Guyanese race car driver, Calvin Ming continued his impressive performances in the F1600 series where he managed to get yet another podium finish, this time in third place at the 2016 F1600 Formula F Championship
Ming leads the pack in the F1600 at Virginia International Raceway
Series descended at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) over the weekend.
In race one, Ming started in the 2nd position as he had qualified brilliantly in a time of 1:59.408 which was only about a half second behind the pole sitter. The race had numerous battles throughout the field with # 82, Calvin Ming of Team Pelfrey narrowly missing the podium and finished 4th overall behind # 07,
Steve Bamford in the Rice Race Prep car out of Canada. # 81, Phillippe Denes, Ming’s teammate was nipped at the finish line by a narrow margin by race winner # 3, Neil Verhagen of K-Hill Motorsports in the 13 car field that saw a few caution flags.
Race 2, # 82, Calvin Ming once again started in the 2nd position after a wonderful qualifying session and battled hard amongst the 14 field (setting a best lap time of 1:59.622) before being edged at the finish line by 0.053 seconds in a 3-way photo finish but, nonetheless a podium finish with his Team Pelfrey teammate # 81, Phillippe Denes
Calvin Ming started 3rd on the grid with another decent qualification and was part of the exciting battle towards the checkered flag. Fortunately, Ming was able to avoid the incident that included a number of lead cars on the final lap. He went on to finish 4.103 seconds behind in 5th overall. The podium was filled by # 07, Steve Bamford in 3rd overall (Masters Winner), # 90, Trenton Estep in 2nd place with his teammate in the Exclusive Autosport Spectrum entry, # 92, Ben Auriemma capitalizing on the last lap incident to claim his first victory.
Ming completed the podium for Team Pelfrey, saying: “It was a battle royale and a pretty good race.”
With a decent weekend(4th, 3rd, 5th), # 82, Calvin Ming picked up needed points towards the championships and will no doubt be ready to contest the next round to be held at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on July 1- 3, 2016.
