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Livengood Edges Connery for Pole 

Chris Livengood missed out on a race win to Kyle Connery on Friday at Mosport but bounced back for the Saturday morning F2000 qualifying session to take the Afterburner Pole over Connery by three hundredths of a second with a lap of 1:21.000 around the 10-turn road course.

Livengood took the lead during Friday’s first F2000 race from Remy Audette on lap two before Connery tracked him down in the closing stages to grab his fourth win of the year.

Livengood, driving for Work Racing/John Walko Racing, won his second career F2000 Championship Series race at Mid-Ohio in early July and hopes to continue the momentum at Mosport.

American rookie Connery will line up on the outside of the front row, with a fast lap of 1:21.037 in the #91 CC Autosport and James Lee Racing entry. Connery bagged yet another win at Mosport during Friday’s race, passing Audette for second and then Livengood for the lead. Connery has just five races left to run down Audette from a sizable gap in the Championship.

Robert La Rocca finished fourth on Friday and hopes to find the podium as the weekend concludes in Ontario, as the RFR chassis for HP-Tech Motorsport qualified third.

Championship leader Audette had to settle for fourth in his #21 Audette Racing Van Diemen after leading on Friday from pole on his home turf in Canada.

Tim Minor will line up fifth, the position he finished in during Friday’s race in the #88 Ski Motorsports entry.

Matt McDonough qualified the new Radon chassis in sixth place, but will start from the rear of the field, using the race for more testing miles.

Zach Craigo continued the momentum from his best finish ever on Friday – sixth – to qualify seventh for Front Range Motorsports with teammate Dwight Rider in eighth, Dan Denison in ninth for Polestar Racing Group and Brent Gilkes rounding out the top ten.

Gustavo Rizzo missed the session and will miss the last race of the weekend at Mosport following a crash during Friday’s race.

The weekend at Mosport concludes with a 6:05 p.m. scheduled race start. Follow live on www.F2000Series.com and on Twitter @F2000.

Race Grid:

Pos

No.

Name

Best Tm

Best Spd

In Lap

Diff

Gap

1

37

Chris Livengood

1:21.000

109.289

5

-

-

2

91

Kyle Connery

1:21.037

109.239

10

+0.037

+0.037

3

10

Robert La Rocca

1:21.314

108.867

10

+0.314

+0.277

4

21

Remy Audette

1:21.551

108.550

10

+0.551

+0.237

5

88

Tim Minor/M

1:21.813

108.203

16

+0.813

+0.262

6

77

Matt McDonough

1:22.471

107.340

11

+1.471

+0.658

7

9

Zach Craigo

1:22.511

107.288

11

+1.511

+0.040

8

60

Dwight Rider/M

1:22.818

106.890

6

+1.818

+0.307

9

51

Dan Denison/M

1:22.903

106.780

9

+1.903

+0.085

10

7

Brent Gilkes/M

1:23.347

106.211

13

+2.347

+0.444

11

26

Angel Benitez

1:23.422

106.116

13

+2.422

+0.075

12

06

Tim Paul

1:23.462

106.065

7

+2.462

+0.040

13

27

Craig Clawson/M

1:24.105

105.254

9

+3.105

+0.643

14

42

Bill Jordan/M

1:24.171

105.172

20

+3.171

+0.066

15

67

Dave Weitzenhof/M

1:24.270

105.048

3

+3.270

+0.099

16

90

Robert Wright/M

1:24.314

104.993

8

+3.314

+0.044

17

14

Fred Bross/M

1:24.744

104.460

4

+3.744

+0.430

18

22

Giancarlo Potolicchio

1:25.787

103.190

13

+4.787

+1.043

19

61

Tom Drake/M

1:25.896

103.060

2

+4.896

+0.109

 

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