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Pro Mazda at Barber Motorsports Park – Friday – Qualifying – Thompson and Exclusive Autosport lead a trio of rookie teams and drivers at the head of the field

\ By Steve Wittich It will be rookie Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire driver, Parker Thompson, and team Exclusive Autosport, that leads Saturday’s Pro Mazda Grand Prix of Alabama Presented by Cooper Tires to the green flag. The pole is the Canadian driver’s first Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire and seventh career Mazda […]

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Pro Mazda at Barber Motorsports Park – 2018 – Friday – Practice #1 – Thompson leads the way

By Steve Wittich Exclusive Autosport rookie Parker Thompson led the way in first official Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire session with the new PM-18 with a lap of 76.758 seconds. The Canadian enjoys Barber Motorsports Park, collecting one win, three podiums and never finishing outside of the top five in six races on the […]

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Saturday – MRTI Update #9 – Pro Mazda Race #1 – New PM-18 and VeeKay put on a show

If the first race of the PM-18 era of is any indication, Mazda Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires fans are in for a treat. Rinus VeeKay, who started right in the middle of the 16 car grid after having some mechanical issues in qualifying used a combination of luck and skill to win […]

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Friday – MRTI Update #4 – Pro Mazda qualifying – Askew secures his 9th MRTI pole as another track record falls

As his eight poles in 14 Mazda Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires races attest to, Cape Motorsports rookie Oliver Askew knows how to throw down in qualifying. The 21-year-old briefly lost the top spot to Harrison Scott and Parker Thompson but was able to throw down the last flyer of the session, to […]

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“Soul Red Finale” at Watkins Glen International – USF2000 preview

By Steve Wittich For the first time since Matthew Brabham won the title 2012, it will be a freshman USF2000 pilot that will walk away with the Mazda Motorsports Advancement Scholarship valued at almost $400,000, and a chance to move up to the Pro Mazda presented by Cooper Tire Championship. After 13 races, Oliver Askew […]

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MRTI at Mid-Ohio – Saturday – USF2000 Race #2

By Steve Wittich “Pitter-patter, let’s get at ‘er” is a common refrain heard north of the border in Canada when it’s time to bear down, stop making excuses, and just get the job done. With three trips to the top step of the podium in the last four races, all-Canadian USF2000 team Exclusive Autosport, and […]

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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 – A trio of Canadian cherish the opportunity to race in the Great White North

By Steve Wittich What do Paul Tracy, Greg Moore, Andrew Bordin, David Rutledge, Michael Valiante, Antoine Bessette, and Parker Thompson all have in common? The Canadian race car pilots have all won an Indy car ladder series race on home soil on the streets of Toronto, Ontario. In 2017 there are three drivers, including Thompson, […]

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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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