Carbone Takes Race Two Pole at Lime Rock
Lakeville, CT –In a qualifying session that saw a rapidly drying Lime Rock race track, championship points leader Victor Carbone took pole in dominating fashion for the second F2000 Championship Series race of the weekend, scheduled for 5:15pm tomorrow afternoon. The 30-minute session saw times tumble as a dry line emerged following a day of moderate rain showers at the Connecticut race track. Carbone was on the top of the charts most of the session and his Alegra Motorsports teammate, Fabio Orsolon will line up next to him.
Carbone, who has four wins in eight races so far this year, will start from pole and grabs three more points to increase his national championship lead over Cole Morgan, who will start 12th.
Felix Serralles, driving his first F2000 event for GTP Motorsports continued to impress. The Puerto Rican is coming out of the Skip Barber Series and in his first day in an F2000 car, was fourth in morning practice, qualified 10th for race one and backed that up for race two by qualifying third.
Phil Lombardi will line up fourth – the fastest Masters Class driver. Chris Livengood rounded out the top five.
Orsolon will make it two second positions, as he also qualified second for the first race of the weekend in heavy rain earlier today.
Many eyes were on super-fast Australian rookie Daniel Erickson, who inherited pole for the first race of the weekend earlier today. Erickson has a solid qualifying record in 2010, coming into the session with four poles in five tries, but he couldn’t make it five for six as the Primus Racing/Quantum Mechanics squad battled engine issues. Erickson will have come from 14th tomorrow afternoon.
Tom Fatur, Tim Minor, Jeff McCusker, Jonathan Scarallo and Stevan McAleer completed positions sixth through ten.
The F2000 action continues tomorrow, Saturday, July 24 with both races. The green flag drops on race one at approximately 10:30am, race two follows at 5:15pm.
Race Two Grid:
Pos No. Name Best Tm Best Spd In Lap Diff Gap 1 23 Victor Carbone 1:01.245 89.934 28 - - 2 26 Fabio Orsolon 1:01.834 89.077 27 +0.589 +0.589 3 17 Felix Serralles 1:01.963 88.892 28 +0.718 +0.129 4 3 Phil Lombardi/M 1:02.077 88.729 26 +0.832 +0.114 5 37 Chris Livengood 1:02.226 88.516 28 +0.981 +0.149 6 70 Tom Fatur/M 1:02.528 88.089 28 +1.283 +0.302 7 88 Tim Minor/M 1:02.775 87.742 27 +1.530 +0.247 8 25 Jeff McCusker/M 1:02.863 87.619 26 +1.618 +0.088 9 22 Jonathon Scarallo 1:03.060 87.345 24 +1.815 +0.197 10 14 Steven McAleer 1:03.229 87.112 14 +1.984 +0.169 11 08 John Dole/M 1:03.239 87.098 27 +1.994 +0.010 12 1 Cole Morgan 1:03.366 86.924 11 +2.121 +0.127 13 80 Bobby Caldwell 1:03.423 86.845 25 +2.178 +0.057 14 2 Daniel Erickson 1:03.498 86.743 5 +2.253 +0.075 15 12 Bob Reid/M 1:04.336 85.613 25 +3.091 +0.838 16 51 Dan Denison/M 1:04.475 85.428 26 +3.230 +0.139 17 27 Craig Clawson/M 1:04.531 85.354 25 +3.286 +0.056 18 90 Robert Wright/M 1:04.806 84.992 23 +3.561 +0.275 19 06 Tim Paul 1:05.028 84.702 16 +3.783 +0.222 20 89 Jim Hanrahan 1:05.117 84.586 22 +3.872 +0.089 21 69 Paul Farmer/M 1:05.861 83.631 26 +4.616 +0.744 22 83 Charles Finelli/M 1:05.969 83.494 18 +4.724 +0.108 23 11 Jesse Yorio 1:06.391 82.963 15 +5.146 +0.422 24 61 Tom Drake 1:07.348 81.784 17 +6.103 +0.957 25 7 Brent Gilkes/M 1:07.749 81.300 10 +6.504 +0.401 26 28 Ardie Greenamyer/M 1:08.104 80.876 15 +6.859 +0.355 27 97 Chris Gumprecht 1:10.890 77.698 8 +9.645 +2.786 28 5 Keith McCrone/M -.--- - 0 - - 29 95 Peter Gonzalez/M -.--- - 0 - -