2014 Indy Lights

The 2014 Indy Lights season was a season of open wheel motor racing. It was the 29th season of the Indy Lights series and the 13th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. It began March 30, 2014 in St. Petersburg.[1] The 2014 season was the first promoted by Andersen Promotions, who also promotes the other steps on the Mazda Road to Indy.

2014 Indy Lights season
Indy Lights
Season
Races14
Start dateMarch 30
End dateAugust 24
Awards
Drivers' champion Gabby Chaves
Teams' champion Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
Rookie of the Year Jack Harvey

It was the final season for the Dallara IPS/Infiniti V8 chassis and engine package that debuted in 2002. A new chassis, to be built by Dallara, will be introduced for 2015[2] along with an AER turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. 2014 was also the first season with Cooper Tire as the sole tire supplier, replacing Firestone who had supplied tires to the series for its entire previous existence.[3]

Colombian-American Gabby Chaves, driving for Belardi Auto Racing captured the championship on the second tie-breaker over Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie Jack Harvey.

Early on, the season appeared to be a two-horse race between Chaves and Andretti Autosport's Zach Veach. However, a late-season charge by Harvey put him within striking distance of the championship. Harvey did not capture his first win until the tenth race of the season. However, Chaves managed a second-place finish in the final race of the season behind Harvey in first. Chaves and Harvey tied on points and on the first tie-breaker number of wins with four each. Chaves captured the championship by having five second-place finishes to Harvey's one.[4] Despite a season of low car-counts where only eight drivers competed in all 14 races, six different drivers captured victories. In addition to Chaves, Harvey, and Veach, other winners included Matthew Brabham and Luiz Razia who each captured their first and only wins of the season on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and Belardi's Alexandre Baron – a race-winner in Toronto – who was in the championship hunt until reported visa issues forced him to leave the series.[5]

Team and driver chart
Team No. Drivers Rounds
Andretti Autosport 26 Zach Veach[6] All
83 Matthew Brabham[7] All
Belardi Auto Racing 0 Chase Austin 7
4 Alexandre Baron[8] 1–7, 9
Axcil Jefferies 10–11
Ryan Phinny[9] 13–14
5 Gabby Chaves[8] All
Bryan Herta Autosport
Jeffrey Mark Motorsport		 28 Lloyd Read[10] 1–6
Ryan Phinny[11] 9–11
Fan Force United 24 Scott Anderson[12] All
MDL Racing 56 Matthew Di Leo 9
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 7 Luiz Razia[13] All
10 Juan Pablo García[14] All
42 Jack Harvey[15] All
77 Juan Piedrahita[16] All
Team Moore Racing 2 Zack Meyer[17] 1–7, 9–11, 13–14
22 Vittorio Ghirelli[13] 1–4
Jimmy Simpson 10–11

Schedule

Andersen Promotions announced the 2014 Indy Lights schedule on October 24, 2013.[1] The season consisted of 14 races held over 10 race weekends, consisting of three street circuits, three ovals, and four permanent road courses. All race weekends on permanent road courses were double-race weekends. The series returned to Sonoma Raceway for the first time since 2010. It also raced on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course for the first time since 2007 in support of the new Grand Prix of Indianapolis, although the track was in a different configuration than the one raced in 2007. The series did not return to Iowa Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, or Houston despite IndyCar returning to those tracks in 2014 and did not race at the Baltimore Grand Prix as that race was cancelled for 2014.

Rnd Date Race Name Track Location
1 March 30 St. Petersburg 100 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida
2 April 13 Long Beach 100 Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California
3 April 26 Legacy Indy Lights 100 Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama
4 April 27
5 May 9 Liberty Challenge Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course Speedway, Indiana
6 May 10
7 May 23 Freedom 100 Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval Speedway, Indiana
8 July 6 Pocono Indy Lights 100 Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania
9 July 20 Grand Prix of Toronto Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario
10 August 2 Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio
11 August 3
12 August 17 Milwaukee Race Milwaukee Mile West Allis, Wisconsin
13 August 23 Grand Prix of Sonoma Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California
14 August 24

Race results
Round Race Pole position Fastest lap Most laps led Race Winner
Driver Team
1 St. Petersburg Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Zach Veach Zach Veach Andretti Autosport
2 Long Beach Zach Veach Zach Veach Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Belardi Auto Racing
3 Birmingham 1 Zach Veach Zach Veach Zach Veach Zach Veach Andretti Autosport
4 Birmingham 2 Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Belardi Auto Racing
5 Indianapolis GP 1 Matthew Brabham Luiz Razia Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Andretti Autosport
6 Indianapolis GP 2 Luiz Razia Matthew Brabham Luiz Razia Luiz Razia Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
7 Indianapolis Luiz Razia Matthew Brabham Matthew Brabham Gabby Chaves Belardi Auto Racing
8 Pocono Zach Veach Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves Belardi Auto Racing
9 Toronto Alexandre Baron Jack Harvey Alexandre Baron Alexandre Baron Belardi Auto Racing
10 Mid-Ohio 1 Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
11 Mid-Ohio 2 Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
12 Milwaukee Zach Veach Zach Veach Matthew Brabham Zach Veach Andretti Autosport
13 Sonoma 1 Jack Harvey Gabby Chaves Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
14 Sonoma 2 Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Jack Harvey Schmidt Peterson Motorsports

Championship standings

Drivers' championship
Points system
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Points 50 40 35 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16
  • Drivers had to complete 50% of the race distance in order to score full points, otherwise 1 point was awarded.
Pos Driver STP
 LBH
 ALA
 IND
 INDY
 POC
 TOR
 MOH
 MIL
 SNM
 Pts
1 Gabby Chaves 21 1* 6 1* 11 8 1 1* 2 2 3 3 2 2 547
2 Jack Harvey 3 4 3 5 3 2 5 3 3 1* 1* 5 1* 1* 547
3 Zach Veach 1* 2 1* 3 9 7 3 2 5 4 2 1 7 3 520
4 Matthew Brabham 9 3 4 12 1* 4 2* 5 4 5 12 2* 6 5 424
5 Luiz Razia 5 5 2 4 2 1* 4 8 12 3 11 8 3 4 403
6 Juan Pablo García 7 8 7 6 6 6 6 4 8 10 6 7 4 9 372
7 Juan Piedrahita 6 7 10 7 8 11 8 7 7 9 5 6 5 7 337
8 Scott Anderson 12 9 12 10 7 5 9 6 9 8 9 4 8 10 309
9 Zack Meyer 8 10 9 8 4 10 10 10 7 10 9 8 274
10 Alexandre Baron 10 6 5 2 5 3 7 1* 261
11 Lloyd Read 11 11 11 9 10 9 101
12 Ryan Phinny 11 12 7 10 6 91
13 Vittorio Ghirelli 4 12 8 11 90
14 Axcil Jefferies 6 4 60
15 Jimmy Simpson 11 8 42
16 Matthew Di Leo 6 28
17 Chase Austin 11 1
Pos Driver STP
 LBH
 ALA
 IND
 INDY
 POC
 TOR
 MOH
 MIL
 SNM
 Pts
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
Light Blue 6th–10th place
Dark Blue Finished
(Outside Top 10)
Purple Did not finish
Red Did not qualify
(DNQ)
Brown Withdrawn
(Wth)
Black Disqualified
(DSQ)
White Did not start
(DNS)
Blank Did not
participate
(DNP)
Not competing
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
(1 point)
Italics Ran fastest race lap
(1 point)
* Led most race laps
(1 point)
1 Qualifying cancelled
no bonus point awarded
Rookie
  • Ties in points broken by number of wins, or best finishes.

Teams' championship
Pos Team Points
1 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports 403
2 Andretti Autosport 370
3 Belardi Auto Racing 357
4 Fan Force United 122
5 Team Moore Racing 111
6 Bryan Herta Autosport/Jeffrey Mark Motorsport 56
7 MDL Racing 11

References
  1. Mazda Road to Indy 2014 Schedule Confirmed, Andsersen Promotions PR, October 24, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
  2. Dallara confirms new Indy Lights deal, Racer, October 31, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
  3. DiZinno, Tony. Cooper to replace Firestone as new Indy Lights tire from 2014, NBC Sports, August 23, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
  4. DiZinno, Tony. Gabby Chaves wins 2014 Indy Lights title on second tiebreaker, NBC Sports, August 24, 2014, retrieved 2014-08-25
  5. Belardi's Chaves Scores Two Podiums at Mid-Ohio, Indy Lights, August 6, 2014, Retrieved 2014-08-25
  6. Zach Veach set to return to Andretti Autosport, motorsport.com, October 20, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
  7. Pro Mazda champion joins United Fiber & Data for 2014 Indy Lights entry, motorsport.com, October 20, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
  8. DiZinno, Tony (March 12, 2014). "Gabby Chaves confirmed for full Indy Lights season with Belardi". MotorSportsTalk. NBC Sports. Retrieved March 12, 2014. Belardi Auto Racing has confirmed Gabby Chaves as the team's second driver [...] alongside rookie Alexandre Baron.
  9. DiZinno, Tony (August 20, 2014). "Indy Lights: Ryan Phinny, Casamigos switch to Belardi for Sonoma". MotorSportsTalk. NBC Sports. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  10. Read to Race for Bryan Herta Autosport Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, November 18, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-18
  11. "Phinny joins Herta squad for Indy Lights, testing program". Racer. Haymarket Publications. July 11, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-07-29. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  12. Fan Force United Returns to Indy Lights with Scott Anderson, Fan Force United, December 16, 2013, Retrieved 2013-12-16
  13. "St. Petersburg 100 Entry List" (PDF). Indy Lights. IndyCar. March 25, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  14. Garcia Joins SPM Indy Lights Program, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, February 21, 2014, Retrieved 2014-02-21
  15. Marshall, Dave. Racing driver Jack Harvey reveals Indy Lights deal and prepares to move to USA, ThisisLincolnshire, December 13, 2013, Retrieved 2013-12-13
  16. Colombiano Juan Diego Piedrahita firmó con el equipo campeón de la Indy Lights, El Spectador, February 14, 2014, Retrieved 2014-02-14 (in Spanish)
  17. Team Moore Racing Signs Meyer, eFormulaCarNews, November 5, 2013, Retrieved 2013-11-05
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