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MRTI update #3 – Friday – Kyle Kirkwood snags fourth USF2000 pole of the season – 10th in 11 races for Cape Motorsports in Toronto

By Steve Wittich For the fourth time this season, Kyle Kirkwood and Cape Motorsports will start on the pole in a Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda race. With the single bonus point for being the quickest qualifier Kirkwood’s lead in the title, chase grows to 95 points. The 19-year-old American joins Neil Alberico […]

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MRTI Update #2 from Toronto – Friday – Rinus VeeKay obliterates Pro Mazda track record on the way to the pole for race #1

By Steve Wittich With the Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire winner in all nine previous races in Toronto, Ont., starting Saturday’’s first of two Cooper Tires Pro Mazda Grand Prix of Toronto Presented by Allied Building Products races is critical. It’s so essential that pole-sitter Rinus VeeKay wheeled a damaged car into the run-off […]

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Indy Lights at Iowa Speedway – O’Ward leads a Andretti Autosport sweep of qualifying

By Steve Wittich Patricio O’Ward, who will start on the pole for the sixth time this season, led an Andretti Autosport sweep of qualifying for the Mazda Iowa 100 Presented by Cooper Tires. The 19-year-old was the only pilot who was able to put together two laps above 161mph. The Mexican had the two most […]

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MRTI Update #10 from Road America – O’Ward grabs his fifth Indy Lights pole of the season

By Steve Wittich For the fifth time in 2018, Patricio O’Ward will lead an Indy Lights race to the green flag, after turning in a flyer that was an impressive 0.4714 seconds ahead of race #1 pole sitter Victor Franzoni. It’s the Mexican drivers 10th career Mazda Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires pole. […]

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MRTI Update #8 from Road America – Victor Franzoni grabs an emotional pole for Indy Lights race #1

By Steve Wittich An emotional Victor Franzoni put together a lap of 113.188 seconds to put his Mazda powered Soul Red No. 23 from Juncos Racing on pole for first of two Mazda Indy Lights Grand Prix of Road America Presented by Cooper Tires races this weekend. We are a team,” exclaimed Franzoni to the […]

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MRTI Update #4 from Road America – Rinse and repeat, Malukas obliterates track record and nabs Pro Mazda pole for second straight day

By Steve Wittich The last five minutes of the second Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire qualifying session had six different drivers hold the provisional pole, but it was a familiar name that ended up on the pole. BN Racing’s rookie David Malukas went an astounding nine-tenths of a second under the track record he […]

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Pro Mazda at Barber Motorsports Park – Saturday 9:15 am – Thompson on pole again – PM-18 sets another track record

By Steve Wittich Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire rookie Parker Thompson will be making his 50th career Mazda Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires start and will start on the pole for the eighth time. The 20-year-old’s lap of 66.297 seconds lowered the track record that he set yesterday, and is his first […]

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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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MRTI “Soul Red Finale” at Watkins Glen International – USF2000 qualifying – Askew grabs important point for winning his sixth

By Steve Wittich A tense and important USF2000 qualifying session, the last of the season, ended with Oliver Askew scoring his eighth pole of 2017 with a quick lap of 1:46.223 on his second last lap of the session. More importantly, Askew scored his 22nd bonus point of the season, ensuring that the driver of […]

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“Soul Red Finale” at Watkins Glen International – Pro Mazda qualifying #1

By Steve Wittich Victor Franzoni, who came into the “Soul Red Finale” weekend at Watkins Glen International with a two point lead over Anthony Martin, ends the first day of the weekend with a three point lead, after winning his fourth pole of the season. And, he made a major statement in doing it. The […]

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