Team Sahlen had an amazing weekend at Montreal. The end result for the weekend was a 3rd and 10th place finish. But the full story of the weekend was the entire Team Sahlen crew coming together to focus upon engineering and setting up the Mazda RX-8s for the full race pace.

For the race, the skies were blue with a cool Canadian wind keeping the temperature just right for the racers and fans. At the start of the race, both Team Sahlen Mazdas survived the early hectic pace and door banging. Wayne Nonnamaker settled into 5th place, while Joe Nonnamaker kept check with the Top Ten. At the 17 minute mark, a full course caution came out. Team Sahlen choose to split their strategies and have just Joe Nonnamaker in the #42 come in to top off with fuel. Another full course caution came out at the 45 minute mark. Both Team Sahlen Mazdas came into the pits, and changed drivers. Dane Cameron replaced Wayne Nonnamaker, and Will Nonnamaker jumped in behind his Dad.

With the length of time left in the race more than the fuel window, all GT cars were in a position to have to pit again. Team Sahlen choose to wait as long as possible before pitting, placing Dane in the lead for 2 laps. When Dane did finally come into the pits, the Team Sahlen crew did a fantastic job getting the #43 in and out of the pits, and back on track in 3rd place. Dane maintained this position until the end of the race. This finish provided Team Sahlen with their 2nd podium of the year.

Dane shared his thoughts post race - “Finishing third in Montreal almost felt like a win for us. We had a pretty rough couple of races so it felt great to reward all of Team Sahlen's hard work with a podium. All the mazdas had been struggling a little bit for outright speed all weekend long so we did not expect a podium, but we never gave up, pushed like crazy and things fell our way.”