Road to Indy First Practices Complete at Sonoma

The three Road to Indy series have completed their morning practices from Sonoma Raceway, the final weekend of the 2014 season for U.S. F2000, Pro Mazda and Indy Lights.

U.S. F2000 championship leader Florian Latorre started his day on top of the timesheet as the Frenchman hopes to clinch the championship later today in race one. His fastest lap was a 94.9773, nearly a quarter of a second faster than Aaron Telitz in second.

Since the creation of the Road to Indy ladder system in 2010, a Frenchman has won a title in one of the three development series in three of the four years. J.K Vernay won the Indy Lights title in 2010 with Tristan Vautier winning in then-Star Mazda in 2011 and Indy Lights in 2012. Latorre is looking to become the first Frenchman to ever win the U.S. F2000 title.

Third in U.S. F2000 practice was second in the championship Jake Eidson, who was 0.3587 seconds off of his championship rival. Dutch driver Jeroen Slaghekke was fourth with Peter Portnate rounding out the top five. R.C. Enerson is the only other driver eligible for the title and was sixth quickest, 0.6304 seconds back of Latorre.

Norwegian driver Henrick Furuseth was seventh ahead of Colton Herta and Adrian Starrantino with Victor Franzoni rounding out the top ten. The top ten was covered by 0.9179 seconds.

U.S. F2000 qualifying will take place at 2:45 p.m. ET with race one scheduled for 6:20 p.m. ET. Latorre leads Eidson by 30 points and Enerson by 33 points entering today's race.

In Pro Mazda, California's Neil Alberico was fastest with a time of 91.9191 seconds. Alberico is looking for his first victory in 2014 with two races to go. Second in the Pro Mazda championship Scott Hargrove was second fastest in the session, just over a half second behind his Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing teammate. Just 0.0170 seconds behind Hargrove was Pro Mazda championship leader Spencer Pigot. Following Pigot was his Juncos Racing teammates Kyle Kaiser and Jose Gutierrez.

In his first appearance of 2014, Pittsburgh-native Alex Keyes was sixth fastest, 1.2518 seconds back of Alberico. Nicolas Costa was seventh fastest with Andretti Autosport driver Shelby Blackstock in eighth. Juncos Racing's Julia Ballario was ninth with Ryan Booth rounding out the top ten, 1.3968 seconds back.

Pro Mazda qualifiying will take place at 3:30 p.m. ET with race one scheduled for 7:20 p.m. ET. Pigot leads Hargrove by 19 points entering race one.

Indy Lights championship leader Gabby Chaves was fastest in practice with a lap of 88.2705 seconds. The Colombian was 0.1729 seconds fastest than his Belardi Auto Racing teammate Ryan Phinny, who will be making his fifth career Indy Lights start and fourth of the season. Third place in the championship Jack Harvey was third, 0.3652 seconds back with his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports teammate Luiz Razia in fourth. Zack Meyer jumped to fifth late in the session.

Andretti Autosport teammates Zach Veach and Matthew Brabahm were sixth and seventh, 0.5879 and 0.6576 seconds off of Chaves. Juan Piedrahita was eighth, Juan Pablo García was ninth, 1.0334 seconds and Scott Anderson rounded out the field, 1.5747 seconds back.

Indy Lights will qualify at 4:15 p.m. with the first Indy Lights race of the weekend scheduled for 3:15 p.m. ET. Chaves leads Veach by seven points with Harvey 23 points behind the Colombian.