June 25, 2008

Rain, Contact and Progress at Mid-Ohio

Mansfield, OH—Christian Miller scored his fourth consecutive sixth-place finish at Mid-Ohio, keeping his championship hopes alive amid a rather forgettable weekend for the Compass360 Racing team.

With two cars having been written off at the last two race meetings (the #76 Honda Civic Si at Lime Rock and the #75 Acura TSX at Mosport), the team brought last year’s Acura RSX-S out of retirement for Miller and co-driver Travis Walker, and arranged for Kevin York to drive in a BMW with Fountain Motorsports (numbered 75 to try and keep some team points) alongside Marko Radisic.

June 19, 2008

The Art of Overcoming Adversity

THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN is a truly wonderful book. A tale about an aspiring race car driver, Denny Swift, and how the lessons he’s learned on track help him through a time of remarkable adversity, as told by his dog Enzo. The book’s been well-received by critics, is well-positioned on the New York Times’ Bestseller List, and is currently Starbuck’s Book of the Month selection. The book’s author, Garth Stein, was one Good Morning America earlier this week talking about it.

The publisher, Harper Collins Canada, is using our #75 Acura as part of the promotion of the book.

June 17, 2008

The Inspiration for Denny Swift

This is a short clip of part of an interview (broadcast on ABC Now earlier this week) with Garth Stein, author of THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, talking about our driver, Kevin York, and how he’s the inspiration for the lead character in the book, Denny Swift.

June 16, 2008

Another Top-Five for C360R at Mosport

ANOTHER TOP-FIVE FOR COMPASS360 RACING AT MOSPORT
Fifth and Sixth-Place Finishes for Team Despite Challenges at Home Race

BOWMANVILLE, ON—Compass360 Racing brought four Acuras to do battle at Mosport. The team’s bright orange RSX-S, which was taken out of retirement to stand-in for the new C360R Honda Civic that debuted—and was destroyed—at Lime Rock, joined the three matte-black TSXs for an all-out assault on the top spots.

June 15, 2008

Burrows and Hopwood Score Fifth at Mosport

2007 Grand-Am KONI Challenge Champions Adam Burrows and Trevor Hopwood finished a fighting fifth in the #74 Fischer Skis/Compass360 Racing Acura TSX at Mosport International Raceway on Saturday after Grand-Am officials made a rules change midway through the opening caution period which set the duo too far back in the field to make a return to the Mosport podium.
Burrows opened the race from eighth on the grid, and was quickly up to third in the ST Class order early in the two and a half hour race as the champs were hoping to go one better than their second place finish from the 2007 Mosport event as he gave chase to a remarkably fleet 01 entry from Georgian Bay Motorsports.

June 15, 2008

Father’s Day at Mosport

First off, I have to make it clear that the idea of a “Father’s Day” report is entirely John Vincent’s. John owns and Crew Chiefs the #24 V-Pack BMW, and our dads are both a big part of our race teams. The plan was to do a joint blog with a nice photo of all of us at Mosport, but the weekend’s events (which included us writing off our second car in two races—of which more in my next report) meant that never happened. So look for John’s thoughts on Father’s Day in a separate report, with mine below…

June 12, 2008

C360R Look to Build on Lime Rock Momentum at Mosport

BOWMANVILLE, ON—With two of their team cars placed solidly in second and third in the Driver’s Championship standings following Grand Am’s Memorial Day feature at Lime Rock Park, Connecticut, Compass360 Racing (C360R) is working hard to solidify (and improve) those positions during the KONI Challenge Father’s Day event at Mosport this weekend.

June 06, 2008

C360R’s TSX at Mosport Media Kick-off in Toronto

The C360R #75 Acura TSX was on display during Mosport’s media launch today.

Canadian racing legend Scott Maxwell and C360R’s Karl Thomson were in attendance to give a presentation to the invited media, and to provide some background on the KONI Challenge and road racing. Three drivers in the NASCAR Canadian Tire series were also in attendance, and there was an interesting discussion of what comprised a “stock car!”

June 04, 2008

Getting Ready for Mosport

Mosport is a special track. It’s one of those circuits that, like Watkins Glen and Laguna Seca, are recognized as one of the best places to race in North America. Like those tracks, it’s got great motorsports history, including epic Formula One and Can-Am battles that are the stuff of legend. It’s a track that rewards commitment, consistency and (as anyone who’s done corner two the way must be) it’s not for the faint of heart!

Thankfully, this amazing stretch of tarmac, this motorsports mecca, is less than one hour from my front door.