June 4, 2006


Octane Motorsport MINI takes third position at Shannonville

The bright orange MINI Cooper S John Cooper Works #47 was classified in 3rd place during the running of the CRDA “Shootout at Shannonville week-end” which was held on Sunday June 4, 2006 at Shannonville Motorsport Park, located east of Belleville, Ontario.

The one hour enduro results brought the championship lead in the T2 class of the Ontario Touring car championship to the team. The team used the open testing day on Friday to fine-tune the car's set-up, since this was the first time we had a chance to test the car at Shannonville since building the race MINI last year. This proved to be very useful as all our running on Saturday was under damped conditions. Some cars were able to qualify much faster during the Saturday qualifying session as only the first 3 laps were run in the dry. The Octane Motorsport MINI still managed second fastest time in class, but would have to settle for 14th overall as a starting position.

The set-up chosen on Friday proved useful as the MINI Cooper S JCW’s out-handled a lot of the faster class cars. We would have finished 6th overall on a field of 20 cars, but we were penalized for crossing over the blend line at pit exit, during our mandatory pit stop. As a result, we lost second place class finish and were relegated to third position.

Next event is the Canada Day Grand Prix of Ontario on July 1-2 at Mosport International Speedway, just north of Bowmanville, Ontario. The event is organised by the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC)

Octane Motorsport list of sponsors and supporters include:

-MINI Original Parts
-Simone Performance Imports
-Castrol Canada (Wakefield)
-GranSport brake pads (Satisfied Brakes)
-Birchmount Collision
-Graphic Mart
-DuPont Automotive Finishes
-MINI Original Accessories
-H-Sport
-Vibrant Performance
-MINI Financial Services
-Wheel & Tire Zone
-Pneus Touchette
-Coopersport.ca

Octane Motorsport is a privately owned and funded racing team based in Montreal, Quebec.

CASC ONTARIO REGION (CASC-OR) is Ontario's governing body of automobile sport, and is comprised of over 30 automobile and sport enthusiast clubs within Ontario. The organization defines and administers the province's regional championships in several disciplines, with club-organized events in Road Racing, Road Rally, Ice Race, Solo I time trials, Solo II autoslaloms and Drifting.

Photo Courtesy of Jason Chiovitti- Coopersport.ca

 

You should bring the car down to St. Louis this weekend.

 

No, you should bring your car to Mosport next month!

Actually it's not as easy as it sounds. As far as your friendly border guards are concerned, this car was never born. It was built from a fresh shell. If they are talking about not letting a Canadian in if he doesn't have a passport, I can't see them accepting a car without papers. Not to mention that I don't have the budget for the trip...

 

That's a good lookin' race car! Do you have any more photos of it in action, or up close?

 

Thanks! I have tons of pictures available, including the building process; I'm just waiting to find someone with expertise who is willing to volunteer his time to build me a web-site. Any volunteer????

 

Great job Alain!

 

Great Job ...What suspesion/coilovers do you run ?

 

Ohhh.....Ohhhhh, I know the answer to this....

 

They are Bilstein Motorsport.

 

Thanks Greg. Anxiously awaiting to get you to put yours sunny side up...

micahbones, Here's another one for you, fresh from my inbox!

 

Right on -- the orange looks outstanding! Did you source it from another car, or is it you own custom color?

Can you ever make it to the states to come racing? I know you mentioned some customs issues in a previous post.

One of the events I most want to do is Targa Newfoundland - I will get there someday once I can find the $5Gs and the time to go do it...

 

I'll see if my website guy is interested....
Mines not finished but you can get the idea...
www.patharrison.ca

 

Alain, I'll talk to my website guy and see if he's interested. Here's mine, it's not finished but you get the idea...
www.patharrison.ca

 

Where are you located, i organize lapping events at shannonville all summer. If you want to come shake down the race car sometime let me know. I'm in montreal.

Amit

 

What dates do you have coming up?

 

Amit,

I'm also in Montreal. Just let us know when you have dates and we'll see if we can fit it in the schedule!

 

[quote=djafactor]Where are you located, i organize lapping events at shannonville all summer. If you want to come shake down the race car sometime let me know. I'm in montreal.

Amit, good to hear you're still around. Let me know when you go because I would like to join you.

BTW, I PMd you a couple of times. after the pulley party at the Bimmershop.

john