Young Australian earns fifth podium finish of the season

Jamin takes the championship title with a wire-to-wire finish at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

Nicolas “Nico” Jamin announced his 2015 intentions – and a precursor of the season – when he earned pre-season Cooper Tires USF2000 Winterfest championship honors. The 19-year-old native of Rouen, France continued his winning ways as the season progressed, earning eight victories (including a sweep of all three races and pole positions in the most recent event at Mid-Ohio) and podium finishes in all but one of the 14 races to date. Jamin has tied Sage Karam’s record of 11 poles (2010) and JR Hildebrand’s record of 13 podiums (2006) in a season with two races remaining.

In any other season, Jake Eidson’s record in USF2000 – four victories and podium finishes in 12 of 14 races – might have been good enough for the championship title. Instead, Eidson lies 50 points behind Jamin going into the season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. But Eidson has not conceded the title just yet.

Leading junior formula open wheel squad JDC MotorSports will cap off their season of Mazda Road to Indy competition this weekend (September 11-13) at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif., and they’ll have a full paddock of five drivers for this event which will be waged at a facility that is considered to be Mazda’s spiritual home.