RSR Motorsports and Mini Go Back to Back in Canada!

[danjmcs]

http://www.grand-am.com/news/index.cfm? ... &cid=39137

[th3118]

Way to go!

[R50]

2 in a row - great
Always heard that this street track was their best bet for a win.
Finally got the car sorted out.
Any idea if this will be on Speed?
I'd like to see the sister car's incident with the then-leader.

[danjmcs]

2 in a row - great
Always heard that this street track was their best bet for a win.
Finally got the car sorted out.
Any idea if this will be on Speed?
I'd like to see the sister car's incident with the then-leader.

Unfortunately the Grand-Am website still shows "TBA" for any TV coverage.

They have one more race, that being at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah on September 10-11, and that race is scheduled to air on Speed the following weekend, the 18th, at 9PM ET.

Randy posted a couple onboard videos from the race. First one shows Owens 1.14 fastest lap of the race, and the other shows the incident with the Mazda. It sure looks like the Mini ducks down for the corner and has the inside line to the turn, but you cant really see where the other car is for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o0tbprZERI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f34a26kk1U

[danjmcs]

A highlight vid of the ST race...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOyQ2tH6H2w

[danjmcs]

Found a post from Randy on the Grand-am website apologizing for the incident and describing what happened.

rsstopper
Trois Rivieres
Posted: 08-15-2010, 8:07 PM EST
Big apologies to Freedom Autosports, Andrew Carbonell and Rhett O'Doski for the late race incident between the 197 Mini and the 26 Mazda.

VJ unintentionally locked up the front, flat spotting the tires, striking Andrew and spinning him. Fortunately, there was no damage and Andrew was able to quickly rejoin the race and made it to the podium. Race control correctly gave a 'stop and go' penalty for the incident costing VJ a number of positions.

We were having radio communications issues with the 197. We could hear VJ, but he could not hear us so he was not receiving race position updates.

Congrats to Freedom for both cars on the podium.

Randy