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Saturday, May 21, 2005

@ Calgary's Race City Motorsport Park

Calgary Series

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     Qualifying

     Heat Race 1

     Heat Race 2

     Main Event

     Points Today

19.305 seconds.  We were pleased with this - faster than any of our practice laps.

The #3 Pepsi / Mac's Motorsports racecar started the first race of the year in 9th position, on the outside of row 4, the result of a 70% inversion of qualifying times.  There was no place to go in the first couple of laps - we mostly followed #17 Ira Laughy.  On lap 3 we got showered with boulders in corner 1-2 as #67 went off-track.  As he came back on, he drove hard into the front of #17 who spun out trying to avoid the mess.  Good thing we'd moved to the outside groove!  We restarted in 8th, but #45 Dave Kindopp got by a few of us on the outside a couple of laps later so we fell to 9th.  Over the next 6 or 7 laps we passed numerous cars on the inside at various places on the track.  By lap 10 we were 5th, but about 1/8 lap back from #18.  We caught him on the last lap, but time had run out.  We finished 5th.  Fastest lap - 19.573 seconds.

We started 2nd, on the outside of row 1.   By corner 3 we'd passed pole sitter #45 Dave Kindopp on the outside to take 1st.  The race was uneventful.  Most of our lap times were in the 19.30s and 19.40s.  #22 Rick Walls followed us for most of the race, but didn't find any passing opportunities.  We finished 1st !!!  Fastest lap - 19.311 seconds.

We started 3rd, inside row 2.  #22 was in front of us in pole position, #454 Randy Thompson started on outside pole.  #22 Rick Walls started to pull away and #454 moved in behind him, so we followed in 3rd place.  #42 Hugh Williamson tried hard to get around us for 10 laps or so, then he fell back, replaced for awhile by #45.  We were glued to #454's bumper much of the time, but had few good passing chances.  #454 fought hard with #22 throughout the race - we were hoping to capitalize on a mistake in their battle, but it didn't happen.  We finished 3rd!  Fastest lap - 19.286 seconds.