Compiled By Erik Tomas, The Raceline Radio Network.
2023 is our 31st Season on the air across Canada!
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Formula One World Driving Championship:
Last GP: Sunday October 8th: Grand Prix of Qatar, Losail: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen clinched his third-straight driver’s title with a 2nd place finish in the preliminary sprint race. This puts Verstappen in an exclusive club of drivers with 3 titles alongside Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet. In the Qatar GP itself: Verstappen just carried on to dominate the GP for another easy one, notching win #14 on the season. Second GP in a row that McLaren was able to secure a double-podium! Oscar Piastri 2nd, Lando Norris 3rd.
Canada’s Lance Stroll: finished Qatar 11th.
F-1 Points: 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!
Next GP: Sunday October 22nd: U.S Grand Prix, Circuit of The Americas, Austin Texas. Last Year’s winner: Max Verstappen.
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NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series:
Last Race: Sunday October 8th: Charlotte NC on the Roval: Road racing specialist AJ Allmendinger comes through for his first win in a couple o’ years. William Byron 2nd, Kyle Busch 3rd. But that won’t help Rowdy!
Bottom 4 Eliminated: Busch, Chastain, Wallace & Keselowski all fail to make the cut. Busch is a former 2-time champ, while Keselowski captured the title back in 2012. Those advancing: Byron, Blaney, Hamlin, Bell, Buescher, Reddick, Larson and Truex Jr.
Next Race: Sunday October 15th Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Open race in Playoff Round of 8. Last year’s winner: Joey Logano.
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NTT IndyCar Series: Season Closed!
Alex Palou wins his 2nd 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 22nd.
Next Race: Sunday March 10, 2024: St. Petersburg FLA.
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IMSA Sports Cars:
Next Race: October 14th: Road Atlanta.
Last Race: September 15-17th: RC at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway: The winners: GTP: The Nick Tandy Porsche. LMP-2: The Mikkel Jenson Oreca. LMP-3: The Wayne Boyd Duqueine. GTD Pro: The Dan Junca-della Mercedes. Canada’s Pfaff Motorsports Porsche, and Patrick Pilet. Philip Ellis won GTD with his Porsche.
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Canadian Rally Championship presented by Subaru:
Next Rally: Oct 22nd: Rally Charlesvoix, La Malbaie PQ. Oct 14th Pacific Forest Rally, Merritt BC- cancelled! High fire risk!
Last Rally: September 10th: Rallye Defi Petit Nation, Montpellier Quebec: Jean-Sebastien Besner & Yvan Joyal 1st 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.
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World Rally Championship:
Next Rally: October 29th: Rally Germany-Bavaria.
Last Rally: October 1st: 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 8th: 2023 NASCAR Canada Champion Treyten Lapcevich and The Subaru-Raceline E-Mail Bag Trivia Contest.
October 15th: 2023 American Rally Association champion, Subaru Team USA’s Canadian Brandon Semenuk… 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.
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