Tristan returns to American soil and takes victory in both finals at the Pan American Rotax series in Indiana. 

 

Written by J3 Competition press:

 

The weekend proved a success on many fronts with the highlight coming from long-time team member Tristan DeGrand as he recorded two vastly different victories, yet stunning nonetheless.

 

The team took to the circuit on Thursday morning, thus giving themselves two complete days of preparation and testing before Saturday and Sunday’s events. At the conclusion of the official practice days, the team secured the speed necessary as the top of the time charts were DeGrand/J3 Competition/Kosmic.

 

J3 Competition coupled their hard work on Thursday and Friday in part to the accurate and reliable Unipro data collection which allows the team the ability to analyze the material to make the final decisions for Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday the focus shifted to managing the setup to deal with what initially appeared to be a full messy day of rain. However, the morning qualifying session was the only on track session impacted by wet weather. At the conclusion of qualifying DeGrand would be classified in 5th place.  The track soon went dry and the team reverted to their primary setup for the pre final and final. In the pre final DeGrand took little time to affirm his stance as he went to the point on lap two and marched to a comfortable win.   In the final it was all J3 Competition and Tristan DeGrand as victory was claimed by the multi time National Champion by over five seconds.
 

The team looked for the same results on Sunday in qualifying when DeGrand took provisional pole, unfortunately DeGrand would be penalized thirty positions for a driving infraction in qualifying, which the team is still searching the rule set to no avail. DeGrand systematically moved from his 31st starting position to take the point with two laps to go before settling for a second place finish! With DeGrand off pole the final provided fireworks.  DeGrand battled his way through the field after a tough start to secure the lead with a brilliant late race move and his second victory of the weekend.