By Patrick Stephan
With skies darkening to the west, the USF Pro 2000 series rolled off pit lane to start their 20 minute Toronto Race #2 qualifying session.
Point leader Myles Rowe would establish himself at the top of the time sheet after most driver’s had completed their scuffed tire runs with a lap of 1:10.2923.
Kiko Porto, entering the weekend 2nd in points, would find the wall at Turn 6 with about 11 minutes to run, but he would be able to get the car back to the pits.
Staying green and with most teams putting on new tires at around the halfway point of the session, Rowe was leading Jace Denmark, Joel Granfors, Porto, and Michael d’Orlando.
Denmark would move to P1 and then spin with about 6 minutes to go in the session. He would also continue, but with a little more than five minutes to go, the track would go red for Lindsay Brewer in Turn 6.
The order at this point was Rowe, Denmark, d’Orlando, Missig.
Back to green to close out the session and Rowe improved to a 1:09.7214, and while P1, he crashed in Turn 11 after time had expired (so on his final lap), leading to some concern he’d lose that quick lap, but that was not the case – and Rowe officially picked up his 4th (career and season) USF Pro 2000 pole, and second of this weekend.
Missig, d’Orlando, Denmark, and Brooks will round out the Top 5 starters for Toronto Race #2 (Sunday 11:05pm ET)
USF Pro 2000 Race #2 Qualifying Results:
Pos | Car # | Driver | Time | Diff | Best Lap | Laps |
1 | 99 | Myles Rowe | 01:09.721 | — | 13 | 13 |
2 | 19 | Jordan Missig | 01:09.906 | 0.1842 | 13 | 14 |
3 | 1 | Michael d’Orlando | 01:09.926 | 0.2048 | 11 | 12 |
4 | 20 | Jace Denmark | 01:10.105 | 0.3839 | 13 | 13 |
5 | 44 | Christian Brooks | 01:10.152 | 0.4306 | 12 | 12 |
6 | 10 | Lirim Zendeli | 01:10.356 | 0.6348 | 12 | 12 |
7 | 92 | Joel Granfors | 01:10.386 | 0.6646 | 12 | 13 |
8 | 32 | Christian Weir | 01:10.491 | 0.7695 | 12 | 12 |
9 | 12 | Kiko Porto | 01:10.541 | 0.8198 | 5 | 6 |
10 | 55 | Francesco Pizzi | 01:10.584 | 0.8628 | 9 | 9 |
11 | 91 | Salvador de Alba | 01:10.636 | 0.9149 | 13 | 13 |
12 | 2 | Jonathan Browne | 01:10.639 | 0.9177 | 12 | 13 |
13 | 7 | Bijoy Garg | 01:10.757 | 1.0359 | 12 | 12 |
14 | 3 | Louka St-Jean | 01:10.957 | 1.2359 | 13 | 13 |
15 | 4 | Ricardo Escotto | 01:11.039 | 1.3171 | 13 | 13 |
16 | 90 | Yuven Sundaramoorthy | 01:11.070 | 1.3483 | 13 | 13 |
17 | 40 | Jack William Miller | 01:11.184 | 1.463 | 13 | 13 |
18 | 81 | Nicholas Monteiro | 01:11.324 | 1.603 | 13 | 14 |
19 | 93 | Lindsay Brewer | 01:11.536 | 1.8142 | 13 | 13 |