2025 USF Juniors

• The scholarship for the champion was decreased by approximately $14,000 to $249,675.^[1]

All drivers competed using Tatuus JR-23 racecars with Elite Mazda 2.0-014A engines and Continental tires.^[2]

Team No. Driver(s) Status Round(s) DEForce Racing 14 Vilho Aatola[3] R All 15 Patricio González[4] All 16 Lincoln Day[5] 1–6 17 Thomas Nordquist[6] R All 18 Rodrigo González[7] All Exclusive Autosport 90 Kaylee Countryman[8] R All 92 Brenden Cooley[9] R All 94 Justin Di Lucia R 14–16 International Motorsport 24 Michael Suco[10] All 25 Hudson Potter[11] All 26 Emma Scarbrough[12] R All Jay Howard Driver Development 4 Karel Staut[13] R 1–6 5 Harry Moss[14] R 1–8 Chase Fernandez[15] R 9–10 6 Liam Loiacono[16] R All 7 Harley Keeble R 7–8 9 JT Hoskins[17] R All Pole Position Motorsports 27 Connor Aspley[18] R All VRD Racing 10 João Vergara[19] All 11 Colin Aitken R 11–16 77 Matan Achituv[20] R All 98 Oliver Wheldon[21] R All Zanella Racing 12 Diego Guiot[22] All 23 Rahim Alibhai R 11–16 29 Maddie Colleran[23] R All 37 Ty Fisher[24] R All 55 Leonardo Escorpioni[25] All

Icon Status R Rookie

• Juan Pablo Vallarta was scheduled to compete for DEForce Racing Driver Development, but did not appear at any rounds.^[26]

Exclusive Autosport signed karting driver Kaylee Countryman, who made her open-wheel racing debut with the team.^[8] The team resigned Brendan Cooley for a full-season campaign after competing with them in the penultimate round of the 2024 season.^[9]

Jay Howard Driver Development signed JT Hoskins to a full-season campaign after racing with the team for the last three rounds last season.^[17] The team also signed Vilho Aatola, Karel Staut and Harry Moss, all of whom made their open-wheel racing debuts with JHDD, as well as Liam Loiacono who joined USF Juniors after competing in the Australian Formula Ford Championship.^{[3][16][14][13]}

VRD Racing added rookies Matan Achituv and Ryan Giannetta to the team.^[20][27] João Vergara switched to VRD Racing after finishing 8th in the previous season with Exclusive Autosport.^[19]

Zanella Racing signed Ty Fisher, who made his open-wheel racing debut with the team. The team also signed Maddie Colleran who joined the series from the Lucas Oil School of Racing.^[23][24]

Pole Position Motorsports announced they would join the series with Connor Aspley as their driver.^[18]

The 2025 schedule was revealed on September 17, 2024. The championship visited a majority of the same circuits as in 2024, with the exception of Virginia International Raceway being replaced with two more rounds at Mid-Ohio.^[28] All rounds except the weekends at NOLA, Mid-Ohio races 7–8, and Road America were run in support of the IndyCar Series.^[1]

Icon	Legend
R	Road course

Rd.	Date	Race name	Track	Location
1	April 11–13	Continental Tire Grand Prix of Louisiana	R  NOLA Motorsports Park	Avondale, Louisiana
2
3
4	May 1–3	Children’s of Alabama Grand Prix	R  Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama
5
6
7	June 6–8	PFC Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio	R  Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio
8
9	July 3–6
10
11	July 24–26	Elite Engines Grand Prix of Road America	R  Road America	Elkhart Lake. Wisconsin
12
13
14	August 8–9	Continental Tire Grand Prix of Portland	R  Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon
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16

Rd.	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Race winner
					Driver	Team
1	NOLA Motorsports Park	Oliver Wheldon	Oliver Wheldon	João Vergara	João Vergara	VRD Racing
2		Liam Loiacono	Ty Fisher	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Zanella Racing
3		Ty Fisher	Ty Fisher	Ty Fisher	Ty Fisher	Zanella Racing
4	Barber Motorsports Park	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Zanella Racing
5		Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Zanella Racing
6		Leonardo Escorpioni	Ty Fisher	Leonardo Escorpioni	Ty Fisher	Zanella Racing
7	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	João Vergara	Liam Loiacono	João Vergara	João Vergara	VRD Racing
8		João Vergara	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Jay Howard Driver Development
9	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Ty Fisher	João Vergara	Ty Fisher Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Zanella Racing
10		Ty Fisher	Liam Loiacono	João Vergara	Liam Loiacono	Jay Howard Driver Development
11	Road America	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Jay Howard Driver Development
12		Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Jay Howard Driver Development
13		Liam Loiacono	Vilho Aatola	Liam Loiacono	Liam Loiacono	Jay Howard Driver Development
14	Portland International Raceway	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Zanella Racing
15		Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Zanella Racing
16		Leonardo Escorpioni	Leonardo Escorpioni	Ty Fisher	Ty Fisher	Zanella Racing

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th+
Points	30	25	22	19	17	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

• The driver who qualified on pole was awarded one additional point.
• One point was awarded to the driver who led the most laps in a race.
• One point was awarded to the driver who set the fastest lap during a race.

Pos Driver NOL ALA MOH1 MOH2 ROA POR Points 1 Leonardo Escorpioni 3 1* 20 1* 1* 3* 3 3 1* 3 4 2 2 1* 1* 2 403 2 Liam Loiacono 6 2 6 6 7 8 5 1* 4 1 1* 1* 1* 11 2 20 332 3 João Vergara 1* 5 3 4 4 5 1* 14 2 2* 12 11 20 2 6 6 292 4 Ty Fisher 4 4 1* 5 2 1 4 16 3* DSQ 19 8 9 4 7 1* 285 5 Oliver Wheldon 2 3 2 11 3 2 2 2 6 19 13 7 17 18 4 17 250 6 Rodrigo González 5 9 5 3 6 6 6 17 5 10 2 16 18 6 3 4 235 7 Vilho Aatola 15 6 4 2 5 4 8 5 7 6 16 6 4 3 10 21 234 8 Patricio González 18 12 9 7 20 9 9 4 10 13 5 3 3 14 5 3 208 9 Diego Guiot 7 7 7 21 11 7 11 9 8 5 9 9 7 10 8 5 198 10 Brenden Cooley 11 8 11 19 13 21 12 19 9 4 3 17 5 9 9 8 166 11 JT Hoskins 10 22 8 10 9 15 7 12 11 17 11 4 13 5 22 18 149 12 Michael Suco 9 11 18 8 8 11 14 7 14 9 18 10 19 7 14 22 139 13 Connor Aspley 22 18 21 20 14 22 13 6 12 14 6 5 6 20 18 15 110 14 Matan Achituv 14 13 17 22 17 18 16 11 15 16 14 15 11 8 11 12 109 15 Emma Scarbrough 13 16 19 14 15 20 17 8 13 12 21 18 15 15 15 14 92 16 Kaylee Countryman 16 19 13 18 21 19 20 10 17 8 10 20 12 16 19 10 89 17 Thomas Nordquist 19 15 22 12 16 12 18 18 19 18 20 21 10 13 16 9 81 18 Hudson Potter 12 21 10 9 12 13 15 20 20 11 17 19 DNS DNS 21 19 77 19 Karel Staut 8 10 14 13 10 10 61 20 Maddie Colleran 21 17 16 16 19 16 21 15 16 15 15 14 16 17 20 13 58 21 Colin Aitken 7 12 14 12 17 11 53 22 Rahim Alibhai 8 13 8 21 13 16 45 23 Harry Moss 17 14 12 17 22 17 19 13 39 24 Justin Di Lucia 19 12 7 25 25 Lincoln Day 20 20 15 15 18 14 24 26 Chase Fernandez 18 7 17 27 Harley Keeble 10 21 12 Pos Driver NOL ALA MOH1 MOH2 ROA 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 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 led most laps Rookie

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th+
Points	22	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

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

Pos	Team	NOL			ALA			MOH1		MOH2		ROA			POR			Points
1	Zanella Racing	3	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	1	3	4	2	2	1	1	1	468
		4	4	7	5	2	3	4	9	3	5	8	8	7	4	7	2
2	VRD Racing	1	3	2	4	3	2	1	2	2	2	7	7	11	2	4	5	345
		2	5	3	11	4	5	2	11	6	16	12	11	14	8	6	8
3	DEForce Racing	5	6	4	2	5	4	6	4	5	6	2	3	3	3	3	3	328
		15	9	5	3	6	6	8	5	7	10	5	6	4	6	5	4
4	Jay Howard Driver Development	6	2	6	6	7	8	5	1	4	1	1	1	1	5	2	11	267
		8	10	8	10	9	10	7	12	9	7	11	4	13	10	13	13
5	Exclusive Autosport	11	8	11	18	13	19	12	10	8	4	3	17	5	9	8	6	98
		16	19	13	19	21	21	20	19	17	8	10	20	12	12	9	7
6	Pole Position Motorsports	22	18	21	20	14	22	13	6	10	14	6	5	6	13	12	10	94
7	International Motorsport	9	11	10	8	8	11	14	7	11	9	17	10	15	7	10	9	64
		12	16	18	9	12	13	15	8	12	11	18	18	19	11	11	12
Pos	Team	NOL			ALA			MOH1		MOH2		ROA			POR			Points