2013 U.S. F2000 Winterfest

The 2013 U.S. F2000 Cooper Tires Winterfest was the third year of the winter racing series promoted by the U.S. F2000 National Championship. It consisted of six races held during two race meets in Florida during February 2013 and served as preparation for the 2013 U.S. F2000 National Championship.

American Neil Alberico, in his second year in the series and first with Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing won five of the six races and captured the championship. His Cape teammate, Canadian Scott Hargrove, won one race and finished second in the other five and was runner-up in the championship. Their teammate James Fletcher had three podium finishes and finished third in points. Canadian James Dayson was the only National class entrant and only contested the first three rounds of the championship. There were no lead changes during any of the six races and the first three races at Sebring International Raceway were run without a caution period.

Team	No.	Drivers	Notes
Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing	2	Neil Alberico
	3	James Fletcher
	32	Jeroen Slaghekke
	38	Scott Hargrove
Belardi Auto Racing	4	Daniel Burkett	Sebring only
	11	Danilo Estrela	Sebring only
	14	Matt McMurry	Palm Beach only
	41	Peter Portante
Andretti Autosport	7	Garett Grist
	77	Austin Cindric
JAY Motorsports	9	Felipe Donato	Sebring only
	91	Florian Latorre
ZSports w/ Team E Racing	10	R. C. Enerson	Sebring only
JDC Motorsports	12	Arthur Oliveira
	19	Clarke Toppe
	54	Michael Johnson
	93	Stefan Rzadzinski
ArmsUp Motorsports	16	James Dayson	National class, Sebring only
	51	Felipe Donato	Palm Beach only
Afterburner Autosport	17	Wyatt Gooden	Sebring only
	18	Jake Eidson	Sebring only
Pabst Racing Services	21	Jesse Lazare
	23	Jason Wolfe
MDL Racing	56	Matthew Di Leo

The race schedule was announced on October 23, 2012.^[1]

Rnd	Circuit	Location	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning team
1	Sebring Raceway	Sebring, Florida	February 5	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Cape Motorsports
2			February 6	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Cape Motorsports
3				Neil Alberico	Garett Grist	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Cape Motorsports
4	Palm Beach International Raceway	Jupiter, Florida	February 9	Scott Hargrove	Neil Alberico	Scott Hargrove	Scott Hargrove	Cape Motorsports
5			February 10	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Cape Motorsports
6				Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Neil Alberico	Cape Motorsports

Drivers' Championship

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Pos Driver SEB PBI Points Championship Class 1 Neil Alberico 1* 1* 1* 2 1* 1* 186 2 Scott Hargrove 2 2 2 1* 2 2 157 3 James Fletcher 19 3 4 3 3 4 107 4 Garett Grist 17 4 3 4 4 5 102 5 Stefan Rzadzinski 4 9 7 11 5 6 87 6 Jesse Lazare 7 6 5 13 6 3 84 7 Jason Wolfe 9 10 12 9 7 11 68 8 Matthew Di Leo 10 14 9 6 13 14 60 9 Peter Portante 8 7 8 DNS 16 8 58 10 Arthur Oliveira 14 15 14 8 12 12 51 11 Felipe Donato DNS 20 15 5 10 10 45 12 Florian Latorre 20 21 11 14 11 7 38 13 Clark Toppe 13 16 DNS 10 14 16 32 14 Austin Cindric 12 DNS DNS 7 DNS 15 29 15 Jeroen Slaghekke DNS 19 16 15 8 13 29 16 Michael Johnson 11 13 18 12 15 17 29 Not classified Jake Eidson 6 8 6 43 Danilo Estrela 3 5 19 40 R. C. Enerson 5 12 10 37 Wyatt Gooden 18 11 17 18 Daniel Burkett 15 17 13 18 Matt McMurry DNS 9 9 National Class 1 James Dayson 16 18 DNS 44

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate In-line notation Championship Class only Bold Pole position (1 point) Italics Ran fastest race lap (1 point) * Led most race laps (1 point)

Teams'

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Pos	Team	Points
1	Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing	240
2	Andretti Autosport	70
3	Pabst Racing Services	59
4	Belardi Auto Racing	49
5	JDC Motorsports	48
6	Afterburner Autosport	23
7	ArmsUp Motorsports	14
8	MDL Racing	14
9	JAY Motorsports	13
10	ZSports w/ Team E Racing	12