LAST ROUND OF THE SKUSA WINTER TOUR IN OCALA, FLORIDA : DAVID MICHAUD COMES BACK WITH THE CHAMPIONSHIP

2004 March 24th

After having dominated all along in the ICC S1 category championship races, DAVID MICHAUD came home with the championship and a $ 1 500.00 (us) grant from ``Skip Barber's `` school. Unfortunately, while he was holding the pole position in the last race, he had to abandon because of a broken shifter.

David Michaud and his mechanic

As for KEVIN LACROIX, who participated for the first time in ICC Super Pro, he did quite well by qualifying for first position by obtaining the track record time with a new Maxter ICC engine. Unfortunately during the finals, he had a mechanical failure. Nevertheless, KEVIN will participate in the second round with the CRG team in the ‘' Open Master'' in Italy next weekend.

Kevin Lacroix

Ontarian born TYLER GIVOGUE, racing for CRG Road Rebel Pavesi PSL, raced his first season in ICC Super Pro category. He obtained an excellent second position at the SKUSA Winter Championship series. In the Ocala race, He finished respectively in second and third position in the two finals.

Tyler Givogue and the team Kart Dépot

For his first race this year, JESSY LABBÉ obtained a good ranking; third and second in the two last finals. As for his brother, ALEX LABBÉ, who participated in the Mini Max category, finished remarkably in fourth (4 th ) and sixth (6 th ) position.

Jessy Labbé

All though NICOLAS MICHAUD was one of the fastest competitors in the Rotax Max Jr category, he wasn't really lucky. Even though the signal was given more than four times for Saturday's final race, NICOLAS held third (3 rd ) position at the starting line for the last two races. NICOLAS, who was in the leading group, had a minor accident after the fourth departure signal. Still in third (3 rd ) position in Sunday's final, his gas intake cable broke.

Nicolas Michaud

As for OLIVIER SIROIS, the big prize winner in the draw for the Eastern Championship: that is a race in Florida with our team he did very well. Even though OLIVIER was at his first (1 st ) participation in the Rotax Jr category race, he finished in seventh (7 th ) position out of twenty-six (26 th ) pilots in Saturday's final. Congratulations to the whole team, to the pilots and the mechanics.

Next race: 1st race for the Eastern Championship at PSL May 2nd, 2004.