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Monday, June 13 2011

Team PSL Karting had one of its biggest team gatherings in history recently as both the Quebec Championship and Eastern Canadian Karting Championship met at Karting Trois-Rivieres for a pair of race starts. Team PSL Karting, PSL Atlantic, PSL Montreal and PSL Ontario combined to field thirty-four drivers, nearly all racing both the second round of the Quebec Championship on Saturday and the third round of the ECKC on Sunday. The group produced five pole positions, three class wins and twelve podiums before many of Canada’s best drivers packed and headed for home.

Four PSL drivers hit the podium on both days as Pier-Luc Ouellette, Marc-Antoine Cardin, Sarah McKay and Paul Carvalho were on the blocks representing three arms of the PSL empire: Ouellette and Cardin from Team PSL Karting, McKay from PSL Atlantic and Carvalho from PSL Ontario. Other podiums came from Jeffrey Kingsley, Austin Versteeg, Gianfranco Mazzaferro, and Alexander Gauthier.

After qualifying fourth on Saturday in a 23-kart field, Ouellette moved up a spot to third in the prefinal before taking the main by just over three seconds. He set the fastest lap in the field on his way to his first win of the weekend, but Sunday’s required much more work. After starting the day on pole, the DD2 drivers were the first to entertain the thoughts of dry tires and all of the drivers at the front played it safe staying on wets. It was the right choice for them, as the ECKC prefinals offer significant championship points, but those at the back bolted on dry tires and quickly jumped to the front. Ouellette then had to make his way through a number of karts in the final, and did so just in time - producing the winning move in the final set of corners on the last lap. The win also gave him a six-point lead in the ECKC Championship, a series that awards its champion with a spot on Rotax Max Team Canada.

Second place for Carvalho on Sunday means he, too, is leading an ECKC Championship, in his case the margin is five points in DD2 Masters. After qualifying fifth and advancing to fourth in the prefinal, Carvalho then took one more in the main event to score a podium and maintain his championship lead after two wins at Goodwood Kartways to begin the series. In his first start at PSL as he was learning the track a day earlier, the Masters DD2 drivers raced combined with the senior field. Carvalho started in P13, was P17 after the prefinal but made his way into the top ten in the final, finishing ninth. It was also second in Masters, giving him his first podium of the weekend and third-straight in Regional competition.

Cardin entered the PSL weekend sitting second in points after the opening of the Quebec Championship at ICAR, and now has two podiums from two starts after a third on Saturday. The PSL Junior driver had qualified in the same spot and fallen to fifth in the prefinal before storming back to podium position in the main and setting the fastest lap in the field in the process. He stood on the same podium spot Sunday after also coming forward in the main. Cardin spent much of the final in a three-way battle for the spot and emerged with it convincingly in the final laps.

Putting PSL Atlantic on the podium, McKay stood second both days in Honda Junior. Quickly recovered from an arm injury suffered at Goodwood, McKay was back pulling double-duty racing both Honda and Rotax Junior. After starting third in the Honda race Sunday, she spent much of the early stages working her way to second in a tight group before establishing the spot and running clear to the checkered flag.

Full team results can be seen below. The Quebec Championship resumes June 19th at SH Karting. The Eastern Canadian Karting Championship resumes June 25th at Mosport International Karting. For more information on the World’s #1 CRG dealer, please visit pslkarting.com.

PSL Karting Results from Quebec Championship, Round II - PSL Karting

PSL Karting Results from ECKC Round III - PSL Karting

Rotax DD2

Pier-Luc Ouellette - 1st, 1st

Nicholas Latifi - 19th, 4th

Eric Simon - 10th, PSL Ontario

Marc-Andre Bourgeois - 14th, 11th

Dominic Legrand - 22nd, 14th

Rotax Senior

Kevin King - 31st, 6th

Massimo Scotti - 7th, 9th

Nathan Kelly - 10th, 13th, PSL Atlantic

Gerald Caseley - 16th, 11th, PSL Atlantic

Simon Lauze - 12th, 26th

Pearce Herder - 26th, 12th, PSL Ontario

Kenneth O’Keefe - 34th, 14th, PSL Ontario

Jordan Kennedy - 22nd, 17th

Alessandro Bizzotto - 18th, 25th

Aaron Kennedy - 28th, 18th

Johnny Flute - 33rd, 20th, PSL Ontario

Michael Vincec - 27th, 22nd

Rotax Junior

Marc-Antoine Cardin - 3rd, 3rd

Samuel Fontaine - 7th, 6th

Alexandre Fortin - 19th, 7th

Tyler Kashak - 17th, 8th, PSL Ontario

Sarah MacKay - 15th, 12th, PSL Atlantic

Sasha Aleksic - 20th, PSL Ontario

Alex Van Snick - 22nd, 23rd, PSL Atlantic

Rotax Mini-Max

Jeffrey Kingsley - 8th, 1st

Gianfranco Mazzaferro - 2nd, 12th

Austin Versteeg - 6th, 3rd

Thierry Cote - 14th, 13th, PSL Montreal

Charles Regimbal - 15th, PSL Montreal

Rotax Micro-Max

Dylan Tavella - 6th, 6th

Rotax DD2 Masters

Paul Carvalho - 2nd, 3rd, PSL Ontario

Michel Legrand - 6th, 6th

Honda Senior

Alexandre Gauthier- 1st

Nicolas Michaud - 4th

Honda Junior

Sarah McKay - 2nd, 2nd, PSL Atlantic