fter nearly two months since the last race in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda, Pabst Racing will be back in action on the streets of Toronto on July 19 and 20. The Streets of Toronto race in Ontario, Canada, will be the second street course of the season and the only USF2000 event outside of the United States. The team also announced today that 18-year-old Frenchman Nico Jamin would be joining the team for the remainder of the season, starting in Toronto.

In just over a week Beachburg, Ontario, native Nathan Blok will be back behind the wheel of the John Cummiskey Racing (JCR) car No. 33 at Ontario’s most prestigious open-wheel racing event of the year. The annual Toronto Indy returns to the tight street-course at Exhibition Place on the shores of Lake Ontario.

The Mazda Road to Indy continues to expand its outreach to the grassroots levels of the sport with today’s announcement that Andersen Promotions has formed an alliance with the Australia Formula Ford Association Inc. (FFA) with immediate effect which will see the representative body for Formula Ford racing in that country become an Official Partner of the ladder series through 2016. The first level of the highly acclaimed Mazda Road to Indy – the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda – will be promoted as an endorsed progression path for Australian drivers pursuing international careers in motorsports.

The Mazda Road to Indy – the most successful driver development program in the world – is now further engrained in the grassroots level of the sport following today’s announcement that Andersen Promotions has formed a partnership with MAXSpeed Group, the United States distributor of the Rotax MAX engine platform. The nationwide professional karting series – with 21 Rotax MAX Challenge (RMC) divisions throughout the country – will become an Official Partner of the Mazda Road to Indy effective immediately to foster the next wave of up-and-coming drivers.

One of the heads that Garth Rickards has turned belongs to USF2000 team owner John Church, owner of JDC MotorSports. Church has been so impressed by what he has seen out of the Pennsylvania driver this season that he has decided to run Rickards on the streets of Toronto in the USF2000 events scheduled for July 19th and 20th.