The Formula Car Challenge presented by Goodyear announced their 2019 schedule today. For 2019 the series will be visiting Portland International Raceway, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Auto Club Speedway, Sonoma Raceway, and Thunderhill Raceway.
This upcoming season the FormulaSPEED class will feature its own special schedule, mostly on different dates than the other FCC classes. “We designed the 2019 FS schedule to feature a great mix of technical tracks, but also shortened that championship to eight races,” stated Series Official Ben Hettema. “Making these adjustments will insure that an arrive and drive season will be below $40k for the entire championship in the FormulaSPEED class. This should allow FS drivers to focus on more testing as their budgets are not focussed so heavily on just racing events.” The FormulaSPEED has become an excellent training class for many up and coming drivers. FS racers have gone on to win races in Pro Mazda, Indy Lights, FIA F3, and many of them have been selected by the Team USA Scholarship.
The Pro FM and FM racers will compete in a fourteen race championship. “As has been the model since the series inception, a majority of our events will feature exclusive track time for our drivers,” added Hettema. “Twelve of our fourteen events feature exclusive or semi-exclusive time for our competitors.” Racers have already started testing for the 2019 season, and the next race on the calendar is the opening weekend of the 2019 Winter Series Championships at Sonoma Raceway in January.
2019 FCC Pro Formula Mazda and Formula Mazda Class Championships
(7 weekends, 14 races, 6 different tracks)
- March 16th -17th Sonoma Raceway (9a chicane) with NASA Pro Racing
- April 26th – 28th Auto Club Speedway with SVRA
- May 18th – 19th Portland International Raceway with Oregon Region SCCA
- July 6th – 7th Sonoma Raceway (full course) with SFR
- July 25th – 28th WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway with SFR
- August 31 – Sep 1 WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway with SFR
- October 25th – 27th Thunderhill Raceway Park with SFR
2019 FCC FormulaSPEED Class Championships
(4 weekends, 8 races, 4 different tracks)
- April 6th – 7th Thunderhill Raceway Park with SFR (short course)
- June 1st – 2nd WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca with SFR
- September 21st -22nd Buttonwillow Raceway Park with CalClub
- October 25th – 27th Thunderhill Raceway Park with SFR (long course)