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EDMONTON, Alberta, July 25 - Rare mechanical
difficulties spoiled the run of Andersen Racing's Carmen Jorda in the Edmonton 100 Firestone Indy Lights
race Sunday at Edmonton City Centre Airport here. The native of Alcoy, Spain
ended up 13th in the fina
l rundown, completing six laps of the 50-lap race.
Jorda, who lives in Miami when she's in the United States, qualified 13th but she was unable to get her car started at the beginning of the race due to a clutch pedal issue. Numerous attempts at push-starts were futile. Finally the Andersen Racing No. 4, which is sponsored by ASAP Sports, NTGS.es, iHOLA!, Air Europa, pepetravel.com and Allied Building Products Corp., got underway and Jorda joined the field on lap six.
She ran competitively when she was underway, turning a 1:10.6791 on her fourth lap for an average speed of 100.494 miles per hour. Unfortunately two laps later the car rolled to a stop on the straightaway after Turn 9 due to a broken drive shaft. That brought out a full-course caution flag on lap 13 to allow course workers to tow Jorda's car back to the paddock. "Read more"»
TORONTO, Ontario, July 18 - Andersen Racing's Tonis Kasemets of Mundelein, Ill. clawed his way from ninth to a sixth-place finish in the Toronto 100 Firestone Indy Lights race Sunday morning on the Toronto street circuit. His teammate, Carmen Jorda of Miami, got as high as 12th before retiring after a spin to finish in the same position that she started, 15th.
Kasemets (whose name is pronounced Toe-NEES KAHZ-uh-mets), had his hands full throughout the 50-lap race on the 1.755-mile, 11-turn street course that is very tight and therefore generates single-file racing. The drivers who finished right in front and right behind him set the fastest laps of the race.
Stefan Wilson, who finished fifth, set the fastest lap of the race on lap 17 with a 1:05.8173 (95.993 miles per hour). The driver who finished seventh, Martin Plowman, had the second-fastest lap of the race with a 1:05.9094 (95.859 mph) on lap 43. The fastest lap Kasemets turned in the Andersen Racing No. 5, which is sponsored by Flexovit, Allied Building Products, Northcentral Construction and the Novotel Toronto North York hotel, was a 1:06.3252 (95.258 mph) on lap 42. "Read more"»
TORONTO, Ontario, July 17 - Andersen Racing drivers Tonis Kasemets of
Mundelein, Ill., and Carmen Jorda of Miami will start 
ninth and 15th,
respectively, in the Toronto 100 Firestone Indy Lights race on the street circuit at
Toronto, Ontario Sunday at 10:10a.m. Eastern time.
Kasemets (pronounced Toe-NEES Kahz-uh-mets), a native of Parnu, Estonia, put the Andersen Racing/Flexovit/Allied Building Products No. 5 into the show with a qualifying time of 1:06.5101 and an average speed of 94.993 miles per hour for the 1.755-mile street course. His effort is also sponsored by Northcentral Construction and the Novotel Toronto North York hotel.
Jorda, a native of Alcoy, Spain, qualified with a time of 1:08.8443 and an average speed of 91.722 mph with the Andersen Racing No. 4, which is sponsored by ASAP Sports, NTGS.es, iHOLA!, Air Europa and pepetravel.com. "Read more"»
PALMETTO, Fla., July 1 5- Rookie Carmen Jorda is expected to be back in action while Tonis Kasemets will make his first start with Andersen Racing in the Firestone Indy Lights race Sunday on the street course in Toronto, Ontario, team officials announced today.
Both drivers last competed in the series' race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in April.
Jorda, a native of Alcoy, Spain, finished tenth in that event driving for the Palmetto, Fla.-based team but then missed three races due to difficulties with her program's funding. The 22-year-old who lives in Miami will be sponsored by ASAP Sports, NTGS.es, iHOLA!, Air Europa and pepetravel.com for the 50-lap Firestone Indy Lights race on Sunday morning that precedes the Honda Indy Toronto IZOD IndyCar Series race later that afternoon. "Read more"»
PALMETTO, Fla., July 14 - The excitement level for the next two doubleheaders in the "Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda" is high after two recent series tests at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., on Thursday, July 8 and at the Autobahn County Club in Joliet, Ill., on Monday, July 12.
The series will appear at those two tracks in reverse order in the next few weeks.
The series, which is part of both the MAZDASPEED Motorsports driver development program and the Indy Racing League's Road to Indy program, will be featured on HDNet's live coverage of the Harrah's Autobahn Grand Prix Presented by Mazda at Autobahn Country Club's 3.56-mile, 21-turn road course on July 31-Aug. 1. The series will then move to Road America's 4.048-mile, 14-turn road course on Aug. 21-22 for another doubleheader which is part of the Time Warner Cable Road Race Showcase that supports an American Le Mans Series headliner. "Read more"»
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y., July 4 - Andersen Racing's Anders Krohn ran in fourth
place for six laps and in fifth place for another 14 lapsbefore a problem
with his car's gearbox relegated him to a tenth-place finish in Sunday's
30-lap Corning 100 Firestone Indy Lights race at Watkins Glen International.
Running in the top five for two-thirds of the race was an impressive accomplishment for the rookie from Stavanger, Norway and Houston, Texas, who was making his first Firestone Indy Lights appearance ever.
Krohn, 22, drove the Andersen Racing No. 4 with Logi Trans as his primary sponsor. Other support came from Trallfa Industries, Colosseum Dental, Norse Cutting & Abandonment and the team's primary sponsor, Allied Building Products Corp. "Read more"»
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y., July 3 - Andersen Racing's Anders Krohn qualified a solid tenth for his first Firestone Indy Lights race ever Saturday afternoon at Watkins Glen International. The 29-lap race, called the Corning 100, is slated to get the green flag Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
Krohn, of Stavanger, Norway and Houston, Texas, jumped from 12th to tenth on the scoreboard on his 17th and final lap around the 3.37-mile, 11-turn road course during Sunoco Pole Qualifying. The 22-year-old qualified with a time of 1:38.8202 and an average speed of 122.768 miles per hour with the Andersen Racing No. 4, which is sponsored by Logi Trans, Trallfa Industries, Colosseum Dental, Norse Cutting & Abandonment and the team's primary sponsor, Allied Building Products Corp.
Krohn's time was just 1.4608 seconds off James Hinchcliffe's pole-winning time, and it was just 0.3530 off fifth place. "Read more"»
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y., July 3 - Andersen Racing's Anders Krohn qualified a solid tenth for his first Firestone Indy Lights race ever Saturday afternoon at Watkins Glen International. The 29-lap race, called the Corning 100, is slated to get the green flag Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
Krohn, of Stavanger, Norway and Houston, Texas, jumped from 12th to tenth on the scoreboard on his 17th and final lap around the 3.37-mile, 11-turn road course during Sunoco Pole Qualifying. The 22-year-old qualified with a time of 1:38.8202 and an average speed of 122.768 miles per hour with the Andersen Racing No. 4, which is sponsored by Logi Trans, Trallfa Industries, Colosseum Dental, Norse Cutting & Abandonment and the team's primary sponsor, Allied Building Products Corp. "Read more"»
PALMETTO, Fla., June 30 - Andersen Racing, one of the premier open-wheel develop teams in North America, is pleased to announce that it will field a car for one of its Star Mazda drivers, Anders Krohn of Stavanger, Norway and Houston, Texas, in the Corning 100 Firestone Indy Lights race that will be held at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, N.Y. on Sunday. The 29-lap race on the famous 3.37-mile, 11-turn road course precedes the Camping World Grand Prix IZOD IndyCar Series race later that afternoon.
Krohn will be the first driver to compete in all three formula car classes in which the Palmetto, Fla.-based team is involved: Formula 2000, the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear and Firestone Indy Lights.
Team co-owner Dan Andersen had high praise for Krohn, 22, who is nicknamed "The Viking" and is one of the most personable drivers in the Star Mazda paddock. "Read more"»
MILLVILLE, N.J., June 27 - New Jersey is home to Andersen Racing co-owners Dan and John Andersen, so they were especially pleased when one of their five drivers won Round 7 of the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear Sunday at New Jersey Motorsports Park, and another finished third.
Although the Andersen brothers live in the Garden State, their drivers who finished on the podium Sunday couldn't live much further away. Tristan Vautier of Corenc, France out-dragged Conor Daly at the start and then led all 35 laps of the race. His teammate, Anders Krohn of Stavanger, Norway, ran in second place for seven laps but had to settle for third on the last lap when he lost all but sixth gear in his car two laps from the finish.
The strong showing continued the Palmetto, Fla.-based team's amazing record at the 2.17-mile, 14-turn road course near Atlantic City, as other Andersen Racing drivers won both ends of the doubleheader here last year and Krohn finished second in the first half of the doubleheader Saturday. The races were part of the Mazda Motorsports Festival presented by VisitFlorida.com, which was covered live on HDNet. "Read more"»
MILLVILLE, N.J., June 27 - Patrick McKenna capitalized on polesitter Sage Karam's mistake and posted his second victory of the season in the "Cooper Tires Presents the USF2000 National Championship Powered by Mazda" Sunday afternoon on the Thunderbolt Raceway course at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The 20-lap/30-minute race was the second half of a USF2000 doubleheader that was part of the Mazda Motorsports Festival presented by VisitFlorida.com. The latter company made the event's live coverage on HDNet possible.
McKenna, of Dublin, Ireland, drives a Mazda-powered Van Diemen prepared by Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing. He's sponsored by Motorsports Ireland and Willsborough Transport.
Three drivers from JDC MotorSports finished second through fourth. Mikhail Goikhberg of St. Petersburg, Russia threatened to pass McKenna several times in the late stages of the race but he took the checkered 1.588 seconds after McKenna did. Although he was unable to get around McKenna, he got an extra point for setting the fastest lap of the race with a 1:19.722 on lap six. "Read more"»
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MILLVILLE, N.J., June 26- With more than 100 guests of Fairfield, N.J.-based Andersen Interior Contracting and Corporate Woodworking cheering them on, three Andersen Racing drivers finished in the top six in Round 6 of the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear Saturday at New Jersey Motorsports Park's 2.17-mile, 14-turn Thunderbolt Raceway.
The race, part of the Mazda Motorsports Festival presented by VisitFlorida.com, was covered live on HDNet. A similar race Sunday at 3:05 p.m. will also be broadcast live on HDNet in programming that starts at 12:30 p.m. and concludes at 4 p.m.
Stavanger, Norway-native Anders Krohn of Houston started fourth, led one lap and finished second to Caio Lara to lead the way for the Andersen Racing team. He had a long list of supporters to thank, including his Palmetto, Fla.-based team, Andersen Interior Contracting, Corporate Woodworking and Allied Building Products Corp., and his personal sponsors, Trallfa Industries, Colosseum Dental and Norse Cutting & Abandonment. "The Viking" was so wound up he even thanked his dog and cat on the podium, but later admitted that he doesn't even have a dog and a cat. "Read more"»
MILLVILLE, N.J., June 26- Polesitter Sage Karam of Nazareth, Pa. dominated the USF2000 National Championship race, which was presented by Cooper Tires and Powered by Mazda, Saturday afternoon on the Thunderbolt Raceway course at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The 20-lap/30-minute race was the first half of a USF2000 doubleheader that is part of the Mazda Motorsports Festival presented by VisitFlorida.com.
Saturday's action was covered live on HDNet, which will also carry the second half of the doubleheader tomorrow live in coverage that starts at 12:30 p.m. and concludes at 4 p.m.
Karam, who drives for Michael Andretti's Andretti Autosport, had a 10.936 second lead over Patrick McKenna of Dublin, Ireland at the checkered. The latter drives for Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing. "Read more"»
