Mexico’s Manuel Sulaiman held off a race-long challenge from Russia’s Artem Petrov to score his first Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires victory of the season this afternoon at Road America

The fastest nine Indy Pro 2000 drivers were separated by a fraction over half-a-second at the conclusion of a tense 20-minute qualifying session around the challenging 4.014-mile, 14-turn circuit, with Manuel Sulaiman topping the charts

Jacob Abel has previous experience at Road America, running in the first rung of the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires ladder, the Cooper Tires USF2000 Series

Defending race winners Turn 3 Motorsport will journey to Road America this weekend for Rounds 9 and 10 of the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship.

All three levels of the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires will see action this week, each set for a pair of races at one of the most eagerly awaited venues on the schedule, the challenging 4.014-mile Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wis.