USF Pro Insider Podcast

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden talks with the newest winners in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship, Yuven Sundaramoorthy and Prescott Campbell. The duo broke through with their first career Road To Indy wins at Barber Motorsports Park on the April 16-18 to sit third and first in the championship, respectively, heading into the next event on the 2021 schedule.

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden is joined by Steve Wittich from TSOLadder.com for their annual 'Season Preview' podcast. Rob and Steve work through the USF2000, Indy Pro 2000, and Indy Lights grids and discuss who they expect to see race for wins and championships in 2021.

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden talks with USF2000's newest team - Force Indy - and their team owner Rod Reid and driver Myles Rowe ahead of the start of the 2021 season.

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden talks with Indy Lights rookie Linus Lundqvist, who will make his RTI debut in 2021 with HMD Motorsports and Global Racing Group. Lundqvist dominated the FR Americas Championship in the US last year, and also won the 2018 BRDC British F3 title, so he arrives with impressive credentials and a ton of momentum. Many tab the young Swede as a primary championship contende...

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden sits down with USF2000 rookie Trey Burke to discuss his unique career path from Mini Sprint and Sprint Car racing through the Lucas Oil School of Racing and F1600 to the Road To Indy with Joe Dooling Autosport in 2021

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden speaks with Turn 3 Autosport's James Roe Jr, who was recently announced as their first Indy Pro 2000 Championship driver for the 2021 season. The Irishman finished seventh in the 2020 Formula Regional Americas Championship, and will make his IP2K debut at Barber Motorsports Park in April.

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden spends time talking with members of the new Ignite Autosport team, which will run with Cape Motorsports in the 2021 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship. Drivers Spike Kohlbecker and Evan Stamer will be joined by Margay Racing owner and Ignite Autosport Team Manager Keith Freber to discuss the origin of the program and the expectations for 2021.

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden had his first opportunity to chat with 2021 Indy Lights rookie Alex Peroni on February 22, 2021. The Australian will run with Carlin Racing this season, coming off a strong overall performance in the 2020 FIA F3 Championship.

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden sits down with Indy Pro 2000 driver Jacob Abel from Abel Motorsports to discuss the 2021 season. Abel ran a full season in Indy Pro 2000 in 2019 and attended four weekends in 2020, finishing on the podium at Mid-Ohio. The Kentucky resident will be back for the full schedule this season, and he and Rob dove into his career thus far, including his intro to the sport a...

Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden talks with 2020 F4 US Championship title winner Hunter Yeany, who will make his Road To Indy debut this season with Velocity Racing Development in the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires.

The Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship grid will be both strong and expanded in 2021. Road to Indy Insider Rob Howden chats with USF2000 rookie Ely Navarro on this episode of 'RTI Insider Live'. The 16-year-old from Fishers, IN was the 2020 Lucas Oil School of Racing Formula Car Series champion and will compete with DEForce Racing this season.

Road to Indy Insider Rob Howden kicks off the 2021 season of interview shows with Turn 3 Motorsport's Josh Green, who will contend his sophomore season in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship.

As part of his 2020 season review shows, Road to Indy Insider Rob Howden spent some time chatting with Indy Pro 2000 champion Sting Ray Robb from Juncos Racing. The American had a spectacular second half of the season and put an exclamation point on the campaign, winning in St. Petersburg while also resetting both the qualifying and race lap track records.

Rob sat down with newly-crowned USF2000 champion Christian Rasmussen just a week after finishing up the Road To Indy season to discuss his 2020 campaign, with its highs and lows, as well as the Dane's plans for the 2021 season.

Following Wednesday's official confirmation of the return of the Indy Lights program in 2021, Road to Indy Insider and series voice Rob Howden sat down with Andersen Promotions CEO Dan Andersen to discuss the announcement, the enhancements added to the scholarships, and the new IndyCar test for the top-three drivers in the 2021 championship.

Juncos Racing's Sting Ray Robb broke through with his first win at Mid-Ohio in late July, and followed this with a sweep of the tripleheader at IMS just over a month later. Sting Ray joins Rob on the RTI Insider podcast to discuss what getting these wins meant to him and how his team and these performances have help strengthen his confidence and momentum heading back to Mid-Ohio.

The USF2000 and Indy Pro 2000 series took to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course last week (September 3-4) and Pabst Racing's Eduardo Barrichello scored his first RTI win in the opening race of the tripleheader, and then backed it up with a win in the second race as well. The Brazilian joined Rob to talk about his IMS victories, his relationship with his legendary father, his development t...

It was quick turn-around for the Indy Pro 2000 Championship teams as the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires were back racing on the IMS road course on Thursday and Friday. Before heading to the next event, Road To Indy Insider Rob Howden spoke with World Wide Technology Raceway winner Devlin De Francesco, as well as two young drivers who were set to make their USF2000 debuts that weekend with...

With the next Road to Indy event over a week away at Lucas Oil Raceway, Rob sat down with Pabst Racing's Hunter McElrea and Miller Vinatieri Motorsports' Jack William Miller to debrief on their runs at Mid-Ohio. They capped the show with a look forward to the first oval event of the year.

The Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires held a mid-week event at Mid-Ohio on July 29-30 and a pair of drivers delivered breakout performances. Sting Ray Robb of Juncos Racing and Reece Gold from Cape Motorsports each enjoyed career finishes in their respective series. The duo joined RTI Insider Rob Howden to 'debrief' their performances and look forward to the upcoming oval event at Lucas Oil R...

With a Mid-Ohio tripleheader as part of the reworked Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires calendar just a week away, Rob takes the opportunity to look back at the series opener at Road America and forward to the first of two Mid-Ohio events with USF2000 point leader Christian Rasmussen from Jay Howard Driver Development and Indy Pro 2000 freshman Nate Aranda from Juncos Racing.

The Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires completed its first event of the 2020 season at Road America on July 9-10 and RTI Insider Rob Howden reviews the weekend's action in USF2000 and Indy Pro 2000. In this edition of the 'Debrief', Rob is joined by Turn 3 Motorsports' Danial Frost and Cape Motorsports' Josh Green.

With the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires firing up the 2020 season at Road America on July 9-10, Rob sat down with both of the RTI scholarship drivers - Braden Eves (Indy Pro 2000) and Prescott Campbell (USF2000) from Exclusive Autosport - to discuss the Mid-Ohio test from last week as well as their expectations for the season opener at Road America.

In this second episode of his new Road To Indy Insider Live show, Rob dives into the time charts from the official Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tire series test from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Monday, and then discusses the test with Indy Pro 2000 driver Sting Ray Robb and USF2000 driver Michael D'Orlando. They cap the show with a look forward to the opening rounds of 2020 Road To Indy...

With the opening round of the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires at Road America now just two weeks away, Rob is pleased to debut the new RTI Insider Facebook Live show. In this first episode, Rob welcomed Steve Wittich from TSOLadder.com to discuss the current status of the RTI, and to bring everyone up to speed on several topics, including a series-by-series preview for Road America. In addi...