Barber Motorsports Park
Baltimore
09/02/2011
Kasemets grabs opportunity with TMR
BALTIMORE -- Tonis Kasemets wasn’t ready to give up his racing career.
The 37-year-old Estonian-born driver, who now proudly races as a new American citizen, returned to Firestone Indy Lights for the Baltimore Grand Prix with Team Moore Racing as driver of the No. 22 Xtreme Coil Drilling car.
“It’s a fantastic opportunity for me, especially timing where I am at in my racing career,” said Kasemets, who made five Indy car starts during the 2006 Champ Car season. "Team Moore giving me the opportunity is pretty wicked."
Kasemets, who last competed at Toronto in 2010, had a pair of sixth-place finishes to highlight the season. His first look at the 2-mile Baltimore Grand Prix street circuit came as the driver coach for USF2000 team Pabst Racing Services.
He got his first look from behind the wheel when Firestone Indy Lights cars took to the track for their lone practice session, in which he was eighth of the 16 drivers on track with a best lap of 1 minute, 29.5324 seconds.
“I’m pretty OK learning tracks, and I know the team’s track record is very good,” he said. “We’ll keep our noses down and keep digging and hopefully we can come away with a finish better than sixth.”
Firestone Indy Lights championship points leader Josef Newgarden was quickest in the session (1:27.5145) in the No. 11 Copart/Score Big/Robo-Pong/Sam Schmidt Motorsports car. Teammate Conor Daly was second (1:28.0619) in the No. 77 Mazda Road to Indy entry.
“I thought the track was pretty cool," Daly said. "Good fun to get back in a Firestone Indy Lights car, the team gave us some great cars, I’m looking forward to the rest of the weekend."
The opening day of practice for the 35-lap race Sept. 4 was delayed as crews re-installed fencing that was taken down as part of preparations for Hurricane Irene last weekend. Two sessions were scheduled. Teams/drivers are scheduled to have a 45-minute practice session before qualifications at 11:05 a.m. (ET).
Victor Carbone, driving the No. 3 Nevoni/Sam Schmidt Motorsports car, was third on the time chart and Esteban Guerrieri -- the fourth Sam Schmidt Motorsports driver -- was fourth.
“I think everyone did a great job of prepping for the track and going through the simulations before getting here, so it seems that we at least have a strong starting package for us as a base for the race this weekend," Newgarden said of the Sam Schmidt Motorsports contingent. "We really just need to be focusing on progressing that as time allows us to this weekend. I’m looking forward to the challenges of this place. It’s bumpy in some spots and smooth in others, so it’s going to be a fun circuit to race on for sure and will provide interesting challenges for everyone.”
Stefan Wilson of Andretti Autosport was fifth on the time sheet and Gustavo Yacaman in the No. 2 TMR-Tuvacol-Xtreme Coil Drilling car was sixth.
source: http://www.indycar.com/
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Mark Boden and Tonis Kasemets will campaign the No. 46 Fall-Line Motorsports BMW M3. Boden, Fall-Line Motorsports team owner, ran selected races last year as he was recovering from foot surgery. “Last year was a banner year by winning the driver and team championships,” says Mark. “We have continued to work hard during the off season and we have a strong driver-line up for 2011. We are excited to kick off the new season at Daytona.”
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