{"id":72282,"date":"2024-07-29T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racer.com\/?p=362955"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:00:13","slug":"ambiado-woods-toth-finish-fr-americas-weekend-strong-at-njmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/ambiado-woods-toth-finish-fr-americas-weekend-strong-at-njmp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiado, Woods-Toth finish FR Americas weekend strong at NJMP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nicolas Ambiado secured his first Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) win in race two at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP). The 16-year-old Chilean driver finished second in the last two rounds, finally breaking through to run away with the win\u2014and a 10s margin of victory\u2014Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

With the perfect setup for morning track conditions, Ambiado methodically hit his marks, opening a gap on the field\u2014a full second within the first lap, nearly 6s within the first 10 minutes, and ultimately over 10s by the time the checkered flag waved. Behind him, Titus Sherlock felt the pressure of Patrick Woods-Toth, with less than 0.5s separating the two during the closing laps, but Sherlock was ultimately able to hold off his opponent, crossing the finish line in the same order they ran the majority of the race: Ambiado, Sherlock, Woods-Toth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy,\u201d said Ambiado atop the podium. \u201cI had a very good setup today\u2014thanks to my team, my dad, Velox USA. I had a good gap over second, and was able to take the victory. I have to thank my sponsors\u2014LIQUI MOLY\u2014and obviously SpeedTour, FR Americas, and SVRA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Woods-Toth wins thrilling Race 3 at NJMP<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" Gavin Baker Photography<\/p>\n

Patrick Woods-Toth won a nail-biting third race at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP). Racing wheel-to-wheel with Nicolas Ambiado (No. 55 LIQUI MOLY Ligier JS F3) for nearly the entire race, Woods-Toth (No. 27 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) was able to hold off Ambiado\u2019s advances to win the final Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) race of the New Jersey Lottery SpeedTour weekend.<\/p>\n

Woods-Toth maintained the lead when the race resumed from an early yellow after a Turn 1, lap one incident, getting a clean restart as the green flag waved. With Ambiado in his tracks, mere tenths separated the two frontrunners for nearly the first half of the race. Carrying speed down the frontstretch, Ambiado had a few opportunities to try to find a way around Woods-Toth as they raced toward Turn 1, but Woods-Toth stayed on defense and was able to hold off Ambiado\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n

When the checkered flag waved, Woods-Toth led the way, followed by Ambiado in second and Jett Bowling (No. 02 Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport Ligier JS F3) in third. Bowling had started the race in fifth, but the Turn 1 incident on the opening lap gave him the perfect opportunity to capitalize on the situation and earn his fourth podium of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be back ,\u201d said Woods-Toth from the podium. \u201cWe worked pretty hard at the last two races and had a little bit of tough luck, but we just had to put it together. Finally, we had a good race today. Nicolas was super fast all weekend. When he was out front , we couldn\u2019t even see him anymore. This race was a tough race. I had to pull all my karting defense moves, but it turned out well for us in the end. I have to thank the team at Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport, Orlando, FSMQ, Ron Fellows, my family, my friends and everybody that supports me.\u201d<\/p>\n

FR Americas visits Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for its penultimate round of the 2024 championship, August 29-September 1. Live timing and scoring can be accessed on the Race Monitor app, and additional news and updates about F4 U.S. are available on the series\u2019 Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.<\/p>\n

RACE TWO RESULTS<\/span><\/p>\n

RACE THREE RESULTS<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicolas Ambiado secured his first Formula Regional Americas Championship (FR Americas) win in race two at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP). The 16-year-old Chilean driver finished second in the last two rounds, finally breaking through to run away with the win\u2014and a 10s margin of victory\u2014Sunday morning. With the perfect setup for morning track conditions, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}