Juncos Racing’s Spencer Pigot takes third in the first oval race of the season in Round 7 of the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires at the Allied Building Products Oval Challenge. The 90-lap race ran green to the checkered flag on the 0.686-mile Lucas Oil Raceway located in Brownsburg, Ind., as part of the 69th Annual Visit Hendricks County Night Before the 500. The team continues to lead both driver and team point standings in the Pro Mazda Championship.

For the second time in two weeks in the Indianapolis area, a young Canadian scored his first victory in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires. This time it was Garett Grist, driving for Andretti Autosport, who led from flag to flag in Saturday evening’s Allied Building Products Oval Challenge at the 0.686-mile Lucas Oil Raceway oval as part of the 69th Annual Visit Hendricks County Night Before the 500.

Less than two weeks after thrilling road course encounters as part of the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis, all three steps on the Mazda Road to Indy – the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda, the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires – will return to the Indianapolis area this week for some oval track competition.

British Columbia’s Scott Hargrove visited the Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health on Thursday, May 22nd.

On two different race tracks, just a few miles apart, race fans can witness both the present and the future of the sport as history is written, and Rising Star Racing looks to be a factor in both.