with 24 rivals hitting the track at Shannonville Motorsports Park near Belleville. This inaugural occasion was highly symbolic, as it was not just the really initial race in the history of the new Canadian motorsport series, but additionally the auto racing launching of the Nissan Sentra. The Sentras clocked much faster lap times than in pre-season testing and also were driven by talented vehicle drivers from Ontario, Québec and also British Columbia. Ultimately, Ontario’s Gavin Sanders won both races.
The long-established Canadian Touring Car Champion needed to terminate its races at Shannonville Motorsport Park on the weekend because of a lack of cars and trucks. There are several reasons for this state of affairs. Numerous non-professional or semi-professional race motorists re notoriously slow-moving preparing yourself for the season to start. And also, in this instance, there is currently a rival collection up and running, the FEL Motorsports Sportscar Series, as well as a variety of vehicles are running in both champions (stock cars and also sprint cars and trucks do this all the time, by the way). Last weekend at CTMP, the FEL champion held its very first race as well as while only 14 cars appeared for the cars race, it was a bit of a crashfest. So, some automobiles planning to run at Shannonville with CTCC weren’t repaired in time. And a couple of major-league groups, which had spoken up the new champion as being the best thing to occur to Canadian auto racing in years, didn’t trouble to appear at CTMP. CTCC will certainly now try to open its period at Trois-Rivières in August.
Tony Stewart made some new followers Saturday night at Eldora Speedway in Ohio by winning the 2nd straight Super star Competing Experience race and also Paul Tracy made a lot of brand-new adversaries after tangling with Bobby Labonte. Local dirt-track beginning Kody Swanson completed second and Helio Castroneves was third. The most talked-about motorist was Tracy, that led the initial 25 laps of the 50-lap attribute by utilizing the bumper and fenders of his race auto to secure the lead.
” I understand I’m going to have some Bobby Labonte fans after me due to the fact that he’s super pissed at me, and appropriately so,” Tracy said. “He got by me on the restart. I was operating on leading as well as I chose I was mosting likely to cut to the bottom like Tony did and also I just got it all wrong. He turned in a little earlier than I believed he would, and also I marked him and that was it. To make sure that was my bad and also I went over to apologize to him, but he was having none of it.
” The SRX cars placed on a terrific show. I really felt truly great on this track. This is a remarkable track that Tony has, and also I couldn’t be better with just how we ran total tonight. We grabbed a lot of factors as well as with any luck made some new followers. I make certain we made some enemies because those Bobby Labonte followers possibly hate me.