Team Pelfrey will close out a hectic off-season this week by traveling the short distance from its new base in Palmetto to the streets of St. Petersburg where its talented, multi-national, three-driver lineup will chase victory in the opening two races of the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires.

Highly-regarded American Neil Alberico's quest for Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires supremacy starts this coming weekend (March 29-30), when the opening rounds of the second step to the Mazda Road to Indy program gets underway on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla.

Starting the year on top by capturing the Cooper Tires Winterfest Championship, Juncos Racing looks to keep the momentum going in the opening round of the 2014 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires this week at the Allied Building Products Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Juncos Racing has claimed three previous wins on the streets of St. Pete and will enter into the 2014 season with four new drivers.

M1 Racing's Jay Horak has a brand-new AutoEnginuity car for the 2014 edition of the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, and he hopes it will take him to a second consecutive Expert class championship.

M1 Racing surprised the junior formula car ranks today by announcing that it will field a car for rising star Nicolas Costa in the season-opening doubleheader for the Pro Mazda Championship presented by Cooper Tires March 29-30 on the street circuit at St. Petersburg, Fla.