MOYLE WINS TLR CUP TITLE

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be conservative yet fast enough.
The big plan was simply to win all the heats and the final.
We would have to just give it our best and see where the cards
fell. Turns out I could only win two heats. I wasn’t comfortable
enough with the small distance between Dustin Wahl and myself
so we decided to try something different for round three, we
ended up second to Joel Diamond.
Lincoln is a true NASCAR style big track with high corners
and fast straightaway speeds. A track like Lincoln is really
fun for the driver because of the speed, but also for the tuner
because actual driver effort is less than at other tracks like
Weyauwega where you are always in a turn and still doing
speeds in the 90s. In Lincoln we were hitting over a 100 mph
and carrying tons of speed through the corner. It’s really a great
track! MIRA and the Manning’s do an excellent job. I’m glad
they keep building a track for us to race on.
We were kicking ass in the final for two thirds of the race,
then my infamous ignition started capping my engines rpm,
there was nothing I could do to stop Diamonds march to the
front. He drove hard and fast, so did I, but in the end I had
nothing for him. It was fun for me up until the last lap, but hey
that’s racing! Yeah about that - sorry Joel! I thought I had a
great chance to make a real run at him through turns three and
four but I just couldn’t get my sled to shoot out of the corner
like I wanted. As J.V (Jacques Villeneuve) would say “we met”
and that’s that. I hate getting passed near the end of a race and
I wasn’t giving it to him easily. He drove smart and hard and
thinking about it right after it happened I’m glad it was Diamond
I bumped because he doesn’t move and doesn’t lift, had he
done either probably would have been cart wheeling down the
front straight away”, said Moyle.
Looking back does Moyle or his teammates wish they had
done things differently?
Well we would have put a new stator in right away for the
weekend just to be very conservative but who thinks of that?
My hindsight is great, but really Diamond had a better set up
and drove it home. He won fair and square.
I was just focused on the TLR Cup. Actually all I could think
of was “where did Malcolm finish? Once I saw him pull to his
trailer instead of the top three presentation I knew I had it and I
was damn excited.
The TLR Cup covered a great variety of tracks and geography,
it was awesome for the sport. Having a true Pro Champ
Tour set our schedule before the season started. If Tommy
Lipar wouldn’t have ran with his great idea we literally were
planning on only hitting a handful of races and that’s it. The tour
got our team very excited. We decided the week after Beausejour,
MB this was the series we were racing for this year. I was
aiming for another Eagle River World Championship too of
course, but the TLR Cup was just as serious. Normally I don’t
care about points racing, it really affected how my team and
many others approached the season, it was for the better for
sure.
I’m happy with the number of races but of course I’d like to
have Eagle River on the schedule to help my chances!! More
races on this tour would probably get to be a little too difficult
to find enough teams to swing the whole series. It takes a lot
for the teams, their families, their businesses and their pocket
books. Six is a good number of races to have.
I just want to thank my crew and their families, my family,
and all my sponsors and friends. This sport is about a lot more
than snowmobiles - it’s about families and like-minded people
getting together on weekends to see who is faster. It sounds
simple and maybe it is, but that’s what I love about it, the people.
Winning is only great if you beat good people and losing
is only slightly tolerable, but still somewhat tolerable because
good people beat you. If nothing else came from this season,
all of us involved with the TLR Cup know that when every race
counts you try harder and in the end are better off for it. The
season isn’t quite over yet but so far this has been my most
challenging and most fun”, Moyle said.
Moyle Racing is sponsored by; United States Marine Corps,
Ski Doo, Amsoil, Hooper Race Engines, Mike Houle Racing,
Woody’s, Moto Tassinari, NGK Sparkplugs, Met-Tec, Dayco,
Millennium Technologies, Camoplast, Skinz Protective Gear,
Scott USA, Super Seer, River Valley Bank, Boat Car Club of
America.
Crew Members; Mike Hill, Dan Ghazale, Dick Baccus, Andy
Moyle, Tom Moyle and Amy Moyle.
Malcolm Chartier was pretty fired up going into Lincoln where
for the first time this season he would have a chance to compete
in front of Michigan race fans and perhaps come home
with the TLR Cup. Known as “Mr. Consistent” throughout the
Cup series Chartier racked up second place finishes at Rock
Rapids, IA, Amherst, Wisc., and in Weyauwega, Wisc., while
posting a fifth place finish in Wausau, Wisc., and fourth place
in Valcourt, Quebec, Canada. A native of Fair Haven, Mich.,
and a former pro-am driver on the Midwest International Racing
Association (MIRA) circuit, Chartier knew exactly what to
expect from the oval at Lincoln and what he needed to take the
championship, sadly things didn’t work out. Qualifying fourth
for the final Chartier was unable to make a run for victory as he
finished fifth for the second time this year on his ski-doo.
“Going into Lincoln I was in a good position to win the cup,
but the day did not go as I planned. On Friday during testing
my Mike Houle Racing/Team Woody’s Champ was flying. I was
able to hold it deep into the corners, I only had to burp the motor
for a second. The top speed we thought would be competitive
for Saturday. Testing is a great tool, but until race day you
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