2014 Indy Lights season

The 2014 Indy Lights season was the 29th season of the American Indy Lights racing series . The season started on March 30th in Saint Petersburg and ended on August 24th in Sonoma . 14 races were held. Gabby Chaves won the championship.

It was the final season of the Dallara Infiniti racing cars in use since 2002.

Teams and drivers

All teams used Dallara chassis , Infiniti engines and Firestone tires .

team	No.	driver	run
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with Curb-Agajanian	07th	Luiz Razia	1-14
	10	Juan Pablo Garcia	1-14
	42	Jack Harvey	1-14
	77	Juan Piedrahita	1-14
Andretti Autosport	26th	Zach Veach	1-14
	83	Matthew Brabham	1-14
Belardi Auto Racing	00	Chase Austin	7th
	04th	Alex Baron	1-9
		Axcil Jefferies	10, 11
		Ryan Phinny	13, 14
	05	Gabby Chaves	1-14
Team Moore Racing	02	Zack Meyer	1-7, 9-14
	22nd	Vittorio Ghirelli	1-4
		Emerson Newton-John	7th
		Jimmy Simpson	10, 11
MDL Racing	56	Matthew Di Leo	9
Bryan Herta Autosport / Jeffrey Mark Motorsport	28	Lloyd Read	1-6
		Ryan Phinny	9-11
Fan Force United	24	Scott Anderson	1-14

Racing calendar

The 2014 Indy Lights season consisted of 14 races. All races took place as part of the IndyCar Series . New to the calendar was a street course variant of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Sonoma Raceway . The Iowa Speedway , the Streets of Baltimore , the Reliant Park and the Auto Club Speedway were no longer on the calendar .

No.	date	Racetrack	Art	First	Second	Third
1.	March 30	Saint Petersburg	T	Zach Veach	Gabby Chaves	Jack Harvey
2.	April 13th	Long Beach	T	Gabby Chaves	Zach Veach	Matthew Brabham
3.	26th of April	Birmingham	P	Zach Veach	Luiz Razia	Jack Harvey
4th	April 27			Gabby Chaves	Alex Baron	Zach Veach
5.	0May 9	Indianapolis	P	Matthew Brabham	Luiz Razia	Jack Harvey
6th	10th of May			Luiz Razia	Jack Harvey	Alex Baron
7th	23. May		O	Gabby Chaves	Matthew Brabham	Zach Veach
8th.	0July 6th	Pocono	O	Gabby Chaves	Zach Veach	Jack Harvey
9.	20th of July	Toronto	T	Alex Baron	Gabby Chaves	Jack Harvey
10.	0August 2nd	Lexington	P	Jack Harvey	Gabby Chaves	Luiz Razia
11.	03rd August			Jack Harvey	Zach Veach	Gabby Chaves
12.	17th August	West Allis	O	Zach Veach	Matthew Brabham	Gabby Chaves
13.	August 23	Sonoma	P	Jack Harvey	Gabby Chaves	Luiz Razia
14th	August 24th			Jack Harvey	Gabby Chaves	Zach Veach

• Explanation: O : oval course , T : temporary race track ( street course , airfield course ), P : permanent race track

Ratings

Point system

The points were awarded according to the following scheme:

position	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
Points	50	40	35	32	30th	28	26th	24	22nd	20th	18th	16

Drivers who completed less than 50% of the race distance received one point regardless of their placement.

There was also an additional point for pole position , the fastest race lap and for the driver who had led the race the most laps.

Driver ranking

Item driver STP LBH BAR INDY POC GOAL MDO Mil SON Points 01  G. Chaves 2 ° 1* 6th 1 * ° 11 8th 1 1* 2 2 3 3 2 2 547 02  J. Harvey 3 4th 3 5 3 2 5 3 3 1* 1 * ° 5 1* 1 * ° 547 03  Z. Veach 1* 2 1* 3 9 7th 3 2 5 4th 2 1 7th 3 520 04th  M. Brabham 9 3 4th 12 1* 4th 2 * 5 4th 5 12 2 * 6th 5 424 05  L. Razia 5 5 2 4th 2 1 * ° 4th 8th 12 3 11 8th 3 4th 403 06th  J. Garcia 7th 8th 7th 6th 6th 6th 6th 4th 8th 10 6th 7th 4th 9 372 07th  J. Piedrahita 6th 7th 10 7th 8th 11 8th 7th 7th 9 5 6th 5 7th 337 08th  S. Anderson 12 9 12 10 7th 5 9 6th 9 8th 9 4th 8th 10 309 09  Z. Meyer 8th 10 9 8th 4th 10 10   10 7th 10 DNA 9 8th 274 10  A. Baron 10 6th 5 2 5 3 7th DNA 1*           261 11  L. Read 11 11 11 9 10 9                 101 12  R. Phinny                 11 12 7th   10 6th 91 13  V. Ghirelli 4th 12 8th 11                     90 14th  A. Jefferies                   6th 4th       60 15th  J. Simpson                   11 8th       42 16  M. Di Leo                 6th           28 17th  C. Austin             11               1 -  E. Newton-John             DNA               0 Item driver STP LBH BAR INDY POC GOAL MDO Mil SON Points

colour meaning gold winner silver 2nd place bronze 3rd place green 4th and 5th place Light Blue 6th to 10th place Dark blue Race ended (outside of the first ten pilots) violet Race not finished red not qualified (DNQ) black disqualified (DSQ) White not at the start (DNS) withdrawn (WD) Race canceled (C) Blank not participated did not appear (DNA) injured or sick (INJ) excluded (EX) Further notation fat Pole position (1 point) Italic Fastest race lap (1 point) ° Qualifying canceled, no bonus point for pole position * Most lead laps (1 point) Rookie of the Year Rookie