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Results
| Fin | Sta | Driver | Interval | Led | Fast Lap |
| 1 | 4 | Yang Ou | 120 Laps | 90 | 22.955 |
| 2 | 11 | Scott Manifold | -18.092 | 0 | 23.309 |
| 3 | 18 | Bryan Heitkotter | -22.391 | 0 | 23.246 |
| 4 | 20 | Daniel Ensch | -1 Laps | 0 | 23.225 |
| 5 | 8 | Tim Doyle | -3 Laps | 4 | 22.990 |
| 6 | 15 | Vincent Sciuto | -3 Laps | 0 | 23.540 |
| 7 | 16 | Todd Bettenhausen | -39 Laps | 0 | 23.328 |
| 8 | 7 | Niles Anders | -55 Laps | 0 | 23.118 |
| 9 | 14 | Gary Clark | -56 Laps | 6 | 23.395 |
| 10 | 13 | Cary Bettenhausen | -62 Laps | 0 | 23.615 |
| 11 | 19 | Kevin Cress | -71 Laps | 0 | 23.773 |
| 12 | 22 | Scott Thrasher | -76 Laps | 0 | 23.549 |
| 13 | 9 | Timothy Wheatley | -86 Laps | 0 | 23.216 |
| 14 | 2 | Ryan Murray | -86 Laps | 20 | 23.129 |
| 15 | 10 | Daniel Olszewski | -87 Laps | 0 | 23.376 |
| 16 | 1 | Tim Holgate | -97 Laps | 0 | 23.393 |
| 17 | 21 | Ryan Perezluha | -103 Laps | 0 | 23.665 |
| 18 | 17 | Ben Bretzman | -103 Laps | 0 | 24.352 |
| 19 | 12 | Brian R Simpson | -114 Laps | 0 | 24.521 |
| 20 | 6 | Billy Wease | -119 Laps | 0 | n/a |
| 21 | 3 | Larry Foyt | -119 Laps | 0 | n/a |
| 22 | 5 | Kyle Krisiloff | -120 Laps | 0 | n/a |
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A pretty disappointing end to what looked like being a race I was very competitive. It’s always frustrating to be taken out in someone else’s wreck that you can’t avoid but I suppose that’s racing. At least I’m not one of those hoping to win a championship having joined part-way through the season.
The video really tells the story, but the basics are that I had a nice stable setup, was about 0.3s slower in qualifying, but didn’t expect to be far off during race conditions. Judging by practice I also seemed more capable of running without spinning than just about everyone else on the race track: If I held my car to the third or fourth lane up, I knew I would never spin out.
The Ford Mustang FR500S pace car pulls onto pit road for the race start...
One of those 'various incidents' as Brian Simpson spins out ahead of me.
I started to focus on Ryan and try to use him to help me stay consistent and this backfired in a big way when a Daniel Olszewski spin ahead of him bypassed my attention until it was too late… I’m pretty sure nothing I did differently would have helped (as Ryan made contact with Daniel before I touched him) but I still think my reactions were a bit slow and when Daniel spun both Ryan and myself were collected… The chain reaction also caught out Cary Bettenhausen and Kevin Cress who both spun out in avoidance, Kevin getting the worst of it as he slammed into the wall.
Daniel's unlucky number 13 car waited until lap 34 to strike us down...
Watch on Youtube.
Still, after seeing that I managed to set the sixth fastest lap of the race (right behind Ryan and then others who went way further into the race), I’m really hoping I’ll be able to catch a break and use my oval competitiveness to full-effect at Richmond next week. It should be a night race so that should make things interesting with an all-black paint scheme…
