Petri Suvanto has his sights set firmly on clinching the coveted Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda title this weekend when the series heads to Baltimore, Md., for the final two races of the season.

The Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Presented by Mazda field experienced their first wet race of the year this morning in Round 10 of competition held at Road America. In the end, it was series points leader Petri Suvanto of Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing who emerged victorious in the rain-shortened race. The 18-year-old from Nurmo, Finland, extended his championship lead with his fifth win of the season.

Andretti Autosport driver Spencer Pigot put an exclamation point on the first round of Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda competition at the picturesque Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wis.

JDC MotorSports’ multi-car Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship powered by Mazda effort returns to competition this weekend (August 19-20) with a pair of races at Road America. Returning to fight for top honors on the squad’s home track in Rounds Nine and Ten will be talented rookies Juan Piedrahita and Roman Lagudi in the Championship class, as well as National class racer Rodin Younessi. Adding to the depth of talent under the awning will be former junior formula car champion Chris Miller, who will make his series debut in Wisconsin.

Two weeks after taking control of the Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda by dominating the pair of Allied Building Products races at Mid-Ohio, 18-year-old rising Finnish star Petri Suvanto hopes to maintain that momentum when the series takes to another of the country’s premier road courses – the historic Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. – this weekend.