The weather today couldn’t have worked any
better for all the teams and drivers taking part at the series-wide test
of the CART Toyota Atlantic Series, they were able to get a full test day
in.
The early morning times posted were David
Rutledge - 54.19, Hoover Orsi - 54.22, Jonathan Macri - 54.25.
The teams and drivers kept making several
changes, trying to improve their times, by mid- afternoon new set of tires
were appearing on the cars. By the end of the day the unofficial best
times of the day given by Ferdinando Macri for each driver present were:
Jonathan Macri - 53.71, David Rutledge - 53.84, Hoover Orsi - 53.85, Rocky
Moran Jr. - 53.86, Michael Valiante - 53.86, Martin Basso - 53.95, Grant
Ryley - 54.13, Rodolfo Lavin - 54.62,
Tony Ave - 54.64, Stephan Roy - 55.10, T.J. Bell - 55.93, Frank
Dancs - 56.06.
The paddock area certainly had their eyes
posted on Jonathan Macri in his NTN car while on track, everyone was impressed
with his performance and amazed with his smooth driving and handling of
his CART Toyota Atlantic Car.
Several comments
were given to the P-1 Racing Team, Ferdinando Macri and Mike Sheridan.
Anne Roy, from CART Toyota Atlantic Series Office said, " Jonathan
turned alot of heads these past two days and became the talk of the
paddock area". Richard Spenard said, "you have to be a proud
father, he’s so smooth through the S’s and how well Jonathan is
taking the corners". Arnie Yoyning (the engine builder,for
P-1Racing cars) had a radar gun where by it showed that Jonathan’s
exit speed was 2 mph faster in the S’s than any of the other drivers.
Jonathan was very excited and happy with
P-1Racing Team’s performance and hard work. Race Engineer and Owner of
P-1Racing Team Bill Fickling provided a great car and worked very well
with driver Jonathan Macri. Crew Chief Kenny Kline was excited with
Jonathan’s performance, Kenny,even had to do double work due to Second
Mechanic Troy Mccall was not present due to being very ill.
Jonathan Macri would like to thank NTN, his
entire crew and P-1Racing for such an incredible and outstanding debut
into the CART Toyota Atlantic Series Wide Test. |
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