Jake Eidson

Jake Eidson (born 24 May 1995) is an American-Australian former racing driver. Eidson is a triple Formula Skip Barber championship winner and won the 2013 F1600 Championship Series season.

Career Eidson started his racing career in karts. He won the 2010 Rocky Mountain Challenge in the TAG Jr. class running with the Superkarts! USA organisation. In 2011, Eidson ran four races in the New South Wales Formula Ford 1600 championship. He drove a Van Diemen RF91 and scored one podium finish.

In 2012, Eidson made the switch to single-seater racing in the United States of America. He competed in the Skip Barber F2000 Series racing a Mazda powered Reynard R/T 2000. Eidson was highly successful. The Colorado native won the Winter Series, Summer Series and the subsequent Winter Series championships. The following year, Eidson joined Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing for their F1600 Championship Series campaign. At the beginning of the season, he competed in the USF2000 Winterfest and the first two rounds of the main championship in Florida. Eidson dominated the F1600 season in the Honda L15A7 powered Spectrum 012, winning seven out of twelve races.

For his good results, Eidson was awarded a place in the Team USA Scholarship to compete at the Formula Ford Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy in England. At the Formula Ford Festival, the team competed in the highly competitive Kent class. Eidson won one of the qualifying rounds. In the main event, the Team USA Scholarship driver finished fifth, outscoring his teammate Joey Bickers. At the Walter Hayes Trophy, Eidson finished both qualifying rounds in second place, which granted him the second starting position for the main event. Scott Malvern won the race while Eidson finished in seventh position.

2014 was his first full season in the USF2000. Again competing for Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing Eidson won two races. Eidson was placed third in the championship standings behind Team E Racing's RC Enerson and Cape Motorsports teammate Florian Latorre.

U.S. F2000 National Championship

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points 2013 Afterburner Autosport SEB6 SEB24 STP12 STP23 LOR TOR TOR MOH MOH MOH LAG LAG HOU HOU 26th 26 2014 Cape Motorsports Wayne Taylor Racing STP4 STP2 BAR3 BAR8 IMS2 IMS9 LOR9 TOR1 TOR2 MOH4 MOH1 MOH8 SNM3 SNM3 3rd 291 2015 Pabst Racing Services STP1 STP1 NOL3 NOL3 BAR3 BAR3 IMS2 IMS12 LOR1 TOR1 TOR2 MOH4 MOH2 MOH3 LAG3 LAG3 2nd 385

Pro Mazda Championship Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 141516 Rank Points 2016 Cape Motorsports Wayne Taylor Racing STP3 STP7 ALA8 ALA6 IMS6 IMS7 LOR8 ROA ROA TOR TOR MOH MOH LAG LAG LAG 9th 106