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SASKATOON, SK (February 15, 2018) – Exclusive Autosport is pleased to announce that Mexican driver Manuel Cabrera will fill their second seat for the 2018 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. The 17-year-old will make his Mazda Road to Indy debut this year, having spent the 2017 season competing in the Formula PanAm and Formula Master Asia series. Cabrera won the Formula PanAm championship and was rewarded with a ticket to the Mazda Road to Indy $200,000 Scholarship Shootout and was he also acknowledged as the Rookie of theRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, Staff Writer Canada’s hero is moving up the Mazda Road to Indy. Exclusive Autosport announced that the Parker Thompson will be racing one of their new PM-18s in the 2018 Pro Mazda Championship presented by Cooper Tires. The Red Deer, Alberta native finished second in the 2016 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda to Anthony Martin, and won three races last season in the  USF2000 championship for Exclusive Autosport. Those wins included a sweep of the streets of Toronto and a victory at the Mid-Ohio Sports CarRead More

By Road to Indy Exclusive Autosport may be new to the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires, but it is far from being a “new” team. With five years of experience in Canadian and U.S. junior formula series including numerous championship titles, the team continued its progression in 2017 and made an immediate impact on the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. Exclusive Autosport was born from Michael Duncalfe’s driver management company, Exclusive Management Inc., with head offices in Saskatoon, Sas. Beginning with a diecast company heRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer Parker Thompson’s 2017 foray in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda has been a roller coaster but the Red Deer, Alberta native managed to hit a peak in front of his compatriots by winning the first of two USF2000 races of the weekend on the streets of Toronto. Thompson started from pole in his No. 90 Exclusive Autosport car and led from flag-to-flag over Cape Motorsports’s Oliver Askew and Pabst Racing’s Rinus VeeKay. Askew grew his points lead over VeeKayRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer After signing Parker Thompson and Luke Gabin to pilot their Nos. 90 and 91 Tatuus USF-17s, respectively, Exclusive Autosport announced that Dev Gore will drive the No. 92 USF-17 for the Canadian-based team in the 2017 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda. Gore cut his teeth in karting, winning two Rotax championships in 2016 including the U.S. Open and U.S. Rotax Grand National titles.  Before those titles, Gore spent a few summers in Canada where he refined his craft. “This wasRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer One of the best off track stories from the 2016 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda season is returning to the series for 2017 as Luke Gabin signed with Exclusive Autosport. Gabin had tested for the team late in 2016 before making a deal to join and he had worked with several people on the team previously, making Exclusive a no-brainer. “It was a pretty last minute [deal], I sort of had talks with Michael (Duncalfe, team owner) in November whenRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Exclusive Autosport’s inaugural campaign in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda has been bolstered with the signing of 2016 series runner-up Parker Thompson. Thompson will drive the No. 90 Tatus USF-17 in his third season in USF2000. The Red Deer, Alberta native is coming off a runner-up finish in the standings to former Cape Motorsports teammate Anthony Martin. “This was easily one of the hardest off seasons I have had in my motorsport career thus far,” Thompson admitted. “I honestly didn’t know ifRead More