Audette Wins Survivor at Mosport

“We tried to be smart at the start,” said Canadian Audette. “I went to the outside and saw cars hitting one another. Then on the restart, coming out of turn ten, Chris spun his tires and I was able to get a run on him. From there I never looked back.”

For Audette, it was his fourth win of the season and tenth straight top-seven finish in ten races in 2011, and his second win at Mosport in the F2000 Championship Series, much to the delight of the huge Canadian crowd on hand.

With Kyle Connery failing to finish, Audette opens a huge gap in the points over Livengood, who moves into second ahead of Connery. Without drops, Audette leads the standings by 104 points over Livengood, also setting fast lap during the race for two more points.

Livengood notches another second place at Mosport, matching Friday’s result, and adds bonus points for pole.

“I came around on the restart, got on the gas and the car just understeered,” explained Livengood, who won at Mid-Ohio earlier in July. “I have a hard time keeping pick-up off the tires, it just understeered and Remy drove by. Mosport spoiled what should have been two wins this weekend.”

Dwight Rider rounded off the podium, taking the Masters Class win with a third place effort in the 30-minute time-window race for Colorado-based Front Range Motorsports.

“Going into turn one on the start I was on the inside and there was just enough room to squeeze through, everyone seemed to be getting tangled,” Rider said. “On the restart I pushed as hard as I could but we didn’t have anything for Remy or Chris.”

An opening lap turn one incident triggered a multi-car crash also involving Kyle Connery, Robert La Rocca, Zach Craigo, Tim Minor, Brent Gilkes and Dan Denison and produced an extremely lengthy caution period.

Up until the incident, Craigo was having a banner weekend for Front Range Motorsports, with his best qualifying and race results in F2000 to date. Connery, meanwhile, had cut sizably into Audette’s Championship lead margin with a win on Friday at the 10-turn road course.

Tim Paul, Craig Clawson, Bill Jordan, Fred Bross and Robert Wright completed the top ten.

CellMark Paper Hard Charger honors went to Dave Weitzenhof, who improved 10 positions during round 10 of the F2000 season at Mosport.

Tom Drake missed the start following an engine issue during qualifying.

Matt McDonough continued development work with the Radon chassis, starting from the rear of the pack after qualifying sixth.

The F2000 Championship Series continue with rounds 11 and 12 of 14 at Lime Rock Park, September 16-17 with the NASCAR Modifieds.

Race Results:

Pos No. Name Laps Total Tm Diff Gap Avg. Speed Best Tm Best Spd 1 21 Remy Audette 14 30:43.628 - - 67.223 1:22.890 106.797 2 37 Chris Livengood 14 30:46.496 +2.868 +2.868 67.118 1:23.064 106.573 3 60 Dwight Rider/M 14 30:52.172 +8.544 +5.676 66.913 1:24.109 105.249 4 26 Angel Benitez 14 31:01.084 +17.456 +8.912 66.592 1:25.346 103.724 5 67 Dave Weitzenhof/M 14 31:05.879 +22.251 +4.795 66.421 1:25.780 103.199 6 06 Tim Paul 14 31:07.773 +24.145 +1.894 66.354 1:26.174 102.727 7 27 Craig Clawson/M 14 31:08.107 +24.479 +0.334 66.342 1:26.357 102.509 8 42 Bill Jordan/M 14 31:16.472 +32.844 +8.365 66.046 1:26.824 101.958 9 14 Fred Bross/M 14 31:20.603 +36.975 +4.131 65.901 1:27.437 101.243 10 90 Robert Wright/M 14 31:21.660 +38.032 +1.057 65.864 1:27.198 101.521 11 22 Giancarlo Potolicchio 14 31:58.732 +1:15.104 +37.072 64.591 1:27.601 101.054 12 77 Matt McDonough 13 31:25.750 1 Lap 1 Lap 61.027 1:25.635 103.374 DNF 7 Brent Gilkes/M 2 4:43.706 12 Laps 11 Laps 62.405 2:15.767 65.203 DNF 10 Robert La Rocca 1 1:55.897 13 Laps 1 Lap 76.382 1:53.530 77.974 DNF 91 Kyle Connery 0 2.200 14 Laps 1 Lap - -.--- - DNF 88 Tim Minor/M 0 2.504 +0.304 +0.304 - -.--- - DNF 9 Zach Craigo 0 2.636 +0.436 +0.132 - -.--- - DNF 51 Dan Denison/M 0 2.841 +0.641 +0.205 - -.--- - DNS 61 Tom Drake/M 0 -.--- - - - -.--- -