Liberty Lake, WA – Max Mällinen put in an impressive drive at the 2014 SCCA National Championships Runoffs event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, fighting aggressively for the victory before a late race incident ended his effort.

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Monterey, CA – Three qualifying sessions between now and Thursday will determine the grid order for the 2014 SCCA Runoffs Championship Formula F race taking place Friday morning. For Max Mällinen and the No. 10 Spectrum/Honda from Swan Motorsports, those three sessions represent a trio of key windows for track time at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In six of seven previous SCCA Majors this season the 16-year-old has started on the front row.

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Liberty Lake, WA – Max Mällinen, the recently-crowned 2014 National Formula F SCCA Majors Champion, will now set his sights on one of the biggest prizes in American road racing: a victory at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs taking place at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in October.

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Liberty Lake, WA – Sixteen-year-old Max Mällinen is officially a formula car champion, clinching the 2014 Sports Car Club of America’s U.S. Majors Tour National Championship in Formula F competition. At just 16 years and 90 days old, he becomes the youngest American Formula F Champion to date after a successful debut season in the No. 10 Spectrum 014/Honda from Swan Motorsports.

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Liberty Lake, WA – Max Mällinen put his stamp on Heartland Park race track in Topeka, Kansas with a sweep of the pair of Formula F races this past weekend in the SCCA U.S. Majors Tour. The 16-year-old drove his No. 10 Swan Motorsports Spectrum/Honda to two wins and added another track record performance to his quickly-growing open-wheel racing resume.

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Liberty Lake, WA – A mechanical issue in the SCCA Majors race at Grattan didn’t deter 16-year-old Max Mällinen. Coming off a string of strong performances the Swan Motorsports driver was taken out of a dominating performance in his No. 10 Spectrum/Honda on a Sunday afternoon following a second-place run in Saturday’s SCCA sprint race.

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Birmingham, AL – Coming off an SCCA Majors win at Road America, 16-year-old Max Mällinen finished second in the high-profile 45th Anniversary Formula F race at Barber Motorsports Park this past weekend. While it wasn’t a repeat of his first victory, the Liberty Lake, Washington native nearly won against a full-time IndyCar driver in Josef Newgarden.

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Elkhart Lake, WI – Liberty Lake, Washington native Max Mällinen scored his first victories in open-wheel competition in style, sweeping two SCCA Majors races at Elkhart Lake’s Road America in his No. 10 Swan Motorsports Spectrum/Honda. The 16-year-old junior at Central Valley High School was able to convert two outside front row starting spots into two first-place drives during the Cat Majors at Road America.

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Liberty Lake, WA – Max Mällinen will switch his remaining 2014 Formula F/F1600 racing focus to winning the 2014 SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Laguna Seca in the No. 10 Swan Motorsports Spectrum/Honda. The 16-year-old has had a solid start to the F1600 Championship Series season, running five races and now aiming to qualify for the October Championship.

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Liberty Lake, WA –Hidden in his pair of results from the F1600 Formula F Championship Series races at Watkins Glen was Max Mällinen’s carving through the highly competitive field. Learning the track during Saturday’s qualifying after a Friday washout, the youngest racer in the F1600 field advanced six positions in the first race and five in Sunday’s F1600 round, toward an 11th place result.

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