Minis at St Jovite

SuperMinis at St. Jovite Race Data
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Overall Points Championship
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Seniors Combined Points website

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DETAILED RACE DATA:

Overall Podium: Sergio Casanovas, Garret Diduck, Mark Urban

Senior Podium: Dave Bradley, Ralph Kemmerer, Glen Luening

Pole: Maciej Bekas (1:43.312)

Fastest lap: Maciej Bekas (1:44.140)

Hard Chargers:
Will Tway, gained 14 (33rd to 19th);
Bill Kaiser, gained 12 (30tht to 18th);
Brette Brooks, gained 11 (19th to 8th);

Thirteen Seniors competed, top Senior finished in 9th place.

Steward's call to the Grid: 33 cars

On lead lap at finish, 14 cars. One lap down, 8 cars.

DNFs: DNFs 7 (including two DQs)

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RACE NOTES:
~ There were three different leaders during the course of the race.
~ In Qualifying, top 8 within 1 second of pole.
~ Top ten drivers were from three different countries.
~ A total of 41 drivers have competed so far with 26 earning points.
~ In Team, 12 are competing with 9 teams scoring points.

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POINTS:

OVERALL: Garret Diduck holds the lead with a surging Paul Nadeau moving into second in points. Just 2 behind Paul is a tie for third between Barry Hedrick and Mark Carty. Rob Thaeler is in fifth.

COMBINED In the Combined championship, Barry Hedrick has taken the ead from Maciej Bekas with Garret Diduck moving up to third. Paul Nadeau advances on spot to fourth with Ryan Soucy dropping from third to fifth in the standings.

TEAM: CanAm Racing has a substantial 27 points lead already over MNRL Motorsports, with Racing for Serbia International holding third.

SENIORS: With his SuperMini Seniors win, Dave Bradley extends his lead over Glen Luening and Ralph Kemmerer who are tied for second. Norm Borczon drops to fourth in points with Aaron Page holding fifth.

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Thanks to Bill Kaiser and Ralph Kemmerer for sponsoring the
SuperMinis,. Thanks guys!

That was not a good race for me.
After few laps Jose went off track and i had a comfortable lead over Garret. I was trying to take it easy then maybe i relaxed too much and i lost it in first turn.

From that point i dropped to tenth place and i had some nice fights making my way up. Especially with Barry as we were running side by side for a while fighting for position.

I climb up to fourth and i was pushing hard to recover from early mistake but i guess too hard as i crashed and lost my front wheel and that was race over for me.
Shame really because i enjoy this track and minis.

I also want to apologize to Van for a punt sorry.

Congr to Sergio for a win and Garret and Mark for making the podium nice job!!!
Cheers!

I got t-boned hard on a straight stretch on lap 3 after I bounced off a wall. Luis Lynce couldn't see me and smucked me a good one. Not sure what his cars made of but he survived & kept on going to my amazement! For me it was race over as I watched my tire go flying off. My own fault, had auto clutch off for some reason and the car stalled whenI went to move off track. Momo needs to be upgraded :)

First, congrats to Sergio Casanovas on the win, that was a good race up front with three different leaders. Cudos to podium placings for Garret Diduck and Mark Urban. In Seniors, Dave Bradley drove a smart and fast race to take the top Seniors spot with Ralph Kemmerer and Glen Luening in the hunt and on the podium.
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That was one of the worst starts we have had in a while here at MNRL.
The top guys did well, holding the pace speed til the final corner but in nid pack there was a BIG gap and as guys hustled to fill that gap a lot of people were accelerating out of the SECOND to final corner! Many were doing over 80 mph and moving out as they went thru the final corner and who could blame them, as the guy in front was accelerating to catch up and it snoballs.
Drivers, when you see "Close Ranks" in the Chat, do that! Get up behind the guy in front and maintain a close proximity to him. We are all supposedly skilled drivers, we should be able to hold a pace speed without running over the guy in front. AND ALWAYS read the PreRace, there is ALWAYS
a picture of where you start your race...
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I Q'ed 15th, and 2nd in Seniors behind Glen L. which was fine by me.
Race starts, I am struggling to catch up to the group in front which I finally do. Laps tick off and and Glen spins giving me the lead in Seniors while I move up to 10th. I am feeling pretty good about where I am at, for many laps I click 'em off at my race pace in the mid 46s when, lap 9, SENIOR MOMENT !!! I forget where I am on the course, thinking I am going into the right hand 5th gear corner - WRONG, it is the 3rd gear corner!
Off I fly, driver's left, some damage, but now cold tires, I get back on, make a rookie mistake on cool rubber and go off Big Time, flipping the car.
Limp back to pits, get damage fixed, back on in 28th spot, finished 22nd.
ugh ... lol
On to the gound pounders and CanAm !

I learned early here (my first race in F2's in Austria) that you never give up in an MNRL race, never hit ESC!

I started 6th, up to 3rd, lost it big time in T1, had to let the pack go by before pulling on (in 23rd). Next lap Jose got spun out in front of me and he rolled right in my path (hold the brake), I hit him hard enough to flip him, lost a wheel, but my crack pit crew got a new one on and I rejoined in 30th. Too bad the other guys with lost wheels banged out. I had a blast working my way up to 16th or 17th at the finish.

So much potential lost. Hopefully I've learned for the Canam race. I like racing at the same track twice, Norm, for what its worth.

Never quit an MNRL race! You never know what will happen. Cars were flying off everywhere, it was pretty interesting.

Right as rain, Ryan, never give up on Monday nights!

As you learned, limp around and pit, most times the crew WILL
replace a tire, we try to set up the damage so that will happen.

And, with points as close as they always seem to be in the MNRL racing, every position counts.
In last season's Senior championship, the points were so close
after 12 races that in each race one position up or down told
the difference between finishing first or second or third in the championship..

As far as racing the same track, we are following what the schedules really were back in the CanAm Day. Very often an SCCA Restricted Regional would precede the CanAm race. The Regional would be only a few classes, something to entertain the crowd before the Big Boys took to the track.
I raced in one at the MidOhio CanAm, 1971, in a G Production Sprite. Was running 4th when I ran out of gas (all these years later, don't ask lol but my Crew Chief was fired).

Unfortunately, they don't replace engines.. ;)

For the third straight race I was fortunate enough to avoid trouble and improve my position from the start. As it often happens with my aging brain, much of the race is a fuzzy blur in my memory but a few parts stand out. It seems like you never stop turning at this track so you are constantly busy trying to stay on the right line and hit the marks for braking and downshifts. For sure a difficult place to pass unless you have a large speed differential or the guy in front makes a major bobble.

I raced for a short while with Brette Brooks. Brette was definitely faster than I was, and he came up on me quickly in the early laps. He took a lap or so to figure out how to get past me and then executed a very nice outbraking pass going down the inside of the last corner. A difficult corner to make that work and even though I tried to counter with a crossover Brette had me covered and then steadily motored on ahead, opening the gap throughout the rest of the race.

In the middle part of the race Gerald April caught me and for what seemed like about five laps he was stuck to me like glue. I am not sure what his perspective on the racing was but it seemed to me that he was faster than me but not in the places where he could use the differential to get by. Kudos to Gerald for being able to race that closely without incident. I am not sure I would have had the discipline and skill to resist the urge for a lunge down the inside somewhere that could easily have ended badly for either or both of us.

These are just two examples of why MNRL is so enjoyable to me. If my memory were better I am sure I could add more. No doubt each of you have similar experiences, maybe even every race. Yes some races are more enjoyable than others, such as I have been having lately when misfortune passes me by. But even in the other sort of races when things go wrong there is usually something good to take away from the experience. The level of sim-racing competence in the MNRL is very, very high. And I am not talking about outright speed, although there is plenty of that.

Dave Bradley

Well said, Dave, and I am in total agreement. We have gathered here at MNRL a collection of the best sim drivers to be found anywhere.
We have World class speed with some as well as a Senile set and good drivers of all skill levels. And we all race together with very few incidents! The MNRL drivers all seem to possess that intangible qualify which allows for close, clean racing, safe lapping and exciting competition no matter where one is in the field...

Most of our championships are closely contested from season to season with practically no runaway champs. Often, in a six race series, we will (and have had) FIVE different winners! Let's all keep up the high standards we have realized in our racing.

Hi all, very good cars for racing this Minis, Iv enjoy all the race from the begining til the end, I start in p5, and the battle was hot from the start, then some drivers start to make mistakes in a super nice and fun circuit, so I found my self in p3 followin Garret in the lead and Tom in p2, I was having some pressure from Paul and Mark C., but all unther control...lol, after som mistekes in the t1 triky table top, I v lost a little the front so Garret was in a very comfortable lead and Tom escaping from me..., but then afetr some laps, Good news, Tom was long in the brakes and this gave me the oportuniti to cuth him and pass him, with him sufering a huge accident...You Ok?, so p2 with like almost 8 or 9 sec gap with Garret, and after some laps..., goods news again!!!, Garret goes to long with the brakes and I jump on him, after some turns fighthing with his damage Mini after I pass him a lapper crash againts him so afetr 2 laps I manage to winn this super fun race.
Thnx all, and congratulations diferent podiums...
See you racing!!!