The second race weekend of the season was held at Shannonville Motorsport Park. RMP Competizione had many sponsored drivers entered. Rocco Marciello, Bruce Wylie, Patrick Cyr, John Dipchand JR, and Marek Petruczynik all had great success this weekend.
Testing went well on Friday with many sessions, the lap times went down and we dialed in the cars for the races.
Practice and qualifying were held Saturday morning. In GT1 Rocco Marciello in the M235iR qualified 2nd . In GT2 Pat Cyr 1st and in GT3 Bruce Wylie in his E46 M3 qualified 2nd.
Race 1 was held Saturday afternoon. Rocco finished 2ND in GT1 battling a TA1 Trans am Camaro ran by Blaise Csida. In GT2 Pat Cyr took the top step in 1st .
Bruce Wylie 2nd in GT3, Marek in 4th, and John Dipchand JR in 5th due to class breakout, having a lap time faster then GT3 allows.
Race 2 was Sunday morning. Once again a tough battle in GT1. Rocco lead most of the race, but the higher hp TA1 Camaro caught up, putting Rocco in 2nd once again . In GT2 Pat once again was the winner.
In GT3 John Dipchand JR finished 1st in class, but once again broke out of the time brackets more than 3 times in one race. This bumped him up to GT2 for the final race.
The final race of the of the weekend was Sunday afternoon. With a great start Rocco and Blaise battled until the end. Rocco finished respectively in 2ndplace behind the TA1 Camaro, holding off the rest of the V8 GT1 field.
In GT2 John Dipchand battled with driver Pat Cyr the whole race passing each other multiple times right till the end. John Dipchand Jr pulled off a great race winning GT2 in his ex CTCC RMP Competzione E90, with Pat right behind him in 2nd in his E46 M3.
In GT3 from the back of the field Marek was able to be consistent and make his way up to 3rd in class with a nice podium finish.
Overall the races were very successful. All the RMP entry’s were on the podium throughout the weekend.
We would like to thank our sponsors Fuchs oil and MolySlip for the continued support.