Montreal, 11 June

Montreal’s Gilles Villeneuve Circuit today hosted the first race of the third round of the North American Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli series. Of the gentleman drivers at the wheel of the new 458 Challenge, victory went to Enzo Potolicchio (Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale) who came home ahead of Cooper MacNeil and Mark McKenzie (Ferrari of Houston.) As for those drivers running the F430 Challenge, Damon Ockey took the win for Ferrari of Ontario, crossing the line ahead of Guy LeClerc (Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale) and Christopher Ruud (Ferrari of Silicon Valley.)

Handing out the prizes in the two separate categories for the 458 Challenge was Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro team principal, Stefano Domenicali, here in Montreal for the seventh round of the Formula 1 World Championship, while doing the honours for the F430 Challenge runners was Marco Mattiacci of Ferrari North America.

The one-make series will be back on track tomorrow morning at 10.15 for the second and final race of the weekend.