The unique and highly acclaimed three-step Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires open-wheel driver development program, which offers annual scholarships and awards worth over $3.6M to assist drivers to progress from the grassroots to the pinnacle of the sport in North America, will run alongside the Verizon IndyCar Series on all race weekends in 2017.

Champions from all three levels of the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires open-wheel driver development program were honored last night in the Championship Celebration banquet at the Monterey Plaza Hotel. A total of more than $2.3M in Mazda Scholarships and other awards was distributed.

Canadian performs once again but comes up just short in the title fight

Australian Anthony Martin wins championship at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

After the Soul Red Championship Sunday concluded, 16-year-old Robert Megennis officially became the highest finishing rookie, the season-long Tilton Hard Charger Award winner – given to the driver who completes the most overtakes in a race – and the highest finishing American driver in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Presented by Mazda.