Protoform WCICS Rd4 – Report
The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 4 landed in the capital city of Edmonton, Alberta. Hosted by NASCAR, it was a very cold Winter weekend, perfect for indoor racing. Running on new black carpet, NASCAR took their track design to a completely different level, with a beautiful layout complete with green felt inserts. In the Touring Modified class top Western Canadian racer, Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah was in top form at his home club, and dominated the first two A-mains. Xray teammates Blake Bell and Danny Buck would each take a 2nd, and fellow Xray driver Luke Pittman would take 3rd both opening rounds. With Wayne’s place secured, and sitting out A3, Blake Bell would lock up 2nd overall, and Luke would take 2nd over top privateer Josh Carter to take the final podium spot. Danny Buck shown in podium picture but points were later corrected to Luke.
In Touring Stock, again the biggest class of the weekend, local driver Ryan Berry would top A1, with Xray’s Luke Pittman in 2nd, and Awesomatix’s Wayne May in third after some bad luck. Wayne would come back in A2, winning, with Xray’s Danny Buck in second, and fellow Xray driver Ryan Rice in 3rd. With such a mix, it came down to A3 to decide the final results. Wayne would take it, followed by Luke and Ryan Rice. But with his A1 win, Ryan Berry would hold onto 3rd overall, with Wayne taking top spot over Luke.
Local fast driver Leo Alic would lay down the Mini domination with wins in the opening two mains. Ivan Chan would take 2nd, with Matt Wilford and Dennis Liew trading 3rds. Leo would watch as Dennis would win A3, followed by Walter Slany and Tim Blackwell. Overall final standings were Leo, Ivan and Dennis.
The Legend of Saskatoon, Gary Lanzer would dominate Scale Spec again, just like he did in Airdrie, taking double wins. Dennis Beck taking two 2nds. 3rd place would be battled out by Matt Wilford, Cam Spence and Lance Radke, and Chris Jackman all finishing in the top 3 of the mains, but Matt would take the final trophy home.
In the fastest class of the weekend, 1/12th Modified, former Canadian National Champion, Team Xray’s Blake Bell would take the first two legs, followed both times by Korgae Scales. Jason Melnyk took 3rd in A1, and Team Associated’s Peter Toszer took it in the next round. Peter got his car dialed for A3 taking the win, followed by Korgae again in 2nd, and Jason in 3rd, giving the final order of Blake, Peter and Korgae.
In the second biggest class of the weekend, 1/12th Stock, Xray’s Luke Pittman was unstoppable, winning both rounds and parking his car on the top podium spot. Xray’s Ryan Rice took 2nd in A1,followed by Ivan Chan. Ivan would take the next second, followed by Rob Mcquarrie. Ryan Rice would battle back for 2nd in R3, just behind Ivan, with Dean Temple in 3rd to give the final order of Luke, Ivan and Ryan.
Mission BC’s Korgae Scales, in his first season running Formula would take both wins again, just like in Airdrie. Steve Weins would beat Walter Slany across in A1, and Steve would beat Dave Lengyel in A2. In the final round Ivan Chan would take the win, followed again by Steve and Walter in 2nd and 3rd. Overall the podium would see Korgae, Steve and Ivan.
Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]
