{"id":1536,"date":"2011-07-23T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carpages.ca\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:40:27","slug":"canadian-marco-cirone-takes-victory-at-inaugural-porsche-gt3-cup-challenge-canada-race-at-mosport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carpages.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/porsche-gt3-cup-canadas-first-visit-to-mosport-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Marco Cirone takes victory at inaugural Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada race at Mosport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bowmanville, ON \u2013 <\/strong>In any race weekend, it\u2019s often too easy for folks to overlook the goings on around the main event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they really shouldn\u2019t miss out because there is some really competitive racing to be seen, perhaps even more so than in the ALMS<\/a>event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been at Mosport<\/a> for the last couple of days and while the main event\u2014the ALMS Championship race\u2014has yet to run, there\u2019s been plenty going on around it worth noting. Altogether, there are six championships in addition to the ALMS that have already begun their race weekends, with one, the F2000 Championship<\/a>, featuring empty paddocks because after race number two on Saturday, their weekend is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, we brought you a story about the F2000 Championship; today, we switch focus to a closed-wheel discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Porsche-only championships are running this weekend\u2014the IMSA GT3 Challenge Cup<\/a> and the GT3 Cup Challenge Canada, which we\u2019re focusing on here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada involves a specific car model\u2014the Porsche GT3 Cup\u2014spread over three Divisions: Platinum, Gold and Silver. Platinum and Gold feature current-generation (997) models of the car, while Silver features last gen\u2019s car (996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the Series\u2019 first stop at Mosport Raceway, which, along with the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve<\/a> in Montreal, makes it part of an elite company that has featured the best racers the world over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitting, then, that today\u2019s race, which is one of two on the weekend, was won by a Canadian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team 6<\/a>th<\/a><\/sup> Gear Racing\u2019s<\/a> driver Marco Cirone is a self-proclaimed \u201cadrenaline junkie\u201d, and he will be the first to tell you that sometimes, that feature is both good and bad. Good when it pushes him to excel on the track, bad when it pushes him over the limit, as it did this morning in the IMSA GT3 Challenge race. He was sitting pretty in second place, until the last lap where an error\u2014one he will say was unforced\u2014had him spinning off the track at the high-banked turn five, dropping him from second to twenty-second by race end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is (me and my team\u2019s) home track,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I know it well; to go off like that and make a mental error like that really upset me. I\u2019ve made a thousand mistakes here, and I\u2019ve learned from them and I went and made another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter that race, I didn\u2019t want to get out of the car. I was so upset with myself,\u201d he said, \u201cbut you literally have to turn the page, and start over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And turn the page he did, winning the evening race after coming back from a fourth-place starting position, passing American Melanie Snow, Columbian Carlos Gomez and eventually pole-sitter (and fellow Canadian) Randy Oswald and never looking back. Oswald and Gomez finished 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup>, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to win here, especially in front of my home fans,\u201d he said. \u201cIt feels very gratifying to win this race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an impressive feat for Cirone, as a tight budget (other teams have third-party sponsors; Cirone owns his own car, and is financed by his Italform construction company) means having to cut back in places; car #88\u2019s suspension, for example, is not adjustable, while most of the rest of the field\u2019s is. In a Series as tightly regulated as this one, any tweak helps, so 6th<\/sup> Gear Racing has a definite disadvantage here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that doesn\u2019t really seem to bother Cirone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2019Love\u2019 is not enough to describe the passion I feel for racing,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve loved cars ever since I was a kid, and I can\u2019t get enough of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it\u2019s time to turn the page again, as he has two more races on Sunday\u2014one in the Canada Series, one in the IMSA series, giving him a chance to both defend his victory in the Canada Series and bounce back from that blunder in the IMSA series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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