STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS LEADER TRISTAN VAUTIER QUICKEST IN SERIES OVAL TEST AT THE MILWAUKEE MILE

The Milwaukee Mile (May 21, 2011) – With the top-5 drivers on the time sheet surpassing the existing lap record, it was French racer and current points leader in the 2011 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear, Tristan Vautier, who turned the quickest time of the series' official oval track test this weekend at the Milwaukee Mile.

Driving the #5 JDC Motorsports / Cecibon / Circuit du Laquais Mazda, his 44th lap of the famed oval, a mile of concrete with virtually no banking, was 27.489 sec. (103.961 mph) – almost half a second faster than Richard Kent's pole time of 27.971 (128.705 mph) from the last Star Mazda race held at this track in 2009.

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-- CONCRETE MAKES THE MAN –

The rising stars, both men and women, of the Star Mazda Championship face the ultimate test of open-wheel mettle with this weekend's Milwaukee Mile test followed by three oval races in a row

The Milwaukee Mile (May 20, 2011) – Being fast on a road course or street circuit is an admirable - andnecessary – quality in a driver intent on accelerating their career down the Mazda Road to Indy. But you'll never have that career unless you can dive into a
turn with the gas pedal flat on the floor, wheel-to-wheel with another car and just inches from the ultimately unforgiving concrete wall of an oval track. And then do it again a few seconds later. And again. And again. And again… until the world becomes a howling tempest in a teapot and the turns just keep on coming, seemingly forever.

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