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GPNY Mt.Kisco, NY Holds First Ironman Race of 2012
Racing NewsTuesday, January 31st, Grand Prix NY held its first Ironman of the 2012 racing season. The format of this event is a ten minute qualifying session followed by an hour long race. In the race each driver is required to make four pit stops. On a slightly reconfigured track, seventeen racers took to the track in four classes to qualify. The classes this evening included: LMP1U (Sodi9hp - 190lbs), LMP1H (Sodi9hp - 225lbs), LMP2 (Stratos 9hp) and GTO (Sodi6.5hp). The racers had a ten minute qualifying session to start the evening and at the end Gene Thyer (LMP1U) had earned the pole position with a time of 46.429. Behind him were James Stevens and Dave Harmon with times of 46.842 and 46.889 respectively. Harmon was the top qualifier for LMP1H and was a scant three tenths ahead of Cory Rossi. Sean McGowan earned the top qualifier honors for GTO and was tenth on the grid while twelfth on the grid was Scott Cleavland, fastest of the LMP2 drivers.

At the drop of the green, Thayer put in some quick laps and distanced himself from the field, while behind, Harmon and Rossi were able to get past Stevens and diced for the first seven laps. Further back, Bob Ondrovic and Rob Cirulnik were running really hard through mid race. Diving into the hairpin, Ondrovic got into the wall and was collected by Cirulnik. While Cirulnik was able to drive away, there was an engine issue w/ Ondrovic’s kart and he lost a lap while it was diagnosed and fixed. At the end of the evening, Thayer took the overall win and first in LMP1U. Only ten seconds behind after the hour long race was Rossi who took top honors in LMP1H. LMP2 honors went to Cleavland who finished in 16th and GTO was won by McGowan who finished 9th overall.

Results:

Overall Driver Class Position

1 Gene Thyer LMP1U 1
2 Cory Rossi LMP1H 1
3 James Stevens LMP1U 2
4 Dave Harmon LMP1H 2
5 Sergei Bourlatskii LMP1H 3
6 Yao Zhou LMP1U 3
7 Fernando Marque LMP1H 4
8 Yuri Shniman LMP1H 5
9 Sean McGowan GTO 1
10 Bob Ondrovic LMP1H 6
11 Christian Balza GTO 2
12 Louis Schmidt GTO 3
13 James Quaile GTO 4
14 Tim Neil GTO 5
15 Rob Cirulnik LMP1H 7
16 Scott Cleavland LMP2 1
17 Dave Carao LMP2 2

For further info on Grand Prix NY Visit www.gpny.com
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