Under blue skies and an ambient temperature of 89 degrees, the Newman Wachs Racing Team produced two top-10 finishes in today’s Round 3 of the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda at Barber Motorsports Park.

Mazda Scholarship driver Oliver Askew narrowly beats 14-year-old phenom Kaylen Frederick in race one of the Mazda USF2000 Grand Prix of Alabama Presented by Cooper Tires at Barber Motorsports Park

After becoming the first American racing series with a dedicated broadcast channel on demand via Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Roku last April, Mazda Road to Indy TV today announced another landmark. The Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires will now be the first open-wheel racing series to have an Official App on Xbox One.

Following an impressive debut for the brand-new Mazda-powered Tatuus USF-17 engine-chassis combination in St. Petersburg, another new team, Benik Kart, and four more drivers – Bayley Mickler from Australia, Toby Sowery from England, plus U.S. drivers Darren Keane and Flinn Lazier – have signed up to contest this weekend’s Mazda USF2000 Grand Prix of Alabama Presented by Cooper Tires.

Karting veteran Darren Keane makes his debut with Benik Motorsport this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park as the rising talent from Boca Raton, Fla. continues his progression from karting to the Mazda Road to Indy ladder series