Matthew Inge Wins At Mosport

June 14, 2009
Inge won his first F2000 race over Miller (left) and Orsolon (right)

Bowmanville, ONT – Matthew Inge passed Chris Miller on the outside going into turn eight with two laps to go at Mosport and held on to take his first F2000 win. Inge, driving for St. Clair Motorsports, narrowly missed out on a win at VIR and finished second in yesterday’s race and has been a front-runner all season.


Inge drives the #02 for St. Clair Motorsports

“I passed Chris (Miller) with two laps to go,” said the American, who had never seen Mosport until Friday morning and moves into the points lead. “From there I just put my head down and told myself there was no way Chris was getting by. I was waiting for Chris to make a mistake the entire race but he never did.”

Miller, driving for JDC MotorSports, takes home three extra points for starting on pole and won yesterday’s race. “I knew he was just waiting to make his move,” commented Miller.”I’ll take second, it was a good weekend for us and the team and a very good race today, Inge made a very good move on the outside going into eight.”

Brazilian rookie Fabio Orsolon logged his second straight third place finish for Alegra Motorsports with Audette pressuring him almost the entire race. “Remy (Audette) was all over me,” said Orsolon. “It’s good to be on the podium again and I have to take Alegra for the good car they gave me.”

Another great start for F2000.

Opening lap contact between Dave Weitzenhof and Colin Alexander saw both competitors eliminated, meanwhile Jonathan Scarallo spun due to contact with Caitlin Johnston and stalled coming onto the pit-straight, bringing out a full course caution.

Coming to the green on the restart Fabio Orsolon checked up, causing Remy Audette to drive straight into Orsolon’s gearbox. Both cars were fine but Audette was forced to hold off a very hard charging Victor Carbone for the rest of the race. Audette finished fourth with Carbone bettering his best ever F2000 finish to round out the top five in race two at Mosport.

Benjamin Searcy, Bobby Caldwell, Tom Fatur, Keith McCrone and Robert Wright followed in positions six-ten.

As the race developed, Miller and Inge left Orsolon and the rest of the field behind, with Inge eventually getting past Miller for the win and setting fast lap of the race on the way.

Tom Fatur wins the Masters class, coming home in eighth position. “I saw Weitzenhof go off” said Fatur. “After that I knew I had to go for it.”

Mikhail Goikberg, in just his second ever F2000 start, finished an impressive 12th after starting 23th.

Local favorite Caitlin Johnston, who didn’t race yesterday due to a large shunt during qualifying, was forced to retire from today’s race with front wing damage while running in eighth.

With the season half complete, the championship points battling is turning into a three-horse race. Matthew Inge leads the points coming off his first win by just seven markers over Chris Miller and Remy Audette, who are tied for second.

The series next heads to Watkins Glen with the Indy Cars on July 4th weekend.

Pos No. Name Laps Total Tm Diff Gap Avg. Speed Best Tm Best Spd 1 02 Matthew Inge 18 28:39.601 - - 92.663 1:21.699 108.354 2 85 Chris Miller 18 28:40.297 +0.696 +0.696 92.625 1:21.793 108.229 3 26 Fabio Orsolon 18 28:43.446 +3.845 +3.149 92.456 1:21.985 107.976 4 21 Remy Audette 18 28:43.937 +4.336 +0.491 92.430 1:21.843 108.163 5 23 Victor Carbone 18 28:51.050 +11.449 +7.113 92.050 1:22.689 107.057 6 10 Benjamin Searcy 18 28:55.569 +15.968 +4.519 91.810 1:22.761 106.963 7 80 Bobby Caldwell 18 29:03.662 +24.061 +8.093 91.384 1:23.306 106.264 8 70 Tom Fatur/M 18 29:05.780 +26.179 +2.118 91.273 1:23.695 105.770 9 5 Keith McCrone 18 29:06.287 +26.686 +0.507 91.247 1:23.304 106.266 10 90 Robert Wright/M 18 29:07.696 +28.095 +1.409 91.173 1:23.551 105.952 11 4 Chris Camadella/M 18 29:15.491 +35.890 +7.795 90.768 1:24.377 104.915 12 1 Mikhail Goikberg 18 29:15.969 +36.368 +0.478 90.744 1:23.465 106.061 13 27 Craig Clawson/M 18 29:16.302 +36.701 +0.333 90.727 1:23.859 105.563 14 30 Jerry Szykulski/M 18 29:16.686 +37.085 +0.384 90.707 1:23.914 105.494 15 7 Brent Gilkes/M 18 29:21.842 +42.241 +5.156 90.441 1:24.424 104.856 16 94 Blake Teeter 18 29:25.042 +45.441 +3.200 90.277 1:24.671 104.551 17 96 Alejandro Munoz 18 29:25.772 +46.171 +0.730 90.240 1:24.635 104.595 18 51 Dan Denison/M 18 29:27.561 +47.960 +1.789 90.149 1:24.807 104.383 19 69 Paul Farmer/M 18 29:42.642 +1:03.041 +15.081 89.386 1:25.652 103.353 20 22 Jonathon Scarello 17 29:20.764 1 Lap 1 Lap 85.469 1:22.687 107.059 21 20 Caitlin Johnston 14 25:05.949 4 Laps 3 Laps 82.296 1:23.804 105.632 DNF 67 Dave Weitzenhof/M 1 2:42.172 17 Laps 13 Laps 54.586 2:39.149 55.623 DNF 12 Colin Alexander 0 3.016 - - - -.--- -

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