{"id":16393,"date":"2012-07-18T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16393"},"modified":"2012-07-18T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:37:12","slug":"ctcc-getting-ready-for-the-2012-grand-prix-of-mosport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/cctcc\/ctcc-getting-ready-for-the-2012-grand-prix-of-mosport\/","title":{"rendered":"CTCC Getting Ready for the 2012 Grand Prix of Mosport"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second and last time this season,\u00a0 the Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) presented by Continental Tire will be racing at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (CTMP).<\/p>\n

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The Grand Prix of Mosport is expected to be a very busy weekend at CTMP. In fact, this event is the busiest in terms of spectators and series featured. CTCC will be competing for its ninth and tenth rounds over the three-day event.<\/p>\n

Competitors will be on the track beginning Friday with one practice session at the end of the day. Saturday morning, a qualifying session will start the day at 8:45 am to prepare for Round 9 at 7:00 pm the same day. Drivers will be back on Sunday afternoon at 5:45 pm for Round 10.<\/p>\n

Tickets to attend this event are available at www.canadiantiremotorsportpark.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon, at 2:00 pm, come and meet CTCC drivers in the Continental Tire Fan Zone as they will be signing autographs for the fans!<\/p>\n

Going into the second half of the season, the competitors that are leading each cclass are doing well with small but comfortable margins. Amongst the field this weekend, a few new drivers are expected. In Touring Class, Marlin Langeveldt will get behind the wheel of the #71 Mazda RX8 for the first time this season. Also participating in their first event in Super Class is Gunter Schmidt in the #38 Chevrolet Cobalt and Martin Gray in the #19 Pontiac Solstice. Amongst the other drivers that will compete in B-Spec Class this weekend, Russ Bond will fight for a podium position in the #2 Mazda2 Media Race Car. Bond\u00a0 has covered motorsports for more than 20 years and now, the Russ Bond Agency owns a variety of websites that include, www.canadiankartingnews.com, www.canadianracers.com, and the fast paced automotive site, www.painkillerz.ca.<\/p>\n

The CTCC Standings leaders are as follow:<\/p>\n

Super Class<\/strong><\/em>
\nDriver Car Points
\nSasha Anis #14 \u2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 881
\nJonathan Rashleigh #86 \u2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 676
\nPhilip Fayer #3 \u2013 Pontiac Solstice 673<\/p>\n

Touring Class<\/strong><\/em>
\nDriver Car Points
\nMichel Sallenbach #46 \u2013 MINI Cooper S JCW 873
\nPaul Gravel #48 \u2013 MINI Cooper S JCW 694
\nJacques B\u00e9langer #29 \u2013 Honda Civic Si 671<\/p>\n

B-Spec Class<\/strong> <\/em>
\nDriver Car Points
\nNick Wittmer #91 \u2013 Honda Fit 925
\nSimon Dion-Viens #17 \u2013 Honda Fit 643
\nGreg Pootmans #33 \u2013 Honda Fit 437<\/p>\n

Fans can keep track of live CTCC competition with their smartphone or computer by connecting to www.livetiming.net\/ctcc. CTCC live timing is available whenever and wherever the race cars are on the track.<\/p>\n

For more details about CTCC, visit www.touringcar.ca<\/a> or follow CTCC on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

About CTCC<\/strong>
\nThe Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) presented by Continental Tire is the only truly Canadian professional road racing series and it showcases race cars based on their original stock street version. The entry-level B-Spec Class introduces a sub-compact car category with a stock engine and strictly controlled modifications; the Touring Class features cars with minimal modifications, while Super Class machines have powerful and heavily modified engines and advanced aerodynamics. All three classes compete at the same time on the track and challenge for supremacy in their class.<\/p>\n

Experience the rush of touring car racing!<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 RIF | CTCC<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second and last time this season,\u00a0 the Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) presented by Continental Tire will be racing at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (CTMP). The Grand Prix of Mosport is expected to be a very busy weekend at CTMP. In fact, this event is the busiest in terms of spectators and series …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1634,2120],"tags":[3929,5376,2723,3930,5415,5441,3931,3932],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16397,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16393\/revisions\/16397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}