L'ESTAGE, RICHARD CANADIAN RALLY CHAMPIONS AGAIN
Kurt Busch won Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover, Del., with Jimmie Johnson second and Carl Edwards third. Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards remain tied for the Chase leadership. Tony Stewart, who won the first two Chase races, was 25th Sunday.
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At the Pacific Rally in British Columbia, Antoine L'Estage of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., and his co-driver Nathalie Richard of Halifax clinched the 2011 Canadian Rally Championship with only the Rally of the Tall Pines at Bancroft remaining.
The team finished second in the rally to Pat Richard of Squamish, B.C. and Alan Ockwell of Toronto but their points earned them the championship, their fourth national title and their second of 2011 after locking up the North American Rally Cup with their win at the Rallye Défi in September.
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Earlier . . .
Puegeot came out on top at Saturday’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in Georgia after Audi ran into big trouble, including having one car crash out of the 10-hour event.
Stephane Sarrazin, Franck Montagny and Alexander Wurz drove the Puegeot to Victory Lane in the final American Le Mans Series race of 2011.
One factory Audi suffered transmission failure and dropped out after seven hours. The other crashed out with French driver Romain Dumas at the wheel.
The top LMP2 car was driven by Scott Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Joao Barbosa.
Ryan Lewis, Ken Dobson and Henri Richard (no, not the hockey player) won the Le Mans Prototype Challenge class; Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni and Pierre Kaffer won the GT class in a Ferrari and GT Challenge was won by Jeroen Bleekemolen, Sebastiaan Bleekemolen and Tim Pappas in a Porsche 911.
Canadians: Kyle Marcelli of Barrie finished second in LMPC, Tony Burgess of Toronto was fifth in LMP1, Kenny Wilden of Oakville was 26th in GT.
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Elsewhere, Will Power won the pole for Sunday’s IZOD IndyCar Series race at Kentucky Speedway, with Graham Rahal second and Oakville’s James Hinchcliffe third (great stuff!).
Perennial (it seems) IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti could only qualify 11th. Simona De Silvestro outqualified Danica Patrick 49.123 seconds to 49.158 and they will start 13th and 14th respectively.
Pippa Mann is so far over her head it hurts to watch and she crashed yet again. The poor girl can’t seem to complete a lap before running into a wall. Although she is down to start 28th, IndyCar officials would do everybody a favour by refusing to let her start.
And Dan Wheldon, who replaced Alex Tagliani in Tag’s regular ride for this race, will start last after his car failed pre-qualifying tech inspection. This (apparent) manipulation of reality in a desperate attempt to draw attention to this series is getting, frankly, tiresome.
The car failed tech inspection. Sure.
In NASCAR, Carl Edwards won the Nationwide Series race at Dover, with Brad Keselowski second and Clint Bowyer third – all Sprint Cup drivers, of course. At Kentucky, Ron Hornaday won the Camping World Series truck race, with Austin Dillon second and James Buescher third.
For the record, no trucks entered in that race failed to pass tech.
It's a Circus Norris..NOT a Racing Series!!
I hope Weldon's wheels fall off :-)
I wouldn't waste my time watching it.
They need to get their $hit together !!
RIP Indy Car..
Posted by: ex CART fan. | 10/02/2011 at 08:20 AM