Team’s trio of drivers all celebrate high points in Florida to kick off new season

Zach Holden scores a third-place finish in Saturday's Race Two to capture his first series podium

While Pabst Racing entered the pair of season-opening races on the Streets of St. Petersburg with a relatively new driver lineup, the focus remained the same: to score solid results in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship.

Following an accomplished victory yesterday by Braden Eves, from New Albany, Ohio, the team which has won the last eight Driver Championships in succession seemed to be moments away from celebrating another first USF2000 victory – this time for Florida racer Darren Keane – when the pole-sitter and race-long leader lost control under braking for Turn 13 on the final lap while under intense pressure from Jay Howard Driver Development’s Christian Rasmussen.​

Eves, who secured the pole position in qualifying yesterday afternoon, was never seriously challenged during a crash-marred 40-minute race that saw Alex Baron escape a Turn 1, Lap 1 incident unscathed