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The Enhanced Performance, Good Cars Only, Gabo Solutions #77 Formula Mazda Team had a great 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 22 cars in our race group including, eight F1200’s, five F1600’s, three Formula Mazda’s, one Formula 4, one Swift S2 , one Van Diemen F1000, and Rich Kenworthy’s beautifully restored 2000 Radical ProSport. The May weather was cool but quite sunny with temperatures ranging from 10 to 20° C.  Rick Kenworthy's Beautiful 2000 Radical ProSport 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 practice/qualifying and Race 1 on Saturday, Race 2 and Race 3 on Sunday. Our best lap for the test day was a 1: 24.858 on old Hoosier tires from the previous year, pretty impressive for old race tires. Saturday morning, the weather was perfect – about 12°C and a clear sky. We switched to new set of Hoosiers. We set a reasonable P3 qualifying time of 1:25.898 (P1 in our class). During Race 1, we diced back and forth with the front four, we ended up P3 in our race group and P1 in our class. Our best lap time in Race 1 was 1.25.254. The weather on Sunday morning was cool but sunny. During Race 2, we chased Rich Kenworthy for the lead setting a best lap time of 1:23.776. W just caught Rich on the last lap but did not have enough laps left to pass him. We ended up P2 in our race group and P1 in our class. We had a great start at the beginning of Race 3 right beside Rich gapping the rest of the pack by the end of lap 1. Rich gapped us when we caught up to lapped traffic, we were never able to catch up him. We finished the race in P2 (P1 in our class) with a best lap time of 1:24.265. All in all a great first race weekend of the year!! 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 who allows us to continue to race……….
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