Special to Inside Track
BOWMANVILLE, ON – Over 170 entrants packed the paddock at Mosport for the annual event BARC Touring Trophy Races on August 12-13. A rousing success, this weekend had it all!
ONTARIO CHALLENGE CUP
This series is really heating up! Blaise Csida took all three victories in GT-1. Mike Boekdrukker was second in the first two races followed by Jay Fieger at the start of the weekend and Bruce Gregory Sunday morning. Jim Harrison battled up the ladder and was third in the final race of the weekend.
Ahmad Khodkar ran well in GT-A with two victories and a third-place finish. Peter Carpenko finished his first and only race of the weekend with a win, and John Cosgrove second. Cosgrove held second to Bertrand Plouffe for the remainder of the weekend.
Jason Sharpe battled with John Xiropodis in GT-B in all three races. Sharpe had two wins, while Xiropodis was third, third and second. Jordan Marrison was in the thick of it placing second and first in the first two races, but dropped down in the third to Rick Higgins. GT-C competitor Victor del Col was first, third and third on the weekend. Rob Martin held onto second place in all three races and Lennox Clue was top of the podium in the second and third races.
GT-D was full of excitement too with Andrew Danyliw winning the first race in his Civic, Alex Toth took the second race and Ed Wong the third in his Sentra. Hans Wolter, in another Sentra, was third in the first two races of the weekend but his final race wasn’t so clean with a damaged front end ending the weekend. Perry Iannuzzi took third in that race in his #223 Mad Macs Sentra.
ISSECO F1200 CHAMPIONSHIP
A great showing of F1200s made the trek to the track for this event. Guy Bellingham finished first in the first two races of the weekend but dropped to third in the final race. Eric Barrett was second in the first two races and Toby Beaudin third and then second in the final race.
Frank Steinhausen who was third in the first race and fourth in the second, but unfortunately returned to the paddock at the end of the weekend on the hook, as did Eugene Cartini. Devan Matkovich took top-spot in the final race of the weekend!
ONTARIO TOURING GT CHAMPIONSHIP
Non-stop excitement was the order of the weekend in this series too. GT Class was dominated by Kirk Spencer in the jet-black Porsche followed by Sasha Anis and Mario Cirone on Saturday and Steve Kent on Sunday.
T1 saw some more great battles between the cars. Andrew Wojteczko, in his DAC Lexus IS300 took victory in both races followed by Andrew Elliott and Honda driver Scott Nicol on Saturday. Nicol again was second and Bob Armstrong third in his Nissan on Sunday.
T2 has turned into quite the exciting class to watch as well. Alain Lauziere in the Octane Motorsports Mini won both races capping a great weekend. Ian Madden was second on Saturday followed by the Mazda of Bork.
Sunday’s race saw Perry Iannuzzi second and a jubilant third go to Pat Harrison of SPI/PH Racing after problems with the Mazda arose. Harrison and Iannuzzi had gone back and forth all weekend-long with co-driver Vic Simone driving on Saturday and finishing ahead of Iannuzzi, and then Harrison and he staying within a second of each other all race-long on Sunday.
FORMULA LIBRE
Making a return to Formula Libre this weekend was John DiBenedetto who came out like no time had passed at all! The #44 driver had a third in the first race, then fourth behind Walter Gerhardt in the second race due to a tire coming loose, but fixed it and fought to third in the last race of the weekend.
Greg Beresford and Mario Urbano turned up the heat all weekend long but Beresford managed to eek out all three victories.
OFFC
In an incredibly exciting season to date, this series just keeps holding our attention. Who will be the driver to win the IRL prize? This battle is far from over!
The A-Class battle between 2005 Champ Shane Jantzi and Matt White saw the two trading top finishes. White took the first race and Jantzi the second with Brian Nielsen holding on to third in both. The B-Class competition is not-to-be-missed either! Jonathan Hirst took both victories with Gord Lowe and Glyn Walters following in the first race and Tony Cove and Christine Mouraux in the second.
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