IndyCar’s feeder series will take on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course this weekend, while Japan’s all-female Kyojo Cup begins its new era as a single-seater F4-spec series. Here’s how to catch all the action.

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The Month of May is in full swing over at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which holds the first of three consecutive weekends of track action – culminating in the Indianapolis 500 – for the IndyCar Series beginning on Friday.

Joining the package for the first weekend are its three main support series, Indy NXT, USF Pro 2000 and USF2000. All three of them hold their third rounds of the season, and several exciting additions – including an F2 convert and a previous series champion – dot their grids.

Over in Japan, the Kyojo Cup also embarks on its biggest change since its inception in 2017 by switching from prototypes to single-seaters. The 20 competitors in the all-female series, which races exclusively at Fuji Speedway, will get behind the wheel of the KC MG-01 car previously used in the FIA Motorsport Games.

French F4 also returns for its second round this weekend at former F1 circuit Dijon-Prenois. Of the other non-FIA-sanctioned F4-spec single-seater series racing this weekend, Formula Nordic will hold its first round of 2025 at Anderstorp Raceway for a joint round with Nordic 4, which will also count towards the Nordic Championship Formula points tally. Morocco’s new iM4 Cup, meanwhile, will feature three drivers as a subclass of the FX Pro Series event taking place at the Autodromo dell’Umbria in Magione, Italy.

1. Indy NXT: Round 3, Indianapolis
2. USF Pro 2000: Round 3, Indianapolis
3. USF2000: Round 3, Indianapolis
4. French F4: Round 2, Dijon-Prenois
5. Kyojo Cup: Round 1, Fuji

Indy NXT: Round 3, Indianapolis

Circuit: Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, 3.925 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−4)

Friday 9 May

• 11:05–11:55: Practice
• 14:30–15:00: Qualifying
• 19:00–20:00: Race 1

Saturday 10 May

• 13:00–14:00: Race 2

How to follow: All sessions are streamed live on IndyCar Live. Country-specific availability is listed here. In the United States, Fox Sports 2 will show practice and qualifying, while Fox Sports 1 will show the races. Live timing for all sessions is available on the IndyCar website.

Weather forecast: Light rain possible Thursday. Sunny Friday and Saturday.

What to know: More than two months passed between Indy NXT’s first and second rounds, but rounds three and four will take place less than a week later with the first doubleheader of the season on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Through it all, one driver has appeared unstoppable. Andretti Global’s Dennis Hauger has led all 79 laps this season and topped all but one session so far. Such was the scale of his dominance that he won by 11 seconds in the 35-lap contest at Barber, which was interrupted by two safety cars in the first half of the race. The five-time F2 race winner leads teammate Lochie Hughes by 32 points.

But Hauger faces an old rival this weekend who has raced against him at least once in each of the past four years. F2 and F3 graduate Juan Manuel Correa, 25, joins HMD Motorsports for seven events in 2025, beginning with this weekend’s doubleheader at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Ecuadorian-American and the team struck a deal earlier this week after crossing paths at Barber last weekend, per a press release issued Wednesday by HMD. He replaces Bryce Aron, who left for Chip Ganassi Racing ahead of Barber.

HMD also welcomes back Nikita Johnson, who missed the Barber round as part of the scheduled seat rotation in the #18 car with Max Taylor and team reserve Evagoras Papasavvas. The latter will, however, remain in the #24 car after taking a stunning podium last time out on his Indy NXT debut. That puts the grid back at 21 cars.

Report by Michael McClure

Read the previous round’s report here.

USF Pro 2000: Round 3, Indianapolis

Circuit: Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, 3.925 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−4)

Thursday 8 May

• 13:10–14:10: Test session 1
• 15:30–16:30: Test session 2
• 17:20–17:50: Test session 3

Friday 9 May

• 8:40–9:10: Qualifying
• 15:20–16:10: Race 1

Saturday 10 May

• 9:30–10:15: Race 2
• 14:20–15:05: Race 3

How to follow: Qualifying sessions and races will be broadcast on the USF Pro Championships YouTube channel. Live timing is also available via the USF Pro 2000 website and via the USF Pro Championships app.

Weather forecast: Light rain possible Thursday. Sunny Friday and Saturday.

What to know: USF Pro 2000 will hold its third round of 2025 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course with a rapidly developing title race featuring the two race winners so far in the 2025 season.

Rookie Max Garcia of Pabst Racing currently leads the standings on 141 points, having taken a win and two second-place finishes last time out at NOLA Motorsports Park. The driver who won the first two races there, Turn 3 Motorsport’s Alessandro de Tullio, is 16 points in arrears of Garcia in large part because of an accident in race two at St Petersburg, where Garcia took his first series victory.

A number of driver changes will alter the look of the grid, though there is only one new entrant for the weekend. That driver, Brady Golan, steps up to USF Pro 2000 with Turn 3 Motorsports in the car last driven by Titus Sherlock at St Petersburg. Golan is currently 17th in the standings in USF2000 with DEForce, while in his parallel FR Americas campaign, he is second with a victory at NOLA.

Golan’s new teammate for this weekend, driving Turn 3’s fifth car, is Nicholas Monteiro, who likewise comes from DEForce Racing. The Brazilian will hope his new team can propel him up from his current position of 13th in the USF Pro 2000 standings.

In Monteiro’s place comes Owen Tangavelou, previously of VRD Racing. The Vietnamese-French driver has signed a deal with DEForce for this round and the Road America event in June.

In parallel, Frankie Mossman will transfer to VRD for his first single-seater outing outside the Jay Howard Driver Development fold. And while not a direct replacement for Mossman at JHDD, Tanner DeFabis will rejoin the USF Pro 2000 grid for his home event after missing the previous round.

Report by Michael McClure

Read the previous round’s report here.

USF2000: Round 3, Indianapolis

Circuit: Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, 3.925 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC−4)

Thursday 8 May

• 12:00–13:00: Test session 1
• 14:20–15:20: Test session 2
• 16:40–17:10: Test session 3

Friday 9 May

• 7:55–8:25: Qualifying
• 12:10–12:50: Race 1

Saturday 10 May

• 10:30–11:10: Race 2

How to follow: Qualifying sessions and races will be broadcast on the USF Pro Championships YouTube channel. Live timing is also available via the USF2000 website and via the USF Pro Championships app.

Weather forecast: Light rain possible Thursday. Sunny Friday and Saturday.

What to know: The USF2000 Championship will head to Indianapolis for its third round of the season and its second two-race round. In the five races contested so far, there has only been one race winner. 

That driver, Jay Howard Driver Development’s Liam McNeilly, has scored 98.79 per cent of the points available so far, taking every bonus point for most laps led and missing out on the extra points for pole position and fastest lap only once. The JHDD driver’s closest rival is Jack Jeffers, who has not finished below fifth in the first five races of the season. The Exclusive Autosport driver currently sits 51 points behind the Briton.

There will still be 19 cars at Indianapolis as there were at NOLA, though there have been two changes to the grid. Brady Golan moves up to USF Pro 2000 with Turn 3 Motorsport. Meanwhile, 2023 USF2000 champion Simon Sikes returns to the series for a one-off appearance with Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing Development, providing an additional set of reference data for single-seater rookie Wian Boshoff, the team’s sole full-time driver.

Report by Marco Albertini

Read the previous round’s report here.

French F4: Round 2, Dijon-Prenois

Circuit: Circuit Dijon-Prenois, 3.801 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+2)

Thursday 8 May

• 08:30–08:55: Private practice 1
• 09:55–10:20: Private practice 2
• 11:40–12:05: Private practice 3
• 13:05–13:30: Private practice 4
• 16:50–17:15: Private practice 5

Friday 9 May

• 08:30–09:00: Free practice
• 15:30–16:00: Qualifying

Saturday 10 May

• 11:10–11:40: Race 1
• 16:55–17:25: Race 2

Sunday 11 May

• 09:45–10:15: Race 3

How to follow: All sessions will have live timing available on its-live.net. Races two and three will be broadcast for free on YouTube.

Weather forecast: Dry and sunny, with a slight chance of light showers Sunday.

What to know: All 30 drivers in the centrally run French F4 are back for the second round out of six this season at the Circuit Dijon-Prenois. Changing weather disrupted the opening round, though this is less likely to be the case in Burgundy.

Having turning 16 last weekend, championship leader Alexandre Munoz will be keen to confirm his strong form from Nogaro, where he clinched two wins in three races, and extend his 20-point gap over Jules Roussel. Last time out, several rookies – Rafaël Pérard, Louis Iglesias, Matteo Giaccardi and Andy Consani – also stepped on the podium in their first weekend in formula racing, and they will aim to take their first wins.

Meanwhile, several early favourites prior to the season, such as Montego Maassen and Rintaro Sato, had an underwhelming first weekend in Nogaro,. They will have to score their first points quickly in order to stay in title contention.

Follow French F4 editor Percy on X this weekend for live updates from the Dijon paddock.

Report by Perceval Wolff-Taffus

Read the previous round’s report here.

Editor’s note, 10 May 2025, 9:14 CEST: The timetable was updated after race two was moved from Sunday morning to Saturday afternoon and race three moved from Sunday afternoon to Sunday morning.

Kyojo Cup: Round 1, Fuji

Circuit: Fuji Speedway, 4.563 km

Schedule: All times local (UTC+9)

Friday 9 May

• 10:00–10:30: Practice 1
• 11:20–11:50: Practice 2
• 13:40–14:10: Practice 3

Saturday 10 May

• 9:55–10:15: Qualifying
• 14:30–15:00: Sprint Race

Sunday 11 May

• 12:45–13:20: Final Race

How to follow: All races are live-streamed for free with Japanese commentary on the Inter Proto Series x Kyojo Cup YouTube channel. Japanese TV channel J Sports likewise broadcasts all races. 

Weather forecast: Cloudy on Friday and Sunday with rain showers expected to hit after on-track activities on both days. Rainy on Saturday midday, predicted to stop before the sprint race.

What to know: The Kyojo Cup will experience its biggest overhaul going into its ninth season, switching from the Vita-01 prototype cars used previously to Formula 4 cars in 2025. The series will use the KC MG-01 car, which was used in the FIA Motorsport Games F4 Cup in 2019 and 2022. 

Thirteen teams, of which six also compete in Super Formula, field 20 drivers at the first round of the championship, which hosts all of its five rounds at Fuji. The series had three pre-season tests at Fuji, taking place over two days each in February, March and April. 

Find out what to expect from the season and get to know the drivers competing in the series by reading our Kyojo Cup season guide, set to be released tomorrow. 

Report by Finjo Muschlien

All times and forecasts listed above are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, follow each series’ websites or social media pages.

Header photo credit: Gavin Baker