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Vincec racks up air miles running European Championship

Voted Top Canadian Karter in recent motorsport fan pole 

While Mike Vincec prepares for his first local race in over six months, he has had very little time to relax following a month-long whirlwind tour that took him  twice across the Atlantic plus trips to Florida and Utah. The lead driver for the Cameron Motorsports team out of Hamilton, Ontario raced in the European Karting Championships with the CRG factory team as well as in North America in the Stars of Karting series. 

Vincec, who recently turned seventeen, was invited to join the CRG factory team earlier this year to contest the European Championships in the KZ2 shifter class. Following some testing in Italy back in February of this year, Mike would return to North America for the first race in the Stars of Karting series taking place in Ocala, Florida. He would have a strong outing in his Cameron Motorsport CRG ICC taking two top-five results. He currently sits second overall in the east division. 

Returning home, Mike would have time to pack before headiong off to Angerville, France for testing ahead of the European series¹ first race. He would fly directly from France to Utah for another Stars of Karting event - this time in the west division. Mike would have a top-five finish in race one but problems kept him out of the points in race two. 

Mike would then fly back to France for the opening round of the European Championships. This is a hotly contested series and the KZ2 class alone had 107 entries. Vincec and tuner, Mike Roth from Cameron Motorsport, took what knowledge had been attained in the previous test and turned it into an appearance in the final races having qualifying 33rd on points after 5 qualifying heat races.  

In race one, Mike would make up a number of positions sitting P20 before gearbox problems forced him out. He would start the final race from 28th on the grid and working traffic, be up to P12 at the finish. At the time the checkers flew, he was battling for a top-ten position. 

After a great run in France, Mike would return home to Stouffville and some more good news when motorsport publication Inside Track News announced the winners of their fan pole after over 5000 votes. Mike would be selected as Top Canadian Kart Racer of 2007. 

"It is really great to be selected by the fans and my peers for such a honour² commented Vincec. ³We had a really good season in 2007 in both the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship Series and Stars of Karting. I am proud of our accomplishments and have to thank the Cameron Motorsports crew for giving me the opportunity, and the equipment to have a successful season" 

With the karting season just beginning here at home, Mike will be on track this weekend for the first round of the Ontario Regional Karting Championship taking place at Goodwood Kartways just northeast of Toronto.  

Mike Vincec Facts: The seventeen year old Stoufffville, Ontario native, a member of the Cameron Motorsports National Team, would record three championships in the 2007 Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship. In 2006 at age fifteen, he was voted Rookie of The Year in the Stars of Karting Championship in ICC and he would also be crowned Canadian National ICC Champion.