Road Atlanta CanAm

CanAm Road Atlanta Race Data

Combined Points Championship
(complete standings for all drivers included)
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Seniors Combined Points website
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Hard Charger Championship points
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DETAILED RACE DATA:

Podium: Kane Lasky, Rick Knapp, Kyle Knapp
Senior Podium: Louie Bell, Earl Setser, Dave Bradley

Pole: Kane Lasky, (01:04.729)

Senior Pole: Louie Bell: (01:06.270)

Fastest lap: Kane Lasky, (01:04.571)

Hard Chargers:
Jan Sproule, gained 11 (21st to 10th)
Paul Nadeau, gained 6 (15th to 9th)
Luis Lynce, gained 6 (18th to 12th)
Rob Thaeler, gained 6, (19th to 13th)

7 Seniors competed, top Senior finished in 14th place.

Steward's call to the Grid: 25 cars

On lead lap at finish, 5 cars. One lap down, 6 cars.

DNFs: 3 DNFs

RACE NOTES:
Kane Lasky dominated with pole, fastest lap, leading every lap and the win.
This was Kane's second win in CanAm.
Occasional racer Kyle Knapp took third.
Senior Louie Bell won his 3rd CanAm race.
Seniors finished in 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th and 21st places. in a clump as usual.

Top ten finishers from 4 different countries.
Top ten spots: 5 Porsches, 2 Lolas, 1 BRM, 1 McLaren
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SEASON:

~ Champion: Maciej Bekas

~ Drivers: 57 drivers from 11 different countries competed with 43 scoring points.
~ Teams: 16 teams competed with 15 scoring points.

~ The following 8 drivers competed in all six events: Rick Knapp, Brette Brooks, Mark Urban, Mark Carty, Dave Bradley, Aaron Page, Earl Setser, Ralph Kemmerer .

Seniors: 15 Seniors competed, all scored points
Seniors: 12 total races, 6 different winners

Most cars on grid: 32 (Mosport & Bridgehampton)
Least cars on grid: 25 (Road Atlanta)
Average grid: 29 cars

Most DNFs: 11 (Mosport)
Least DNFs: 3 (Atlanta) (DNFs include disconnects).
Average DNFs: 5
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FINAL POINTS:

HARD CHARGER:
Unbeknownst to the drivers, your intrepid Admin has been keeping track all season long of every pass for position made by every driver in every race in Mini and CanAm combined. Our Hard Charger is Dave Bradley with 67 passes. Cory Linton and Aaron Page tied for second with 63 passes while Rich Dozier passed 54 competitors.Luis Lynce overtook 51 others, just one ahead of Brette Brooks, who passed 50 other cars. You can see each driver's total up above at the Hard Charger link. Well done Dave Bradley!

STANDINGS: MACIEJ BEKAS IS CHAMPION! Congrats to Maciej (Poland), who dominated the CanAm series with four wins. Well done, Sir !
Rick Knapp (USA) moved up to the runner up position while Kane Lasky (Italy) took third place honors. Only 2 points behind Kane were both Brette Brooks (USA) and Barry Hedrick(USA), tied for fourth in the final standings. As usual in MNRL, every place counts in the finishing order of each race!

COMBINED: Maciej Bekas (Poland) has clinched the Combined championship with an unassailable lead. Fantastic driving, Maciej!
CanAm series sponsor Ryan Soucy (USA) tied with Kane Lasky (Italy) for second in points while Mark Urban (USA)dropped to 4th spot Barry Hedrick (USA) and Brette Brooks tied for fifth place. Two ties in the top five finishing spots!
You can see ALL drivers' points at the Combined Driver Points website.

SENIORS COMBINED: Dave Bradley (USA) captured his first Seniors Championship with Ralph Kemmerer (USA) in second. Earl Setser moved up to third while Aaron Page (USA) dropped to fourth. Norm Borczon (USA) finished fifth, one point behind Aaron.

SENIORS CanAm: Dave Bradley finished a razor thin ONE point over Norm Borczon (84 to 83 points) to take the Senior CanAm championship. Louie Bell took third, just one point (81 to 80) ahead of fourth placed Aaron Page. Dave is our big winner, taking Hard Charger, Senior Combined and Senior CanAm!

TEAM: CanAm Racing moved around former leader Racing for Serbia International's to capture the Team final points standings and Team Crown. FnC finished in third spot, MNRL Motorsports took fourth while Bad Voices Racing moved up into fifth, just one point ahead of Groundhog Night Fever Racing.

So we finish off our Mini and CanAm seasons, thanks to ALL the drivers and Teams that participated! And, as we always say ( and it is almost always true here) at MNRL, every gained position in every race counts !!!

Well managed to miss out due to brain failure tonight :)..

Left Q to reset my wheel and came back to join only to sit there stumped for what the password was again. Haven't done that in a very long time, it was frustrating but prob for the better considering I had no time here in the cars.

@ Jan: Nice job moving on up there buddy! :)

Thanks for another great season MNRL and thnx for sponsoring Ryan!

That's about as happy as I can be given I finished 35 secs off the pace. Lucky to move up from 7th to 4th (Garrett gifted me 4th) and to stay out of trouble.

I love that the smoke and dust just lingers here, it feels like driving through a warzone. I know I posted this before, but its so appropriate given last night's race and how many times I had to drive through a cloud. (this was me from last Tuesday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w1PJ8GlPbw&feature=plcp

I finished 4th, and still dropped from 5th to 6th in the points... thanks Kane! ;)

Congrats to MB, Kane, the Knapps, and Dave B.

Very cool, Ryan!
A new career in the offing, perhaps?

I am sure you enjoyed your foray into the world
of real racing... open wheelers, either you love 'em
or, er, you don't ...lol

I ran last night just to support the team (CanAm) and try to snag the team title.

There was a nice battle amongst our little group the first 1/4 of the race until we all sorted out. From there, Ryan and I ran nose to tail the rest of the way enough to snag the title even though Mark had some troubles and DNF'd.

Everyone did well in traffic last night. Kudos to everyone. My apologies again to Louie for twisting you around when you got caught between Ryan and myself. It was my fault.

Prerace:

The team had an electrical problem and missed first practice session so there wasn't much time to get the car set up before qualifying. The team tried a few things with the damping in the front and but it made the car much worse. The teams data and the drivers subjective feel were not matching up. This doesn't happen often, and there was some discussion about what to do. Finally the team decided to let the driver choose... the team headed into qualifying with the biggest question mark of the season so far.

Qualifying:

A small mistake on my first flyer cost me .25 this caused me to work hard for most of the session. This season has been difficult in qualifying. Maybe not so much on the grid sheets as I've been able to hang on. I feel like I've been a bit sloppy in the driving and lucky in the results. Often there isn't much time or space to try to get more than one or two quality laps in and you have to make them count. As it was I was very happy to get the pole position providing me a chance to get away at the start and escape the draft. Congratulations to Ihab for the front row start in his first CanAm race of the season. Well done!

Race:

I felt confident entering the race and was determined to put in fast clean early laps and get away to run my own race. I drove very well tonight and was able to do exactly that. I felt a little bit less in control than normal like I was driving by the seat of my pants, even so I had relatively a mistake free drive. The race behind turned out similar to what I thought. In the beginning there was a huge war on the back straight between Rick, Kyle, Ihab, Ryan at the beginning making it a bit easier for me to sneak away. Rick came out the victor of their little battle with Kyle moving up quickly to join Rick. Those two having a battle all the way through the race as I believe it's very difficult to break the draft of the driver behind you without him making a mistake.

It seem like this big roller coaster of a track really stretch the field out tonight most of the battles were two car wars. In the middle of the race I was not happy with the cushion I had and my concentration wasn't where it needed to be. I decided since it was the last CanAm event I was going to drive harder. Not being a factor in the championship I started driving the car over the limit and was getting some really nice drifts and slides especially in the double right-hander at the bottom of the hill leading onto the back straight and the second to last turn their heads down the hill. Was really happy to run several 104's without a sniff of draft including my fastest lap and running superclean for the most part leaving the dirt where it was and tearing the tires apart leaving marbles on the track. :)

I have to say I really will miss the CanAm's not just because I've been able to do well in the events. This car sounds so sweet, it's fast and stable, the only downside being to me the brakes seem like they're made out of wood!

On to the next series... Formula Ford and DRM!!! Two new mods for me and a whole host of new tracks as well!

It looks like a may miss a few events due to travel over the next six weeks so I haven't really signed up for the two-man team as I don't want to let my teammate down by being absent.

Congrats to all the championship winners, thanks to all who showed up to compete and all the clean fair driving, and to Norm a big thanks for organizing and keeping this big group together!

I'm looking forward for the series heading down to South America it's always been my dream to spend time there!

Have a great week...see you on track!

First off, congrats to Kane on the win. Glad you painted that car a bright color, sir, as it makes it easier for me to see you when you're coming up to lap me.

Congrats to all the champions (Maciej, Dave, Ralph) on a superb season. I got a kick out of the most-cars-passed stats---shows which of us can't seem to qualify for squat!

This was a fun race for me, as for almost the entire race I was contesting spots in the high teens with Ralph and Yoran (nice running with you both). I couldn't shake either of them until only a few laps were left, and just when I saw I might have a chance to catch up with Norm, some lapping cars caught up to me (again), and so had to give up the attempt. All in all, was a fun series.

I passed only two people... I thought for sure there was more action in the season!!! LOL!!

What about the race at Laguna. I received a stop and go at the start and was relegated to the back!!!

Ha ha! Just kidding... it seems these are position advancements from qualifying to finishing.

Just want to let you know I appreciate all the additional info you add to the MNRL events, top notch, it adds a touch of class imo!!

Yes, the Hard Charger stats are only for passing for position,
not lapping the field lol
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Congrats to Maciej again for the championship, to Maciej again for his Combined points title, to Dave Bradley for the Seniors and Senior CanAm crowns as well as the Hard Charger award, and CanAm racing for the Team title, well done all !

Once again Kane Lasky showed the at Atlanta in our last CanAm race, good job Kane, well done.

I was driving furiously in the Atlanta race trying to catch Louie Bell,
the Senior winner, good drive Louie. I must have passed Earl S. and Dave B. three times in pursuit of Loue, but every time I started to close, I spun out.
Dang ... but it was fun anyhow.

Thanks to all who participated in the CanAm series, it was a hoot, a true Historic series using Historic tracks, a rarity any more due to a lack of historic venues.

See you in the Formula Fords and, after the USA Labor Day holiday, the DRM League Edition monsters !

I want to thank my agent, my publicist, my ...... no wait, that's the other acceptance speech.

Many thanks to Norm and to the sponsors for an enjoyable season. There is a lot that has to happen for us to show up and have fun. I do appreciate it.

Congrats to Maciej for his Championship and to Kane for being an alien among aliens and to the other winners, individually in single races and collectively for your teams. How do you guys say, "Faaaaassssst!", on your planet?

It appears my tortoise and the hare act (with me as the tortoise) worked out pretty well this season, do to some good fortune on my part and some of the opposite for others. People absent for vacations or other reasons no doubt helped me also. Still and all, it is nice to collect a trophy now and then, get a kiss from the trophy girl and pocket the checks. How much does all this stuff pay, Norm?

Looking forward to more MNRL fun. You guys are the best!

Dave Bradley