The 2025 Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented By Michelin is a single-make motor racing championship, the 21st season of the Mazda MX-5 Cup and the 5th sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The series began on January 23 at Daytona International Speedway, and will conclude on October 11 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta after 14 rounds.

Gresham Wagner is the defending champion, having won his second series title in 2024.

The schedule was announced on October 16, 2024, featuring 14 rounds across seven double-header weekends.^[1] In a change from the 2024 calendar, rounds at St. Petersburg and Barber were added, while events at Sebring and Laguna Seca were dropped. All races are 45 minutes in length.

Round		Circuit	Location	Dates	Supporting
1	R1	Daytona International Speedway (Road Course)	Daytona Beach, Florida	January 22–24	IMSA SportsCar Championship
	R2
2	R3	Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	February 28–March 2	IndyCar Series
	R4
3	R5	Barber Motorsports Park	Birmingham, Alabama	May 2–4	IndyCar Series
	R6
4	R7	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	June 6–8	Michelin Pilot Challenge
	R8
5	R9	Canadian Tire Motorsports Park	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	July 11–13	IMSA SportsCar Championship
	R10
6	R11	Virginia International Raceway	Alton, Virginia	August 22–24	IMSA SportsCar Championship
	R12
7	R13	Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	October 8–10	IMSA SportsCar Championship
	R14
Source:[2]

All competitors utilize the Mazda MX-5 Cup car, modified to their homologated racing specification by Flis Performance.

Team	No.	Driver		Rounds
Hendricks Motorsports	01	Ruben Caceres-Martos	R	1–2
	31	Ashlyn Speed		1–2
	54	Heather Hadley		1–2
JTR Motorsports Engineering	07	Julian DaCosta		1
	6	Cody Powell		1
	11	Bailey Cruse	R	1–2
	15	Sally Mott		1–2
	26	Peter Atwater		1–2
	68	Steve Weber	R	2
	69	Glenn McGee		1–2
	96	Jared Thomas		1–2
McCumbee McAleer Racing	3	Ren Messinger	R	1–2
	5	Gresham Wagner		1
	22	Jeremy Fletcher		1–2
	23	Justin Adakonis	R	1–2
	44	Bobby Gossett	R	1–2
AAG Racing	9	Chris Clarke		2
	28	Christopher Haldeman		1–2
	58	Todd Buras		1–2
	76	Frankie Barroso	R	1
		Jack Murchison	R	2
	77	Noah Harmon	R	1–2
RAFA Racing Team by MMR	12	Maite Cáceres	R	1–2
	81	Caroline Candas		1–2
BSI Racing	13	Westin Workman		1–2
	27	Helio Meza	R	1–2
	32	Christian Hodneland		1–2
	57	Tyler Gonzalez		1–2
	80	Ethan Tyler		1
	86	Jagger Jones		1–2
	95	Farhan Siddiqi		1–2
Saito Motorsport Group	19	Nate Cicero		1–2
	29	Ethan Goulart	R	1–2
Spark Performance	33	Alex Bachoura		1–2
	50	Grant West		1–2
	65	Bryce Cornet		1–2
	78	Sally McNulty	R	1–2
Parker DeLong Racing	42	Parker DeLong		1–2
Advanced Autosports	56	Nathan Nicholson		1–2
	99	Vaughn Mishko		2
Sources:[3]

 R  = Eligible for Rookie's Championship

Bold indicates overall winner.

Round		Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver
1	R1	Daytona	#19 Saito Motorsport Group	#5 McCumbee McAleer Racing	#57 BSI Racing
			Nate Cicero	Gresham Wagner	Tyler Gonzalez
	R2		#19 Saito Motorsport Group	#22 McCumbee McAleer Racing	#96 JTR Motorsports Engineering
			Nate Cicero	Jeremy Fletcher	Jared Thomas
2	R1	St. Petersburg	#22 McCumbee McAleer Racing	#56 Advanced Autosports	#96 JTR Motorsports Engineering
			Jeremy Fletcher	Nathan Nicholson	Jared Thomas
	R2		#22 McCumbee McAleer Racing	#22 McCumbee McAleer Racing	#57 BSI Racing
			Jeremy Fletcher	Jeremy Fletcher	Tyler Gonzalez
3	R1	Barber
	R2
4	R1	Mid-Ohio
	R2
5	R1	Mosport
	R2
6	R1	Virginia
	R2
7	R1	Road Atlanta
	R2

Championship points are awarded at the finish of each event according to the chart below.^[4]

IMSA recognizes driver champions based on the total number of championship points earned during the season.

Pos. Driver DAY STP BAR MOH MOS VIR ATL Bonus Points 1 Jared Thomas 12 1 1 3 0 1190 2 Jeremy Fletcher 8 6 4 4 50 1090 3 Nathan Nicholson 14 4 3 2 10 1080 4 Noah Harmon  R  7 8 6 6 0 970 5 Tyler Gonzalez 1 34 16 1 10 870 6 Ren Messinger  R  11 3 8 22 0 820 7 Bobby Gossett  R  16 9 12 7 0 800 8 Ethan Goulart  R  2 12 7 30 0 760 9 Bryce Cornet 3 13 29 9 0 720 10 Parker DeLong 6 26 15 11 0 660 11 Nate Cicero 30 7 22 5 30 630 12 Justin Adakonis  R  10 29 5 17 0 630 13 Peter Atwater 24 10 9 19 0 620 14 Glenn McGee 31 30 2 8 0 570 15 Sally Mott 23 21 14 10 0 560 16 Grant West 13 15 21 25 0 500 17 Jagger Jones 9 5 DNS DNS 0 480 18 Heather Hadley 18 35 10 21 0 450 19 Maite Cáceres  R  26 32 11 13 0 440 20 Todd Buras 21 2 32 DNS 0 430 21 Helio Meza  R  4 20 30 28 0 430 22 Ashlyn Speed  R  29 16 18 20 0 410 23 Ethan Tyler 5 18 0 390 24 Christopher Haldeman 27 23 19 16 0 390 25 Bailey Cruse  R  20 14 28 24 0 380 26 Jack Murchison  R  13 12 0 370 27 Ruben Caceres-Martos  R  22 33 20 15 0 370 28 Caroline Candas 28 17 24 18 0 370 29 Alex Bachoura 15 25 23 26 0 350 30 Julian DaCosta 17 11 0 340 31 Westin Workman 32 22 17 23 10 330 32 Vaughn Mishko  R  25 14 0 230 33 Frankie Barroso  R  19 27 0 160 34 Sally McNulty  R  35 19 DNS DNS 0 130 35 Farhan Siddiqi 34 31 27 27 0 100 36 Gresham Wagner 36 24 10 90 37 Cody Powell 25 28 0 90 38 Steve Weber  R  26 29 0 70 39 Christian Hodneland 33 DNS 31 DNS 0 20 Chris Clarke DNS DNS 0 0 Pos. Driver DAY STP BAR MOH MOS VIR ATL Bonus Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold - Pole position Italics - Fastest lap Underline = Most Laps Led

†: Post-event penalty. Car moved to back of class.

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