With the 2025 season now over three months in the rearview mirrors, USF Pro Insider Rob Howden starts the off-season and his look at 2026 by sitting down with the three series champions and scholarship winners who will run the USF Pro Championships livery on their cars next year. Champions Max Garcia (USF Pro 2000), Jack Jeffers (USF2000), and Leonardo Escorpioni (USF Juniors) speak with Rob about the past, present, and future.

Pabst Racing’s Max Garcia clinched this year’s USF Pro 2000 championship in the opening race in Toronto, scoring his second consecutive USF Pro Championships title. In the first of three ‘2025 Champions’ interviews, USF Pro Insider Rob Howden sat down with the young American to discuss his journey up the ladder and his dream season that will put him on the INDY NXT grid in 2026.

Zanella Racing’s Leonardo Escorpioni leads the USF Juniors championship standings heading into the season finale in Portland on the August 8-10 weekend. The Brazilian-American has delivered a stellar sophomore season, finishing on the podium in 11 of 13 races thus far, and only once outside the top-five. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden caught up with Leo after a crucial weekend at Road America that featured two podiums and three top-fives after qualifying 17th.

Heading into his home race at the Ontario Honda Dealers Toronto Indy, Canadian Mac Clark has been racking up impressive podium performances all season racing with Exclusive Autosport in the USF Pro 2000 series. Clark will be gunning for his first win of the season this weekend, and the 2022 USF Juniors champion would like nothing more to make that happen on home soil. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden caught up with Mac at the beginning of Race Week.

With just five races over two events left on the 2025 USF2000 schedule, VRD Racing’s Thomas Schrage heads to the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto tied for the championship points lead. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden spoke with the two-time race winner about his career, this year’s success, and what it will take to score the title and the scholarship in Portland.

North Carolina’s Caleb Gafrarar became the newest USF2000 race winner at Mid-Ohio when he was victorious in the first race of the tripleheader over the July 4th weekend. The Pabst Racing driver added another podium and another top-five result to advance to fifth in points, keeping himself in the championship discussion heading to Toronto. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden spoke with Caleb about his impressive karting career, his family’s roots in racing, and move to car racing in 2023.

VRD Racing driver Teddy Musella steered his way into the USF2000 title discussion at Road America with a massive first win in Race 2 as the series heads into the stretch run. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden spoke with the young American ahead of the Mid-Ohio weekend to discuss his career and his extremely consistent rookie season.

Australian driver Liam Loiacono scored his first USF Juniors win of the 2025 season at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in early June, mastering the challenging wet conditions in Sunday's Race 2. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden sat down with the 17-year-old Jay Howard Driver Development pilot to discuss the win, his season thus far, and his career.

The hottest driver right now in the USF Pro Championships Presented by Continental Tire is Ariel Elkin from TJ Speed Motorsports. The USF Pro 2000 driver from Israel has won three of the last four events, winning two of three on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course before triumphing in the Freedom 90 at IRP at the Carb Night Classic. USF Pro Insider Rob Howden sat down with Ariel to discuss his career and a streak of success that has brought him into the championship discussion after a tough start to the season in St Pete.

Winning at Indianapolis is a huge achievement for any driver, and when it's your first series victory, it's even more special. Exclusive Autosport's Jack Jeffers know how this feels having scored his maiden USF2000 win in early May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Texan took over the point lead in the process, and USF Pro Insider Rob Howden sat down with Jack after the victory to discuss his career and the start to the 2025 season.