Jake Eidson(born 24 May 1995) is an American Australian 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. The young driver 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

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championship. The American Australian drove a

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RF91 and scored one podium finish. In 2012, Eidson made the switch to single-seater racing in the United States of America. The young driver competed in the Skip Barber F2000 Series racing a

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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

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for their

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campaign. At the beginning of the season, the young driver competed in the

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Winterfest and the first two rounds of the main championship in Florida. Eidson dominated the F1600 season in the Honda L15A7 powered

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012 winning seven out of twelve races. For his good results Eidson was awarded a place in Team USA Scholarship, to compete at the

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and

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in England. At the Formula Ford Festival, the team competed in the highly competitive

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class. Eidson won one of the qualifying rounds. In the main event, the Team USA Scholarship driver finished fifth outscoring his teammate

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. At the Walter Hayes Trophy Eidson finished both qualifying rounds in second place which granted him the second starting position for the main event.

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won the race while Eidson finished in seventh position. 2014 was his first full season in the

. Again competing for Cape Motorsports w/ Wayne Taylor Racing Eidson won two races. Eidson was placed third in the championship standings behind

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and Cape Motorsports teammate

Florian Latorre Florian Latorre (born April 24, 1997 in Libourne, France) is a French racing driver from Auriolles, France. He currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for TF Sport. Career Latorre made his professional debut in the 2013 U.S. ...

U.S. F2000 National Championship

Pro Mazda Championship

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eidson, Jake 1995 births Living people Racing drivers from Colorado Racing drivers from Denver Formula Ford drivers American people of Australian descent Sportspeople from Littleton, Colorado U.S. F2000 National Championship drivers Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers Wayne Taylor Racing drivers Porsche Carrera Cup Germany drivers