Photo credit: @coopertravisracing/Instagram

With only two race weekends remaining in the 2025 season, Formula Race Promotions (FRP) heads to New Jersey Motorsports Park with a tight championship battle in both F1600 and F2000 competition. Those two classes and the Atlantic Championship got to practice throughout the day, with championship contenders fighting near the top of the field.

By the end of the day, each of the top three drivers in F1600 had traded times at the top of the timesheets while familiar faces from some of the closest F2000 racing of the season at Road America found their way to the fastest laps of the sessions.

After qualifying tomorrow morning, racing will kick off tomorrow afternoon with the first of three F1600 races of the weekend at 2:00 p.m., with select races being streamed on the SpeedTour TV YouTube channel.

F1600:

Practice 1 – Overall:

1. Gabriel Cahan – 1:24.431

2. Wesley Gundler – 1:24.707

3. Ayrton Cahan – 1:24.708

4. Cooper Travis – 1:25.953

5. David Adorno (M) – 1:26.081

Practice 1 – Masters:

1. David Adorno – 1:26.081

2. John Thompson – 1:26.720

3. Robert Albani – 1:27.805

4. Michael Scanlon – 1:28.727

5. Bob Reid – 1:29.016

Practice 2 – Overall:

1. Gabriel Cahan – 1:23.909

2. Wesley Gundler – 1:24.136

3. Ayrton Cahan – 1:24.201

4. Cooper Travis – 1:25.367

5. Chace Supplee – 1:25.496

Practice 2 – Masters:

1. John Thompson – 1:25.928

2. David Adorno – 1:25.997

3. Robert Albani – 1:26.199

4. Bob Reid – 1:27.632

5. Michael Scanlon – 1:28.538

Gabriel Cahan, one of the three drivers currently involved in the fight for the F1600 championship, took the fastest time in both practice sessions with a best time of 1:23.909 on the day. Cahan enters the race weekend trailing his brother Ayrton Cahan by 13 points accounting for the drops impacting the three lowest finishes on the season.

Ayrton Cahan was third in both practice sessions with the two brothers lone championship rival Wesley Gundler splitting between them in the classification for both of today’s sessions. Gundler enters the weekend 25 points behind the championship lead and in incredible form, having secured seven podiums for K-Hill Motorsports in the past eight races.

F1600 Masters championship leader David Adorno put together a strong day in practice, running the quickest time in the first practice and sitting just behind John Thompson in the second practice session of the day. Thompson is making his fourth appearance in 2025 and currently sits seventh in the F1600 Masters standings.

The first qualifying session for F1600 will take place tomorrow morning at 8:50 a.m. in the leadup to their first race of the weekend that afternoon.

---

F2000:

Practice 1:

1. Nick Palacio – 1:18.774

2. Carter Sheets – 1:19.834

3. Robert Wright – 1:20.374

4. Gabriele Jasper – 1:21.360

5. Philip Jasper – 1:22.457

Practice 2:

1. Carter Sheets – 1:19.257

2. Nick Palacio – 1:19.802

3. Philip Jasper – 1:21.265

4. Robert Wright – 1:21.696

5. Gabriele Jasper – 1:22.862

Coming off of a race win at Road America in his last appearance in F2000, Nick Palacio ran quickest in the opening session of practice today with Carter Sheets, the Layke Motorsports driver currently in the championship battle, sitting quickest in the second practice of the day.

Sheets is currently in a battle for the championship title with Robert Wright, who ran in the top five in both sessions as well with a third-place finish in the first practice session.

The F2000 drivers will have a morning qualifying session on Saturday and Sunday before each of their two races, with a 3:05 p.m. race kicking off the F2000 competitive action tomorrow.

---

Atlantic:

Practice 1 – Atlantic (016 Class):

1. Richard Zober – 1:13.871

Practice 1 – Atlantic (Open Class):

1. R. Bruce Hamilton – 1:16.384

Practice 2 – Atlantic (016 Class):

1. Richard Zober – 1:12.806

Practice 2 – Atlantic (Open Class):

1. R. Bruce Hamilton – 1:16.077

In the Atlantic Championship, Richard Zober ran the quickest times of the day across all FRP classes in the Atlantic-016 class, as the driver currently second place in championship points ran a 1:12.806 to lead the way in Atlantic Championship competition. In six races, Zober has four podiums on the season including podiums in his last two races.

R. Bruce Hamilton, who picked up an Atlantic-Open class podium at Road America in his previous race weekend with Formula Race Promotions, ran a 1:16.077 to take the fastest time in the Atlantic-Open class.