Aaron Telitz scored an impressive first career victory in the Allied Building Products Oval Challenge -- Round 7 of the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda at Lucas Oil Raceway in the 69th Annual Visit Hendricks County Night Before the 500.

It was also the first win for Wisconsin-based ArmsUp Motorsports.

Austin Cindric, son of Penske Racing President Tim Cindric, finished second for Pabst Racing, while Brazilian Victor Franzoni took third for Afterburner Autosport.

Telitz, from Birchwood, Wis., winner of last year's Skip Barber Championship Shootout, was the man to beat, posting fastest times in practice with the No. 5 car, but he struggled in qualifying and could manage only sixth in the closely matched field.

Pole sitter Florian Latorre took off into the lead at the start for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing, chased by Cindric, Jeroen Slaghekke (Belardi Auto Racing), Franzoni and Clark Toppe (JDC MotorSports), who put up quite a fight in the early stages before finally ceding fifth place to Telitz on Lap 11.

Telitz then quickly tracked down Franzoni, whom he passed for fourth on Lap 19. Clearly the fastest man on track at this stage, Telitz made short work of Dutchman Slaghekke, then within the space of a little more than a lap swept past both Cindric and then Latorre to take over the lead in tremendous style on the inside line going into Turn 1. He never looked back, inched clear of the field and finally took the checkered flag 1.3237 seconds to the good after a hectic, all-green, 75-lap race.

"The race was awesome. I was starting sixth and I knew that I was going to have to have a car that could work on the bottom to make any passes, and about Lap 15 it just came in," Telitz said. "I could ride down on the bottom just as fast as the guys at the top and when you have a shorter distance, you're going to make passes. I went right to the front and sailed off and that was it. It feels awesome to win in front of a crowd that came to watch us without the (Verizon) IndyCar Series as the headline. It is seriously awesome and I have to thank all the fans that were here."