Photo: Gavin Baker Photography / Road to Indy
Kiko Porto added to his USF2000 lead with an imposing win in race one at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
DEForce Racing’s Porto started second on the grid and managed to pass Yuven Sundaramoorthy around the outside of the first corner to take the lead.
Sundaramoorthy kept Porto under pressure in the early laps, but Porto then started to pull away and finished up 5.1731 seconds clear as he notched up his fourth win of the campaign.
Pabst Racing driver Sundaramoorthy had Christian Brooks, Josh Green and Michael d’Orlando all within one second of him but clung onto second place.
Josh Pierson lost a couple of spots at the start but got back ahead of Jace Denmark before the finish to take sixth, with Nolan Siegel not far behind in eighth.
Billy Frazer and Spike Kohlbecker were also on the move late on to complete the top 10 from 12th and 13th on the grid.
Race results (20 laps)
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiko Porto | DEForce Racing | 26m19.6527s |
| 2 | Yuven Sundaramoorthy | Pabst Racing | +5.1731s |
| 3 | Christian Brooks | Exclusive Autosport | +5.4227s |
| 4 | Josh Green | Turn 3 Motorsport | +6.0024s |
| 5 | Michael d’Orlando | Cape Motorsports | +6.1386s |
| 6 | Josh Pierson | Pabst Racing | +14.1100s |
| 7 | Jace Denmark | Pabst Racing | +14.8726s |
| 8 | Nolan Siegel | DEForce Racing | +15.4652s |
| 9 | Billy Frazer | Exclusive Autosport | +16.5523s |
| 10 | Spike Kohlbecker | Ignite Autosports w/Cape | +16.9152s |
| 11 | Prescott Campbell | DEForce Racing | +18.2109s |
| 12 | Christian Weir | Turn 3 Motorsport | +19.1777s |
| 13 | Myles Rowe | Force Indy | +20.6648s |
| 14 | Ely Navarro | DEForce Racing | +21.3608s |
| 15 | Dylan Christie | Turn 3 Motorsport | +32.2003s |
| 16 | Thomas Nepveu | Cape Motorsports | +33.0135s |
| 17 | Peter Vodanovich | Jay Howard Driver Development | +34.4055s |
| 18 | Evan Stamer | Ignite Autosports w/Cape | +35.2031s |
| 19 | Kent Vaccaro | Miller Vinatieri Motorsports | +35.8911s |
| 20 | Bijoy Garg | Jay Howard Driver Development | +38.2267s |
| 21 | Michael Myers | Michael Myers Racing | +46.4067s |
| 22 | Nathan Byrd | Legacy Autosport | +1 lap |
| Ret | Trey Burke | Joe Dooling Autosports | Mechanical |
| Fastest lap: Porto, 1m18.4133s
Championship standings |
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