Minis at Edmonton

SuperMinis at Edmonton Race Data

Combined Points Championship

Seniors Combined Points website

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DETAILED RACE DATA:

Overall Podium: Sergio Casanovas, Paul Nadeau, Ryan Soucy

Senior Podium: Glen Luening, Ralph Kemmerer, Dave Bradley

Pole: Sergio Casanovas

Fastest Lap: Ryan Soucy (1:31.556)

Hard Chargers:
Paul Nadeau, gained 5 (7th to 2nd);
Dave Bradley, gained 5 (19th to 14th);
Will Tway, gained 5 (22nd to 17th);
Cory Linton, gained 5 (29th to 24th)

Nine Seniors competed, top Senior finished in 12th place.

Steward's call to the Grid: 31 cars

On lead lap at finish, 23 cars. One lap down, 3 cars.

DNFs: DNFs 3
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RACE NOTES:
~ Sergio Casanovas, Garret Diduck and Ryan Soucy all led at some point during the course of the race.
~ Sergio becomes our first repeat winner in the Minis.
~ Top ten drivers were from 6 different countries.

SERIES NOTES:
~ Four races, three different winners !!!
~ A total of 47 drivers have competed so far with 34 earning points.
~ In Team, 17 teams are competing with 13 teams scoring points.

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POINTS:

OVERALL: Garret Diduck (USA) continues to lead with a surging Ryan Soucy (USA) moving into second in points. Just 2 behind Ryan is double winner Sergio Casanovas (Spain) with Maciej Bekas (Poland) now in fourth. Mark Carty (Jamaica) drops from second to to fifth. Only EIGHT points separates 2nd from 5th spot!

COMBINED In the Combined championship, Maciej Bekas (Poland) continues to hold first with Ryan Soucy (USA) in second spot. Mark Urban (USA) moves to third while Barry Hedrick (USA) slides to fourh. Garret Diduck (USA) moves up one and into fifth in points.

TEAM: CanAm Racing increases its lead to 42 points lead with Racing for Serbia International holding second. MNRL Motorsports continues in third this week, only eight points behind Racing for Serbia.

SENIORS: Dave Bradley's lead is only 11 points over Ralph Kemmerer. Glen Leuning holds third, while Louie Bell advances to fourth with Aaron Page rounding out the top five in Seniors points.

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

Another nail biter!!!! I followed Garret, Maciej, Ryan and Sergio for 1/2 the race waiting. There was quite a bit of jostling going on up there so I though it would be better to be back a half second or so but I messed up and lost the draft! Fortunately I was able to stay within reach and as they swapped positions I was able to catch up and draft by them one by one until all that was left was Sergio. He was about a second ahead of me and I just couldn't get enough draft to catch him from there. Hung on for second with Garret hot on my tail.
Great race all of you and congrats to the Senior podium!

Congrats to Sergio for the win and then Paul and Ryan for getting up on the podium with him.

Fantastic race - wow Norm, this was a great choice for this mod!

Qual went well and while not exactly close to a PB, I would have had to been substantially better than my best practice lap to really move up in the order, so no complaints - it got me into the race decently.

Apart from the 3rd racing lap when I tried to take back a position from Norm B the same way he took it from me on the hairpin to start the s/f (not so happy a result), had a great time from start to finish. Laps were pretty consistent (for me) and put me into a long set of laps with Ralph K, Will T, Dave B and Luis L where you could often have thrown a blanket over three or four cars. Just a tremendous experience to be racing with you guys - thanks.

Best moment(s) - getting to use the draft on the s/f straight to actually execute a pass or two - those drag races in front of the stands were just magic.

Laguna Seca is going to be a blast with these puppies!

Norm, if I had a way to rep you twice I would. Great battle. ;-)

EDIT@Cory, I was LMAO after we bump drafted down the straight with you blowing your horn! LOL!

@Rich, I'll do it!

I want to thank all the people who sent set-ups the last few days. I am afraid this driver just isn't up to all the good set-ups out there. I needed a half a sec - never found it.

Had some good battles with Earl and Cory but they were clearly faster than me.

Congratulations to Sergio & the podium.

Prerace:

Unfortunately for this event there wasn't much prerace preparation. I logged onto the server with 20 minutes to go before qualifying and loaded up the Birmingham set up and started out trying to learn this tricky little track. I ended up knocking a bit of pressure out of the tires, as the track felt like an ice skating rink, and tried a different final drive ratio. I was undecided as we went to qualifying which one would best so I picked the shorter gearing and set off into qualifying to see what we can do.

Qualifying:

The short qualifying sessions put a lot of pressure on finding space to set a quick lap. I managed a decent lap early on but was really wanting to get on the first or second row. Had a lap going that would've put me on the front row when one of the drivers decided he didn't want me coming around him even though I had a much better drive out of turn four, swerving over at me forcing me into the grass, spoiling my best lap in the dying moments. A few deep breaths and I was ready to take my sixth-place start into the race. I was starting to learn the track a bit and feeling like if I could stay in the draft I might have a chance later on.

Race:

I got a good run on Mark Carty at the start but didn't want to risk anything into the tricky first section without having much practice. I started applying pressure, that made things worse as Mark started defending and a gap was growing to the front group. A few laps later Paul Nadeau got a great run on us and flew by on the front straight. The next few laps saw me make some mistakes pushing trying to catch the front group and stay in Paul's draft. At this point it seem like Mark Carty was faster than me and he was the one now applying the pressure. I tried to let him by on the front straight to see if he had to pace to bring us towards the front. Unfortunately he made a mistake braking for turn three pitching it sideways, making a nice save to hold onto her but we lost the tow to Paul and inherited company from Mark Urban and Rob Thaler from behind. I managed to break free from this group but I wasn't able to match the lap times of the front group with no one for drafting partner.
I had a great tactical battle with Rob for the middle third of the race trying to keep him out of my draft. He would gain .5 in the first section and I would gain .5 back the rest of the lap and be just far enough ahead to keep him out of my draft on the front straight. Try as I could I could not improve my pace through first sector. I was improving my lap time by driving the rest of the track better but still not making any gap on Rob. Finally I made a mistake pushing the first sector allowing Rob through. I pushed hard trying to get Rob but he was like a machine putting and clean lap after clean lap. I made another mistake and decided to back down the pace and take my seventh place. I definitely had the wrong gearing tonight. I felt if I could've held on to Paul's draft in the beginning I might've been able to be part of the exciting race I was watching just ahead of me.

Congratulations to Paul on his excellent drive from seventh place into second! Great job by Sergio, his second win moving him up into third in the championship. Also to Garrett, another solid drive shows him 20 points clear at the top of the championship heading to Laguna Seca with two events left!

Good racing from everybody around me and good fun despite a mediocre result. I am looking forward to the Laguna Seca event! It will be right after the Moto GP event in real life and I will be feeling it. I know this track and like it well, planning on being more prepared for the next event!

Thanks again to Norm for putting it all together and the fantastic amount of cool race information available after the race! :) :) :)

I understand why this track doesn't exist anymore.. :)

Just couldn't understand the flow of the place I guess, still had fun battling people but I was way off my normal pace. Kept forgetting corners and had some newb like off's, ah well..

Grats' to all :)

Cory...Thats funny!

Congrats to Sergio for his solid win at edmonton

I just want to remind you guys that the Laguna we are racing
in two weeks is NOT the present Mazda Laguna Seca, it is the OLD
track, layout, as it existed in 1967... best check it out...