Raceline Radio Weekly Update and Show Guest Schedule: Week of October 15, 2023

Compiled By Erik Tomas, The Raceline Radio Network.

2023 is our 31^st Season on the air across Canada!

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NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series: 

Last Race:  Sunday October 15^th Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Open race in the Playoff Round of 8: Kyle Larson took his next step towards a second title by winning his first of the playoff, 4^th of the season, and 23^rd of his career. He’s onto the final 4! Larson led on the final restart with 45 laps to go and just edged pole sitter Christopher Bell at the checkers. Bell finished 2^nd, Kyle Busch 3^rd.

The 8 Drivers In The Playoff: Byron, Blaney, Hamlin, Bell, Buescher, Reddick, Larson and Truex Jr.

Next Race: Sunday October 22^nd: Homestead Miami Speedway FLA. Last year’s winner: Kyle Larson.

3 Races remain: Miami, Martinsville and Phoenix. _____________________________________________________________________________

Formula One World Driving Championship:   

Next GP: Sunday October 22^nd: U.S Grand Prix, Circuit of The Americas, Austin Texas. Last Year’s winner: Max Verstappen.

Last GP: Sunday October 8^th: Grand Prix of Qatar, Losail: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen clinched his third-straight driver’s title with a 2^nd place finish in the preliminary sprint race. This puts Verstappen in an exclusive club of drivers with 3 titles with Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet. The Qatar GP itself: Verstappen just carried on to dominate the GP for another easy one, win #14 on the season. Second GP in a row McLaren double-podiums! Oscar Piastri 2^nd, Lando Norris 3^rd.

Canada’s Lance Stroll: finished back in 11th.

F-1 Points: into The U.S Grand Prix a COTA Texas: 5 GP’s remaining: Perez 30 up on Hamilton for 2nd.  Red Bull has already nailed the 2023 Constructors title. Merc stands second in Constructors, 28 up on Ferrari!

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NTT IndyCar Series: Season Closed!

Alex Palou wins his 2^nd series championship. ( 2021 ).  15th IndyCar title for Chip Ganassi Racing.

Final IndyCar Points: Alex Palou 78 better than team mate Scott Dixon. Canada’s Devlin DeFrancesco: ranked 22^nd.

Next Race: Sunday March 10, 2024: St. Petersburg FLA.

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IMSA Sports Cars:

Last Race: October 14^th: Road Atlanta: season capper: GTP winners & first over-all: Blomqvist, Braun and Castroneves in the Meyer-Shank Acura. LMP-2: The Kurtz, Hanley, Seigel Crowd-Strike Oreca. GTD-Pro: the Juncadella-Gounon-Engel WeatherTech Mercedes. Canada’s Pfaff Motorsports Porsche, Bachler, Pilet and Estre finished 2^nd. GTD to The Gallagher-Foley-Dinan Turner Motorsports BMW.

Next Race: Season Closed

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Canadian Rally Championship presented by Subaru:

Next Rally: Oct 22^nd: Rally Charlesvoix, La Malbaie PQ.  Oct 14^th Pacific Forest Rally, Merritt BC - cancelled due to high fire risk.

Last Rally: September 10^th: Rallye Defi Petit Nation, Montpellier Quebec: Jean-Sebastien Besner & Yvan Joyal 1^st over-all and 4 wheel drive open using their Ford Fiesta: 1:57-27. Marc-Andre Brisbois & Marie-France Desmarais runner up: 2:02-13 in their Subaru Impreza. _____________________________________________________________________________

World Rally Championship:

Next Rally: October 29th: Rally Germany-Bavaria.

Last Rally: October 1^st: The Rally Chile: M-Sport’s Ott Tanak with a master class in speed and tire management to score his second win of the season. The 2019 world champion won 7 of the 16 tricky gravel stages to complete the rally with a 42.1-second margin over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville. Kalle Rovenpara struggled with tires to finish well back. His championship lead over Elfyn Evans has been chopped to 31 points.

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Raceline Radio Show Guest Schedule The Week of:

October 15^th: 2023 American Rally Association champion, Subaru Team USA’s Canadian Brandon Semenuk… plus The Subaru-Raceline E-Mail Bag Trivia Contest.

October 22^nd: Dissecting the 2024 IndyCar schedule with IndyCar President Jay Frye and Penske Entertainment President and CEO Mark Miles… plus The Subaru-Raceline E-Mail Bag Trivia Contest.

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2023 Raceline Radio Network Affiliate Stations/March 2023:

Stations feature live audio streaming, podcasting and Iphone access.

Sportsnet 590 The FAN Toronto: ( Co-Flagship ) Mondays 10 PM Eastern and Sundays 7am (replay). The FAN / Raceline is also available in HD FM: 92.5 Channel 3, The Radio Player Canada App, Bell Express-Vu Sat. channel 959, and carried live and podcasted on the Web at sportsnet.ca       

Sportsnet 590 The FAN Toronto Raceline Podcasts: (http://www.sportsnet.ca/590/) “Shows” –  link to the audio page for Raceline Radio (http://www.sportsnet.ca/590/raceline-radio/ 

Listen LIVE: www.sportsnet.ca     Tune In Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Raceline-Radio-p58510/.

TSN 690 Montreal: Tuesdays 6 PM Eastern. On-line: TSN690.ca, The I-Heart Radio App and TSN App.

Sportsnet 650 The FAN Vancouver: Monday 10 PM and Saturday 6 AM Pacific. Also in HD at 96.9 - HD 3, and on the Radioplayer Canada App.

Sportsnet 960 The FAN Calgary: Monday 10 PM Mountain and Saturday 7 AM Mountain. Also on-line at Sportsnet.ca/960 and the Sportsnet App.

Edmonton Sports Talk: Tuesday 8 PM Mountain and Saturday 9 AM Mountain.  edmontonsportstalk.com    Show Page: edmontonsportstalk.com/programming/raceline-radio/

CityNews 95.7 Halifax: Monday 9 PM Atlantic

Global News Radio 900 CHML Hamilton: ( Co-Flagship ) Sunday 8 PM Eastern, HD FM at 95.3 Channel 3 and podcasted.

News Talk 610 CKTB St. Catharines-Niagara-Western NY: Monday 11 PM and Saturday 6 PM Eastern, I-Heart Radio and podcasted.