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MRTI in Toronto – Sunday – Indy Lights Race #2

By Steve Wittich In the four races prior to arriving in Canada, it was Carlin’s Matheus Leist who was the hottest driver in the Indy Lights series, winning three of four races and gaining 37 points on Kyle Kaiser in the chase for the $1 million Mazda Motorsports Advancement Scholarship. But a trip to the […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Sunday – USF2000 Race #2 – notes and results – Thompson and VeeKay are both winners

By Steve Wittich For the third straight race in row the 1.786 mile, 11-Turn Exhibition Place street circuit was kind to fellow Canadian Parker Thompson. After dominating the race on Saturday, the Red Deer, Alberta native needed a little luck to climb to the top step of the podium on Sunday. The Exclusive Autosport veteran […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Saturday – Indy Lights Race #1

By Steve Wittich Ever since Kyle Kaiser won the second Indy Lights race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in May, the Juncos Racing veteran has repeated numerous times that his singular goal is to outscore the other drivers fighting for the $1 million Mazda Motorsports Advancement Scholarship on an event-by-event basis.  For the most part, the […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Saturday – Indy Lights Qualifying #1 – Kaiser breaks track record, and earns important bonus point

By Steve Wittich For the third time in 2017, current championship points leader Kyle Kaiser snagged the single bonus point on offer for winning an Indy Lights pole, allowing the third year Juncos Racing driver to grow his title lead over Matheus Leist to 14 points. Kaiser first grabbed the provisional pole with six minutes left […]

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MRTI in Toronto – 2017 – USF2000 qualifying #2 – provisional pole changes hands 10 times in final minutes

By Steve Wittich An exciting final five minutes of USF2000 qualifying featured five different drivers trading the provisional pole a total of ten times. At the end of the 20 minute session, it was current points leader Oliver Askew that will won the bonus point, and will start on the inside of the front row for […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Friday – Indy Lights practice #1 – veterans lead the way

By Steve Wittich Similar to the first USF2000 practice session, it was a pair of veterans that were the quickest during the lone Indy Lights practice session. Championship leader Kyle Kaiser led the way with a quick lap of 1 minute, 6.399 seconds, which was just over a-tenth of a lap quicker than fellow veteran […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Friday – Qualifying #1 – Oh Canada! Thompson and Exclusive Autosport snag home pole

By Steve Wittich Oh Canada! Canadian driver Parker Thompson, and Canadian team Exclusive Autosport will start on pole for the first of two Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of Toronto Presented by Allied Building Products. Thompson’s quickest lap of 1 minute 12.816 seconds was just quick enough to pip current points leader Oliver Askew by […]

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MRTI in Toronto – Friday – USF2000 Practice #1 – Thompson leads at home

By Steve Wittich In what shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, the driver’s that have raced on the 1.786 mile, 11-Turn Exhibition Place street circuit, were among the quickest in the first, and only USF2000 qualifying session this afternoon. Canadian Parker Thompson led the way with a quick lap that was timed at 1 minute, […]

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2017 MRTI schedule features complete immersion with INDYCAR, Watkins Glen International finales, and new ovals

For the first time ever, every single Mazda Road To Indy presented by Cooper Tire race will take place in conjunction with a Verizon IndyCar Series event. Some highlights include: all thee series finales occurring at Watkins Glen International on Labor Day Weekend, Indy Lights returning to Gateway Motorsports Park, Pro Mazda making their first […]

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Exhibition Place – Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tire day #3 – race #2 recap and results

Felix Rosenqvist certainly has a knack for unique street circuits. The reigning FIA Formula 3 champion added a second winners trophy on the bumpy 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place temporary street course to trophies from: the street/airport circuit in St. Petersburg, the street circuit in Pau France, and the Guia Circuit in Macau. When the Indy […]

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