and the backend as I was with the front in the last few laps,” laughed Barkey. Gatineau’s Antoine Cremer (#211 BMW)
took top honours in GT4, finishing in a re- markable fifth place overall while Mark Gawronski in the #718 Honda was the best of the GT3 division. Rounding out the list of class winners was Andrew Cordiero, who held off division points leader Richard Foegele at the stripe by 3.166 seconds. A surprisingly clean event, considering
the number of entrants squeezed onto the five-kilometre course, there was just a sin- gle, full course caution and 44 of the origi- nal 51 starters managed to see the checkered flag. Among the retirees were local driver Carl Gauthier, whose #52 CAS- CAR Stocker “just died,” and GT1 champi- onship leader Nigel Krikorian, who was a non-starter due to a blown motor in the re- cently rebuilt #76 Subaru.
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Former CASC-OR GT champion Ian Madden took the overall and GT2 wins at the Ted Powell GT Challenge event. mCo Ted powell raCes
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Labour Day weekend, where they were joined by a legion of their Quebec-based brethren, for the Motorsports Club of Ot- tawa (MCO) Ted Powell Races. With over 220 registered competitors, pit
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paragon CompeTiTion gT Challenge Former CASC-OR GT champion Ian
Madden is not only an extremely talented driver, he must also be pretty good at bil- liards, because the Ottawa ON resident snookered the 50 car, combined Paragon Competition GT Challenge/Quebec-based Super Production Challenge field on pit- stops, and claimed the overall, and GT2 class, victory in Saturday’s one hour en- durance contest. Having spent the opening laps chasing
the #117 pole sitting Corvette of Kevin Poitras, Madden left his on-going battle with GT2 rivals Martin Barkey (#110 Viper) and Carl Gauthier (#52 Ford Taurus)
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and swung into the pits to make his mandatory stop just as the course went full course caution. It took three laps behind the pace car to safely remove the stricken #171 Mazda of Mike Dolan and Ted Rance, and in the meantime, Madden had com- pleted his stop and returned to the lineup before any of his rivals had taken their turn along pitlane. Back under green on Lap 10, Madden
quickly surged forward, picking off back- markers and gaining positions as those in front of him pitted. “I got the call that we were green just as I
was coming into the stadium section. I probably picked off a dozen guys before the stripe. That certainly helped in getting a jump on the field,” explained Madden. As the pitstops cycled through, Poitras
found himself in second spot, buried deep in the field and was soon in pursuit of the quickly disappearing #1 Jetta. Gaining four seconds a lap, Poitras’ charge ultimately fell short, the checkered flag dropping over the timed event with the Newcastle, ON driver 9.358 seconds in arrears of the race winner. “I actually thought I was in front,” admit-
ted Poitras. “When I was told that I was be- hind, I went to work and started cutting into Ian’s lead. I just ran out of time.” Despite worn tires on his #110 Dodge
Viper, Martin Barkey crossed the line in third place overall, and second in GT2. “I was steering as much with the throttle
in the twin Formula 1600 contests as driv- ers from Ontario’s Toyo Tires Formula 1600 Series went wheel-to-wheel with competi- tors from the Quebec Formula Tour 1600 division. Humourously, it was a Pembroke ON res-
ident racing in the Quebec series battling with a Quebecois competing on the On- tario tour leading the charge to the check- ered flags in both of the weekend’s twin contests. Nathan Blok demonstrated why he is the
defending Formula Tour 1600 champion by setting the quickest time in each of the qualifying sessions, lapping the 5.030 kilo- metre Calabogie circuit in a time of 2m13.734s on Saturday, and bettering that time (2m13.318s) in Sunday morning’s ses- sion. And in both of the scheduled 22 minute events, Blok in his Mr. Lube/ Great Slave Helicopters Van Diemen enjoyed an intense, race long contest with OFFC rookie Jesse Lazare aboard his #3 BGR/ Team Grote Piper DF-5 in search of race victory. In Saturday’s F1600 opener, Lazare got the jump at the drop of the green flag and snatched top spot. However, over the course of the next ten laps, the lead would change hands three more times, Blok even- tually prevailing to claim the victory, Lazare trailing him by less than a car length at the checkered flag. “It felt like it was only Jesse and me out
there,” commented Blok. “For the most part it was a fairly clean race, but it got a little scary when I had to go three-wide in Turn 12 to get around him and a backmarker.” Unfortunately for the Pointe Claire, QC
diver, Lazare was cited by the stewards for blocking and was penalized three positions
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