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DEMPSEY WINS FROM THE POLE AT TROIS RIVIERES – FIRST BACK-TO-BACK WINNER OF 2008 STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Irishman Peter Dempsey became the second two time
winner – and the first driver with back-to-back
victories – with his victory in Round 7 of Star Mazda
Championship presented by Goodyear at the 39th
annual GP3R. Finishing 2nd was the other two-race
winner of the season, John Edwards in the #7 AIM
Autosport Mazda. Rounding out the top-3 was
Louisiana driver Alex Ardoin in the #51 Mundill
Racing / Oral & Facial Surgery Center / Twister
Trailer Mazda. Joining them on the podium was Expert Series winner Chris Cumming in the
#16 World Speed Motorsports / Inviro Medical Mazda and Master Series victor Chuck Hulse in
the #12 JDC Motorsports / Silicon Salvage Mazda.
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'FIREBALL' DEMPSEY DOES IT AGAIN – WINS STAR MAZDA P0LE AT GP3R Having earned the nickname 'Fireball' in Thursday's final Practice when he first set the fastest lap and then had his car catch on fire, Irishman Peter Dempsey – winner of the last race, Round 5 at Road America, won the pole for the start of tomorrow's Round 6 of the 2008 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear. His lap of 1:01.788 (88.619 mph) in the #21 Andersen Racing / LotusWorks/Allied Building Products Mazda was the fastest turned by any competitor so far this weekend and was 0.148 seconds clear of American John Edwards, who will start next to Dempsey on the front row in the #7 AIM Autosport Mazda with a lap of 1:01.936 (88.407 mph). Edwards is the only two-race winner so far this season, from the pole in his first-ever Star Mazda Championship race at Miller Motorsports Park and again in Race 2, Round 5 at the Mazda Grand Prix of Portland.
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PETER DEMPSEY TOPS TIME SHEETS IN DRAMATIC FRIDAY AFTERNOON STAR MAZDA Practice AT THE GP3R As lacking in drama as the first Star Mazda Championship Practice of the day was, the second session more than made up for it. Charles Hall, who set the fastest time in the morning knocked a corner off his #77 Andersen Racing / Blimpie / AccentBanking.com/ Allied Building Products Mazda on the first lap and found himself demoted to 19th in the session. The new leader, Irishman Peter Dempsey, who was third-fast in the morning session, made a blazing impression by setting a fast afternoon lap of 1:02.650 (87.400 mph) and then pulling into the pits about halfway through the session with his #21 Andersen Racing / LotusWorks/ Allied Building Products Mazda on fire. Alert Star Mazda Competition Director Ron Roland helped extricate Dempsey, who won the previous event – Round 6 at Road America -- and the minor fire, probably started by track debris thrown up on the exhaust header, was quickly extinguished.
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CHARLES HALL QUICKEST IN FIRST STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP PRACTICE AT THE GP3R Under overcast skies with temperatures in the mid-70s and a track still very 'green,' Andersen Racing driver Charles Hall, the current championship points leader and winner of Round 3 at Road America, was the only driver to break into the 1:02s with a lap of 1:02.881 (89.097 mph) in his #77 Andersen Racing / Blimpie / AccentBanking.com / Allied Building Products Mazda.
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