Atlantic
Mosport: Team Stargate World qualifying report
Simona De Silvestro Qualifies 2nd, while Muniz's Injury Sidelines Him Team Stargate World's Simona De Silvestro took to the Mospsort International Raceway track today and qualified in the second position. Improving from a fifth place practice ...
Published: Oct 2, 2009, 4:20 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Simona De Silvestro Qualifies 2nd, while Muniz's Injury Sidelines Him
Team Stargate World's Simona De Silvestro took to the Mospsort International Raceway track today and qualified in the second position. Improving from a fifth place practice effort yesterday, the youngster, and current Championship points leader put on another strong qualifying effort in preparation for tomorrow's Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda race. Despite a 30 minute delay due to wet and foggy conditions at the track the determined De Silvestro kept her focus and put on a very strong effort. A solid qualifying effort was needed today if she was going to have a chance at continuing her momentum and keep her lead in the Championship.
Her teammate Frankie Muniz will not be competing at this weekend's event and looks to have prematurely finished his 2009 racing season as a result of a first lap incident at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The ensuing injury required Muniz to have 2 pins inserted into his left hand this week and made any chance of returning to racing this year nearly impossible.
Simona De Silvestro, Driver No. 78 - "It was a little bit of a crazy qualifying session considering it started off wet and then changed. In the end though I am happy with the qualifying effort. Starting in the second spot will help us a lot in the overall scheme of things and starting 2 positions in front of my competitor John Edwards helps us even more. I'm very grateful for the team's efforts and know that we will have a very fast car for tomorrow's race"
-credit: tsw
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Mosport: Series qualifying report
Next article Series stays with IMSA sanctioning in 2010
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
John Edwards
BMW “in the hunt” for Rolex 24 victory, says Rahal
IMSA
IMSA
Daytona 24
BMW “in the hunt” for Rolex 24 victory, says Rahal
VIR IMSA: Ford’s Westbrook grabs pole in wet and wild qualifying
IMSA
IMSA
VIR IMSA: Ford’s Westbrook grabs pole in wet and wild qualifying
Lime Rock IMSA: Bruni takes his first pole for Porsche
IMSA
IMSA
Lime Rock
Lime Rock IMSA: Bruni takes his first pole for Porsche
Latest news
Ferrari set for crunch meeting as Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc tension reaches Brazil
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Sao Paulo GP
17 min
Ferrari set for crunch meeting as Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc tension reaches Brazil
Who is racing in MotoGP's Qatar GP and who is absent?
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP
Qatar GP
1 h
Who is racing in MotoGP's Qatar GP and who is absent?
How F1’s rules got to be so complex
Formula 1
How F1’s rules got to be so complex
Kimi Antonelli: “My 2027 preparation starts now” after F1 title triumph
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Sao Paulo GP
1 h
Kimi Antonelli: “My 2027 preparation starts now” after F1 title triumph
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe