My first interest in racing was Road Racing,
and the initial motivation for buying FPR1 was to go road racing. For
our first six years, we were lucky to have the main road race facility in Western Canada, Race City Motorsport
Park, located at our team base in Calgary. Now that
the team is based in Ottawa, we are even luckier to have one of the best roadcourses in the world (no, seriously!), Mosport,
located just a few hours west of us. In addition to the bulk of the CASC-OR (Ontario Road Racing sanctioning body) events
in Mosport, we also race once a year at the local Ottawa track, called Calabogi, which is also a super track built just
a few years ago carved out of beautiful Eastern Ontario cottage country. For the first
four years we Road Raced and Rallied the same car, but in 2008 we introduced
“FPR3” our dedicated road-race car. Check out the (growing!) collection of Road Race incidents.
Four Peaks Racing Road Race Log2009: Chassis = FPR3, Engine = Adam Event | Best Lap | Notes | Race1: Calabogi | 2:35.8 | -
car wasn't running right | Race2:
Mosport - Aug 9 | 1:45.004 | - fastest GT6 car (but entered in GT5 by mistake) | Race3: Mosport - Sept 6 | 1:40.963 | - stripped dash, heater, blower, and
door weight out...now running good GT5 laps in the 1.41s -"broke out" of GT5 in one event |
2008: Chassis = FPR3, Engine = Adam
Event | Best Lap | Notes | Race1 | | | Race2 | | | Edmonton Champ Car Support Event – Western Canadian
GT Invitational | | Crashed hard in qualifying race. Finished Fourth in class in main. | Race3
– Aug 07 | | | Race4 –
Sept 07 | 1:29.9 | One and only sub 30 lap at RCMP! |
2007: Chassis = FPR2, Engine = Adam Event | Best Lap | Notes | Race1 – June 07 | 1:36.5 | “Max”
stock engine | Race2 –
July 07 | 1:32.0 | Crashed out hard into Jed | Edmonton
Champ Car Support Event – Western Canadian GT Invitational | | Finished
Second in class in qualifying race. Finished Fourth
in class in main. | Race3 –
Aug 07 | 1:30.8 | Taken out of the main event in the carousel by a GT2 Nissan. | Race4 – Sept 07 | 1:30.6 | Best
Ever Lap! |
2006: Chassis = FPR1, Engine = Adam (mild ported) Event | Best Lap | Notes | Nameo 2006 | ? | More
competitive with the challenge cup cars on this circuit | Race3
– Aug 06 | ? | Electrical gremlins ended the weekend early | Race4 –
Sept 06 | 1:30.820 | Final road race for FPR1 |
2005: Chassis = FPR1, Engine = Keith+Header Event | Best
Lap | Notes | Race2 – June 05 | 1:35.6 | T-boned
in the driver side door! | Race3
– July 05 | 1:34.3 | | Race4 – Aug 05 | 1:33.9 | Overheating issues ended weekend early |
2004: Chassis = FPR1, Engine = “Keith” (stock) Event | Best Lap | Notes | Race3 – July 31 | 1:39.310 | Completed
first 1 hour endurance | Race4
– Sept4/5 | 1:37.4 | |
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For more info on Road Racing in Alberta, check out the WCMA.
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