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18 May - BOWMANVILLE, Ontario - Results
from Sunday's 30 lap, 73.77 miles
SCCA Pro Racing Speed GT
Championship Round Two race, part of the Ontario More To Discover Victoria
Day Weekend at Mosport International Raceway with finishing position,
starting position in parentheses, driver, hometown, car and laps/interval:
1. (9), Phil
McClure,
Floris, Iowa, Corvette
Z06, 30 laps
2. (6),
John Young, Woodside, Calif., Saleen SR 351, 30,
-1.272 sec.
3. (2), Randy Pobst,
Gainesville, Ga., Audi RS 6, 30, -10.057
4. (1), Bill Auberlen, Hermosa Beach, Calif., BMW M3, 30,
-10.192
5. (11), Hans Stuck, Austria, BMW M3, 30, -12.34
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16.
(4), Michael Galati, N.
Olmstead,
Ohio, Audi RS 6, 29 laps, -1 lap |
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The Champion Racing Audi RS6
Flag Girls... |
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At the start, Michael Galati
moves right, but is blocked by Boris Said's BMW |
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Galati slots in behind Randy
Pobst, their Audi RS6's now 1-2, after starting 2-4 just seconds prior |
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Randy Pobst leads Michael
Galati through Turn One, chased by a hoard of BMW's |
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Galati begins lap 2 in the
race lead, having passed Pobst in the opening lap |
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Defending SPEED GT Champion
Galati leads the opening four laps of the 30-lap race, before hitting
mechanical trouble |
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Randy Pobst takes over the
race lead as Galati is forced to slow his pace after his RS6's radiator was
holed by a stone, causing his engine to overheat |
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Galati's slowed pace puts him
in the clutches of John Young's Saleen |
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Randy Pobst leads, but is
chased relentlessly by Phil McClure, who pulls off the pass for the race
lead in turn three |
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Michael Galati soldiers on to
a 16th-place finish, one lap down |
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Bill Auberlen puts on a
ferocious charge in the closing laps, in an unsuccessful bid to wrest 3rd
Place from Randy Pobst as the pair approach the checkered flag |
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Randy Pobst 3rd on the
Mosport SPEED GT podium, behind Phil McClure (1st) and John Young
(2nd) |
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The Champagne flies at
Mosport |
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A batch of dandelions
decorate the front of Randy Pobst's Audi RS6...remnants of his off-course
excursion while trying to hold off McClure... |
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