# 2012 Star Mazda Championship > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2012_Star_Mazda_Championship > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2012_Star_Mazda_Championship.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Star_Mazda_Championship > Source revision: 1320009724 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 2012 [Star Mazda Championship](/source/Star_Mazda_Championship) Previous [2011](/source/2011_Star_Mazda_Championship) Next [2013](/source/2013_Pro_Mazda_Championship) 2012 champion [Jack Hawksworth](/source/Jack_Hawksworth) The **2012 Star Mazda Championship** was the 14th season of the [Star Mazda Championship](/source/Star_Mazda_Championship), an American-based [open-wheel racing](/source/Open-wheel_racing) series sanctioned by [IndyCar](/source/IndyCar) as part of the [Road to Indy](/source/Road_to_Indy) program. It featured 17 races held over 10 race weekends.[1] Five race weekends were held on temporary street courses, three on permanent road courses, and two on [ovals](/source/Oval_track_racing). The series increased the number of double-header weekends to reduce the costs per race for competitors. Fastest lap times in race 1 determined the starting grid for race 2 on double-header race weekends.[2] The championship consisted of a main championship as well as a Star Mazda Expert Series for drivers over 30 years old. The expert class consists of a driver's best 10 races, enabling an Expert Series competitor to complete a full complement of races in just five race weekends.[2] 21-year-old Englishman [Jack Hawksworth](/source/Jack_Hawksworth) driving for Team Pelfrey dominated the championship, winning eight of the 17 races and four of the eight poles awarded, setting a series record for wins in a season. He sat out the final race of the year but still won the championship over Colombian-American [Gabby Chaves](/source/Gabby_Chaves) by 37 points. Chaves won the final two races of the season. American [Sage Karam](/source/Sage_Karam) won three races and finished third in points in a tie-breaker over fellow American [Connor De Phillippi](/source/Connor_De_Phillippi) who won two races after finishing second in points a year ago. Finn [Petri Suvanto](/source/Petri_Suvanto) finished fifth in points, in his first season in Star Mazda, winning the seat by winning the Road to Indy's [U.S. F2000 National Championship](/source/U.S._F2000_National_Championship) the year before. Other race winners were Chile's Martin Scuncio and Venezuela's Camilo Schmidt, who won a bizarre wet-dry race in Edmonton. American Walt Bowlin won the Expert series championship by virtue of being the only Expert series competitor to participate in more than two race weekends. ## Drivers and teams Team No. Drivers Notes Juncos Racing 2 Connor De Phillippi 15 Bruno Palli[3] 22 Martin Scuncio Skipped Road Atlanta 57 Diego Ferreira[3] JDC MotorSports 9 Juan Piedrahita[4] 16 Lloyd Read Laguna Seca only Scott Anderson Road Atlanta only 19 Gabby Chaves 91 Ashley Freiberg[5] 99 Stefan Rzadzinski Skipped Indianapolis, Iowa, Trois-Rivières, Laguna Seca, and Road Atlanta The Racing Company 10 Jérimy Daniel Skipped Indianapolis, Iowa and Edmonton World Speed Motorsports 18 Kyle Kaiser Laguna Seca only Linares Racing 20 Carlos Linares 21 Camilo Schmidt Skipped Trois-Rivières AIM Autosport 23 Walt Bowlin Expert series; skipped Indianapolis, Iowa, Edmonton and Trois-Rivières 66 Zack Meyer 72 Larry Pegram Expert series; St. Pete and Barber only Team GDT 33 Ryan Tveter Skipped Barber, Indianapolis, and Iowa 39 Cory Lewis Toronto only 51 Alex Ardoin Trois-Rivières only 53 Andrés Méndez[6] 65 J. W. Roberts Expert series; St. Pete only 97 Juan Camilo Acosta Road Atlanta only Robertshaw Racing 42 Blair Robertshaw Expert series; Edmonton only Andretti Autosport 77 Zach Veach[7] 88 Sage Karam[8] Team Pelfrey 81 Petri Suvanto[9] 82 Jack Hawksworth[10] Skipped Road Atlanta Ryan Tveter Road Atlanta only 83 Gustavo Menezes[11] ## Race calendar and results The series schedule was announced December 1, 2011. Two race weekends were listed on the schedule with the location yet to be determined.[2] The season finale was later confirmed to be held at [Road Atlanta](/source/Road_Atlanta), supporting the [Petit Le Mans](/source/Petit_Le_Mans) sportscar event.[1] Rnd Circuit Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Supporting 1 Streets of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Florida March 24 Connor De Phillippi Jack Hawksworth Connor De Phillippi Juncos Racing IndyCar Series 2 March 25 Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey 3 Barber Motorsports Park Birmingham, Alabama April 1 Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey IndyCar Series 4 Jack Hawksworth Martin Scuncio Juncos Racing 5 Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Brownsburg, Indiana May 26 Connor De Phillippi Connor De Phillippi Connor De Phillippi Juncos Racing USAC Midgets 6 Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa June 23 Sage Karam Sage Karam Sage Karam Andretti Autosport IndyCar Series 7 Streets of Toronto Toronto, Ontario July 7 Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey IndyCar Series 8 July 8 Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey 9 Edmonton City Centre Airport Edmonton, Alberta July 21 Sage Karam Jack Hawksworth Camilo Schmidt Linares Racing IndyCar Series 10 July 22 Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey 11 Circuit Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, Quebec August 4 Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey Indy Lights 12 August 5 Jack Hawksworth Sage Karam Andretti Autosport 13 Streets of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland September 1 Qualifying abandoned Jack Hawksworth Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey IndyCar Series 14 September 2 Sage Karam Sage Karam Andretti Autosport 15 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California September 8 Jack Hawksworth Gabby Chaves Jack Hawksworth Team Pelfrey Rolex Sports Car Series 16 September 9 Gabby Chaves Gabby Chaves JDC MotorSports 17 Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia October 19 Gabby Chaves Sage Karam Gabby Chaves JDC MotorSports American Le Mans Series ## Championship standings ### Drivers' Pos Driver STP BAR IND IOW TOR EDM TRO BAL LAG ATL Points Overall 1 Jack Hawksworth 2 1 1 2 7 15 1 1 7 1 1 12 1 2 1 2 397 2 Gabby Chaves 3 4 3 5 9 5 3 4 3 3 5 2 3 8 2 1 1 360 3 Sage Karam 8 7 2 12 2 1 21 3 2 2 2 1 15 1 7 19 2 325 4 Connor De Phillippi 1 5 5 3 1 3 7 16 6 13 3 13 2 3 3 3 3 325 5 Petri Suvanto 5 3 6 6 5 4 6 8 19 4 14 4 4 4 5 5 6 271 6 Diego Ferreira 7 9 9 7 10 8 5 5 10 11 16 15 5 5 4 4 4 235 7 Juan Piedrahita 4 2 8 4 8 14 4 2 8 16 9 11 19 9 8 9 9 234 8 Martin Scuncio 6 6 4 1 4 2 17 7 4 15 6 5 18 17 9 11 232 9 Gustavo Menezes 13 10 7 16 6 13 8 6 13 5 7 6 7 16 6 8 7 208 10 Zach Veach 17 11 15 10 3 6 2 17 9 17 8 8 8 6 11 17 8 199 11 Ashley Freiberg 9 19 11 11 15 10 13 13 15 7 12 9 6 10 12 18 11 162 12 Bruno Palli 14 15 13 20 14 7 10 15 18 12 10 17 10 7 20 10 5 146 13 Camilo Schmidt 12 18 17 9 13 12 19 18 1 9 17 14 19 6 16 129 14 Andrés Méndez 15 14 14 17 12 11 18 10 11 DSQ 13 7 12 18 15 15 15 128 15 Zack Meyer 19 13 19 19 16 9 9 9 16 18 15 18 13 15 18 12 10 114 16 Stefan Rzadzinski 10 8 10 8 11 12 17 6 9 11 108 17 Carlos Linares 20 12 12 14 11 DNS 15 14 14 8 11 16 16 19 14 20 106 18 Ryan Tveter 21 21 20 20 5 10 18 10 11 12 16 14 14 91 19 Walt Bowlin 18 17 18 18 16 19 14 13 17 16 17 55 20 Jérimy Daniel 11 20 20 15 14 11 17 14 49 21 Larry Pegram 16 16 16 13 23 22 Blair Robertshaw 12 14 16 J. W. Roberts DNS DNS 0 Ineligible drivers Alex Ardoin 4 3 0 Lloyd Read 10 7 0 Corey Lewis 12 21 0 Scott Anderson 12 0 Kyle Kaiser 13 13 0 Juan Camilo Acosta 13 0 Expert Series 1 Walt Bowlin 18 17 18 18 16 19 14 13 17 16 17 142 2 Larry Pegram 16 16 16 14 56 3 Blair Robertshaw 12 14 28 J. W. Roberts DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver STP BAR IND IOW TOR EDM TRO BAL LAG ATL Points Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th–10th place Dark Blue Finished (Outside Top 10) Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Brown Withdrawn (Wth) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Not competing In-line notation Bold Pole position (1 point) Italics Ran fastest race lap (1 point) Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Overall points 29 25 22 19 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ### Teams' Pos Team Points 1 Team Pelfrey 451 2 Juncos Racing 416 3 JDC MotorSports 401 4 Andretti Autosport 349 5 Team GDT 195 6 Linares Racing 188 7 AIM Autosport 161 8 The Racing Company 76 9 World Speed Motorsports 24 ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-finale_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-finale_1-1) ["Star Mazda Championship Announces 2012 Season Finale to Be Held at 15th Annual Petit LeMans Powered by Mazda at Road Atlanta October 17–20"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120125051427/http://www.starmazda.com/news/series/2011/SeasonFinaleRelease.pdf) (PDF). December 16, 2011. Archived from [the original](http://www.starmazda.com/news/series/2011/SeasonFinaleRelease.pdf) (PDF) on January 25, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2011. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-schedule_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-schedule_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-schedule_2-2) [THE STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP TAKES A MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN 2012 WITH AN 18-RACE SCHEDULE ON 10 WEEKENDS, MOST WITH INDYCAR](http://starmazda.com/news/series/2011/2012%20Schedule%20Release.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20111216032845/http://starmazda.com/news/series/2011/2012%20Schedule%20Release.pdf) 2011-12-16 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), *Star Mazda Championship*, December 1, 2011, Retrieved 2011-12-04 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Juncos_Viso_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Juncos_Viso_3-1) [Juncos Racing Inks Venezuelans Palli and Ferreira for 2012](http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10368&sid=1187badd239b353dbdbc6f4084877b67) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234923/http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10368&sid=1187badd239b353dbdbc6f4084877b67) 2016-03-03 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), *eFormulaCarNews*, February 13, 2012, Retrieved 2012-02-13 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Piedrahita Rejoins JDC MotorSports for Title Challenge](http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10212&sid=cdcec1ba41103e1e4fbc9fba1d838e68) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120506165609/http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10212&sid=cdcec1ba41103e1e4fbc9fba1d838e68) 2012-05-06 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), *eFormulaCarNews*, December 12, 2011, Retrieved 2011-12-12 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["'Woman Empowered' Freiberg joins JDC"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120209012305/http://www.indycar.com/news/show/56-firestone-indy-lights/51140-and-39-woman-empoweredand-39-freiberg-joins-jdc/). *Indycar.com*. 6 February 2012. Archived from [the original](http://www.indycar.com/news/show/56-firestone-indy-lights/51140-and-39-woman-empoweredand-39-freiberg-joins-jdc/) on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Team GDT Signs Colombian Up-and-Comer Mendez](http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10338&sid=f69418350e5804c3ad6a90ed0159d3ef) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062941/http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10338&sid=f69418350e5804c3ad6a90ed0159d3ef) 2016-03-04 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), *eFormulaCarNews*, February 1, 2012, Retrieved 2012-02-01 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Andretti Autosport Confirms Veach](https://archive.today/20120728171513/http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10287&sid=f04c2e6c58f4133bb5e0392b230f47eb), *eFormulaCarNews*, January 13, 2012, Retrieved 2012-01-13 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Rookie of the Year Karam Returns with Andretti Autosport](http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10214&sid=cdcec1ba41103e1e4fbc9fba1d838e68) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120506165806/http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10214&sid=cdcec1ba41103e1e4fbc9fba1d838e68) 2012-05-06 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), *eFormulaCarNews*, December 12, 2011, Retrieved 2011-12-12 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Star Mazda: USF2000 Champion Suvanto Joins Defending Team Champion Team Pelfrey](http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10309&sid=7c8c14db75dbb779d30e3ed8656b67fa) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001354/http://www.eformulacarnews.com/news_info.php?n=10309&sid=7c8c14db75dbb779d30e3ed8656b67fa) 2016-03-04 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), *eFormulaCarNews*, January 20, 2012, Retrieved 2012-01-20 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [Hawksworth Signs With Team Pelfrey For Star Mazda Championship](http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/story-179453.html) [Deprecated link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance) archived 2012-07-11 at [archive.today](/source/Archive.today), *Paddock Talk*, November 22, 2011, Retrieved 2011-12-04 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Menezes joins Pelfrey Star Mazda squad](http://www.racer.com/menezes-joins-pelfrey-star-mazda-squad/article/217763/), *Racer*, November 29, 2011, Retrieved 2011-12-04 ## External links - [Star Mazda Championship Official website](http://www.starmazda.com) v t e USF Pro Championship/Indy Pro 2000 Championship/Star Mazda Championship 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (Winterfest) 2015 (Winterfest) 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 v t e Road to Indy IndyCar Series 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Indy NXT 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 USF Pro 2000 Championship 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 USF2000 Championship 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 USF Juniors 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Road to Indy Shootout (defunct) 2016 2017 2018 Chris Griffis Memorial Test --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [2012 Star Mazda Championship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Star_Mazda_Championship) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Star_Mazda_Championship?action=history)). 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