Rickards Takes Pole at Road Atlanta

April 12, 2014
Garth Rickards

 Braselton, GA – While the top five cars were separated by under a tenth of a second, it was Garth Rickards that narrowly scored pole position at Road Atlanta by .016 seconds over his team Pelfrey teammate Ayla Agren. Behind those two Mygale/Hondas were Franklin Futrelle in the Raceworks Spectrum/Honda ahead of Jim Goughary’s Van Diemen and Max Mallinen in another Spectrum/Honda for Swan Motorsports in his F1600 pro debut.

Pelfrey’s Esteban Garzon was sixth with Sam Chastain, seventh, just under three tenths off the pole time of 1:29.343, a new F1600 track record at Road Atlanta. The top seven cars were under the existing track record.

Nikita Lastochkin was eighth after losing his two fastest laps due to causing an early session stoppage, while Augie Lerch and Lew Cooper completed the top ten. Notably, Cooper has moved from his Van Diemen/Ford to a Spectrum/Honda for Polestar following Friday practice. Twenty-five F1600 cars logged lap.

Race one of the F1600 season gets underway at 2:20pm eastern time.

Qualifying Results:

PosNo.NameIn LapBest TmMake/ModelDiff 1 83 Garth Rickards 7 1:29.343 Honda - 2 81 Ayla Agren 8 1:29.359 Honda +0.016 3 97 Franklin Futrelle 10 1:29.398 Spectrum 014 Honda +0.055 4 7 James Goughary/M 8 1:29.435 Van Diemen Honda +0.092 5 10 Max Mallinen 5 1:29.475 Spectrum 014 Honda +0.132 6 80 Esteban Garzon 9 1:29.573 Honda +0.230 7 27 T. Sam Chastain 6 1:29.857 Mygale Sj13 Honda +0.514 8 13 Nikita Lastochkin 9 1:30.040 Mygale Sj Honda +0.697 9 82 Augie Lerch 10 1:30.073 Honda +0.730 10 0 Lewis Cooper III/M 10 1:30.328 Spectrum Honda +0.985 11 9 Brandon Angel 11 1:30.429 Spectrum Honda +1.086 12 91 Max Hanratty 7 1:30.432 Spectrum 014 Honda +1.089 13 93 Jack Mitchell 7 1:30.569 Spectrum 014 Honda +1.226 14 07 Steve Bamford/M 5 1:30.775 Mygale Sj11 Honda +1.432 15 06 Austin Mccusker 9 1:31.032 Van Deiman Honda +1.689 16 3 Joe Colasacco/M 5 1:30.687 Van Diemen Honda +1.344 17 46 Douglas Voss/M 10 1:31.166 Spectrum 012B Honda +1.823 18 21 Arthur Foster/M 4 1:31.172 Spectrum 014 Honda +1.829 19 92 Jeff Kingsley 2 1:31.231 Spectrum 014 Honda +1.888 20 24 Will Harvey 5 1:31.253 Mygale Sj Honda +1.910 21 31 Scott Rubenzer/M 12 1:31.466 Spectrm Honda +2.123 22 90 Jayson Clunie/M 8 1:31.763 Spectrum 014 Honda +2.420 23 75 Donald Baggett 7 1:32.008 Swift DB6 Ford +2.665 24 2 Mike Scanlan/M 13 1:32.882 Spectrum Honda +3.539 25 66 Bob Melvin/M 9 1:37.975 Van Diemen Ford +8.632

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