Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Wheels completes third year with exciting finale

September 20, 2004
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Third time charm!
Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Wheels 
completes third year with exciting finale

INNISFIL, ONTARIO  The Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by 
Toronto Star Wheels has completed its third season with the running of the 
sixth and final round at Innisfil Indy this past weekend. "To see how far 
this series has come is a credit to the karters in Ontario," ASN Canada's 
Paul Cooke said after the event.

The series has a host of new class champions. Leading the group is 
Newmarket's Mike Roth, who headed the headline Formula Senior class. Roth 
had the pole, but a clipped curb at the start of the final, put his 
championship in doubt until the final lap. "I bent a spindle on the first 
lap and it just pulled all race long," Roth said. "It was the toughest race 
I have ever run. I had to fight it for the entire difference." Roth hung 
onto third place  good enough for the championship  behind Cale Meeks and 
Cale Mead.

The driver of the day was no doubt Markham's Marco Di Leo. Di Leo put the 
finishing touches on not one, but two class championships. Di Leo took 
Rotax Max Senior and Canada Senior Light. "I had the best package to 
compete with all year long. The Gold Kart team gave me great equipment from 
the first race and that was a big help."

Other Senior class champions include, Woodstock's Corey Usher in World 
Formula Senior, Sunoco Team Ultra 94 alumni driver, Uxbridge's Aaron de 
Heus in Canada Senior Heavy  who won two races, Canada Senior Heavy and 
light, on the final weekend.

In the Junior ranks, Orillia's Taylor Holdaway sealed Canada Junior Light 
with a clean sweep of the final round. Markham's Evan Hayden took top spot 
in the hotly contested Rotax Max Junior class. These two joined Markham's 
Daniel Morad in Formula Junior, Woodstock's Willliam Keatings in World 
Formula Junior and Stouffville's Pearce Herder in Canada Junior Heavy, who 
had already claimed class championships.

The Pratt & Miller Team Spirit Award, which awards teams that are judged to 
exhibit the highest levels of teamwork in the areas of presentation, 
preparation and results. The award this round went to the team of Kevin 
Monteith and his mother Wendy, who does all the mechanical work for the 
team. The team has won the last three World Formula Junior rounds

The GM Racing Winner's Circle Award, which goes to a driver judged to have 
displayed outstanding competition skills and sportsmanship, was awarded to 
Wasaga Beach's Cale Meeks, who put on a dominant display in the Formula 
Senior finale.

The objective of the the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship Presented 
by Toronto Star Wheels is to help foster a professional environment for 
kart drivers; help create a positive attitude towards appearance, conduct 
and discipline; help foster the employment of the best practices for the 
safe and fair running of competitions; and help kart drivers to move up the 
racing ladder to automobile racing.

For more information, please contact:
Russ Bond, 905-852-2900 r.bond@russbondagency.com
Brad Brown, k.andb.brown@sympatico.ca (416)-233-8727, Paul Cooke, ASN 
Canada FIA  905-403-9000

PHOTO - PRATT MILLER MONTEITH - KEVIN MONTEITH AND MOTHER WENDY WITH RON 
FELLOWS ACCEPTING THE PRATT AND MILLER TEAM SPIRIT AWARD - PHOTO BY ED GATNER



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