Bowmanville, Ontario – Patrick Woods-Toth clinched the 2024 title for Formula Regional Americas Championship presented by Mosport Karting Centre (FR Americas). Driving to victory lane in Race 2 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP) on Saturday, Woods-Toth once again led from lights to checkers in an all-green race.

 

With just another 75 points available between today’s Race 2 and the final checkered flag of the season, Patrick Woods-Toth needed to leave Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with at least a 50-point lead. After today’s win, the 20-year-old has clinched the 2024 FR Americas championship, making him the first driver in five years to win back-to-back championships in Formula 4 United States Championship (F4 U.S.) and FR Americas.

 

Three drivers have now won back-to-back titles in F4 U.S. and FR Americas – INDYCAR driver Kyle Kirkwood, sportscar racer Dakota Dickerson and Patrick Woods-Toth.

Titus Sherlock recorded his seventh podium of the season with his runner-up finish. 

 

Jett Bowling stood on the podium for the sixth time this year after finishing third in today’s race. 

 

James Lawley recorded a career-best finish in his home country of Canada after finishing fourth in Round 16 on Saturday. 

 

With his sixth-place result, Ricco Shlaimoun recorded his career-best finish. Previously, his best finish was seventh, recorded twice at New Jersey Motorsports Park. 

Another Canadian, Kevin Janzen, tied his career-best finish with his seventh-place result. Previously, Janzen finished seventh in Round 2 at NOLA Motorsports Park during the 2023 season.

 

For the seventh time this season, Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport swept the podium with all three drivers competing for the Dallas-based organization.

 

After setting the fastest lap in yesterday’s race, Woods-Toth (No. 27 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) led the field down the starting grid and got a clean jump when the lights went out to take control of the race. Titus Sherlock (No. 31 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) had lined up in second and fell in behind Woods-Toth, with Jett Bowling (No. 02 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) settling into third, just a few car lengths behind. Behind them, Halifax, Nova Scotia-native James Lawley (No. 77 Kartbahn Racing Ligier JS F3) had climbed to fourth after the fourth- and fifth-place qualifiers Landan Matriano Lim (No. 73 739Racing Ligier JS F3) and Hayden Bowlsbey (No. 22 Save22 Ligier JS F3) were sidelined by mechanical issues. Also climbing in the running order were Ricco Shlaimoun (No. 25 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3), Nicole Havrda (No. 6 Valley Kitchens Ltd / Colonial Countertops Ltd Ligier JS F3) and Kevin Janzen (No. 24 US Power Group / Data Center Solutions Ligier JS F3). Havrda pulled ahead on the initial start to overtake fifth, while Shlaimoun and Janzen engaged in a tight battle just behind her. Janzen initially held the position throughout the first half of the race, but as the clock ticked down, Shlaimoun pulled ahead to overtake sixth and claim his career-best finish. 

 

When they took the checkered flag, Woods-Toth led the field across the finish line, with Sherlock in second and Bowling in third. 

 

“What an amazing feeling, especially here at home with all my family, my friends, all the fans,” said Woods-Toth following the race. “There couldn’t be a better place to finish this off. What a season it’s been; I’m so glad we’ve come away with the championship. We wouldn’t be here without Orlando—Carlo is our number one supporter—so thank you to them, as well as Ron Fellows and his family. Then, of course, I have to thank my Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport team—my mechanic, Glen and my engineer, Steven. We’ve had a great year so far!”

 

FR Americas wraps up Labor Day weekend at CTMP tomorrow, with Race 3 scheduled for 10:40 a.m. ET. Live timing and scoring for all of this weekend’s sessions will be available on the Race Monitor App, with additional news and updates posted on the series’ social channels: Facebook, Instagram and X.

 

Bowmanville, Ontario – Canadian Patrick Woods-Toth took the pole in Formula Regional Americas Championship presented by Mosport Karting Centre (FR Americas) competition on Friday afternoon after leading practice at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP). 

 

Posting a 1:14.846 lap during qualifying, Woods-Toth (No. 27 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) led his Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport teammates, with the powerhouse organization taking the top-four qualifying spots. 

 

After each topping the speed charts during yesterday’s test sessions, Titus Sherlock (No. 31 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) and Jett Bowling (No. 02 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) rounded out the top three—both within a half second of Woods-Toth. Landan Matriano Lim (No. 73 739Racing Ligier JS F3) was fourth, with Nova Scotia-native James Lawley (No. 77 Kartbahn Racing Ligier JS F3) completing the top five, just 1.203-seconds behind the leader. 

 

Earlier today, Woods-Toth topped the leaderboard for the lone FR Americas practice session at CTMP. A native of Saint-Lazare, Quebec, Woods-Toth recorded a 1:14.598 lap, beating Bowling by more than a half second. Lawley, the only driver in the field with previous experience at CTMP after competing in a first-generation Ligier JS F4 at the track last year, rounded out the top three. 

 

Lights out for Race 1 at CTMP is scheduled for today at 4:30 p.m. ET. Live timing and scoring for all of this weekend’s sessions will be available on the Race Monitor App, with additional news and updates posted on the series’ social channels: Facebook, Instagram and X.

West Allis, Wisconsin – Louis Foster left no doubt, clinching the INDY NXT by Firestone championship with his series-leading seventh victory of the season Saturday at the Milwaukee Mile.

 

Foster, 21, from Odiham, England, locked up the title for Andretti Global in the INDYCAR development series with one race to spare. His seventh win of 2024 was the most by any driver in INDY NXT since current NTT INDYCAR SERIES star Kyle Kirkwood won a series record-tying 10 races en route to the title in 2021, the last championship for Andretti Global.

 

“It’s amazing,” second-year INDY NXT driver Foster said. “I’m just speechless. I’ve got to thank the team. They’ve been behind me the last two years. Massive thanks to everyone on the 26 crew, my sponsors. It’s been a crazy two years, and I’m super happy to cap it with a win.”

 

Foster started from the pole and led all 90 laps in the No. 26 Copart/Novara Technologies car fielded by Andretti Global, beating Jacob Abel in the No. 51 Abel Construction machine of Abel Motorsports to the finish by 4.3602 seconds. Salvador de Alba Jr. finished third in the No. 2 Grupo Indi entry of Andretti Cape INDY NXT, his second podium result of his rookie season.

 

Bryce Aron placed fourth in the No. 27 Jaguar Land Rover Chesterfield car of Andretti Global. Jamie Chadwick was fifth in the No. 28 VEXT machine as Andretti Global and its partner teams put four drivers in the top five at the checkered flag.

 

Foster needed to finish only sixth or better to seal the title and a financial benefits package to aid in the advancement to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, but he never looked back from the green flag. Abel, who entered this race 79 points behind in second, fell from second to sixth at the start after contact from other cars in Turn 1, effectively ending his faint title hopes.

 

Abel still fought back from the early trouble to pass de Alba for second place with an outside move in Turn 1 with three laps remaining. He is 93 points behind champion Foster with just the Music City Grand Prix on Sunday, Sept. 15 at Nashville Superspeedway remaining this season.

 

There was no such drama for Foster.

 

He held steady with a lead of about a second over teammate Chadwick for the first 35 laps of the race, including pulling away from her on the only restart, on Lap 33. Foster then expanded that margin to 1.5 seconds over de Alba with 30 laps remaining.

 

About the only tricky trap that Foster needed to escape was lapped traffic for the last 15 trips around the historic oval, where the series was racing for the first time since 2015. But he navigated the slower cars with ease and strutted to victory over the final 10 laps.

 

Caio Collet finished ninth in the No. 18 HMD Motorsports entry, but that was enough to clinch third in the standings and honors as the top-finishing rookie in the series this season.

 

 

 

 

Fans are invited into the FR Americas and F4 U.S. open paddock for a driver autograph session on Saturday afternoon. Held in CTMP’s (lower) Paddock F, the session is scheduled for 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. ET at the Pfaff FR/F4 Trailer. 

 

 

This weekend’s CTMP SpeedTour will mark a return home for a Canadian motorsport icon—Scott Goodyear. One of Canada’s best-known international racers, Goodyear is now the race director for both F4 U.S. and FR Americas. Making his auto racing debut at CTMP in 1980, he is most recognized for his time competing in INDYCAR. A five-time INDYCAR winner, and two-time runner-up finisher at the Indianapolis 500—including the closest finish in Indy 500 history—Goodyear was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. 

 

FR Americas will make its series debut in the Great White North this weekend at CTMP. Originally set to make its first trip north of the border during the 2020 season at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières, plans shifted as COVID-19 halted international travel. Four years later, FR Americas will finally make its international debut at the famed Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, located just one hour from downtown Toronto. The facility originally known as “Mosport Park” carries great significance on the Road to F1, as the site of the first-ever Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in 1967. 

 

 

Patrick Woods-Toth (No. 27 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) made big strides in the 2024 FR Americas championship battle during the most recent round at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP). Finishing on the podium in all three rounds, including a win in the final race of the weekend, Woods-Toth overtook the points lead and opened a 31.5-point gap. Now, he’s poised to lock in the championship title during this weekend’s race at CTMP. 

 

 

As FR Americas entered the second half of its season at NJMP last month, several rookie drivers had the best weekend of their year with career-best finishes and top performances. Currently 10th in points, Landan Matriano Lim (No. 73 739Racing Ligier JS F3) had the most consistent weekend of his season, matching his career-best result (fifth) in two of the three rounds, and never finishing outside the top six. James Lawley (No. 77 Kartbahn Racing Ligier JS F3) recorded a career-best sixth-place finish in Round 14 at NJMP, while Ricco Shlaimoun (No. 25 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) recorded his best finish of the season with two seventh-place results in Rounds 12 and 14. 

 

 

Patrick Woods-Toth continues to be the perfect representative for Parella Motorsports Holdings’ (PMH) Open-Wheel Ladder, showing how success at each level can progress a career up the ranks. In 2022, Woods-Toth was just a karter, albeit a very talented one, competing at the highest levels of karting. Winning the 2022 Motomaster Ron Fellows Karting Championship, the Motomaster Canadian Karting Championship and the Canadian Open Championship, the 19 year old anticipated his 2023 season would look much the same. However, a nomination to the Radford Racing School F4 U.S. Scholarship Award School by Motomaster Ron Fellows Karting Championship changed the course of Woods-Toth’s career. 

 

With the opportunity to climb into the cockpit of a formula car for three days, Woods-Toth showcased his skill and great promise behind the wheel. Before he knew it, one thing led to another and he was on the starting grid at NOLA Motorsports Park to kick off the 2023 F4 U.S. season, where he earned his first podiums. By the end of the season, he secured the F4 U.S. Championship title, as well as a scholarship to progress to FR Americas for the 2024 season. Now the FR Americas points leader, Woods-Toth returns to Canada with the hope of clinching another championship title. 

 

 

Patrick Woods-Toth is not the only Canadian that will be racing in his home country this weekend. In fact, three others drivers in the field also represent the nation. James Lawley will travel from his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia to race at CTMP this weekend, and Nicole Havrda (No. 6 Valley Kitchens Ltd / Colonial Countertops Ltd Ligier JS F3) will make the cross-country journey from her home in Courtenay, British Columbia. Kevin Janzen (No. 24 US Power Group / Data Center Solutions Ligier JS F3) currently calls Deerfield Beach, Fla., home, but he still represents his native Calgary, Alberta, while carrying the Canadian flag on his car. 

 

 

Anthony Autiello (No. 07 A Autiello Construction Co. Ligier JS F3) and his Momentum Motorsport team return to the FR Americas grid this weekend at CTMP. Fulfilling a bucket-list schedule, Autiello first got his feet wet during the season-opener at NOLA Motorsports Park, before returning to the grid this summer at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Now set to compete at CTMP, Autiello is also expected to join the field at Circuit of The Americas this fall to close out the 2024 season.

 

F4 U.S. finally makes its return to Canada after a six-year hiatus. The championship held one prior event north of the border—also at CTMP—in 2017. During that event, Kyle Kirkwood swept the weekend, claiming all three checkered flags en route to the championship title. 

 

 

With the series entering its penultimate round this weekend, only six races remain in the battle for the 2024 F4 U.S. championship. After a wild weekend at NJMP that saw three different drivers take the checkered flag—including two first-time winners—it’s still anyone’s title to capture. Nicolas Stati (No. 15 AGI Sport Ligier JS F422) continues to lead the way, with Daniel Quimby (No. 24 Cruise America / MIR Raceline / FIJI Airways / GalvanizeIns Ligier JS F422) trailing him by just 32 points. Alex Crosbie (No. 41 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) capitalized on a great weekend at NJMP with three podium finishes to slide into third place in the standings, just three points behind Quimby. Earning his first-career win at NJMP, Connor Roberts (No. 46 ApexSpeed.com / Entropy Cellars Ligier JS F422) moved up to fourth, with Pablo Benites Jr. (No. 44 Scuderia Buell Ligier JS F422) just four points behind in fifth.

 

 

F4 U.S. celebrated two first-time winners during its most recent round at NJMP last month. New Zealander Alex Crosbie took the win in Round 6, while Connor Roberts claimed the checkered flag in Round 8. Prior to their respective wins, Crosbie had secured his first-career podium with a third-place result in Round 4 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, while Roberts had podium finishes in all three races during the season-opening weekend at Road America. With their results at NJMP, the two are now just 35 and 45 markers, respectively, behind points leader Nicolas Stati.

 

 

Crossing the border for nearly every event on the FR Americas and F4 U.S. calendar this season, Atlantic Racing Team will finally get a reprieve this weekend while the championships race at home in Canada. With James Lawley representing the group in FR Americas, and Daniel Quimby piloting their F4 U.S. car, the team looks to continue to build on the success they’ve found so far this season, as Quimby has led them to two race wins and five total podiums. 

 

 

Barrett Wolfe (No. 13 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F422) had his career-best performance at NJMP last month, recording the first two podiums of his career with third-place results in Rounds 6 and 8. The Las Vegas native is back to double duty, balancing life as both a racecar driver and college student, as classes began for his junior year at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Monday, August 26. Wolfe is working toward a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree while majoring in marketing.

 

 

Barrett Wolfe isn’t the only driver balancing life on and off the track. Lincoln Day (No. 54 MLT Motorsports Ligier JS F422) is kicking off his senior year of high school in Wyoming, while Daniel Quimby continues his secondary school studies halfway around the world in Sydney, Australia. Back in the U.S., Connor Roberts returned to the classroom last week at LaGrange College, where he’s studying business management and accounting.