Jett Bowling Earns First-Career FR Americas Win at Indianapolis

Aubrey Cannaday
    Jett Bowling Earns First-Career FR Americas Win at Indianapolis

    INDIANAPOLIS (June 15, 2025) – Jett Bowling earned his first-career Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) win on Sunday morning at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). Returning to the site of his first top-three finish, the 11th time on the podium was finally the charm as the 20-year-old drove to Victory Lane. Starting the race on the outside of the front row, Jett Bowling (No. 22 Bullhorn / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) had to battle down the frontstretch with polesitter Brady Golan (No. 80 Attire / Toney Driver Development Ligier JS F3) and third-place starter Nicolas Ambiado (No. 55 Velox USA / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3), who pulled up to make a three-wide battle into Turn 1. Despite being on the outside, Bowling drove deep into the corner and was able to take control of the race. Never looking back, Bowling held the point position all the way through the checkered flag, enduring a mid-race restart and holding off the challenges of his Kiwi Motorsport teammates.

    As they crossed the Yard of Bricks to take the checkered flag, it was Bowling, followed by Bruno Ribeiro (No. 01 Alfa Cem / Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) and Nicolas Stati (No. 15 Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3). Ambiado spent much of the race in the second position, but faded in the final laps to cross the bricks fourth, while Alex Benavitz (No. 5 HendrickCars.com / Crosslink Motorsports Ligier JS F3) completed the top five.

     

    Notes of Interest:

    • Jett Bowling earned his first-career FR Americas win at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A sophomore driver in FR Americas, Bowling earned his first-career podium at IMS last June.
    • Bruno Ribeiro earned his fifth podium in just seven races so far this season. The Brazilian driver climbed through the field from a fifth-place starting position to finish second.
    • Nicolas Stati earned a career-best finish with his third-place result. It was the first-career FR podium for last year’s Formula 4 United States Championship Vice Champion.
    • Brady Golan started the race from the pole for hometown team Toney Driver Development; however, a major lockup in Turn 7 on lap one sent him careening through the grass, before rejoining the race in the 10th position. Golan ultimately finished ninth in Sunday’s morning’s race.
    • Entering the weekend as the championship points leader, Titus Sherlock had a major setback as a mechanical issue left him slowed in Turn 2 on the second lap of the race. Despite running second at the time after climbing from a fourth-place grid position, Sherlock was unable to complete the event and earned no points for this morning’s race.
    • For the second time this season, Kiwi Motorsport swept the podium, with Bowling earning the win, Ribeiro finishing second and Stati taking third.
    • Bijoy Garg finished eighth in his FR Americas debut. The Toney Driver Development entrant competed in 18 F4 U.S. races throughout 2020 and 2021.

     

    “This feels great,” said Bowling. “I just want to say ‘happy birthday’ to my mom; it was my dad's birthday yesterday and today’s Father's Day, so this one's for them. I could spend an hour thanking people, but thank you to Steve, Garry, Teena, Alex—it’s been a long time coming. Thank you to Chris, our tire guy—he owes me 10 miles on the treadmill now. I also want to thank [driver coach] David Brabham; it’s a huge help to have him here with me.  Really, thank you to so many people—I can’t say that enough. I always knew I could, but now, I proved it. God was with me in the car today; that's how I got up here.”

     

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    FR Americas will contest their final race of the Indy SpeedTour this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. ET. The race will air on SPEED SPORT 1 as part of a four-hour block of live racing from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, featuring more than a century of motorsports history, with everything from Ragtime Racers, to SVRA vintage racing to FR Americas. Additionally, the race will stream live on SpeedTour.TV, and have live timing & scoring available on Race Monitor. Additional news and updates throughout the weekend will be shared on the series’ Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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