Matthew Brabham wins Pro Mazda Championship

After completing two grand chelems at Trois-Rivières, American-Australian, the American Wallaby if you will, Matthew Brabham has won the Pro Mazda championship in his first season in the series, duplicating his U.S. F2000 championship efforts of last year. Brabham picked up his tenth and eleventh victories this weekend in what has already been a record setting season for the Andretti Autosport driver. With the championship, Brabham is well on his way to the Indy Lights in 2014.

Second place today was Venezuelan Diego Ferreira, his sixth runner-up performance of the season, all to Brabham. Third place was Colombian Juan Piedrahita, his third podium of the season. Scott Anderson made a last lap pass on Spencer Pigot for fourth. Canadian Zach Meyer and Julia Ballario rounded out the cars to finish on the lead lap with expert class drivers Bobby Eberle and Jay Horak finishing eighth and ninth, one lap. Brit Lloyd Read finished tenth, sixteen laps down after being involved in a first lap accident that took out Shelby Blackstock, Stefan Rzadzinski and Kyle Kaiser. 

Brabham has four hundred and one points, eighty clear of Ferreira in second. Despite the early accident, Blackstock remains third ahead of Pigot, Anderson, Kaiser and Meyer. Piedrahita jumped by Read for eighth in the championship standings. The final round of the Pro Mazda season will take place at the Grand Prix of Houston October 5th and 6th.