Championship Series doesn't have the second 'F' because it uses Honda engines instead of Ford engines. In 2024, the series took place over seven rounds. Naranjo from Team Pelfrey won the championship in one of the latest cars on the track, even though it is already ten years old. Timothy Steele came in second place. Naranjo didn't lose any races in the season opener at Road Atlanta and the three races in Pittsburgh. In contrast, Steele managed to win only once during the 19-race season at New Jersey Motorsports Park.

Thomas Schrage, who finished on the podium in USF2000, won all three races at Mid-Ohio. After that, Cooper Shipman, a second-year driver from Iron Rock Motorsports, won a race. Then, Naranjo celebrated two victories at Lime Rock. He increased his total wins to eight by winning once at Road America and once at NJMP. The other two races at Road America were won by USF2000 driver Ayrton Houk.

Jack Sullivan, a fellow scholar from Team USA in 2023, won the first race of the Summit Point finale, while Shipman took first place in the second race.^[1]

Drivers and teams

More information Pro Division, Team/Sponsor ...

Pro Division
Team/Sponsor	No.	Drivers	Class	Rounds	Chassis	Engine
Rice Race Prep	01	Michael Dowden^[2]	R	1–15	Mygale	Honda
	02	Ayush Pasricha	R	1–3
		Thomas Schrage^[3]		4–6
		Scott Oliver	R	10–12
		Ayrton Houk^[4]		13–15
	03	Simon Sikes		1–3
Rehm Racing	03	Greg Peluso	M	10–12, 19–21	Van Diemen
	08	Greg Peluso	M	1–3	Van Diemen
	12	Bob Reid^[5]	M	All	Spectrum
CT Motorsports	41	Karsten Defonce^[5]		1–21	Ray FF	Honda^[6]
	45	Dillion Defonce^[5]		1–12
	45	Jack Sullivan^[7]		19–21
Lee Racing	0	Jonathan Lee^[5]		1–3	Swift	Honda
Lee Racing	1	Jonathan Lee^[5]		4–6	Swift	Ford
Raceworks	11	Christopher Kierce^[5]		1–3, 10–12	Spectrum	Honda
Raceworks	48	John Kierce		10–12	Piper
K-Hill Motorsports	031	Jackson Tovo^[8]		All	Mygale	Honda
	13	Ethan Tovo^[8]^[5]		16–18	Spectrum
	13	Ethan Tovo^[8]^[5]		1–15, 19–21	Mygale
	76	Ava Hanssen^[9]^[10]^[5]	R	All	Mygale
	113	Joseph Tovo	G M	13–15	Spectrum
Dole Racing	4	John P Dole^[11]	R	16–18	Mygale
Dole Racing	8	John Dole^[11]	G M	16–18	Ray FF
Team Pelfrey	7	Timothy Steele^[12]^[5]		1–3	Van Diemen	Honda
Team Pelfrey	80	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo^[13]^[5]		All	Mygale	Honda
Partstop	2	Mike Scanlan^[14]	M	4–12, 16–18	Spectrum
Auriana Racing	3	Joe Colasacco^[5]	M	1–9, 16–18	Van Diemen
TTO Motorsports	5	John Thompson^[14]	R M	1–3, 7–9	Piper
Steele Carreras	7	Timothy Steele^[5]		4–21	Van Diemen	Honda
Aero Metals	9	Robert Stowell	M	4–9, 13–21	Spectrum
Steel Services	11	Tom Schwietz	G M	16–21	Piper
	18	Gary Gecelter^[14]	M	7–9	Spectrum
Drivers Services	18	Gary Gecelter^[14]	M	10–12, 16–18	Spectrum
Shady Hill Clayworks	21	Dave Petzko	M	1–9, 13–15, 19–21	Spectrum
Cahan Racing Team^[15]	22	Ayrton Cahan	R	All	Van Diemen	Honda
AntiSpeed	26	Charles Anti		10–12	Van Diemen	Honda
Practical Precision Engineering	30	Will Velkoff		7–12, 16–21	Van Diemen
AJMoto	31	Scott Rubenzer^[5]	M	1–6, 10–15, 19–21	Spectrum	Honda
Red Arrow Racing	32	Trevor Russell^[5]		4–6, 13–15	Ray FF	Honda
Cordova Racing	42	Joe Parsons	M	19–21	Spectrum
Kingham Racing	47	Phil Kingham^[5]	M	1–6, 10–15, 19–21	Spectrum
Bob Gross Racing	62	Robert Gross	M	4–6	Piper
IronRock Motorsports	14	Cooper Shipman^[3]		4–12, 16–21	Piper
IronRock Motorsports	70	Cooper Shipman^[3]		1–3	Piper
DBM Racing	72	Steve Oseth^[11]	M	16–21	Citation
RaceDog	75	Jay Messenger^[4]	M	13–15	Van Diemen	Honda
Kelly Moss Inc.	81	Theodore Burns^[4]		13–15	Piper
ThermaMasters	85	David Livingston Jr.^[5]	M	1–6, 10–15	Spectrum	Honda
Bulzacchelli Racing	98	Michael Bulzacchelli		10–12	Piper	Honda
FRP F1600 Championship Series 2024^[16]

Icon	Class
M	Masters
R	Rookie
G	Guest

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Schedule

More information Rd., Date ...

Rd.	Date	Track	Location
1	March 21–24	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia
2
3
4	April 26–28	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
5
6
7	May 24–27	Lime Rock Park	Salisbury, Connecticut
8
9
10	June 7–9	Pittsburgh International Race Complex	Wampum, Pennsylvania
11
12
13	June 28–30	Road America	Plymouth, Wisconsin
14
15
16	July 26–28	New Jersey Motorsports Park	Millville, New Jersey
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18
19	August 16–18	Summit Point Motorsports Park	Summit Point, West Virginia
20
21
References: Formula Race Promotions Confirms 2024 Dates and Locations^[17]^[18]

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Results and performance summaries

More information Round, Circuit ...

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Masters class winner	Supporting
1	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	March 23	Trevor Russell	Race cancelled^[a]			F2000 Championship Series North American F1000 Championship Atlantic Championship International GT SVRA Sprint Series Trans-Am Series Prototype Sprint Series Association Ginetta Challenge Race Series
2			March 23		Joe Colasacco	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Scott Rubenzer
3			March 24		Simon Sikes	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	David Livingston Jr.
4	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	April 27	Cooper Shipman	Thomas Schrage	Thomas Schrage	Joe Colasacco	F2000 Championship Series North American F1000 Championship Atlantic Championship SVRA Sprint Series
5			April 28		Thomas Schrage	Thomas Schrage	Joe Colasacco
6			April 28		Thomas Schrage	Thomas Schrage	Joe Colasacco
7	Lime Rock Park	Salisbury, Connecticut	May 25	Jackson Tovo	Ethan Tovo	Cooper Shipman	Joe Colasacco	F2000 Championship Series SVRA Sprint Series International GT Trans-Am Series Ginetta Challenge Race Series
8			May 27		Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Joe Colasacco
9			May 27		Jackson Tovo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Joe Colasacco
10	Pittsburgh International Race Complex	Wampum, Pennsylvania	June 8	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Scott Rubenzer	F2000 Championship Series Atlantic Championship SVRA Sprint Series International GT Trans-Am Series
11			June 9		Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Scott Rubenzer
12			June 9		Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Scott Rubenzer
13	Road America	Plymouth, Wisconsin	June 29	Trevor Russell	Karsten Defonce	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Scott Rubenzer	F2000 Championship Series North American F1000 Championship Atlantic Championship Trans-Am Series International GT Prototype Sprint Series Association SVRA Sprint Series
14			June 30		Ethan Tovo	Ayrton Houk	Scott Rubenzer
15			June 30		Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Ayrton Houk	David Livingston Jr.
16	New Jersey Motorsports Park	Millville, New Jersey	July 27	Karsten Defonce	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Joe Colasacco	F2000 Championship Series Atlantic Championship Formula Regional Americas Championship Ligier JS F4 Series Formula 4 United States Championship SVRA Sprint Series
17			July 28		Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	Timothy Steele	Joe Colasacco
18			July 28		Karsten Defonce	Karsten Defonce	Joe Colasacco
19	Summit Point Motorsports Park	Summit Point, West Virginia	August 17	Jack Sullivan	Karsten Defonce	Jack Sullivan	Scott Rubenzer	F2000 Championship Series North American F1000 Championship Atlantic Championship SVRA Sprint Series
20			August 18		Jack Sullivan	Cooper Shipman	Bob Reid
21			August 18		Race cancelled^[b]
References:^[19]

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Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top twenty-five classified drivers, and the top drivers who are able to achieve the Pole Position or the Fastest Lap during the qualify session are awarded with the corresponding +3 and +2 bonus points.

The Season Championship will recognize only each driver's best 18 of 21 race results including all bonus points earned.^[20]

Points are awarded using the following system:

More information Position, Points ...

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th+	DNF
Points	50	42	37	34	31	29	27	25	23	21	19	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	1

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Guest drivers are ineligible to score points.

If a guest driver finishes in first position, the second-placed finisher will receive 50 points. The same goes for every other points scoring position. Thus, if three guest drivers place fourth, fifth and sixth, the seventh-placed finisher will receive 34 points and so forth – until the twenty-eighth-placed finisher receives the final point.

Driver standings

More information Pos, Driver ...

Pos	Driver	RAT^[a]			MOH			LRP			PITT			RA			NJMP			SP^[b]			Pts	Drop Points
1	Sebastian Mateo Naranjo	C	1	1	3	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	15^[c]	8	1	3	2^[d]	10	6	C	770	721
2	Timothy Steele	C	3	5	4	18	5	11	3	2	2	DNF	DNS	7	3^[e]	5	2	1	3	4	2	C	567	558
3	Karsten Defonce	C	10	11	5	4	2	5	5	17	3	2	3	9	6	17	4	2	1	2	9	C	595	558
4	Ethan Tovo	C	8	7	10	6	4	10	2	6	5	4	5	18	4	6	5	5	10	6	18	C	509	496
5	Cooper Shipman	C	18	17	2	17	22	1	6	4	7	6	2				3	4	4	3	1	C	478	478
6	Jackson Tovo	C	12	12	6	9	13	4	4	3	6	5	6	8	9	9	6	7	8	5	16	C	493	451
7	Ava Hanssen	C	11	8	13	14	14	6	7	8	16	20	7	11	8	10	7	6	7	8	4	C	416	387
8	Ayrton Cahan	C	15	14	15	10	9	7	10	7	23	9	8	12	7	7	DNF	9	6	7	17	C	365	352
9	Dillion Defonce	C	4	9	11	5	6	3	8	5	4	3	4										334	334
10	Scott Rubenzer	C	5	4	16	11	11				8	8	10	3	5	4				9	8	C	334	334
11	Joe Colasacco	C	7	6	8	3	7	8	9	10							9	10	11				279	279
12	Bob Reid	C	14	15	17	15	15	17	12	12	13	15	14	14	11	13	16	12	12	11	5	C	279	250
13	David Livingston Jr.	C	6	3	9	12	8				10	22	16	4	16	3							247	247
14	Will Velkoff							9	14	9	9	11	11				10	11	9	12	7	C	227	227
15	Phil Kingham	C	13	16	12	13	12				11	13	13	13	10	11				14	12	C	208	208
16	Thomas Schrage				1	1	1																156	156
17	Mike Scanlan				18	19	16	12	15	11	14	14	19				12	15	15				148	148
18	Michael Dowden	C	20	20	19	16	17	15	11	15	19	18	15	17	14	12							144	144
19	Ayrton Houk													2	1	1							142	142
20	Jonathan Lee	C	2	10	7	8	10																136	136
21	Robert Stowell				20	22	18	16	DNS	Wth				10	12	16	15	DNF	16	16	11	C	131	131
22	Dave Petzko	C	17	19	21	20	19	14	17	16				16	17	14				18	14	C	120	120
23	Theodore Burns													5	2	2							115	115
24	Gary Gecelter							13	16	14	20	16	22				14	16	17				94	94
25	Jack Sullivan																			1	3	C	92	92
26	Christopher Kierce	C	9	13							12	12	12										89	89
27	Steve Oseth																11	14	13	13	10	C	85	85
28	John P Dole																8	8	5				81	81
29	Trevor Russell	C	Wth	Wth	14	7	21							6	DNF	DNS							81	81
30	Greg Peluso	C	19	22							15	17	20							17	13	C	62	62
31	John Thompson	C	16	18				18	13	13													56	56
32	Michael Bulzacchelli										17	10	9										53	53
33	Simon Sikes	C	22	2																			48	48
34	Jay Messenger													15	13	15							37	37
35	Charles Anti										22	7	21										36	36
36	Scott Oliver										18	21	17										22	22
37	John Kierce										21	19	18										20	20
38	Joe Parsons																			19	15	C	19	19
39	Robert Gross				22	21	20																15	15
40	Ayush Pasricha	C	21	21																			10	10
Drivers ineligible for points
	John Dole																13	13	14
	Joseph Tovo													19	Wth	Wth
	Tom Schwietz																17	DNF	18	15	19	C
Pos	Driver	RAT^[a]			MOH			LRP			PITT			RA			NJMP			SP^[b]			Pts	Drop Points
References: FRP Official Points Standings^[21] & Championship Series Central^[22]^[f] & Race Monitor^[23]

Color	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd-place finish
Bronze	3rd-place finish
Green	Top 5 finish
Light Blue	Top 10 finish
Dark Blue	Other flagged position
Purple	Did not finish (DNF)
Brown	Withdrew (Wth)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did Not Start (DNS)
White	Race abandoned (C)
Blank	Did not participate

In-line notation
Bold	Pole position (3 points)
Italics	Fastest lap of the race (2 points)

Master of the Year
Masters

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Incident reports

Road America 2024 - Incident Review/Penalty Report^[24]^[e]^[c]
NJMP 2024 - Incident Review/Penalty Report^[25]^[d]

Live streaming on YouTube

Race 3 of Road Atlanta: Mission Foods Road Atlanta SpeedTour - Sunday Coverage^[26]
Race 1 of Road America: Road America SpeedTour - Saturday Coverage^[27]
Race 2 of Road America: Road America SpeedTour - Sunday Coverage^[28]

Notes

[a]
Road Atlanta Race 1 - Cancelled, No Points
[b]
Summit Point Race 3 - Cancelled, No Points
[c]
Findings: #80 Found in violation of: 1.6.17.3: AVOIDABLE CONTACT & 1.6.17.4: RACING ROOM. Loss of 10 racing points
[d]
Findings: #80 found in violation of: 1.6.17.3: AVOIDABLE CONTACT. Loss of 10 racing points and purse.
[e]
Findings: #7 Found in violation of: 1.6.17.5: SAFE PASS & 1.6.17.3: AVOIDABLE CONTACT. Loss of 15 racing points and purse.
[f]
New Jersey Motorsports Park Race 3 is not listed in this source

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