DEForce Racing has announced a roster of drivers who will race for it in IndyCar’s support series this year.
For the third-tier USF Pro 2000, DEForce has retained Jorge Garciarce and Nicholas Monteiro. They came 10th and 13th in 2024, and Garciarce had one top-five finish. The 20-year-old Mexican was a NACAM Formula 4 race-winner back in 2020, and was eighth in his sophomore USF2000 season two years ago.
Monteiro was 19th in his maiden USFP2000 campaign in 2023, and the 19-year-old Brazilian is currently 13th in Formula Regional Oceania.
In USF2000, the rung below on the Road to Indy, Jeshua Alianell, Sebastian Garzon, Brady Golan and Maxwell Jamieson have been signed by DEForce.
Alianell was runner-up in the F4-spec Skip Barber Formula Race Series in 2021, ’22 and ’23, then came 18th in USF Juniors last year with DEForce after missing the first round. His best finish was an eighth place.
Colombian 15-year-old Garzon starred on karts and in cars last year. He won SuperKarts USA’s Winter Series for KA100 Junior karts and then the SuperNationals for X30 Junior and KA100 Jr karts on the same day, and was also Lucas Oil Formula Car Race Series champion. That earned him a scholarship that has helped him graduate to USF2000.
Golan, 17, was 10th in USF Juniors in 2023, made the podium in a FRegional Americas cameo and was 13th in USF2000 last year, and is currently third in the IMSA SportsCar Challenge for LMP3 prototype sportscars.
Jamieson meanwhile is a fifth-year DEForce driver, having joined the team for United States F4’s 2021 season back when he was 16 years old. He did three rounds, and followed that up in 2022 with a points-scoring cameo plus a USF Juniors campaign in which he missed three races and came 15th in the standings.
He stepped up to USF2000 following that, coming 16th in his rookie season and 15th the year after. An eighth place is his best result so far.
DEForce has announced four drivers, including the returning Gonzalez brothers, for USF Juniors.
Patricio and Rodrigo Gonzalez were officially entered as part of a secondary ‘DEForce Racing Driver Development’ team alongside its main four-car squad in 2024, and now move into that primary line-up.
They finished 15th and 20th in the standings respectively as rookies, with 16-year-old Patricio claiming a best result of sixth. Rodrigo, who is 18, had one top-10 finish. They also did the YACademy Winter Series, coming seventh and ninth.
Their 2025 team-mates will be Lincoln Day and Thomas Nordquist. Day came 15th in SBFRS in 2023, then was seventh in US F4 last year. Nordquist was eighth in the 2024 SBFRS points.