Christchurch’s Jacob Douglas’s second half of the 2022 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship season continues to show improvement with another top-ten finish. The teenager has come home in seventh place at the Honda Indy Toronto in Canada, after finishing fifth in the opening leg on Saturday. It is his fifth top-ten placing in the last seven rounds seeing him move up to 12th overall with just three races remaining. It has not been a good round for fellow Kiwi Billy Frazer. After starting at the back of the grid in the first race in Toronto, and finishing thirteenth, Frazer retired from Sunday’s race after contact on the fifth lap. Despite a poor result, Frazer still remains fifth overall.
Jace Denmark remained in control throughout an action-packed 20-lap Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Toronto but there was plenty of drama in his wake following a late full-course caution which set the scene for a one-lap dash to the checkered flag.
Myles Rowe looked set to extend his lead in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship by following in the wheel tracks of his Pabst Racing teammate, until his closest title rival, Michael d’Orlando (Cape Motorsports), attempted a pass for second place in Turn Eight on the final lap.
Heavy contact cost both contenders a podium finish and allowed DEForce Racing teammates Thomas Nepveu, from Oka, Que., Canada and Dylan Christie, from Princeton, N.J., to claim second and third.
Just 25 points now separate the top three contenders with just one weekend of racing remaining on the schedule: a triple-header at Portland International Raceway, in Portland, Ore., in conjunction with the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, on September 2-4.
See also: Top five for Douglas on the streets of Toronto
Provisional championship points after 15 of 18 races:
1/ Myles Rowe, 346
2/ Michael d’Orlando, 323
3/ Jace Denmark, 321
4/ Jagger Jones, 265
5/ Billy Frazer, 229
6/ Thomas Nepveu, 221
7/ Bijoy Garg, 203
8/ Christian Weir, 180
9/ Nicky Hays, 172
10/ Dylan Christie, 165
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