USF2000: St. Petersburg Weekend Report

Practice 1:
(2010.03.26) The first official practice for the USF2000 Championship is complete and AIM's Anthony Furfari (#77) has recorded a lap of 1:24.363 @ 76.811 mph. There will be a second session this afternoon ahead of qualifying on Saturday morning.

Pracice 2:
(2010.03.26) Practice 2 for the USF2000 series is in the books and AIM's Anthony Furfari just missed the top 10, posting a 1:17.054s lap time good enough for 11th spot. Anthony will look to continue the upswing tomorrow morning for qualifying!

Qualifying:
(2010.03.27) USF2000 Qualifying: Official results - Anthony Furfari will start on the inside of row 5 (9th) for the first race in the Cooper Tires presents USF2000 Championship powered by Mazda. Anthony continued to improve his times and recorded a 1:16.387 @ 84.834 mph.

Race 1: Anthony scores a top-ten result
(2010.03.27) Race one is in the books for the Cooper Tire presents the USF2000 National Championship powered by Mazda and AIM Autosport's Anthony Furfari scored a top ten result (9th) in his first professional race. In fact, this is only the fourth race for the fifteen-year-old in open-wheel competition having just three races under his belt in the Skip Barber series.

"This is just one big learning curve for all of us", commented team manager Keith Willis, "but Anthony has been doing a great job in learning the basics and about working in a professional team atmosphere. With little experience coming into this event, the first race is more of an expended test session where we can start to work out the bugs. Add to that that this is also Anthony's first ever street race."

Willis continued, "We have a long way to go but so far, Anthony has proven up to the task and has shown steady improvement since we rolled off the trailer on Friday. There has been limited track time and to end the day with a top ten in our first race in the series is very encouraging for us all."

Anthony completed all 20 laps of the race and recorded a best time of 1:15.641

The team will have another opportunity to learn and develop under race conditions with round two on Sunday morning at 8:00 am ET.

Race 2: Anthony has a very good race - just misses a top-five by .001 seconds.
(2010.03.28) Anthony Furfari had a very good run in the second race of the Cooper Tires presents the USF2000 National Championship powered by Mazda when he come home in sixth place and in a last lap development, just missed a top-five spot by .001 seconds. All this with a damaged front wing from contact early in the race. A very encouraging start to the season for the 15-year old rookie.

"Anthony had a fantastic race going today" commented team manager Keith Willis. "We all learned a lot from yesterday and Anthony just continued to push forward. He immediately gained confidence going into the race today and was attacking throughout. Even with the damaged front wing, he was on pace throughout the race. This is a very happy result for everyone on the team."

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