Daniel Quimby received the primary race of the weekend for Formulation 4 United States Championship introduced by Mosport Karting Centre (F4 U.S.) at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP) on Saturday morning. After rain showers soaked the monitor early this morning, Quimby (No. 24 Cruise America / MIR Raceline / FIJI Airways / GalvanizeIns Ligier JS F422) overcame difficult monitor situations to earn his third win of the 2024 season.
With a drying circuit, drivers and groups got the selection to pick between treaded Hankook wets or racing slicks earlier than heading out on monitor as the primary race group of the day. Three formation laps allowed drivers to look at monitor situations earlier than the inexperienced flag waved. Quimby received a stable begin to pull forward of second-place qualifier Nicolas Stati (No. 15 AGI Sport Ligier JS F422) earlier than they reached Flip 1. Fourth-place qualifier Alex Crosbie (No. 41 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) suffered a mechanical challenge in the course of the formation laps, permitting Barrett Wolfe (No. 13 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) and Lincoln Day (No. 54 MLT Motorsports Ligier JS F422) to each climb within the working order when the inexperienced flag waved. Nonetheless, a spin and proceed by Day relegated him within the area, as Wolfe moved into fourth. Minutes later, the security automotive was deployed for a full-course warning when Wolfe made gentle contact with the Flip 10 tire barrier. Unable to restart the race earlier than time ran out, Quimby led the sector throughout the end line with Stati behind him in second and Connor Roberts (No. 46 ApexSpeed.com / Entropy Cellars Ligier JS F422) in third.
“It was a difficult race this morning,” stated Quimby after the race. “Monitor situations have been powerful. It was fairly damp, and it may be laborious to select up the place the grip is across the monitor. It was a fast race, however hopefully we’ll get an excellent run on this afternoon. I’d prefer to thank Motorhome Republic, Fiji Airways, Atlantic, MIR, my workforce—Lucas, Trevor—my dad, and everybody that’s supporting me out right here.”
Quimby took the victory once more in an exciting second race Saturday afternoon. Overtaking the chief simply minutes into the race, Quimby opened over a 13s lead en path to the checkered flag in a race that stayed inexperienced from flag to flag.
Setting the quick lap in race one Sunday morning, Stati led the sector down the beginning grid with Quimby lined as much as the skin. Leaping out entrance as quickly because the inexperienced flag waved, Stati took command of the race. Nonetheless, with Quimby and Roberts tight on his gearbox, the three raced across the circuit with lower than 0.3s separating them as they accomplished the primary lap. Whereas they battled up entrance, Crosbie was on the transfer in the back of the sector, transferring as much as fourth from his sixth-place beginning place throughout the first two laps of the race. As they accomplished the fourth lap, Stati made a mistake racing by Flip 10, which allowed Quimby to make a transfer across the exterior and overtake the lead. With Quimby crossing the road simply 0.295s forward of Stati, Stati quickly had his mirrors filled with Roberts’ machine, with Roberts finishing the move for second the very subsequent lap.
Opening up a 2.273s hole earlier than they made it again to the beginning/end line, Quimby by no means regarded again as he in the end opened greater than a 13s lead. In the meantime, Roberts began to fall into his rhythm within the runner-up place. Behind him, Crosbie was chasing down Stati with the intention of overtaking third. Finishing the move simply after the race’s midway level, Crosbie turned his focus to Roberts, however was unable to finish the move earlier than the checkered flag waved.
As they crossed the end line, Quimby led, with Roberts in second and Crosbie in third.
“It was a tricky race,” stated Quimby after climbing from the automotive. “We received to chop a pair extra laps than this morning, which was good. The automotive was good; clearly, we had new tires that race. I used to be making an attempt to save lots of my tires firstly, so I sat behind him for slightly bit. I believe I managed my tires a bit higher than I believe he did. As soon as I handed him, I used to be in a position to management the race from there and received to save lots of a little bit of tire for tomorrow.”
F4 U.S. wraps up their weekend within the Nice White North with race three at CTMP scheduled for 9:00 a.m. ET Sunday. Reside timing and scoring for all of this weekend’s classes will probably be accessible on the Race Monitor App, with further information and updates posted on the sequence’ social channels: Fb, Instagram and X.
