Saturday August 9, 2025 by Philippe Brasseur
The strong heat, the blue sky and a circuit of three-rivières with the platforms very widely filled all day, this was the program for the second day of activity this Saturday. If a lot of neutralizations have slowed down the rhythm of the 9 races at times, there was still a very good show, including during the qualification of Nascar Canada where Marc-Antoine Camirand signed a new track record (1’06 “377) for the series.
Camirand will therefore start the race of tomorrow in pole position, in front of the other car in GM colors, that of Andrew Ranger. Alex Tagliani, Louis-Philippe Dumoulin, Alex Guénette, Kevin Lacroix, Raphaël Lessard and Alex Labbé complete a 100% Quebec top. DJ Kennington and Simon Charbonneau follow. Jean-François Dumoulin has qualified 12ᵉ, the Italian Vittorio Ghirelli 14ᵉ, ahead of Mathieu Kingsbury, Donald Theetge and Simon Dion-Viens. 29 pilots played this session.
The F1600 series presented two races this Saturday. Stewart Ross, Connor Clubine and Boss Patel made the top 3 all-categories in the morning test. In the afternoon, in a race marked by a spectacular grip at three cars which sent Marc-Antoine Cardin in barrel, Clubine preceded Ross and Patel. Victim of a hanging yesterday, Didier Schraenen finished the two heats of this Saturday at 6ᵉ and 8ᵉ places.
On the series side which had a single race for their program this Saturday, in modified legends, Reily O’Connel won in front of Quebecer Jessy Lambert and Alexandre Jeannotte. In historical cars (CVQ), the victory returned to Bertrand Dupuis while in Cup Nissan Sentra, Frédérick Chaput won a second consecutive gain. Starting from pole position, he led from start to finish. The fight behind him kept the broad audience in suspense, refreshed in the itchy by the firefighters to support the intense heat. At the cost of a spectacular surpassing on Nicolas Lévesque, Nicolas Barrette ensured second place. Lévesque completes the podium, ahead of Bruno Spengler who fought the whole race with Raphaël St-Pierre and Valérie Limoges, classified 5ᵉ and 6ᵉ.
In the mayor’s cup, Ontario Kyle Marcelli (Porsche 992 GT3 R) dominated the race. Quebecer Martin Burrowes (Ferrari 296 GT3) finishes 2ᵉ at 35 seconds and the Ontario Shaun McKaigue (Porsche 992 GT3 Cup) 3ᵉ in a turn.
In super production challenge, the race bringing together 35 competitors promised a lot. Alas, she was almost carefully disputed under a yellow flag. The main race fact was the surpassing of Gabriel Lacombe on Guillaume Labbé. Both pilots of the Empire Motorsports team (Honda Civic), they exchanged the positions in what turned out to be the last lap under the green flag. Leader in the championship, Alexandre Fortin (Nissan Z) gave everything to try to break the domination of Lacombe and Labbé, but a head-to-one made him fall 12ᵉ. Nathan Blok finished third. In production class, the Keven Lauzon recruit (Honda) won ahead of the mini of Yannick Lupien and Gilles Nadeau. Finally in compact class, Frédéric Bernier (Nissan Micra) left 4ᵉ but he managed, in three small laps under the green flag, to climb in the front row. Jean Audet and Maïka Chamberland complete the podium.
The two radical prototypes, a series that begins at the GP3R this year and which won the fans, saw the leader’s double victory in the Brady Clapham championship. Alex Tagliani finished the second second times. He started this weekend in the series this weekend, just like Jean-Christophe Trahan, who ranked 4ᵉ in the first race before losing 6ᵉ place a few laps from the end in the second and be classified 10ᵉ.
