24-year-old Ayla Agren ran her first laps in the newly-designed Tatuus PM-18, for the Pro Mazda Championship Series Presented by Cooper Tires, this past week at the challenging Autobahn Country Club road course.

There is a great deal of symmetry between the histories of Juncos Racing team owner Ricardo Juncos and driver Victor Franzoni. Both came to the U.S. from South America with little more than the money in their respective pockets, and the passion and drive to make their racing dreams happen.

Each week, we take a look via Twitter at what the teams and drivers of the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires are up to!

Florida team tops PM-18 debut test with fastest lap of the weekend

After capping the 2017 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda campaign as one of the series’ leading teams with three wins over the second half of the season, Exclusive Autosport expanded its efforts to include a Pro Mazda Championship program for the coming year