Ranger 16th at Daytona

According to an article in the Journal de Montréal, young Andrew Ranger ran the 16th fastest time out of 64 entries this saturday at Daytona International Speedway. These tests were run in preparation for the first race of the ARCA season to be run at the same location.

Also at the speedway was another French Canadian, Mario Gosselin, who completed the saturday afternoon session in 12th place

Ranger testing at Daytona

Andrew Ranger will make his first laps at Daytona International Speedway this week-end as he will drive the DGM Racing entry for the ARCA tests. Ranger will have on his side another French Canadian as Mario Gosselin will be on site to coach him.

If all goes well, Ranger might try to qualify for the ARCA / Remax 200 on the same track on February 9th 2008.

Ranger didn't have time to shine

The NASCAR Allstar Showdown at Irwindale was a pretty big step for Andrew Ranger as he had to learn a new car and a new track, both of which he had never driven before. After earning the 26th starting spot out of 40 cars, Andrew had 250 laps to move up to the front of the field. Sadly, Ranger never got a chance to prove that as he was involved in a crash that happened in front of him and his evening was put to an end on lap 31.

Andrew Ranger in the All-Star Showdown

Following the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series title won earlier this year, Andrew Ranger was invited to the Toyota All-Star Showdown held at Irwindale Speedway, California. The race is a 250 laps shootout between the best drivers from NASCAR local divisions, assembling the best drivers from the Busch East and West series plus the Mexico and Canadian series. As the race is ran with Grand National cars, Ranger had to find a car to drive, which was graciously offered by Dick Midgley from Midgley Motorsport, a Busch West racing team based in Canada.

As he's won the Canadian title, Ranger's starting spot in the main event is secured.

Purses for the showdown this year go as high as 400 000$ with 27 000$ up for grab to the race winner.

Qualifications for the race will be held this friday at at 8 pm and the race will be shown on Speed TV saturday night at 10 pm

Ranger wins the championship

Andrew Ranger became this Sunday the first ever NASCAR Canadian Tire Series champion with a 6th place finish at Kawartha Speedway. Ranger's championship rival D.J. Kennington blew a motor on lap 98 which opened the door for Ranger to grab the championship. With that achievement, Ranger will be invited to the Toyota All-Star Showdown to be held at Irwindale Speedway on October 19-20. That race pits together the best drivers from NASCAR Development Series in a special showdown format.

Ranger let down by his engine

Andrew Ranger had a hard luck this Sunday as he lost his engine while going up through the pack on lap 268 of the 300 lap event in Antigosh, Nova-Scotia. His title rival D.J. Kennington finished third, 10 spots in front of Ranger and thus, reduces the gap to 41 points going into the last race of the season at Kawartha. Despite a second place finish, early season contender J.R. Fitzpatrick is now mathematically out of this year's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series title run.

Another year in Canada for Ranger in 2008

According to an article written by Pierre Lecours, Andrew Ranger would be back in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in 2008, whether he wins the title or not this year. Although Ranger surprised everyone this year with his speed and maturity, his agent Alan Labrosse feels another season would help him gain experience in specific situations.

Labrosse also said they would like to run a race or two this year in a NASCAR feeder series but they don't have a budget for that now. They will try to put everything in place for next year, where Ranger should run 5 to 6 races on the other side of the border.

Ranger will be running tonight in the 11th race of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in Nova-Scotia and still leads the championship with an 87 points advantage over D.J. Kennington before the 300 laps event.

Ranger holds on to his lead

After a 6th place finish saturday at Barrie Speedway's 1/3 of mile, NASCAR Canadian Tire Series' driver Andrew Ranger holds on to it's championship lead while rival D.J. Kennington clinches a victory out of a spectacular repair on pit road where they attached the throttle with a bungee cord to replace a broken return spring.

Although Ranger lost some ground in the standings, he still has an 87 points advantage over Kennington with 2 races to go.

The timing is right

After reading the news in the past couple of days, I realized one thing : The Flying Frenchmen are back into motorsport. Take a good look around around you'll see them everywhere, drivers from Quebec are invading the motorsport scene once again. After Jacques Villeneuve left F1, Patrick Carpentier lost his IRL ride and Andrew Ranger leaving ChampCar, one could easily think the dream was over but now, we've got Bruno Spengler knocking at the door of Formula One (as a test driver for Dave Richard's new ProDrive adventure) for the next year, Jacques Villeneuve and Patrick Carpentier (after a great Busch run in Montreal) signing with NASCAR teams to have preparation rides for a full assault next year. We have also seen Kevin Lacroix winning on his first week-end of Champcar Atlantic racing, Jean-François Dumoulin won the GT class at the Daytona 24 hours and Alex Tagliani is still running as good as he can with what he's giving in Champcar.

Only one conclusion is possible, the Flying Frenchmen are back and you'll get every bit of the stories here!