Minis at Mosport

SuperMinis at Mosport Race Data

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Overall Points Championships

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Seniors Combined Points website
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DETAILED RACE DATA:

Overall Podium: Maciej Bekas, Keith Barrick, Garret Diduck

Senior Podium: Louie Bell, Ralph Kemmerer, Dave Bradley

Pole: Keith Barrick (1:23.102)

Fastest lap: Maciej Bekas (1:23.707)

Hard Chargers:
Paul Nadeau, gained 14 (20th to 6th);
Aaron Page, gained 13 (31st to 18th);
Jeff MacKay, gained 11 (28th to 17th);
Gerald April, gained 11 (30th to 19th)

Thirteen Seniors competed, top Senior finished in 11th place.

Steward's call to the Grid: 36 cars

On lead lap at finish, 20 cars. One lap down, 8 cars.

DNFs: DNFs 4 (including at least one disconnect)

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RACE NOTES:
~ There were two different leaders during the course of the race.
~ In Qualifying, top 7 within 1 second of pole.
~ Top ten drivers were from four different countries.

Wow! My return to MNRL!!!
Great race all!
The seniors are going to be tuff this time!

First an apology to Daniel Olivera. When you got loose coming onto the front straight I tried to stay inside but I couldnt avoid you. Really sorry as I wasn't trying to pass there at all.

The race went fairly well as I started moving forward from the get go. Norm had given me some drafting advice which I promptly used on him to get by! Thanks buddy!!!! I came up on Van and Rob having a good battle and knew they were going to be tough. I was right. We swapped positions lap after lap until I managed to gap Rob enough where he couldn't get by then out of nowhere comes Van! I already passed him twice, now again?? hehe I finally got a strong enough run out of the hairpin that Van couldnt quite hold the position and I stuck it in the sweeper real deep to keep him back. With Van behind I saw Garry and Mark C together ahead and was hoping they would slow up battling each other. It seemed to happening although they drafted each other down the back straight and pulled out 4/10ths every lap. Fortunately I could reel them in on the rest of the track. Mark fell back from Garry and I was able to get by him easier than I thought. He must've run the tires off it or something as he wasnt as fast as earlier. Garry was a different story though. I was able to catch him and was trying to time a pass but he pulled away momentarily so I had to really sit up in the seat, wipe the sweat off and go for it! One minute to go I draft by on the back chute but we have to go another lap.....Crap!!! He's going to get me back I just know it! On to the back straight and here he comes I was moving to the high side leaving the bottom open as I thought I had a better shot at a good entry to the corner ahead but I looked up and saw he was committing to the high side and had a run so I moved left out of his way. I dove right to the inside of the sweeper as he backed out of it. I managed to just hang the inside tire on the rumble strip and it got sideways!!!!!ARRGGG!!! Last lap, last corners and I'm choking. Garry had nowhere to go and bumped me which straightened me right out but sent him to the outside wall.....fortunately there wasn't anyone within striking range and we finished without losing any positions.
Great race Garry,Mark,Van,Rob and all. I don't know if Garry had anything for me in the last 2 turns but this time Sato won out!! ;)
Grats to the podium.

Had an awesome race from the start having a good battle with Mr. Thaeler. We had some contact in 2 but just light enough it didn't cause an incident. Tried keeping up but got loose a few too many times in Moss corner 5 letting Rob build an easy gap. Few laps in while telling my self to go easy in to Moss I manage to drift the whole corner scrubbing off tonnes of momentum allowing Brette Brooks to catch up and pass me up the straight. After this things went bad very fast.

Lately every race I have done about 10 mins in my PC starts running choppy but tonight it was ridiculous. Coming in to Moss, my oh so favorite spot yet again and the damn PC freezes for a second comes back and I'm heavy in to the wall with big damage, I was pissed.. Tried to keep going but the car was beyond repair and I was way too frustrated so I just left.

Not a huge fan of the mod but the people racing will keep me interested, hopefully next ones a LOT better..

Congrats on the win Maciej, you and Keith were nose to tail the entire race, looked like an epic battle. I'm quite sure I didn't have anything for the top two, but felt I had a top five car after working hard on the setup in practice.

Well, that didn't quite work out as planned as the car was junk after lets just say a coming together on lap 3, ended up out side the points, lost points for the team and wasted two hours. Hopefully the next round will have a more satisfying result.

What a shame i miss this race, my pc was down and the main problem is i cant reactivate rfactor right now.
No answer from them with my activation code.
Any idea to solve this problem?
Thank you

Beautiful to see such a huge grid and only 4 DnF! Congrats for the race guys, keep it up.

The Mini series got off to a great start with 36 cars on the grid.
Congrats to all of the drivers for a good pace lap and clean start,
no big pileups, looked like all were on their toes esp.with stack
braking. Well done all !

Congrats to Maciej Bekas for his win, after new driver Keith Barrick had led for quite a few laps. Garret Diduck filled out the podium.
Senior Louie Bell took the senile set top spot with Ralph Kemmerer
right behind him and Dave Bradley finishing just behind Ralph.
Looks like it is going to be another close Seniors points race.

As for me, my 17th Q spot was fine, 4th in Seniors so I was ok
with that, too. BUT I did not take my own advice, lap 2 I was pushing too hard too early and hit a curb, throwing my car out of control and out into the weeds. I had to wait til the entire que went by, rejoining in 34th place... ugh...I got back up to 25th by race end, but it was a pretty disappointing start for me.

I did have some GREAT racing with Bill Kaiser, Peter Holm, Earl Setser and David Nannen during the latter portion of the race,
super close and clean all the way gents, well done!

Next week, we take to Mosport again for our Feature race,
the ground pounding CanAm cars. See you on track !

What a blast of a race - great mod Norm!

Well done to Maciej, Keith and Garret for the podium.

Really felt good in this mod and for the track having put in some extra practice in the break between seasons. Hope it serves me well for the later races. Qualy was great, setting a PB and got a good start so that I was in contact with Brette B at the start. Managed to pass in the first couple of laps but then tried a bit too hard at Moss and into the grass, which lost me a handful of positions. Back in with a bit of a gap to Ralph K which I slowly closed down. Hung in close behind him for several laps and then pushed too hard in, you guessed it, Moss, but only lost time, not position. Realised that I couldn't close again in the last couple of laps, so resolved to just finish out the last couple of laps, but came out too fast in the right hand sweeper on the last lap, almost recovered but snapped back and so then lost position to Dave B and Juan A. Rats. Still a better finish than I'm used to in such a large field, so v pleased.

Looking forward to the next Mini at St Jovite.

First, I apologize to Stephen for coming together with him on Lap 16. I was traveling through your blind spot and thought I could get through before the braking zone, you came over and I had no chance of braking enough.

Great job Maciej and Keith. You two looked glued together and were the class of the field.

Fun race with my new teammates. We each made our own little errors and handed each other a couple positions here or there. Kind of fun. I had a big off while following Garret. Oddly, the Minis have no front wings or any other aero aids yet are very susceptible to aero push when following too closely...

Good car to practice smoothness and they really stress inch-perfect car placement into the corners.