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Allan Craighead Site Admin
Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 325 Location: Canada, Ontario, Cambridge
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:07 am Post subject: |
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Senior - Prefinal Top-Five
1. Ukyo Sasahara
2. Charlie Eastwood +.274
3. Pierce Lehane +1.020
4. Ferenc Kancsar +1.409
5. Oliver Hodgson +2.905
P16 Danny Formal (USA) +12.558
P23 Louie Pagano (USA) +19.384
P24 Sam Beasley (USA) +19.445 |
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Allan Craighead Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:31 am Post subject: |
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DD2 - PreFinal Top-Five
1. Ben Cooper
2. Xen De Ruwe +.075
3. Cody Hodgson (USA) +3.636
4. Kyle Ensbey +3.772
5. Mika Laiho +4.206
P11 Joey Wimsett (USA) +7.351
P23 Fritz Leesmann (USA) +12.533 |
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Allan Craighead Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:26 am Post subject: |
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Junior - Final Top-Five
1. Harry Webb
2. Janneau Esmeijer +3.913
3. Parker Thompson +4.115
4. Ross Gunn +4.240
5. Jon Del Valle-Iltuur +4.472
P17 Oliver Askew (USA) +11.462
P22 Juan Manuel Correa (USA) +26.451 |
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David Cole Site Admin
Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 8598 Location: United States, Michigan, Comstock Park
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| Allan Craighead wrote: | Junior - Final Top-Five
1. Harry Webb
2. Janneau Esmeijer +3.913
3. Parker Thompson +4.115
4. Ross Gunn +4.240
5. Jon Del Valle-Iltuur +4.472
P17 Oliver Askew (USA) +11.462
P22 Juan Manuel Correa (USA) +26.451 |
Contact early dropped both Americans down the order. Still solid results as they never gave up. _________________ David Cole
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Allan Craighead Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:02 am Post subject: |
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DD2 Masters - Final Top-Five
1. Cristiano Morgado
2. Scott Campbell +.792
3. David Griffiths +.949
4. Goncalo Gaivao +1.035
5. Martin Pierce +2.450
P18 Alan Rudolph (USA) +19.361
P20 Mike Jones (USA) +21.255
P29 John Crow (USA) +31.484 |
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David Cole Site Admin
Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 8598 Location: United States, Michigan, Comstock Park
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| Allan Craighead wrote: | DD2 Masters - Final Top-Five
1. Cristiano Morgado
2. Scott Campbell +.792
3. David Griffiths +.949
4. Goncalo Gaivao +1.035
5. Martin Pierce +2.450
P18 Alan Rudolph (USA) +19.361
P20 Mike Jones (USA) +21.255
P29 John Crow (USA) +31.484 |
Rudolph spun while fighting for fifth about the mid-way point of the race. _________________ David Cole
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Allan Craighead Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: |
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Senior - Final Top-Five
1. Charlie Eastwood
2. Ed Brand +1.909
3. Oliver Hodgson +2.035
4. Alexandre Finkelstein +2.118
5. Pierce Lehane +2.211
P15 Danny Formal (USA) +10.611
P22 Sam Beasley (USA) +14.043
P29 Louie Pagano (USA) +19.025 |
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Allan Craighead Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:04 am Post subject: |
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DD2 - Final Top-Five
1. Ben Cooper
2. Konstantins Calko +.816
3. Kyle Ensbey +1.209
4. Mathias Detige +1.529
5. Miika Laiho +1.592
P16 Joey Wimsett (USA) +10.551
P19 Fritz Leesmann (USA) +10.551
P30 Cody Hodgson (USA) +2 Laps |
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David Cole Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| Allan Craighead wrote: | DD2 - Final Top-Five
1. Ben Cooper
2. Konstantins Calko +.816
3. Kyle Ensbey +1.209
4. Mathias Detige +1.529
5. Miika Laiho +1.592
P16 Joey Wimsett (USA) +10.551
P19 Fritz Leesmann (USA) +10.551
P30 Cody Hodgson (USA) +2 Laps |
Contact with Latifi in turn 3 took him out of the race while fighting just outside the top-five. _________________ David Cole
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Allan Craighead Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Nations Cup - Top-Five
1. Great Britain - 1355
2. Canada - 1275
3. Australia - 1224
4. Portugal - 1128
5. Netherlands - 1072
P7 United States of America - 990 |
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Jim McMahon
Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 2685 Location: United States, St. Paul,
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Allan Craighead wrote: | Senior - Final Top-Five
1. Charlie Eastwood
2. Ed Brand +1.909
3. Oliver Hodgson +2.035
4. Alexandre Finkelstein +2.118
5. Pierce Lehane +2.211
P15 Danny Formal (USA) +10.611
P22 Sam Beasley (USA) +14.043
P29 Louie Pagano (USA) +19.025 |
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patrick slattery
Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 787 Location: United States, Ohio, cleves
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| American competitors seem to be off the pace compared to others, is there a reason, I think we have good drivers here or don't we? |
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Jacob Curtis
Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 38 Location: United States, Florida, Tampa
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| patrick slattery wrote: | | American competitors seem to be off the pace compared to others, is there a reason, I think we have good drivers here or don't we? |
I personally think that it is due to lack of National Tour. All of these countries have a "National" championship that travels the country and allows the drivers to get World Class competition each weekend. We just need a national Rotax series that all of the top US driver can compete in. We are just too large of a country to get numbers at that level.
I feel this has put the US Rotax program at a catch 22 by having set up a program where lots of entrants can get to regional competitions, but at the same time creating a situation where people are happier to just run at a regional level.
While US Grand Nationals is a very well put together program with lots of hope in a relatively small market for the US, it will never allow our drivers to be at a level of week-in week-out standard that the rest of the world is at.
Perhaps taking a page out of Mr. Wright's book and running a similar program to the FWT we could create a buzz and excitement that would entice the top talent in the US (and abroad for that matter) to run a full-time national Rotax series.
Just my $.02 on the topic.
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Keith Bridgeman
Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Posts: 1335 Location: United States, Minnesota, Farmington
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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After reading the results I'm kind of surprised. I feel bad saying this but all Team USA around the 20th spot? Is that where we are talent wise? I would hope not. If this was the Motorcross Des Nations guys would be catching hell. Maybe karting is just for fun in this country. Does this show why no F1 drivers?
I don't get it. What where Team USA goals? Did they think we would have a guy in each class on the podium and that just didnt' happen or was it just nice to go and compete. _________________ http://bridgemanbroskarting.blogspot.com/
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Jim McMahon
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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I guess we would need to get feedback from the drivers and tuners to see what they felt was holding them back. My guess is they are good on talent, but not quite as experienced in tuning and driving in euroland. Next year should be very interesting at Nola.
FWIW the winner in Rotax sr came from a country with a population smaller than the state of MN. Maybe it was a fluke, but it was still cool I don't know if (yet another, ugh) USA "national" championship is the answer, but maybe more frequent opportunities for these drivers to race against each other at a high level would help. Easier said than done however. _________________ Live in the midwest and have a TaG, Shifter, KPV, KT100, Animal\LO206, enduro or superkart?
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