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Posted by admin on Feb 1 ^st 2022 in Miscellaneous News

Jacob Douglas Joins Exclusive Autosport’s USF2000 Stable for 2022

Exclusive Autosport Release 01/Feb/2022 :

SASKATOON, SK (February 1, 2022) – Exclusive Autosport is happy to announce New Zealand’s Jacob Douglas as their first USF2000 driver for the 2022 season. Like most drivers, the 16-year-old driver got his start in karting at the age of eight, practicing and racing locally before traveling throughout New Zealand and around the world at major events. By the age of 15, Douglas was a four-time New Zealand karting champion and was the first-ever NZ karting driver to be selected by the FIA CIK Karting World Academy Championship. In 2021, Jacob began his open-wheel quest in the New Zealand Formula Ford Championship where he finished sixth in the championship and received the South Island Rookie of the Year. Jacob has been extensively testing with Exclusive Autosport during the off-season and has already built a solid connection with the crew. He’ll drive the team’s #90 JDM Properties Exclusive Autosport Tatuus USF-22.

“I feel really pleased about joining Exclusive Autosport in 2022,” said Douglas. “Throughout all of our testing so far, the team has been very welcoming and very professional. I look forward to the upcoming season with them and strongly hope to continue with them in years to come. I appreciate that in 2022 I have a steep learning curve to adapt to racing the USF2000 cars and the Road to Indy program, but I am excited to get going. It has been a big journey already just to get on the grid so I would like to thank all of my partners back in New Zealand that made this happen and I hope to see some of them over at my races this year.”

“Jacob is an exciting talent,” enthused Michael Duncalfe, Team Principal. “I have to give him a lot of credit, being a 16-year-old, and coming over to the United States on his own to work towards a career in INDYCAR. He has done a fantastic job in our initial team tests and has acclimated very well to the USF-22 race car. We are thrilled to have Jacob part of the Exclusive Autosport team, and we look forward to the season and strong performances from him.”

Exclusive Autosport is continuing with off-season testing with Jacob and his already announced Indy Pro 2000 teammates Louis Foster and Christian Brooks at scheduled events in the southern states, ahead of the official Road to Indy Spring Training event at Homestead-Miami Speedway on February 14-15, 2022. The new season officially kicks off at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg in Florida on February 25-27, running alongside the NTT INDYCAR SERIES.

Posted by admin on May 15 ^th 2021 in Road to Indy

@USF2000 – Best Results Of The Season For Thomas Nepveu At Indianapolis

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BEST RESULTS OF THE SEASON FOR THOMAS NEPVEU AT INDIANAPOLIS

9^th in race 1 – 8^th race 2 – 6^th in race 3 – Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship

Oka (Quebec, Canada) – May 15, 2021. Thomas Nepveu had a big weekend at the Indianapolis Grand Prix Circuit, a road course built inside the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval. Thomas Nepveu once again displayed his improved driving skills as he has done since the beginning of his rookie season in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship. After qualifying the #2 Cromwell| Karting Excellence| Home Hardware car in 7^thplace on Thursday, Thomas Nepveu crossed the finish line in 9^th, 8^th and 6^th places respectively in the two Friday and one Saturday races held over the weekend. This sixth place is his best result so far this season and suggests that we will see the young Oka driver in the top-5 for the coming races.

The series drivers took part in three practice and qualifying sessions on Thursday, an important learning experience for Thomas Nepveu who was able to work with his team to gradually improve the car, his knowledge of the track and his driving, which is a little different on this hybrid track from conventional road courses. His unwavering determination, absence of driving errors and an ability to learn and adapt to new circumstances served him well.

The oval part of the track requires a great deal of precision from the driver in order to position himself well at the entrance of the first wide corner, to brake without locking a front wheel, and to negotiate all the corners without the usual aerodynamic downforce we see on road courses.

Thomas Nepveu Describes the On-Track Action

“Our plan for the two first 50-minute practice sessions on Thursday was to learn the unusual layout with its long straight and wide oval part on entry to corner 1, and the other more technical corners of the rest of the layout. We originally set up the car with relatively low downforce to reduce drag and go as fast as possible on the long straight. However, the lower downforce for braking and cornering in the infield corners were new to me and I had to adapt my driving technique accordingly.

In qualifying, late on Thursday afternoon, the team kept us in the pits until about eight minutes before the end of the session so that we used only one set of new tires. There was enough time left when we went out on track to complete three timed laps and I set the seventh quickest time.

After a good start from 7^th on the grid in the first Friday race in the #2 Cromwell| Karting Excellence| Home Hardware car, I was in 4^th position but then found that the car was slowing by a few tenths of a second which made it difficult for me to maintain my position and I slipped down to 9^th place at the end.

The team then changed some settings in preparation for the second Friday race, mainly by giving me a little more downforce and therefore more grip in the tighter corners. The car did feel better but still slowed over the course of the race and I crossed the finish line eighth. We needed to work some more on the set-up for tomorrow’s 20-lap race.

On Saturday, we launched well at the beginning of the race and on a restart on lap seven. I gained a position each time and ended up in 6^th position and defended that position right to the end of the 20-lap race. It was not easy, as the car started to understeer on lap 10. I tried to adjust my driving, but I still lack some practical experience in order to compensate for these variations in the car’s behaviour over a race distance. I’m happy with my performance this weekend and I’m looking forward to the next race on the Lucas Oil Raceway oval,” said Thomas Nepveu as he got out of the car.

Next Event – May 27 and 28 – Lucas Oil Raceway (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Posted by admin on Apr 23 ^rd 2021 in Road to Indy

@USF2000 at St.Petersburg Qualifying Results from Friday 23/April/2021

The Canadian team of Exclusive Autosport has had a great day of qualifying for the Streets of St Petersburg race weekend. For the first race of the weekend the #44 driven by Christian Brooks qualified in First place while the #92 driven by Matt Round-Garrido qualified in Second place. Below are the qualifying results for the other drivers involved in the weekends races in USF2000.

Both races of the weekend will take place on Saturday at 10:55am-11:35am and 5:20pm-6:00pm

Race #1

1st #44 Christian Brooks Executive Autosport

2nd #92 Matt Round-Garrido Executive Autosport

8th #91 Billy Frazer Executive Autosport

14th #2 Thomas Nepveu Cape Motorsports

25th #90 Grant Palmer Executive Autosport

Race #2

2nd #44 Christian Brooks Executive Autosport

3rd #92 Matt Round-Garrido Executive Autosport

9th #2 Thomas Nepveu Cape Motorsports

18th #91 Billy Frazer Executive Autosport

21st #90 Grant Palmer Executive Autosport

Posted by admin on Apr 17 ^th 2021 in Road to Indy

Thomas Nepveu Finishes 8th In His USF2000 Cooper Tires Series Debut

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“An intense and emotional weekend from the first practice

to my top-10 finish in the second race!”

Thomas Nepveu Finishes 8^th In His USF2000 Cooper Tires Series Debut

Barber Motorsports Park (Birmingham, Alabama)

Oka (Quebec, Canada) – April 17, 2021. Thomas Nepveu drove this weekend in his first two official races of the Cooper Tires USF2000 series on the technical circuit of Barber Motorsports Park, at the wheel of his #2 Cromwell | Karting Excellence | Home Hardware car. Starting the two races from 16^th and 12^th positions, Thomas Nepveu crossed the finish line in 13^th and reached a personal objective by finishing 8^th in the second race of the weekend.

Posted by admin on Mar 10 ^th 2020 in Miscellaneous News

Parker Thompson Proud Recipient of the 2020 NAAG Athletic Grant

Parker Thompson is proud to receive the 1st Nossack Athletic Ambassador Grant (NAAG), which rewards athletes who are actively involved in the local Red Deer community in a positive way. Born in Red Deer, Alberta, Parker Thompson began the career of a professional race car driver at a young age when he moved to Italy to compete in the World Series of Karting. Now 22 years-old, Thompson is an established race car driver earning championships in both open-wheel and sports-car racing series. For 2020 Thompson is enrolled in the Indy Pro 2000 series on the Road to Indy, competing in ten events throughout North America.

While his athletic pursuits often take him all over the continent, Thompson remains committed to the Red Deer community where he resides in the offseason and educates drivers across the province about the dangers of distracted driving. His road safety campaign, “Drive to Stay Alive,” was founded in 2015 and since that time has reached more than 100,000 students and safety industry professionals.

Parker Thompson
“I’m so proud to receive the Nossack Athletic Ambassador Grant for 2020. Many thanks to Svitlana and the entire team at Nossack Food Group for taking the initiative to establish this amazing grant. The NAAG will not only help me further develop my career in racing, but more importantly, it will support my road safety campaign Drive to Stay Alive in 2020 and beyond. As a proud Albertan and Red Deer native, I often feel like the businesses and athletes in our community don’t get the recognition they deserve. I feel fortunate to have been recognized myself, and I am proud to wear the Nossack logo on my racing suit as I pursue the Indy Pro 2000 Championship in 2020.”

Svitlana Nossack – Nossack Food Group
“Nossack Food Group and Get Golden Fundraising are excited to announce Parker Thompson as the first recipient of the Nossack Athletic Ambassador Grant (NAAG). We appreciate Parker’s positive attitude and strong work ethic with everything he does, and know that the NAAG is in great hands! Parker is engaged in our local community with Drive to Stay Alive as well as representing Red Deer and Alberta across the nation, and internationally with Parker Thompson Racing. We look forward to this partnership and shared success in 2020!“