2026 Mazda MX-5 Cup

The schedule was announced on July 7, 2025, featuring 14 rounds across seven double-header weekends.^[1]

Round		Circuit	Location	Dates	Supporting
1	R1	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, Florida	January 21–23	IMSA SportsCar Championship
	R2
2	R3	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	February 27 – March 1	IndyCar Series
	R4
3	R5	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	June 5–7	Michelin Pilot Challenge
	R6
4	R7	Canadian Tire Motorsports Park	Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada	July 10–12	IMSA SportsCar Championship
	R8
5	R9	Virginia International Raceway	Alton, Virginia	August 20–23
	R10
6	R11	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Speedway, Indiana	September 18–20
	R12
7	R13	Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	October 1–3
	R14
Source:[2]

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

Team	No.	Driver	Class	Rounds
BSI Racing	09	Damon Ockey		2
	7	Tristan McKee	R	1–2
	32	Christian Hodneland		2
	44	Bobby Gossett		1–2
	57	Tyler Gonzalez[a]		1
	72	Ethan Goulart		1–2
	77	Ellie Gossett	R	1–2
	80	Ethan Tyler		1–2
	86	Farhan Siddiqi		1
	95	Julian DaCosta		1
		James Vance		2
Wheels America Racing	3	Max Stallone	R	1–2
	98	Logan Stretch	R	1–2
JTR Motorsports Engineering	5	Gresham Wagner[3]		1–2
	8	Justin Gravett[3]	R	1–2
	26	Peter Atwater[3]		1–2
	34	John Salerno[3]	R	1–2
	46	Christopher Allen[3]	R	1
	66	Jameson Riley[3]	R	1–2
	69	Glenn McGee[3]		1–2
	81	Chris Hutter[3]	R	1–2
	82	Woody Heimann[3]		1
	96	Jared Thomas[3]		1–2
Advanced Autosports	9	Vaughn Mishko	R	1–2
	11	Matt Novak	R	1–2
	31	Ethan Lampe	R	1–2
	55	Cam Ebben	R	1–2
	56	Nathan Nicholson		1–2
Hendricks Motorsports	12	Noah Harmon		1
	21	Westin Workman		1
		Earl Bamber[4]		2
McCumbee McAleer Racing	17	Joe Rainey		1
	22	Jeremy Fletcher		1–2
	23	Justin Adakonis		1–2
	30	Joey Rainey		1
	38	Sébastien Bourdais[5]		2
	51	Will Robinson		1–2
Saito Motorsports Group	19	Marcello Paniccia	R	1–2
AAG Racing	25	Fernando Luque	R	1–2
	60	Chuck Mactutus	R	1–2
Spark Performance	33	Alex Bachoura		1–2
	48	Frankie Barroso	R	1–2
	50	Grant West		1–2
	84	Ruben Caceres		1–2
	89	Ryan Leach	R	1–2
Rocksteady Racing	40	Brian Dombroski	R	1–2
Parker Delong Racing	42	Parker DeLong		1–2
	43	Charlotte Traynor		1–2
JDH Racing	71	Ben Jacobs	R	1–2
	99	Ethan Jacobs	R	1–2
Source:[6]

 R  = Eligible for Rookie's Championship

Championship points are awarded at the finish of each event according to the chart below.^[7]

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

Pos. Driver DAY STP MDO MOS VIR IND ATL Bonus Points 1 Bobby Gossett 3 33 1 3 10 970 2 Jared Thomas 4 35 2 2 20 950 3 Justin Adakonis 2 10 35 1 20 910 4 Tristan McKee 17 6 7 10 0 860 5 Gresham Wagner 41 5 9 7 10 760 6 Frankie Barroso  R  11 32 5 5 0 750 7 Ethan Tyler 12 8 21 12 0 740 8 Jeremy Fletcher 42 1 4 38 10 660 9 Nathan Nicholson 7 31 18 6 0 650 10 John Salerno  R  20 18 13 15 0 610 11 Ethan Jacobs  R  14 11 10 35 0 600 12 Grant West 10 38 6 27 0 520 13 Parker DeLong 9 36 15 21 0 520 14 Cam Ebben  R  22 20 19 14 0 520 15 Ruben Caceres  R  19 3 37 25 0 510 16 Marcello Paniccia  R  8 23 25 20 0 510 17 Matt Novak  R  34 16 3 39 0 480 18 Will Robinson 23 13 12 31 0 480 19 Ethan Goulart 37 9 32 11 0 460 20 Justin Gravett  R  44 12 23 19 0 430 21 Westin Workman 6 14 0 420 22 Alex Bachoura 25 15 29 17 0 420 23 Jameson Riley 27 45 11 22 0 370 24 Glenn McGee 16 37 14 36 20 370 25 Noah Harmon 1 41 0 360 26 Max Stallone  R  45 26 17 18 0 360 27 Vaughn Mishko  R  15 30 39 16 0 350 28 Tyler Gonzalez 36 2 10 340 29 James Vance 22 8 0 340 30 Ethan Lampe  R  29 4 33 40 10 330 31 Chuck Mactutus  R  24 7 34 37 0 330 32 Christian Hodneland 20 13 0 320 33 Julian DaCosta 5 43 0 270 34 Ryan Leach  R  35 22 16 32 0 270 35 Fernando Luque  R  21 17 31 34 0 270 36 Brian Dombroski  R  33 29 24 23 0 210 38 Christopher Allen  R  13 39 0 190 38 Charlotte Traynor  R  40 25 28 26 0 190 39 Peter Atwater 18 28 0 160 40 Logan Stretch  R  43 21 38 30 0 150 41 Chris Hutter  R  30 40 30 24 0 140 42 Joey Rainey 31 19 0 130 43 Ellie Gossett  R  32 24 40 29 0 130 44 Ben Jacobs  R  39 34 26 28 0 130 45 Joe Rainey 28 27 0 70 46 Farhan Siddiqi 26 42 0 60 47 Woody Heimann 38 44 0 20 48 Damon Ockey 36 33 0 20 Guest drivers ineligible to score points Earl Bamber 8 4 Sébastien Bourdais 27 9 Pos. Driver DAY STP MDO MOS VIR IND 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.