Indy Lights

Mazda Road to Indy’s Pro Mazda Championship entry Team Pefrey has taken over the operations of 8Star Motorsports and will move up to Indy Lights for the 2016 season. All of the team’s Indy Lights personnel, including team manager Gary Neal have been retained and the team will continue to operate out of 8Star’s headquarters in Pompano Beach, Florida. “Rather than start from ground zero, we researched the market and quickly realized that absorbing the great people and resources at 8Star Motorsports was the best way possible to enter IndyRead More

Monterey, Calif. – An assured victory by Spencer Pigot in today’s Indy Lights Grand Prix Presented by Cooper Tires at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca ensured that the outcome of this year’s Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires title-chase will remain undecided until tomorrow afternoon’s 16th and final race. Pigot, who won the 2014 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, took the lead for Juncos Racing on Lap 3 after polesitter Max Chilton (Carlin) clipped the tire stack at the apex of the Corkscrew. Pigot, 21, from Orlando, Fla., ledRead More

Juncos Racing is set to make their final run for the 2015 Indy Lights Championship Presented by Cooper Tires next week at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Rookie Spencer Pigot trails championship leader Jack Harvey by only six points as they head into Rounds 15 and 16. The season finale will take place September 10th through the 13th on the 2.238 mile, 11-Turn road course in Monterey, California. Proving to be a championship contender in their first season in the final step of IndyCar’s Mazda Road to Indy ladder series, JuncosRead More

Newton, Iowa – Max Chilton broke through to claim his first Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires victory this evening at Iowa Speedway following a thrilling duel with Carlin teammate and fellow Englishman Ed Jones. Chilton dedicated the victory to his friend and ex-Marussia/Manor Formula 1 teammate Jules Bianchi who passed away yesterday as a result of injuries sustained during last year’s Japanese Grand Prix. Florida teenager RC Enerson continued to impress with a third-place finish in the Indy Lights Iowa 100 for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with Curb-Agajanian. Prior commitmentsRead More

Passing on the slick and tricky Milwaukee Mile is supposed to be difficult, but don’t tell Grand Prix of Milwaukee winner Felix Serralles that. The Belardi Auto Racing rookie started his second Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tire oval race from the outside of the third row and was able to pass five cars on the way to his first Indy Lights victory. The bevy of passes by the Ponce, Puerto Rico native included a multiple lap side-by-side battle with RC Enerson for the lead of the race with onlyRead More

TORONTO – Spencer Pigot survived a race under challenging conditions to make a clean sweep of the doubleheader weekend on the streets of Toronto. The victory helps the Juncos Racing driver re-enter the championship discussion after a difficult “Month of May” at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The fourth career Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires win for the 21-year-old was also his twenty-second career trip to the top step of a Mazda Road To Indy podium. An eventful Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Toronto Powered by Mazda race, which sawRead More

TORONTO, Ont. – Spencer Pigot won his third Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tire race of the season after inheriting the lead following a scary crash involving leaders Nelson Piquet, Jr. and RC Enerson. Pigot, the reigning Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tire champion, started third and made an impressive pass on current points leader Jack Harvey on lap 7 to regain the position. The 21-year-old Juncos Racing driver was the second MAZDASPEED scholarship winner to visit the top step of the podium in Toronto when he beat HarveyRead More

Englishman Jack Harvey has been too often the bridesmaid in his year and a half of competition in Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, but he was out in front when it mattered in this afternoon’s Freedom 100 Presented by Allied Building Products at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race was held in glorious weather conditions in front of a sizable Coors Light Carb Day crowd, part of the build-up toward Sunday’s 99th running of the Indianapolis 500. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with Curb-Agajanian teammates Ethan Ringel, Scott Anderson and RCRead More

Indianapolis, Ind. – Sean Rayhall scored an emotional and well-deserved victory for 8Star Motorsports in today’s Mazda Grand Prix of Indianapolis Presented by Cooper Tires on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile Grand Prix road course. Rayhall, 20, from Winston, Ga., grasped the lead at the start of Round Seven of Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires and held on to win despite almost race-long pressure from yesterday’s winner and 2014 Indy Lights championship runner-up Jack Harvey.   Unfortunately for Harvey, a mechanical problem on the final lap dropped him toRead More