Last year’s winner of the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship, Denmark’s Christian Rasmussen, today took another big step toward winning a second Road to Indy title, this time in the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, by virtue of his fourth win in the last five races for Jay Howard Driver Development.

After a brief break, the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires returns to action this week for what promises to be an exciting Fourth of July weekend at the Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio.

Christian Rasmussen strengthened his quest for a second successive Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires driver development ladder championship by scoring another impressive victory in this morning’s second leg of the Cooper Tires Grand Prix of Road America Powered by Elite Engines

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