Oliver Askew: Rookie sensation

The TeamUSA and Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 Scholarship winner is having an impressive first season in the USF2000 Championship

There are great rookie performances, then there is Oliver Askew's season so far in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda. The winner of seven races and leader of the championship heading into the final weekend at Watkins Glen, Askew is not only in his first year of racing in the USF2000 Championship, he's actually in his first full year of racing.

To be fair, he had a bit of a head start. In 2015 he raced in the Formula Masters China series, and last year was one of the winners of the 2016 TeamUSA Scholarship, where he earned the opportunity to compete in some prestigious British Formula Ford races, the Formula Ford Festival and the Walter Hayes trophy last fall. He parlayed the TeamUSA Scholarship into winning the Mazda Road to Indy UF2000 scholarship, where champions from a variety of junior open-wheel series are invited to a shootout.

"I wouldn't be racing if it wasn't for Mazda and this opportunity," Askew says. "It means everything. It's possible that they're going to make my career the best it could be. I have the opportunity now to progress in the Mazda Road to Indy, and that's what I'm going to do."

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