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A Canadian engineer was behind the development of the Corvette C8 drive modes
As the rain poured down on my one full day to drive the Chevrolet Corvette convertible, the conditions lessened the temptation to coax out all 490 of its raging horses, or its 465 lb-ft of torque, now all emanating from a massive V8 lying roughly a foot behind the driver’s right shoulder.
It was therefore appreciated that this beast of a low-slung sports car offered a Weather mode, accessible through a rotary knob near the shift buttons, which limited power and therefore slip to the C8’s roller-like 305 millimetre wide 20-inch rear tires. I had no idea then that the software and engineering that helped me and C8 (eighth-generation Corvette) owners keep their revolutionary mid-engine Corvettes on the road in the wet was developed at GM Canada’s Canadian Technical Centre (CTC) in Oshawa.
As was the C8’s new ‘Z’ button, smack dab front and centre on the steering wheel, which will surely excite owners much more than its safety-first Weather mode.
That Z button was included as an instant gateway to high-level yet still street-focused performance. What does it do? Think of it as an instant access button to a drive mode north of Sport but just south of Track mode, instantly adjusting the powertrain, suspension, steering and exhaust quickly to near max adrenaline levels.
Or for folks who really want to drill down into each area, your own tweaked set of favourite performance parameters.
“We wanted to very quickly be able to move into various modes,” said Adam Cameron, a vehicle dynamics manager at CTC that worked on the Corvette, and most other GM vehicles with selectable drive modes. “Also on public roads, we wanted to offer an easy access button.”
The letter Z is an homage to the father of the performance Corvette, Zora Arkus-Duntov, who was hired to turn the original straight-six-powered Corvette into a more serious sports car, and created the original Z06 Corvette in 1963 – a name which still holds serious track cred in Corvette circles and option sheets.
With Canada’s CTC emerging from its cocoon of mainly cold-weather testing to newly expanding software and development responsibilities, Cameron says the influence of a similar performance ethos has grown within the CTC’s ranks. Back in 2018, a group of six to 12 performance enthusiasts would gather in off-hours and brainstorm how it could make GM vehicles more entertaining to drive fast – whether Corvettes or Cruzes, in whichever areas they happened to be developing.
Now it’s an official, GM-backed motorsports club with over 100 members, said Cameron, primarily pushing GM vehicles on autocross events that weave through orange cone mazes laid out on large open parking lots.
Granted, they haven’t gathered as much over the past two years as pre-pandemic, but with the new test track that opened at CTC in the spring, he couldn’t wait to run testing and events on the track, which he hopes to do this fall on weekends and off-hours, if health regulations and timing permit.
“We’re constantly talking about what the car’s doing, we’re always talking about how that can translate into the production line,” he said, with those discussions helping define how the software and hardware can also help improve the car’s overall feel, as well as lap times. “As you’re coming over the hill, and the back end gets light, the transmission wants to know that, the suspension wants to know that, so each system has to be able to communicate with each other.”
Back in the vehicle itself, a big letter Z may bring to mind Nissan’s more recent sports cars to some eyes, perhaps more so than the spiritual father to the Corvette who retired from GM in 1975. This mark of Zora seems a non-digital throwback to what has become the essence of the most modern Corvette. Yet this button was brought to life with the help of very advanced software, and enthusiast engineers that have long admired the Corvette.
“The Corvette is an icon, and as an enthusiast born in Canada, I never thought I’d be able to do this working here in the GTA,” said Cameron.
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News Roundup: Ram TRX Ignition, Bolt Battery Update, Bronco Raptor, More
A possible issue with battery packs in the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV has led to a recall and to GM recommending users not to charge above percent, run below 113 km remaining, and not to park and charge indoors as the automaker waited for a fix. General Motors reports that the LG battery plants in Michigan that build battery packs for the Bolts have solved the issue and that production has restarted. Two issues had to occur in the same cell of the battery pack to cause the battery fire, manufacturing defects GM calls a torn anode and folded separator. GM says a new manufacturing process from LG worked to “provide confidence in its batteries moving forward.” The batteries will start to become available to customers soon, and affected owners will be notified when theirs is ready.
50 jurors from across North America have voted and named 23 semi-finalists for the North American Car, Truck, and Utility Vehicle of the Year awards. Eight cars, six trucks, and nine utilities have made the cut, all new or substantially changed from last year’s event. Three finalists in each category will be revealed in November at the LA Auto Show with the three overall winners announced in January.
Infiniti has added wireless Apple CarPlay to the Q50 sedan for 2022. It has also dropped the Essential Tech grade and moved many of its features, like Bose 16-speaker audio and leather seating, down to the less expensive Luxe trim. Infiniti has also made the front USB-C port a data port, not just a charge port. Also becoming standard this year is InTouch telematics including live traffic and road closure information, remove vehicle unlocking, and more. The 2022 Infiniti Q50 starts from $44,295 in Canada, ranging to $62,295 for the Red Sport I-Line ProActive.
Volvo Cars has announced that starting with its next EV, the C40 Recharge, all fully-electric Volvo models will also be completely leather-free. Volvo says that it is making the move “driven by a concern about the negative environmental impacts of cattle farming, including deforestation,” adding that livestock is estimated to be the source of around 14 percent of human-caused greenhouse gasses. In place of leather, Volvo Cars will offer sustainable materials and bio-based sources. That includes a new Nordico interior that is a textile made from recycled material like plastic bottles. That material will debut in the brand’s next generation of models. Volvo will also offer certified responsibly sourced wool blends.
C40 Recharge Interior
Ram revealed what looks to be the most expensive new pickup ever sold in Canada, in addition to being the most powerful, quickest and fastest. The 2022 Ram TRX Ignition Edition takes the 6.2L supercharged TRX (and its 702 hp), then adds most of the factory options list to the truck. It then offers that special Ignition orange paint and black graphics as well as black wheels, panoramic roof, as well as Copperhead Orange stitching inside, carbon accents, and a matching orange Driver’s screen. It’s not clear if the sport bar in the bed is included. Just 100 of the trucks will be offered in Canada, with an MSRP starting from $125,075 plus $2,795 destination.
2022 Ram 1500 TRX Ignition Edition
Ford isn’t saying exactly when or what, but the automaker has officially confirmed that there will be an even beefier Bronco coming sometime in 2022. It’s the Ford Bronco Raptor, and our first look is a teaser video that shows the Bronco with a FORD-letter grille, like the one on the Raptor pickup, in place of the standard grille. Expect more power as well as more off-road capability for the SUV, which could end up aimed at the Jeep Wrangler 392.
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Racing Roundup: Dumoulin wins Pinty’s, Palou in Indy
D.J. Kennington of St. Thomas gave it the old college try at the weekend but came up short in his bid to win his third NASCAR Pinty’s Series national driving championship.
The NASCAR Canada Tour had arrived at the London, Ont., Delaware Speedway Friday with three races remaining in its 2021 condensed schedule, brought on by the COVID crisis. Kennington won the Canadian Tire-sponsored race Friday night (he nudged Treyten Lapcevich out of the way at the last corner, enraging the young driver who crashed Victory Lane) and then turned around and took the first race Sunday afternoon, which had been sponsored by Qwick Wick Fire Starters. The Pinty’s Fall Brawl later in the day would decide the championship.
It was not to be for Kennington, a veteran of Cup, Xfinity and trucks racing, who finished fifth in the finale behind winner Andrew Ranger. Kevin Lacroix finished second while Pete Shepherd III was third. More important, though, was the championship – his third – that went to L.P. Dumoulin, who went into the last race five points behind IndyCar veteran Alex Tagliani.
Dumoulin crossed the finish line in sixth place; Tag, who has yet to win a Pinty’s championship, was 28 laps behind at the checkers.
Before Delaware, Dumoulin has started 122 races over 13 years in the Pinty’s series. He’d won 11 races, finished in the top ten 89 times and scored five poles. To say he was delighted would be an understatement.
Mission accomplished! said Dumoulin.
“It was very difficult to start the weekend 11 points behind. We came to Delaware second in the driver standings. Alex Tagliani was very fast and did a great job all season long. D.J. Kennington was also close in terms of points in the standings. We focused all weekend to achieve our goal. The team got together and thought about the right adjustments to make to the car to win. The WeatherTech team was great. We improved the car throughout the weekend until we had what we needed today to win the title. I’m very proud because we worked as a team like never before during these three days,” concluded Louis-Philippe Dumoulin, who is a member of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame.
RECORD
In 2020, COVID. forced the NASCAR Pinty’s Series to present only 6 races in the “Pinty’s FanCave Challenge”. Louis-Philippe Dumoulin scored 1 win and 3 top-5 finishes.· 2019: Third in driver and owner championships (2 wins, 4 podium, and eight top-5 finishes from 13 events).· 2018: Champion (3 victories, 7 podiums, 2 poles, eight top-5 in 13 events). Saw his name added for the second time to the NASCAR Hall of Fame (Charlotte, NC) / Wins “Driver of the Year” and “Best Performing Driver” awards.·
- 2017: Fourth in the driver championship (3 podiums, nine top-5 and eleven top-10 finishes from 13 events).
- 2016: Joint fourth in the driver championship (4 podiums, six top-5 and seven top-10 finishes from 12 events).
- 2015: Fourth in the driver championship (2 podiums, six top-5 and nine top-10 finishes from 11 events).
- 2014: Champion (2 victories, 5 podiums and nine top-5 finish from 11 events). Saw his name added to the NASCAR Hall of Fame (Charlotte, NC) / Awarded the “Driver Of the Year”, “Best Performing Driver” and “Gilles-Villeneuve” awards.
- 2013: Fifth in the driver championship (2 victories, 3 podiums, four top-5s, six top-10s and five-time top-3 grid positions from 12 events).
- 2012: Sixth in the driver championship (1 pole, three top-5 and seven top-10 finishes from 12 events).
- 2011: Rookie of the year
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- 2015: Participated in FIA World Rallycross Championship round in Canada (Grand Prix of Trois-Rivieres).
- 2012: Second in class in the 12 Hours of Sebring (American Le Mans Series – GT3 Cup). The only Canadian driver on the podium.
- 2004 to today: Front runner in the Grand-Am and Rolex Sports Car series, in Porsche, Ferrari and Daytona Prototype cars – Races in the 12 Hours of Sebring / and the Rolex 24 At DAYTONA events.
- 2002: Champion in the Canadian Formula Ford Championship.
- 2001: Awarded the ‘’Gilles-Villeneuve’’ and ‘’Quartz’’ trophies.
- Records: Holder since 2002 of Formula Ford Series records for most victories (6) and most pole positions (7) in a single season.
INDYCAR LONG BEACH
Colton Herta won the battle by capturing the NTT IndyCar Series season-ending Grand Prix of Long Beach Sunday, but Alex Palou won the war and became the first driver from Spain to win the championship.
To get there, Palou won three races, was on the podium eight times and won one pole. He won the title in what was just his second season in the IndyCar championship and is the first under 25 driver to win the championship since Scott Dixon did it in 2003.
Palou, of course, drives for Chip Ganassi Racing and joins other Grade A Prime drivers like Dario Franchitti, Dixon, Alex Zanardi, Jimmy Vasser and Juan Pablo Montoya, who also drove for the team led by managing director Mike Hull.
Meantime, Herta had control of the race pretty much from the beginning. Defending champion Josef Newgarden kept him honest but was never able to really make a move to pass him. Our James Hinchcliffe was close to a podium position when he disappeared from the scene. Said Hinch, who likely drove his last race for Andretti Autosport:
“Tough end of the day for us in the 29 Capstone car. We had a top-five car, honestly. We were running a great strategy; the team did an incredible job in the pits. The car was running really strong in that second stint, then with about five (laps) to go in that second stint, I felt something change in the back of the car and unfortunately it looks like we had some sort of an issue there.
“Haven’t figured out exactly what it is yet, but something definitely let go so the handling from then on was pretty tough. We were just sort of hanging on. To come home 14th is disappointing, because we were capable of a much better result today. It’s kind of the story of our season, we’ve just had a lot of bad luck.
“But it’s been a great year with Capstone, Genesys and everybody with Andretti Steinbrenner. I wish it could have ended a little better for everyone, but thanks for all the support over the season and I hope to see everyone again soon.”
We all feel that way too, James.
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Meantime, it was announced this week that Penske Entertainment would take over administration of everything having to do with the Indy Lights division from Dan Andersen. Then, in something that makes no sense (to me, anyway), it was revealed there will not be an Indy 500-type race like the Freedom 100 to give the class some pizzazz.
Once, Kevin Kalkhoven called up all his friends and told them to enter cars in the Formula Atlantic series that raced in support of the Champ Car World Series. I expect Roger Penske will have to do the same thing.
IMSA LONG BEACH
Driving the Action Express Racing’s No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R, Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani led all but five laps of Saturday’s Acura Grand Prix, dominating the 100-minute “sprint” race in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s Daytona Prototype international (DPi) season to win by 10.952 seconds over the Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac driven by Kevin Magnussen and Renger van der Zande.
“What a weekend by the Whelen Engineering Cadillac team!” Derani exclaimed in Victory Circle. “We led every session, and Felipe’s amazing pole dictated the weekend for us.
“During the race, it was more a case of trying to bring it back home without any mistakes,” he continued. “We did that with perfect execution, and I’m so happy for this team.”
They cut their points deficit to WeatherTech Championship DPi leaders Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 from 98 points to 19 heading into the season-ending Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta on Nov. 13.
The No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac co-driven by Loic Duval and Tristan Vautier finished third.
Cadillac DPi cars have claimed four consecutive Long Beach wins, the last two since Acura took over title sponsorship of the long-running street racing event.
This year’s race was extraordinarily clean, slowed by a single full-course caution that lasted just seven minutes. Nasr and Derani completed 78 laps of the Long Beach course, compared to the winning totals of 70 in 2018 and 73 in 2019. The 2020 event was cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I love this place and I’ve got to say thanks to the fans,” who turned out in record numbers once again, Nasr said. “What a great vibe they bring to racing. It’s just awesome to get a win on the streets of Long Beach.”
Meantime, Tommy Milner and Nick Tandy drove a Corvette to victory in the GT Le Mans class at Long Beach, with Jordan Taylor and Antonio Garcia second, also in a Corvette. In GT Daytona, Madison Snow and Bryan Sellers, in a Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 were first, followed by Zacharie Robichon of Ottawa and Laurens Vanthoor in the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R. For complete stories about all classes, please go to www.imsa.com
Ever since Michael Schumacher suffered his accident, in which he fell while skiing and hit his head on a rock, his family and his many close friends in the sport have protected him. People would say, “How’s Michael?” and the answer would always be, “As well as can be expected.” But what did that mean?
Netflix is showing a new documentary called, simply, Schumacher, and I think the family participated because it was their way of finally telling the world that he’s alive and resting comfortably but he’s not ever going to get better. It’s all symbolic, of course, in that nobody comes right out and says that exactly, but his wife talks about doing therapy with him and his son, Mick, says how much he wishes that he and his dad could chat. That tells me he’s alive and aware of what’s happening but that he can’t talk. A surprise: his brother, Rolf, seemed (in the film) to be somewhat disinterested in his brother’s fate. Strange.
I always admired Schumacher for his talent. I didn’t like him for many reasons: screwing Eddie Jordan back at the start of his F1 career (successful); driving into Damon Hill (successful); driving into Jacques Villeneuve (unsuccessful); and so-on. When I started watching the film, I was inclined to look for those negatives – and others. But by the end of the film, though, I was very sad. Nobody deserves what has happened to Michael Schumacher. If you haven’t seen the documentary, I encourage you to take a look.
Meantime, the driver who has taken over from Michael Schumacher as the greatest of all time, Lewis Hamilton, won his 100th F1 Grand Prix Sunday when he finished first in the Russian Grand Prix. But that isn’t what I will remember about this race. What I will think about for a long time is Lando Norris’s reply when McLaren called him in for intermediate tires when it started to rain with only a few laps remaining:
“Noooooooooooooooo.”
Now, at that point, you couldn’t blame Norris for wanting to stay out on the track. He’d dominated the race, keeping Hamilton more than a second behind him as the laps wound down, and the rain at that point was just a sprinkle. Although both drivers were sliding around a little, it was no big deal. But the radar indicated the rain would get heavier and as it started to pick up, Hamilton ducked into the pits for intermediates. Norris stayed out and was a sitting duck when it started to pour, and he was on slicks and Hamilton wasn’t. It took the seven-time world champion two laps to run him down and when Norris did eventually go into the pits for rubber, it put him out of the running and he eventually finished sixth. I don’t know why modern F1 teams depend so much on radar. When I had my motorsport show on the Fan590 with the late Jim Martyn back in 2002, we had in-studio guests from Craig Pollock’s F1 BAR team. One guy did several jobs but the most important one was to stand about a quarter mile west of the track (rain always comes from the rest). When it started to rain, he radioed the team about the intensity and so-on. He sent reports every 30 seconds. I can’t help thinking that if Lando Norris had a guy standing out just to the west of the Sochi circuit that rather than gambling on technology he would have received a report directly from the horse’s mouth and pitted for intermediates or wets and then gone on to win the race.
But it didn’t happen that way and Lewis, who listened to his crew, went to the pits when he was called in and won. Mercedes sent out the following information after the race:
- A hard-fought victory in Russia saw Lewis extend his F1 victory record to achieve the momentous milestone of 100 career victories in the highest echelon of motorsport.
- Lewis had dropped three places on the opening lap, keeping his nose clean to navigate a very bunched field before settling into the race and preserving his tires for an extended stint on the Medium, eventually moving up to fourth.
- Lewis gained places after the first round of pit-stops and worked his way to a two-way battle for the lead with Lando Norris. With rain forecast to arrive for the final few laps, Lewis found it difficult to pass the fellow Brit in the dry.
- When the rain finally arrived, the team pitted Valtteri for an early switch to the Intermediate tyres. Lewis joined him soon after, in contrast to Norris who stayed out and struggled badly in the worsening conditions.
- Valtteri took full advantage of the late rain and his early switch to Inters saw him make a number of solid passes to bring the W12 home in P5, securing vital points as the team extended its lead in the Constructors’ Championship.
- Lewis, meanwhile, safely guided the W12 home in increasingly heavy rain to take the chequered flag in P1.
- Today marks Lewis’s 79th victory with the Mercedes works team, extending its 100 per cent win record in Russia which began with victories for Mercedes in 1913 and 1914.
- In claiming 25 points today, Lewis surpassed 4,000 points in F1, the first driver to reach that milestone.
- Lewis Hamilton (246.5 points) leads the Drivers’ Championship from Max Verstappen (244.5), while Valtteri is in third position (151 points).
- The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (397.5 points) leads Red Bull (364.5 points) by 33 points in the Constructors’ championship.
Said Lewis afterward: Wow! One hundred races! It’s taken a long time and I wasn’t even sure the 100th would come! Today was tough – I lost a lot of ground at the start, just trying to stay out of trouble. I was patient and at the end, when the rain came, I didn’t want to let Lando go by boxing (pitting). Of course, I didn’t know what the rain was doing, it was just my feeling but I’m incredibly grateful to the strategy team for the job they did today. Getting anywhere near 100 victories wouldn’t be possible without the hard work of the men and women here and back at the factory, I’m so grateful to them – it just feels so special.
“Lando did an amazing job today, he had incredible pace and he’s doing such a great job for McLaren. It was bittersweet to see my old team ahead, they’re doing so well powered by Mercedes, and it’s good to see them united again. Max did a good job to come up from last to second. The battle continues and we know we need to be on top form over the remaining races.”
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NISSAN SENTRA CUP
Kevin King won the first Nissan Sentra Cup at the weekend when chief rival Jesses Lazare went off track during the last race of the season at Le Circuit-Mont Tremblant and failed to finish. King won the first race of the double-header on Saturday and finished fourth in the second race Alexandre Fortin was the winner), giving him enough points to claim the title. Éric Chaput was the winner of the Senior class. Sylvain Ouellet won the Micra championship. Jesse Webb won the Rookie of the Year title and Sylvain Ouellet won the poleposition.ca Trophy in the Micra class. After the races, Nissan Canada President Steve Milette said: “It’s a more than satisfactory first year for us. The Sentra has performed very well on the track, the drivers really liked it, and with the two classes, Sentra and Micra, there is even more action. All of this makes us very proud of this first season.”
The Nissan Sentra Cup will be back on Canadian road courses next Spring. Next season will once again include events in Ontario and Québec, including the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix in June on Montréal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
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MOTORCYCLE NEWS
Writing this roundup means you have many balls in the air. Sometimes you drop one. Which is what happened last Monday at about two in the morning. When I filed my column to wheels.ca at the Star, I neglected to include an item on the Canadian Superbike Championship in which the youngest champion in the history of the sport was crowned. Here, then, is the complete media release. FYI, the Saturday in the first sentence is Sat., Sept. 18. I apologize for my brain fade.
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Calabogie, ON – History was made at the Canadian Superbike Championship finale on Saturday, as 19-year-old Alex Dumas became the youngest champion in Pro Superbike feature class history with a clean sweep at Calabogie Motorsports Park. The Liqui Moly MPG/FAST School Suzuki youngster needed only to finish inside the top-four to mathematically clinch the title after his victory in race one, but Dumas left little to the imagination with his fourth emphatic win of the season to become the first ever rookie champion in class history. It didn’t initially appear like that would be the case, as rival Ben Young grabbed the holeshot in race two and began to gap the field quickly out front. However, an early red flag forced a restart, which was much less successful for Young as Dumas got the better start to lead start-to-finish. “It was an awesome day and another awesome weekend to end the year. To clinch it with pole and two wins, it feels amazing,” Dumas said. “I have to give a huge thanks to Suzuki and my team for putting this year together. Everyone was such a good help, and I couldn’t do it without them.” Despite rumours of his return to MotoAmerica in 2022 – where he has already won two championships – or even the pursuit of a ride oversees, Dumas wouldn’t close the door on a legitimate title defence in his home country next season. “I would really, really love to do it all again next year. Personally, I would like to be back, but I’m not thinking too much about it now.” Dumas and his team will at least have an additional trophy to appreciate while they debate their offseason plans, after taking home the Team of the Year Award. Their surprise entry to the 2021 campaign proved to be a massively successful one, as crew chief Patrice Goyette and company guided Dumas to a historic debut season. The Quebec City native beat Jordan Szoke’s record by just 177 days to become the new youngest champion in class history, with Young unable to capture his second career Superbike title. Nevertheless, Young was his typical optimistic self on the podium, as he immediately turned his focus towards reclaiming the number one plate in 2022. “I gave it everything, but Alex just rode so well all year,” Young admitted. “I was able to fight back after the tough start and fix a few of the issues we had, but in the end, it wasn’t meant to be. But we’ll be back to fight again next year.” In a repeat of the first podium, Trevor Daley grabbed the third step after a heated battle with reigning champion Jordan Szoke, as the two sides made contact in the final carousel before Daley won the drag race to the line. It was a crucial result for the OneSpeed Suzuki rider, as he helped wrap up the inaugural Constructors Championship for Suzuki with his third podium of the season, as Daley again proved to be the best “number two” rider of any of the manufacturers. “I was really patient at the start, because I knew if I could save my Dunlop tires, I would have a bit more life left at the end when it mattered,” Daley said. “Me and Jordan went back and forth quite a bit all race, but it got pretty close at the end there. It will be a good race to watch on TV, that’s for sure!”
Szoke would settle again for fourth, a disappointing result to end arguably the most frustrating campaign of his storied career. The 2020 champion has endured a number of tough-luck incidents this season, with this year’s final result proving to be his worst since an injury-riddled 2014 campaign. Despite the frustrated results, Szoke has been optimistic about returning for a record 24th season in the Pro Superbike class, though he has yet to confirm his plans – a notable detail given Ducati’s impending entry to the feature class and Szoke’s prior experience aboard Ducati machinery. Completing the top-five in the second half of the doubleheader was Sebastian Tremblay, who was forced to ride his Turcotte Performance Kawasaki ZX-6R sport bike after an earlier crash in race one. The 2021 Pro Sport Bike champion narrowly defeated Samuel Guerin at the line, a terrific result ahead of the EFC Group BMW rookie.
Dumas wasn’t the only rider to wrap up a championship on Saturday, however, with a pair of nail-biting finishes in two of the Amateur divisions. Anthony Bergeron completed his comeback in the AIM Insurance Amateur Superbike class, leading nearly from lights-to-flag to win the race and the championship aboard his privateer BMW. The pre-season favourite nearly derailed his own title bid with a crash in round two, but consecutive wins to end the year were enough to hand him the crown by just eleven points over ASM Yamaha rival Pascal Bastien, who struggled to fourth. The biggest swing of the season came in the Super Sonic Race School Lightweight category, as Harvey Renaud secured the national championship in unlikely fashion with a photo-finish win by just 0.018 seconds. Renaud entered the weekend with a sizeable disadvantage to teenager Mackenzie Weil atop the leaderboard, but a crash in race one that ended Weil’s weekend – combined with a victory for Renaud – put him in position to win the title on Saturday. Jacob Black, who was involved in the crash that ended Weil’s championship hopes, hung on to second at the line, though it wasn’t enough to do Weil any favours as Renaud will be crowned the national champion by just 16 points. The full list of season results can be found on the series’ official website at csbk.ca, with the focus now turning towards the offseason and the 2022 CSBK campaign.
OTHER RACING
In NASCAR Cup action Sunday night, Denny Hamlin won at Las Vegas and punched a ticket to the next round. For a full story, please click here
Denny Hamlin wins at Las Vegas to advance to the third round of the NASCAR playoffs (msn.com)
Josh Berry won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday night at Las Vegas Speedway with Justin Allgaier second and Noah Gragson third. Christian Eckes won the trucks race.
At Flamboro Speedway near Hamilton Saturday night, Cory Whittam won the Can-Am Midgets feature; T.J. Marshall took the vintage Modifieds race, Quinton Murdoch won the second VM feature; Gillian Hills was first in Mini Stock, Karl Sault took the second feature; in the two Pro 4 mains, Dan Pettit and Mark Lucas were the winners; Jeff Laflamme won the first Pure Stocks race and James Houghton won the second. And Lane Zardo won the United Late Model Series Qwick Wick Super Stock Championship.
At Brighton Speedway’s Applefest Shootout festival, Kingston’s Danny O’Brien won the 358 DIRTcar Modified feature; Rich Sanders won the Canadian modifieds feature; John Lamarche, Devon Kippen and Kippen again won the three COMP 4 Presented by Bill’s Johns features; Ryan Scott won the DIRTcar Sporsman feature; Brad Rayner won both Late Models mains and Adam Turner won the Thunder Stock class.
At the Four Crown Nationals held at Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, Saturday night, Rico Abreu won the FloRacing All-Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 feature. Rico is three-feet tall, so who says size matters? Chris Windom won the USAC National Midget Series race, Tyler Courtney was first in sprint cars and Logan Seavey won the Silver Crown (dirt champ cars) final.
Rinus Veekay has resigned to drive for Ed Carpenter in the NTT IndyCar Series in 2022 . . . . .
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This is the first non-camouflaged image of the 600-plus-hp Corvette Z06, which will use a 5.5-liter V-8 and be revealed on October 26.
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