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MRTI Update #8 from Mid-Ohio – Saturday – Frederick nabs pole for second USF2000 race – three of the top four are Pabst Racing drivers

By Steve Wittich For the second time, this season Pabst Racing sophomore Kaylen Frederick will start from the pole. Saturday afternoon’s race will be the fifth straight Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda race that the 16-year-old will start on the front row. Starting outside of Frederick is yesterday’s pole sitter Kyle Kirkwood. The […]

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MRTI Update #6 – Friday – VeeKay grabs his fourth pole of the season – inches closer to point leader Thompson

By Steve Wittich Combine the fact that a dozen of the fifteen Pro Mazda Presented By Cooper Tire winners at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course has come from the front row with a seven point gap between points leader Parker Thompson and second place Rinus VeeKay and qualifying takes on a lot of importance. Double […]

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MRTI Update #5 from Mid-Ohio – Friday – O’Ward dominates on the way to his 7th pole of the 2018 Indy Lights season

By Steve Wittich All seven Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires drivers were within one second of the pole, but Patricio O’Ward still dominated on the way to his seventh pole of the 2018 season. It’s the 12th pole in his Mazda Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires career. “I was really trying to […]

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MRTI Update #10 – Sunday – Herta crashes, Franzoni has worries. Urrutia snags the pole in a heated Indy Lights qualifying

By Steve Wittich Colton Herta, Patricio O’Ward, and Colton Herta improved the quickest lap a total of seven times in the final five minutes of qualifying, but in the end, it was Urrutia who will start this afternoon’s race on pole. It’s the first time that Urrutia will start on the pole this year, and […]

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MRTI Update #6 – Saturday – Kaylen Frederick grabs his first career USF2000 pole and goes a full second under the track record

By Steve Wittich A chaotic final five minutes of USF2000 qualifying ended with series sophomore Kaylen Frederick’s first pole and a new track record of 70.770. It is also the first Toronto pole for Pabst Racing. Joining Frederick on the front row with his best start of the year is Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 […]

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MRTI update #5 from Toronto – Friday – VeeKay grabs second pole of the day – points leader Thompson will be fun to watch on Sunday

By Steve Wittich After only a five-and-a-half hour break, Rinus VeeKay and Juncos Racing put together their second Pro Mazda pole run of the day. The Dutch rookie will start beside David Malukas. His teammate Robert Megennis will start right behind his teammate on the inside of the front row, the New Yorker’s best qualifying […]

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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 #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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