2024 Formula Pro USA Western Championship

The 2024 Formula Pro USA Western Series is the fifth season of the championship for Formula Regional and Formula 4 cars established in the West Coast of the United States. The championship is promoted and organized by Exclusive Racing and Exclusive Auctions, and will run under the same sporting regulations as the FIA-sanctioned Formula Regional Americas Championship and Formula 4 United States Championship.

It began in March, with the championship spanning six weekends until November.

Teams and drivers

Drivers are able to enter either the FPUSA-3 or the FPUSA-4 class, with the former using a Ligier JS F3 car and the latter a Ligier JS-F4 car. All cars are powered by Honda and use Avon tires.[1]

New for 2024 is the addition of the Formula Pro Women's Racing Series, a female-only class running alongside the main championship, also using the Ligier JS-F4.[2]

Team No. Driver Rounds
Formula Pro USA 3 (FPUSA-3) entries
Atlantic Racing Team 8 James Lawley 1
World Speed Motorsports 13 Larry Schnur 1–2
37 Jay Horak 1–3
Kiwi Motorsports 02 Jett Bowling 2
30 Landan Matriano Lim 1–3
55 Jonathan Collins 3
Formula Pro USA 4 (FPUSA-4) entries
World Motorsports 00 Alexander Cornfeld 2–3
World Speed Motorsports 14 Valentino Garbarino 1–3
Kiwi Motorsports 74 Drew Szuch 1
95 Brad Majman 1–2
Sources: [3][4][5]

Race calendar

The 2024 calendar is held over twelve races spanning across six weekends.[6] The series races at the same four circuits as the previous year. A one-round winter series was scheduled to be held at the beginning of March, but it was instead converted into two days of open testing.[7]

Round Circuit Date Support bill Map of circuit locations
1 R1 Thunderhill Raceway Park, Willows March 23 San Francisco Region SCCA Series
Formula Car Challenge
R2 March 24
2 R3 April 20 SCCA Majors Championship
Formula Car Challenge
R4 April 21
3 R5 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey June 8 San Francisco Region SCCA Series
Formula Car Challenge
R6 June 9
4 R7 July 5–7
R8
5 R9 Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma August 30 – September 1 San Francisco Region SCCA Series
R10
6 R11 Buttonwillow Raceway Park, Buttonwillow November 15–17
R12

Race results
Round Circuit Pole position FPUSA-3 FPUSA-4 FPUSA-WRS
Fastest lap Winning driver Fastest lap Winning driver Fastest lap Winning driver
1 R1 Thunderhill Raceway Park Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Valentino Garbarino Brad Majman no entries
R2 Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Brad Majman Valentino Garbarino
2 R3 Landan Matriano Lim Jett Bowling Landan Matriano Lim Valentino Garbarino Brad Majman
R4 Jett Bowling Jett Bowling Jett Bowling Brad Majman Valentino Garbarino
3 R5 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Valentino Garbarino Alexander Cornfeld
R6 Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Landan Matriano Lim Valentino Garbarino Valentino Garbarino
4 R7
R8
5 R9 Sonoma Raceway
R10
6 R11 Buttonwillow Raceway Park
R12

Championship standings

Points are awarded as follows:

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   FL 
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 2

Drivers' standings
Pos Driver THU1 THU2 LAG1 LAG2 SON BUT Pts
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12
Formula Pro USA 3 (FPUSA-3)
1 Landan Matriano Lim 1 1 1 2 1 1 151
2 Jay Horak 3 2 3 3 2 2 99
3 Larry Schnur 4 3 4 4 51
4 Jett Bowling 2 1 47
5 James Lawley 2 4 30
6 Jonathan Collins 3 3 30
Formula Pro USA 4 (FPUSA-4)
1 Valentino Garbarino 2 1 2 1 2 1 137
2 Brad Majman 1 2 1 2 90
3 Alexander Cornfeld 3 3 1 2 73
4 Drew Szuch 3 3 30
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 Pts
THU1 THU2 LAG1 LAG2 SON BUT
ColourResult
GoldWinner
SilverSecond place
BronzeThird place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole

Italics – Fastest Lap

References
  1. BDM_FPU, Admin. "About FPUSA". Formula Pro USA. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  2. Maurini, Elena (2023-12-20). "Exclusive Racing Announces a New Female Only Racing Series for the West Coast". Formula Pro USA. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  3. "SFR Championship Series Regional 3&4 - Group 1 qualifying results".
  4. "SFRSCCA Majors Restricted Regional 5&6 - Qualifying results for Group 4~FA,FA2,FA3,FM,F4".
  5. "SFR Championship Series Regionals 7&8 - Qualifying results for Group 1".
  6. Maurini, Elena (2023-11-09). "Tentative Schedules for Formula Pro USA Winter Series and Western Championships". Formula Pro USA. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  7. "FPU 2024 Winter Series Schedule" (PDF).
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