SRFKC - Vincec, Grist, Hibbs, Gibson and Holman take wins
For immediate release September 3, 2006 Vincec, Grist, Hibbs, Gibson and Holman take wins Outstanding racing on Sunday highlights the weekend MOSPORT, ONTARIO – The weather was the big story on the weekend. Rain, more rain, and more rain was the order of the day until Sunday afternoon. The weather changes shuffled the grid, which made for great racing. Mike Vincec built on his recent Canadian National Championship by winning Formula Senior. Garrett Grist won Canada Junior Light, while Richard Hibbs took his first F1-K Senior win. Dylan Gibson had the drive of the day by winning the Rotax Jr final from eighth on the grid. Chris Holman clean swept the World Formula Senior class. Formula Senior Pfaff Fast Qualifier; Mike Vincec Mike Vincec went from pole to win in the Formula Senior prefinal. Behind Vincec was Curtis Fox, some seven seconds behind. Kyle Marcelli spun and ended up 8th. Rounding out the top five were Launi, Usher and Johnston. In the final, it took awhile for Vincec to arrive at the front because of his tire choice. Vincec opted to start on dry tires on the drying track. That let Frank Launi and Curtis Fox disappear off into the distance in the early going. As the track dried, Vincec’s pace went up and he passed Fox then Launi for the lead. Launi held of for third, behind Vincec and Kyle Marcelli, who was also on dry tires. Canada Junior Light Pfaff Fast Qualifier; Ryan Klutt Ryan Klutt won the Canada Junior prefinal by 7. 269 seconds over Reid Arnold. Third was Anthony Furfari, Garrett Grist was fourth and Austin Milwain fifth. In the final, Garrett Grist took the win by 0.143 over Reid Arnold and Ryan Klutt. Dylan Van Tienen and Austin Milwain rounded out the top five. F1-K Senior Pfaff Fast Qualifier; Matt France Mike Vincec won his second prefinal of the day when he won by 8.081 seconds over Matt France in F1-K Senior. Richard Hibbs was third, Peter Courteau fourth, and Robb Ronnenberg was fifth. In the final, Richard Hibbs took his first win of the year in F1-K Senior. Hibbs won by an impressive 11.503 seconds over Mike Vincec and Michael Deaves. DJ Cook and Robb Ronnenberg rounded out the top five. Rotax Max Junior Pfaff Fast Qualifier; Jesse Facchini Kevin Monteith won the prefinal by 4.441 seconds over Cory Luciano in Rotax Max Jr. Kenny Riedmann was third, Jesse Facchini fourth and Gary Klutt fifth. Rounding out the top 10 were; Joshua Korenyi, Keenan Harris, Dylan Gibson, Cameron Hogg and Jim Souch. Dylan Gibson put in a good day’s work. After qualifying 11th, and finishing the prefinal in 8th, Gibson took the win in the Rotax Jr final. Behind Gibson came Kenny Reidmann and Joshua Gilbert. Cory Luciano was fourth and Gregory Brenzil was fifth. World Formula Senior Pfaff Fast Qualifier; Chris Holman Chris Holman convincingly won the World Formula Senior prefinal over Corey Usher and Ryan Dennahower. Andrew Deaves and Adriano Bilotta rounded out the top five. Holman went on and took the World Formula Senior final over Corey Usher by 10.119 seconds. Adriano Bilotta was third. Rounding out the top five were Ryan Dennahower and Andrew Deaves. The Pratt & Miller Team Spirit award which is awarded to the team that exhibits the highest levels of teamwork in the areas of presentation, preparation and results, went to Dylan Gibson, who qualified 11th in Rotax Jr, and ended up winning the final. GM Racing awards for outstanding skills went to Cameron Motorsports on a day that former CMI driver Robert Wickens won the Formula BMW championship next door at the big track. The objective of the series is to help drivers move up the ladder and no one could argue that CMI has done an excellent job at that. The objective of the SRFKC 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 Release prepared by Russ Bond Agency (www.russbondagency.com)