{"id":31739,"date":"2017-06-05T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=31739"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:52:22","slug":"martin-barkey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/martin-barkey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Barkey is sitting in sweet second, halfway through race series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos courtesy of Richard Prince<\/em><\/p>\n

Huntsville race car driver and entrepreneur Martin Barkey is making his presence known in the Pirelli World Challenge series. With nearly half the events completed, Barkey is in second place overall following his results May 27 and 28 at Lime Rock Park Connecticut in his MBRP KTM XBow GT4.<\/p>\n

He readily admits, however, the challenge will be staying there. There are two races at each event, and Barkey qualified for the pole position both days.<\/p>\n

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A week earlier he also won the pole position for the first race at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, the only Canadian stop on the tour.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the Motorsports Park race Barkey said, \u201cThere are ten turns on that track. If you can do well in the first three turns and so forth, I remember thinking on that last lap, as I could see the timer in my car that gives predictive timing, that I have a record lap going here and have two more corners and I just focused on each corner at a time and it worked out well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barkey finished fifth in the first race and eighth in the second at the Motorsports event.<\/p>\n

The Pirelli World Challenge series is a North American professional road racing series that races at all the large race tracks North America has to offer. It draws the largest crowds and also has most of the big name pro drivers in the world racing in this series.<\/p>\n\n\t\t