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LONG TIME COMING – LOUISIANA RACER ALEX ARDOIN WINS WITH A LAST-LAP PASS IN ROUND 10 OF THE 2009 STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE 40TH RUNNING OF THE GP3R – QUEBEC DRIVER MIKAEL GRENIER RACES FROM 19TH TO FINISH 4TH -- Trois Rivières, Quebec (August 16, 2009) – With a perfectly-judged, last-lap, first turn pass during the
green/white/checkered re-start of a hard-fought race, Louisiana driver Alex Ardoin took the lead from
pole-sitter Rusty Mitchell to win Round 10 of
the 2009 Star Mazda Championship presented
by Goodyear at the 40th running of the GP3R at
Trois Rivieres. After qualifying third on the grid
in the #51 JDC Motorsports / Oral & Facial
Surgery Center / Twister Trailer Mazda, Ardoin
hounded pole-sitter Rusty Mitchell in the #66
Mitchell Motorsports / Motorola Mazda in the
closing laps of the race and, calling on three
seasons of experience in Star Mazda
Championship competition, scored the second win of his career; his first victory came in the 2007
season-closer at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, finished 4th in the 2008 championship and in 2009 has
endured a string of bad luck that would have defeated a weaker personality.
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SHAKE-UP IN THE STREETS – TEXAN RUSTY MITCHELL TAKES THE POLE FOR THE START OF TOMORROW'S ROUND 10 OF THE 2009 STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE 40TH RUNNING OF THE GP3R Trois Rivières, Quebec (August 15, 2009) – With the smart money betting that the pole would go to Irishman Peter Dempsey – who, after all, has won four races this year, the last three in a row… and won this event last year – it was instead Rusty Mitchell, of Midland, Texas, who stepped up, turned in his best qualifying effort ever and put the #66 Mitchell Motorsports / Motorola Mazda on the inside of the front row with a lap of 1.01.341. The time, a new lap record for the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear at this legendary 1.52-mile temporary road circuit at this track, eclipses the old mark of 1:01.978 set last year by… Peter Dempsey.
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THE LEGEND'S LAD TAKES A LEAP – CONOR DALY SETS FAST TIME IN FRIDY P2 FOR THIS WEEKEND'S ROUND 10 OF THE 2009 STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE 40TH RUNNING OF THE GP3R Trois Rivierès, Quebec (August 14, 2009) – Conor Daly, the 2008 Skip Barber Pro Series Champion, 2009 MAZDASPEED Motorsports Driver Development Ladder scholarship winner and victor in Round 4 at New Jersey Motorsports Park, took a giant leap today between P1 and P2 practice for Round 10 of the 2009 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear at the 40th running of the GP3R at Trois Rivierés. Struggling with an overheating, illhandling car in the morning session, he put in a very few laps, winding up 13th-fast out of 20 cars with a lap of 1:04.763 in the #22 Andersen Racing / College Network / Indeck / Cytomax Mazda.
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CHRISTODOULOU NIPS DEMPSEY FOR TOP OF THE TIME SHEET IN PRACTICE 1 FOR THIS WEEKEND'S ROUND 10 OF THE 2009 STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE 40TH RUNNING OF THE GP3R
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TEMPEST IN TROIS-RIVIERÈS – THIS WEEKEND'S STAR MAZDA RACE AT THE 40TH ANNUAL GP3R FEATURES A HEATED CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE, FIVE WINNERS IN NINE RACES AND A RISING STAR FROM QUEBEC With four races remaining on the schedule and fifteen of the series' 25 regular drivers still mathematically in contention for the championship, the battle for supremacy in this weekend's 40th annual Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières – Round 9 of the 13-race 2009 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear – will be especially fierce. |