05/06/2010RDD Motorsports Sebastian Ordonez Wins In Skip Barber Debut!
RDD Motorsports development driver Sebastian Ordonez has great weekend in open wheel competition taking the win in his debut race
Sebastian Ordonez proudly stands atop the podium at VIR (Photo: RDD Motorsports)Deerfield Beach, FL – RDD Motorsports of Deerfield Beach, Florida, the exclusive North American importer of the Kart Mini chassis, took lead development driver Sebastian Ordonez to round one of the Skip Barber Regional Summer Series held at Virginia International Raceway. The weekend would be one to remember for the young racer as he scored double podiums in his debut race weekend. Ordonez tested with the Skip Barber crew on Thursday and Friday and followed that up with two spectacular rounds of racing running on Saturday and Sunday. Taking back-to-back podiums to start his car racing career sets the Skip Barber Scholarship winner as the man to beat in 2010. The weather was good for the entire weekend despite much of the region being hit with severe storms.
In Saturday round one action the 15-year-old rookie driver would take pole and follow that with a strong win in the final going from flag to flag to take the victory. In Sunday the cars would grid according to the Saturday final race order, giving Ordonez the pole to start the race for a second straight day. The action was heavy off the start as the drivers turned up the heat for day two of competition. At the VIR the draft would be a key part, as Ordonez would slip back to fourth early on in the race. He would work his way back to the lead, only to lose the draft in the closing stages. Ordonez would again battle back to cross the line in the third spot, a second straight podium.
“Sebastian did a great job all weekend long,” comments Andre Serra, owner of RDD Motorsports. “He has really taken to the single seater cars very nicely and his race craft is improving each time out.”
Ordonez getting ready to hit the track at VIR (Photo: RDD Motorsports)Back in action this week is RDD Junior driver Garrett Sargeant who is rejoining the team in the Junior class. Garrett has sat out the last few races as he looked at making the move to the Junior ranks. Sargeant will be on track at Palm Beach International Raceway all week as he learns the Kart Mini Junior package in both Rotax and TaG Junior. While the rest of the RDD team takes a well deserved break this weekend, Garrett will be working out the bugs and getting up to speed as he looks to join teammate Ordonez in junior action at the next round of the WSK North American Series.
“I am really happy to be making the move to junior,” commented Sargeant. “I was getting too tall for the mini max and couldn’t be a competitive as I would like to be.”Up next for RDD Motorsports will be the WSK North American Series by CKI being held in Phoenix, AZ on May 14 - 16. That will be followed by the second round of the South Florida Rotax Max Challenge at Homestead Karting outside of Miami.
For more information about this release, the Kart Mini chassis program and the entire RDD Motorsports team please contact André Serra, RDD Motorsports at 954-695-4437 or visit http://rddmotorsports.com
