The 2014 season didn't exactly start out on a high note for 18-year-old Peter Portante with incidents during both Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda races at the St. Petersburg season opener. But after hard driving and good thinking, his confidence was restored this past weekend in the #24 Arms Up Motorsports Intercity Lines, Inc./Spargo Construction entry at Barber Motorsports Park for Rounds Three and Four.

Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park, ArmsUp Motorsports earned its first podium finish of the 2014 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda season. Twenty-three year old Aaron Telitz from Birchwood, Wis., started in fourth Saturday afternoon to race clean and methodically to the podium.

Rising junior formula car outfit JAY Motorsports is excited to return to action this coming weekend (April 26-27), when the prestigious Mazda Road to Indy program resumes via Rounds Three and Four of the Cooper USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda at Barber Motorsports Park. With the talented trio of Henrik Furuseth, Colton Herta, and Adrian Starrantino sliding into the cockpits, the Florida-based team is poised to be part of the fight for places on the post-race podiums in Alabama.

The 2014 racing season will resume for The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Presented by Mazda this weekend. After a four-week hiatus, the second race weekend of the championship season will take place at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala.

The chase for Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda glory resumes for JDC MotorSports this coming weekend (April 26-27), with the second event on the series calendar at Barber Motorsports Park. With American up-and-comer Clark Toppe behind the wheel, the multiple junior formula championship-winning squad from Minnesota is poised to build on a top-five 2014 debut outing, and previous success in Alabama.