Atlantics: Round 1 - Sebring

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The offseason is dead. Long live real Open wheel racing.

Sebring International Raceway
location: Sebring, FL
length: 3.7 miles
turns: 17

Schedule: (all time EST)
Atlantic Qualifying #1 3/18/2009 (today) 3:50 - 4:30pm
Atlantic Qualifying #2 3/19/2009 12:50 - 1:30pm
Atlantic Race 3/20/2009 2:00 - 2:45pm


Live Timing and Scoring: (works on mobile phone)
courtesy IMSA
http://www.imsaracing.net/imsaNS2.cfm?h=/2003/live/livetimingheader.htm&p=/2003/live/radiowebnew.htm


News updates from the track:
courtesy eformulacarnews.com
http://www.eformulacarnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=2375

A Who's Who:
Source #1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Atlantic_Championship_season
Source #2 http://www.eformulacarnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=2111

Driver Spotlight:
Newman Wachs Racing
1) Markus Niemela - defending 2008 Atlantic champ
2) John Edwards - 2008 Star Mazda champ, won scholarship for Atlantics. Raced for Forsythe's Atlantic program in 2007, but took a gamble by taking a step back to run Star Mazda in 2008.

Conquest Racing
3) James Winslow - 2008 Australian F3 champ

Genoa Racing
4) Frederic Vervisch - 2008 German and Asian F3 champion

Condor Motorsports
5) Borja Garcia - 2004 Spanish F3 champion

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Qualifying #1 Results:

1. Jonathan Summerton - Genoa Racing - 1:53.571
2. Frederic Vervisch - Genoa Racing - 1:53.625
3. John Edwards - Newman Wachs Racing - 1:53.715
4. Harald Schlegelmilch - Conquest Racing - 1:53.810
5. Borja Garcia - Condor Motorsports - 1:53.984
6. Markus Niemela - Newman Wachs Racing - 1:54.083
7. Jonathan Bomarito - Mathiasen Motorsports - 1:54.206
8. Simona De Silvestro - Team Stargate Worlds - 1:54.525
9. Frankie Muniz - Team Stargate Worlds - 1:54.846
10. Matt Lee - Jensen MotorSport - 1:54.955
11. Tonis Kasemets - Polestar Motor Racing - 1:55.036
12. Max Lefevre - Condor Motorsports - 1:56.130
13. James Winslow - Conquest Racing - 1:56.531
14. Mirl Swan (C2) - Swan Racing - 1:58.965
15. Sadat Yelkin (C2) - Swan Racing - 1:59.275
16. Ahsen Yelkin (C2) - Swan Racing - 2:01.430
17. Chris Lee (C2) - Swan Racing - 2:01.561
18. Michael Nacol - Jensen MotorSport - 2:01.619
19. Michael Mallinen - Swan Racing - 3:05.027

[NismoZ]

:thumbup: Summerton to F-1 !:D

[Trevor Longman]

WOW! Thats the same time as the LMP2's!

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Qualifying #2 on now.

Times are about 2 seconds slower than yesterday.

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IMSA timing results available:

http://imsatiming.com/Results/2009/Atlantics/

[NismoZ]

So, Edwards won?...yup, Edwards, Vervisch, Summerton 1-2-3. Simona 5th. Frankie 10th. '08 champ Niemela got upside down on lap 1 after contact with Bomarito. (Sorry, just saw the above. Wasn't getting anything earlier.)