Colin Thompson

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  • F1600 Series Closes at WGI

    2011

    To the disappointment of many, the inaugural F1600 series came to its conclusion this past weekend at WGI. I wanted to thank Mike Rand, Monty Mathisen and the rest of the team for putting on a great year and drawing together great competition at some fantastic tracks with incredible events such as Watkins Glen’s Grand Am race weekend. [...]

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  • CTR Contest

    CTR Contest

    Round two! I am proud to present the second CTR Contest: Outline: As I take off to the season finale at Watkins Glen International Raceway, I am focusing on speed and solid finishing results. How well do you think I will execute this? Submit what time you think my fastest time of the weekend will [...]

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  • The Number 3 at LRP

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    This past weekend at Lime Rock Park (LRP), was certainly my best weekend thus far this season. Surprisingly, the weekend began pretty rough as we had major electrical failures after the first practice session. This failure caused us to go through the entire car to find the error. By the time we found it, we [...]

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I am proud to announce that I will be driving with Belardi Auto Racing for the 2012 USF2000 race season. This is a large step in my career, and it is great to be able to see the progression that I have made from my switch to road racing in 2010, just two years ago. [...]

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To the disappointment of many, the inaugural F1600 series came to its conclusion this past weekend at WGI. I wanted to thank Mike Rand, Monty Mathisen and the rest of the team for putting on a great year and drawing together great competition at some fantastic tracks with incredible events such as Watkins Glen’s Grand Am race weekend. [...]

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Round two! I am proud to present the second CTR Contest: Outline: As I take off to the season finale at Watkins Glen International Raceway, I am focusing on speed and solid finishing results. How well do you think I will execute this? Submit what time you think my fastest time of the weekend will [...]

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This past weekend at Lime Rock Park (LRP), was certainly my best weekend thus far this season. Surprisingly, the weekend began pretty rough as we had major electrical failures after the first practice session. This failure caused us to go through the entire car to find the error. By the time we found it, we [...]

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I present the first ever Colin Thompson Racing (CTR) Contest! During my next Pro F1600 Series race at Lime Rock Park, 9/16/11 – 9/17/11, I will be holding a contest during qualifying. To win this contest you must have the closest guess to my qualifying time during the first qualifying session. The rules for this [...]

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I was honored to be selected as one of the best up and coming drivers of 2011. To be selected as a Team USA Nominee after only 2 years in road racing is simply incredible. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Jeremy Shaw to choose me as one of the best drivers [...]

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I just had an amazing weekend at Watkins Glen International Raceway! I was in the top 5 for all sessions out of 28 cars in the Pro F1600 Series. It proved to be a landmark of the season that I could build off of to continue on my way to my first win. Race one [...]

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I returned from Summit Point Raceway on Sunday, May 22nd  after having a mixed results weekend. I had a great practice day followed by a great qualifying day where I was able to lay down a time four tenths of a second under track record and seven tenths of a second under second places qualifying [...]

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This weekend I head off for my first SCCA National event of the 2011 season. I will be running the same Formual F that I run for the Pro F1600 series except now the car will have a slightly smaller restrictor. I will be treating this race weekend as a practice race for the next F1600 race, which is at [...]

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As I return from my race at Virginia International Raceway (VIR), I am very pleased with the results and the amount that I was able to learn and grow over the short time period. I entered the weekend with absolutely zero seat time in the car and only 5 total formula car races in my [...]

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