The Enhanced Performance, Good Cars Only, Gabo Solutions #77 Formula Mazda Team had a good race weekend at the BEMC Spring Trophy Races held at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. We were entered in the Formula Classic/Formula Libre race group. There were a total of 17 cars in our race group including, six F1200’s, three F1600’s, two Formula 4’s, one Historic Formula Ford, one Formula Four, one Van Diemen F2000, amongst some other cars. The May weather was very nice Friday and Saturday with rain and fog Sunday morning, with some sunshine on Sunday afternoon with temperatures ranging from 10 to 20° C. Over the course of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we were on track a total of 8 times; 4 on-track practices during the Friday test day, followed by qualifying and Race 1 on Saturday and Race 3 on Sunday. We opted out of racing in Race 2 on Sunday morning as we felt the conditions were just not safe with the amount of fog around the race course. Our race class had some beautiful open wheel race cars including Jim Morton’s unbelievably fast Gamma Tercero F4. Our best lap for the test day was a 1: 24 flat on old Hoosier tires from the previous year, pretty impressive for old race tires. Saturday morning, the weather was perfect – about 17°C and a clear sky. We switched to another used set of Hoosiers. We set a reasonable P3 practice time of 1:24.747 (P1 in our class). During qualifying, we set a P4 time of 1:25.824 (P2 in our class). During Race 1, we diced back and forth with Jim Morton and spun on the outside of turn 2, relegating us to P6 in our race group and P2 in our class. Our best lap time in Race 1 was a 1.24.740. The weather on Sunday morning was dreadful, with rain and a very heavy fog. We elected not to run in Race 2 as we just did not feel comfortable with the amount of heavy fog around the race track. As it turned out, lap times were way off as drivers struggled to see. We had a great start at the beginning of Race 3 right behind Jim Morton gapping the rest of the pack by the end of lap 3. Sadly, Jim was able to get away from us using lapped traffic, we were never able to catch up him. We finished the race in P3 (P1 in our class) with a best lap time of 1:27.028. Not a great lap time, as the track was still very green from all of the rain over the course of Sunday. Here is our video race report from the weekend. And a big thank you to Bill and Shirley Vallis of Vallis Motor Sport for their trackside support during the BEMC Spring Trophy Races and to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park for hosting such a fantastic event!! And last, but certainly not least, we want to thank our long-suffering family which allows us to continue to race……….
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Our first engine start if the 2024 season!!! It sounds awesome!!!!! This is our first maintenance update 2024 for the 10th of April. Stay tuned as we start the race engine in the #77 Formula Mazda for the first time in this year!! Sadly, our Subject Motorsports Facebook page has been taken over by hackers. As a result, we will not be using that particular social media platform for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, we will still post regular updates to our YouTube Channel and our LinkedIn Page.
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Over the past several weeks, we have managed to complete a lot of our off-season maintenance. SVRA U.S. Vintage Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International – September 6th through 10th Race Report9/20/2023 The Enhanced Performance, Good Cars Only, Gabo Solutions, Melanoma Canada #77 Formula Mazda Team had a reasonably good race weekend at the 2023 SVRA U.S. Vintage Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International. We ran in Group 9 – Monoposto Wings and Slicks. The weather was mixed with very hot weather the first few days and rain on the final day with temperatures ranging from the high-teens to the low 30’s Celsius. Over the course of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we were on track a total of 8 times; 2 on track practices during the spilt Wednesday/Thursday test day, followed by 2 practices, 2 qualifying sessions, Race 1, and Race 2. There was a large speed differential within the qualifying group!! We definitely had our work cut out for us, as most everyone in our group had much more horsepower than we did. Lots of beautiful race cars! In the first qualifying session, we placed 7th of 11 race cars, 1st in our 9F4 class with a time of 1:57.269. In the 2nd qualification session, we qualified 6th out of 7 cars, 2nd in our class with best lap time of 1:59.404 (we were scuffling in new tires). For Race 1, on the afternoon of the 9th of September, our race Group 9 included 12 high powered open wheel race cars, including Lola’s, Elan’s, Ralt’s, Swift’s and a number of F5000’s. The weather was perfect for racing, clear and mild, about 24 Celsius. We started in 10th and finished in 9th position, 1st in our class, with a best lap time of 1:56.771, our best lap time of the weekend!! Here is the YouTube video link to our first race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWOh2Z7dxQ – our race begins at about time mark 5:07.22. In Race 2, on the 10th of September, weather was light rain, which continued throughout the race. We made the mistake of going out on slicks. The majority of the race, we were able to navigate our way around the track without too much trouble. Sadly, we hydroplaned in corner 11 and made contact with another car that had contacted the tire wall on drivers left. Our race car had too much damage to continue. Lots of work to do over the winter to repair our #77 Formula Mazda – stay tuned for repair updates on our website www.subjectmotorsports.com, our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkrPKqGp6WSukj3qKzMiKhw, and our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SubjectMotorsports/.
Despite the damage to the #77 Formula Mazda, we did manage to finish 3rd in our class and 9th in our race group. A special thank you Bill and Shirley Vallis of Vallis Motor Sport for their trackside support. A very big thank you to the SVRA for hosting such a great event!! And last, but certainly not least, once again we want to thank our long suffering and tormented family which follows us from racetrack to racetrack and allows us to continue to do the racing thing……. |
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