National Team: Florida Winter Tour
Preview
January 9, 2007
Some impressive results have been posted for the Hamilton, Ontario
based Cameron Motorsports CRG National Race Team in Homestead
Florida this past weekend. Team drivers running in Rotax and DD2
brought home four podiums and all drivers had strong outings at the
first event of the Florida Winter Tour.
The Cameron Motorsports sponsored DD2 class saw
rookie 2-stroke driver Michael Di Meo, who raced at the front of the
pack, rewarded with two wins on the weekend after a competitor was
disqualified. Michael was ecstatic with his first experience at the
wheel of the potent CMI/CRG/Rotax DD2 combo, “This is amazing, I
am so happy with the results, Trevor’s input kept me at the front
all weekend”. Di Meo, a new driver on the CMI team is under the
guidance and expert hands of tuner Trevor Wickens. Wickens will work
with Di Meo next weekend in 125 ICC shifter where Michael will make
his debut in the headline class. He is confident and his tuner
Wickens is no stranger to the animal he is tuning.
In Rotax Max Junior David Ostella kicked off
his season with two second place finishes after qualifying ninth
Saturday and eighth on Sunday. David drove his Cameron Motorsports
CRG kart, tuned by driver coach/tuner Mike Roth, to podium finishes
on both days. Teammate Alex Ellis qualified ninth, on Sunday moving
to eighth in the prefinal, he ran a strong race in seventh place in
the final before being taken out in a racing incident. Scott Laporte,
after struggling in qualifying drove a strong race in the prefinal
moving fourteen positions.
In Rotax Max Senior, a class with many
veterans, Cameron Motorsports drivers, Lennie, Barnes, and Menotti -
all rookies this year - had a great weekend and at some point were
all running within the top 25 in a field topping over 47 drivers.
Impressed with the teams results Mike Roth, the National Team’s
Manager said, “This team has impressed me, we set goals upon
arriving in Florida for testing this past December and they have
challenged every goal and more than met them.”
Cameron Motorsports CRG National Race team will
stay in Florida and gear up for this weekends’ Group B round 1,
where ICC drivers Vincec, Raimondo, and Di Meo, ICA drivers Jolly
and Napier, JICA drivers Ostella and Carrothers and Cadet drivers Matteus Makos, and Julius Makos will prepare for another
successful race weekend.
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