From Brian Graham Racing/TLM Racing
Canadian-based Brian Graham Racing/TLM Racing - Team Grote have announced the signing of Keenan Harris to contest the 2009 F1200 Championship Series.
Harris, a 17 year-old Bolton Ontario native, and grade 12 student at Humberview Secondary School will pilot one of the team’s multi-car entries this season. Harris comes to BGR-TLM with a very impressive Karting background winning 6 championships in 9 years in various Karting series during his development. In 2006, Harris landed 2nd by mere tenths of seconds at the Canada Junior Canadian National Karting championships in Edmonton, Alberta.
"Keenan is definitely a different type of personality than we have seen in the past versus the many young up and coming Karters who have made the jump into open wheel," stated Dave Matkovich, Director of Driver Development for TLM racing. "Keenan is very quite, very reserved, and unlike many of our previous rookie drivers, is not as animated or boisterous, he is very focused, calm and collected, which is exactly the kind of character traits that lead to a very fast learning curve heading into the 2009 F1200 Championship Series."
Harris tested with TLM in early October of 2008, adapting very quickly to the finicky F1200’s, and as the day progressed, became faster and faster until he had pretty much max’d out the car’s capabilities, ultimately posting very quick lap times at the Mosport DDT.
In effort to create Canada's premier formula car development team, Brian Graham Racing/TLM Racing with Grote was recently formed via partnership of two of the nations leading junior race car teams. The new partnership features a three-tier program for its drivers via the Ontario F1200 Championship, Ontario Formula Ford Challenge and the F2000 Championship Series.
