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Close Battles on the Track, in the Points Fight

This summer has been more exciting than usual, with serious fights for championship points going on up and down the motorsport pyramid.

From the height of Formula One, where brotherly love is hard to come by courtesy Michael and Ralf Schumacher, to Champ Car where Canadians Paul Tracy and Patrick Carpentier have both been in the winners circle, to CASCAR where Kerry Micks, the iron man of Canadian short track racing, has managed to be at or near the top of the standings for most of the season. Micks has been hanging only a few points behind defending series champion Don Thomson Jr., with DJ Kennington only a little further back in third by the mid-point of the season.

The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal was a barn-burner of a race, with the last third seeing Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari barely outrunning brother Ralf in his BMW-Williams, with his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya nipping at their heels as the checkered flag fell.

In Champ Car competition, critics of the series should eat their hats after several rounds saw Paul Tracy win four times, but run away from the field only once, in Toronto. The rest of the wins were hard fought and entirely unpredictable.

CASCAR, which shares something with Champ Car in that many had declared it dead last season, showed that the competition is very much alive. Veteran Dave Whitlock won the opening round and, to show it was no fluke, won the Calgary round, too. Of course, consistency pays in CASCAR points, and no one has been more consistent, year in and year out, than Don Thomson Jr. This is why he has won the national title twice, and why he leads this year.

CASCAR Super Series
After six of 12 rounds

1 Don Thomson Jr. 1021
2 Kerry Micks 1018
3 DJ Kennington 977
4 Peter Gibbons 976
5 Scott Steckly 970
6 Neil Fair 962
7 Mark Dilley 947
8 Ron Beauchamp Jr. 940
9 Brad Graham 922
10 John Fitzpatrick 915

CART Champ Car Standings
After 10 of 19 rounds

W1 Paul Tracy 139
2 Bruno Junqueira 124
3 Michel Jourdain Jr. 113
W4 Patrick Carpentier 88
5 Sebastien Bourdais 86
6 Oriol Servia 76
7 Adrian Fernandez 69
8 Mario Dominguez 62
W9 Alex Tagliani 51
10 Darren Manning 50

Formula One Standings
After 11 of 16 rounds

1. Michael Schumacher 69
2. Kimi Raikkonen 62
3. Juan Pablo Montoya 55
4. Ralf Schumacher 53
5. Rubens Barrichello 49
6. Fernando Alonso 39
7. David Coulthard 33
8. Jarno Trulli 16
9. Mark Webber 12
10. Jenson Button 11
W14. Jacques Villeneuve 3

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