Jacob Douglas
New Zealand racing driver (born 2005)
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Jacob Douglas (born 12 June 2005 in Lincoln[1]) is a New Zealand racing driver currently competing for Pabst Racing in the 2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship.[2]
| Jacob Douglas | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  New Zealand |
| Born | 12 June 2005 Lincoln, New Zealand |
| USF Pro 2000 Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2025 |
| Current team | Pabst Racing |
| Car number | 19 |
| Starts | 5 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 1 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Previous series | |
| 2024 2023 2022–23 2021 2021 2020–21 2020–21 | GB3 Championship YACademy Winter Series USF2000 Championship Formula Pro USA - F4 Western Championship NZ Formula Ford Championship Formula Ford New Zealand South Island Series North Island Formula Ford Series |
| Championship titles | |
| 2023 | YACademy Winter Series |
Career
Karting
Douglas started karting at the age of eight, mainly racing in national championships around New Zealand, winning the 2017 and 2018 editions of the NZ National Sprint Championship in the Vortex Mini Rok class.[3][4]
Having made his debut in European competitions in 2018 by racing in the Rok Cup International Final and WSK Final Cup,[5][6] Douglas represented New Zealand in the 2019 Karting Academy Trophy and won the Junior Rok class B final at the end-of-year Rok Cup Superfinal.[7][8]
In 2021, Douglas won both the Kartsport NZ National Sprint Championship in the Vortex Junior class and the NZ National Sprint Championship in Junior Max in what turned out to be his last full-time year in karts.[9][10]
2022
In early 2022, Douglas joined Exclusive Autosport to compete in the USF2000 Championship.[11] In his maiden season in the series, Douglas scored three top five finishes in the second half of the season en route to twelfth in points.[12][13][14]
2023
After winning the YACademy Winter Series in early 2023,[15] Douglas returned to Exclusive Autosport for his sophomore season in the USF2000 Championship.[16] Scoring one podium in the first half of the season at Sebring,[17] Douglas skipped the round at Indianapolis Raceway Park and joined Pabst Racing for the second half of the season.[18]
In his first race with Pabst, Douglas finished second at Road America to Simon Sikes.[19] Three rounds later, Douglas scored his first pole at Portland,[20] before winning two of the final three races to end the season sixth in points.[21][22]
2024
Having missed out on a seat in the Formula Regional Oceania Championship,[23] Douglas spent the first half of 2024 in the Elite Motorsport Academy,[24] from which he was awarded the Bruce McLaren trophy for topping the points of the academy camp.[25]
During the summer of 2024, Douglas returned to single-seaters, joining Chris Dittmann Racing in GB3 for the Silverstone and Donington Park rounds.[26] In his two rounds in the series, Douglas scored a best result of sixteenth in the third race at Silverstone.[27]
2025
After testing USF Pro 2000 machinery in 2023 and 2024,[28][29] Douglas joined Pabst Racing to compete in the 2025 USF Pro 2000 Championship.[30] Douglas scored his maiden series in just his second race, finishing third at the season-opening round at St. Petersburg,[31] before taking his maiden win two rounds later at Indianapolis.[32] In the remaining five rounds of the season, Douglas took six podiums, with four of those coming in the last five races, as he ended the year fifth in points.[33]
2026
Douglas will remain with Pabst Racing for the 2026 USF Pro 2000 Championship.[34]
Karting record
Karting career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Kartsport NZ National Schools Championship – Cadet | 8th | |
| 2016 | NZ National Schools Championship – Mini Rok | 22nd | |
| 48th Blossom Festival – Vortex Mini Rok | 12th | ||
| 2017 | NZ National Schools Championship – Mini Rok | 4th | |
| Sievwright Kartsport NZ National Sprint Championship – Vortex Mini Rok | 1st | ||
| SKUSA SuperNationals – Mini Swift | 45th | ||
| 2018 | NZ National Schools Championship – Junior Rotax | 15th | |
| NZ National Sprint Championship – Mini Rok | 1st | ||
| WSK Final Cup – 60 Mini | Lennox Racing Team | 96th | |
| Rok Cup International Final – Mini Rok | 15th | ||
| SKUSA SuperNationals – KA100 Junior | 20th | ||
| 2019 | Karting Academy Trophy | Douglas Craig | 11th |
| NZ National Sprint Championship – Vortex Rok DVS Junior | 6th | ||
| NZ National Sprint Championship – Junior Max | 5th | ||
| NZ National Sprint Championship – Junior Rotax | 3rd | ||
| CIK Trophy of New Zealand – Vortex Rok DVS Junior | 4th | ||
| 51st Blossom Festival – Vortex Rok DVS Junior | 2nd | ||
| SKUSA SuperNationals – X30 Junior | DNQ | ||
| SKUSA SuperNationals – KA100 Junior | 38th | ||
| Rok Cup International Final – Junior Rok | Lennox Jordon | NC | |
| 2020 | Kartsport NZ National Sprint Championship – Vortex Rok DVS Junior | NC | |
| Australian Kart Championship – KA2 | 26th | ||
| Kartsport Auckland City of Sails – Rotax Junior | 2nd | ||
| Rok Cup International Final – Junior Rok | 29th | ||
| 2021 | Kartsport NZ National Sprint Championship – Vortex Rok DVS Junior | 1st | |
| NZ National Sprint Championship – Junior Max | 1st | ||
| 2024 | Kartsport NZ National Sprint Championship – Vortex Rok DVS Senior | 3rd | |
| NZ National Sprint Championship – Rotax Light | 15th | ||
| Hampton Downs NZ Racing Academy Kartstars New Zealand – Rotax Max Light | 38th | ||
| Hampton Downs NZ Racing Academy Kartstars New Zealand – Vortex Rok DVS | 13th | ||
| Sources:[35][36] | |||
Racing record
Racing career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | North Island Formula Ford Series | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ? | ? | |
| Formula Ford New Zealand South Island Series | [37] | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ? | ? | |
| 2021 | NZ Formula Ford Championship | [38] | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 415 | 6th |
| Formula Pro USA - F4 Western Championship | Kiwi Motorsport[39] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 8th | |
| 2022 | USF2000 Championship | Exclusive Autosport | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 179 | 12th |
| 2023 | YACademy Winter Series | Exclusive Autosport | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 143 | 1st |
| USF2000 Championship | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 249 | 6th | ||
| Pabst Racing | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 2024 | GB3 Championship | Chris Dittmann Racing | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 28th |
| 2025 | USF Pro 2000 Championship | Pabst Racing | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 329 | 5th |
| 2026 | USF Pro 2000 Championship | Pabst Racing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | TBD |
| Source:[40][35] | |||||||||
* Season still in progress.
American open-wheel racing results
USF2000 Championship
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with * indicate most race laps led)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Exclusive Autosport | STP 1 11 |
STP 2 16 |
ALA 1 12 |
ALA 2 16 |
IMS 1 15 |
IMS 2 13 |
IMS 3 13 |
IRP 16 |
ROA 1 8 |
ROA 2 17 |
MOH 1 5 |
MOH 2 7 |
MOH 3 13 |
TOR 1 5 |
TOR 2 7 |
POR 1 5 |
POR 2 6 |
POR 3 20 |
12th | 179 |
| 2023 | Exclusive Autosport | STP 1 8 |
STP 2 15 |
SEB 1 13 |
SEB 2 3 |
IMS 1 15 |
IMS 2 6 |
IMS 3 20 |
IRP | 6th | 249 | ||||||||||
| Pabst Racing | ROA 1 2 |
ROA 2 6 |
MOH 1 23 |
MOH 2 6 |
MOH 3 15 |
TOR 1 13 |
TOR 2 5 |
POR 1 1* |
POR 2 1* |
POR 3 2 | |||||||||||
Complete GB3 Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
USF Pro 2000 Championship
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pabst Racing | STP 1 20 |
STP 2 3 |
LOU 1 4 |
LOU 2 4 |
LOU 3 4 |
IMS 1 14 |
IMS 2 1 |
IMS 3 17 |
IRP 9 |
ROA 1 3 |
ROA 2 2 |
ROA 3 8 |
MOH 1 5 |
MOH 2 2 |
TOR 1 2 |
TOR 2 3 |
POR 1 5 |
POR 2 3 |
5th | 329 |
| 2026 | Pabst Racing | ARL 1 16 |
ARL 2 17 |
IMS 1 |
IMS 2 |
IRP |
ROA 1 |
ROA 2 |
MOH 1 |
MOH 2 |
MOH 3 |
POR 1 |
POR 2 |
MAR 1 |
MAR 2 |
MIL |
ROA 1 |
ROA 2 |
ROA 3 |
20th* | 9* |
* Season still in progress.