2021 Road to Indy season preparing to wrap up at Mid-Ohio

More than $3 million in prizes and scholarships will be up for grabs when the 2021 season of Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires competition concludes this weekend, October 2-3, with a return visit to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.

All three steps on the open-wheel driver development ladder – Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship – will be in action at the challenging 2.258-mile, 13-turn road course situated just over an hour’s drive from Cooper Tire’s headquarters in Findlay, Ohio.

The Road to Indy is unique in the world of auto racing, offering scholarships at every level to enable talented young race car drivers the opportunity to progress from the grassroots of the sport to the NTT IndyCar Series and the Indianapolis 500.

Kirkwood seeks to make history

After winning successive USF2000 and Indy Pro 2000 championship titles and scholarships in 2018 and 2019, Kyle Kirkwood, from Jupiter, FL, was obliged to take a one-year sabbatical in 2020 when the Indy Lights series was placed on hiatus as a result of the global pandemic. But now he is back, and on a mission to make another assault on the history books. He currently holds a slender 15-point advantage over fellow American David Malukas, from Chicago, IL, in his quest to add the Indy Lights crown to his burgeoning resume.