Jake Cowden raced into late-summer in impressive fashion and captured the 2023 Emzone Radical Cup Canada title at Mosport on September 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cowden\u2019s trajectory as a young stellar athlete was evident in his early success as a go-kart, snowmobile, and car racing champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The range of his racing success earned him the attention of the Aurora Sports Hall of Fame, and Cowden was a co-recipient of the 2021<\/strong> Future Hall of Famer Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two years later, the Aurora Sports Hall of Fame\u2019s selection is looking more and more prescient as Cowden reflected on his winning year on the racetrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve worked super hard all season. This is a huge stepping stone for my professional career, especially as it connects to sedan racing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In our phone interview, Cowden expressed his satisfaction at being crowned the 2023 FEL ERCC Champion \u201cafter a pair of P2s and a win to close off the season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He noted that that his racing season has been \u201cclose to perfect for me, after scoring seven wins and five P2s, wrapping up a season with 100 per cent podium finishes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a statement, Cowden acknowledged that his ascendency to 12 podium finishes was due to the strength of his team and he expressed his appreciation for their diligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It really took a team effort to win this championship. I can’t thank Richard and the whole Ryspec Racing crew enough for all of their hard work and late nights to keep our cars at a winning standard. I also want to give a huge shout-out to the FEL Motorsports team for organizing such a fantastic series! Of course, I need to thank all of my sponsors for making this possible. I really appreciate your support to help me chase my dream of a career in motorsports! I’m really looking forward to the next steps in my racing career.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We chatted about Cowden\u2019s next steps and the Canadian racing champion was excited about some of his on-track recreational opportunities this Fall: \u201cWe\u2019re going to be testing vehicles in late-October in Bowmanville. I\u2019m looking forward to some end-of-season racing in Ontario and driving test vehicles at Mosport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cowden had just competed at a Drivefest event at the Canadian Tire Sports Park and said he enjoyed \u201cdriving half a lap backwards. It was a novelty for thousands of fans and lots of fun for the drivers, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s evident that this young Canadian champion is maintaining the requisite amount of fun in his life\u2014a terrific recipe for sustained success in professional sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jake Cowden raced into late-summer in impressive fashion and captured the 2023 Emzone Radical Cup Canada title at Mosport on September 3. Cowden\u2019s trajectory as a young stellar athlete was evident in his early success as a go-kart, snowmobile, and car racing champion. The range of his racing success earned him the attention of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}