Jake Eidson

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Jake Eidson
Nationality
2013
2012-2013
2012
F1600 Championship Series
Skip Barber Winter Series
Skip Barber Summer Series
Awards
2013Team USA Scholarship

Jake Eidson (born 24 May 1995) is an American Australian racing driver. Eidson is a triple Formula Skip Barber championship winner and won the

2013 F1600 Championship Series season
.

Career

Eidson started his racing career in karts. The young driver won the 2010 Rocky Mountain Challenge in the TAG Jr. class running with the Superkarts! USA organisation. In 2011 Eidson ran four races in the New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 championship. The American Australian drove a Van Diemen RF91 and scored one podium finish.[1]

In 2012, Eidson made the switch to single-seater racing in the United States of America. The young driver competed in the Skip Barber F2000 Series racing a

USF2000 Winterfest and the first two rounds of the main championship in Florida. Eidson dominated the F1600 season in the Honda L15A7 powered Spectrum
012 winning seven out of twelve races.

For his good results Eidson was awarded a place in Team USA Scholarship, to compete at the Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy in England. At the Formula Ford Festival, the team competed in the highly competitive Kent class. Eidson won one of the qualifying rounds. In the main event, the Team USA Scholarship driver finished fifth outscoring his teammate Joey Bickers. At the Walter Hayes Trophy Eidson finished both qualifying rounds in second place which granted him the second starting position for the main event. Scott Malvern won the race while Eidson finished in seventh position.

2014 was his first full season in the

RC Enerson and Cape Motorsports teammate Florian Latorre
.

U.S. F2000 National Championship

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points
2013 Afterburner Autosport SEB
6
SEB
24
STP
12
STP
23
LOR

TOR

TOR

MDO
MDO
MDO
LAG

LAG

HOU
HOU
26th 26
2014 Cape Motorsports
Wayne Taylor Racing
STP
4
STP
2
BAR
3
BAR
8
IMS
2
IMS
9
LOR

9
TOR

1
TOR

2
MDO
4
MDO
1
MDO
8
SNM
3
SNM
3
3rd 291
2015
Pabst Racing Services
STP
1
STP
1
NOL
3
NOL
3
BAR
3
BAR
3
IMS
2
IMS
12
LOR

1
TOR

1
TOR

2
MDO
4
MDO
2
MDO
3
LAG

3
LAG

3
2nd 385

Pro Mazda Championship

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points
2016 Cape Motorsports
Wayne Taylor Racing
STP
3
STP
7
ALA
8
ALA
6
IMS
6
IMS
7
LOR

8
ROA
ROA
TOR

TOR

MOH
MOH
LAG

LAG

LAG

9th 106

References

  1. ^ "New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 Championship 2011 standings". DriverDB.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. ^ "About Jake". jacobeidsonracing.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.

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