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Robert Love was back for the Pocono race and showed his intentions by taking the pole. As always, the racing was close and fierce at the tricky triangle. On lap 27, Love and Day touched, but luckily both could get fixed up and remained on the lead lap. After the restart, the field split somewhat, but with less than ten to go, they bunched up again and it was anybody’s race.

On lap 48, Stuart Wright scraped the wall and couldn’t be avoided by Shinoski, who took a literal ‘leap of faith’. The race finished under yellow with Day ahead, joined on the podium by Rodrigues and Breuning. Love and Wilson rounded out the top 5.

Breuning secured the championship with his 3rd spot, so the final race next week at Laguna Seca will be for bragging rights mostly.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Patrick Day	1	4	0:47.262	12	20
Rafael Rodrigues5	2	2	0:47.573	0	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	5	0:47.623	0	15
Robert Love2	4	1	0:47.286	8	14
Ian Wilson2	5	8	0:47.312	0	10
Larry Eaglen	6	7	0:47.156	2	8
Matt Shinoski	7	9	0:47.208	4	6
Stuart Wright	8	10	0:47.419	6	5
Philip Peterson	9	3	0:47.78	4	4
Chris C Brown	10	6	0:47.306	4	3

Patrick Day, returning to the series after a long hiatus, was blazingly quick, although Breuning beat him to the pole by 0.002 of a second in a ‘do-or-die’ lap. Day instantly took the lead and though Breuning could hang with him, there wasn’t any viable attempts to challenge the lead. On the 9th lap, however, Day spun around. Breuning barely missed him and took over the helm. Despite Day being faster and closing in, Breuning never relinquished the lead again, helped by the fact that Day had another off.

Behind them it was Bill Smithem defending 3rd from Mike Erter, while Matt Shinoski took 5th after a good race with Don Warren.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:13.822	1	22
Patrick Day	2	2	1:13.614	8	16
Bill Smithem	3	5	1:14.118	0	14
Mike Erter	4	4	1:14.166	0	12
Matt Shinoski	5	7	1:14.422	4	10
Donald Warren2	6	3	1:14.369	4	8
Rod Potgieter	7	6	1:14.537	6	6
Philip Peterson	8	10	1:14.843	3	5
Larry Eaglen	9	9	1:15.119	5	4
Rafael Rodrigues5	10	11	1:15.202	3	3
Ian Wilson2	11	8	1:15.35	9	2
Chris C Brown	12	12	1:20.416	10	1

Pole sitter George Sandman led the first 29 of 45 laps with Breuning doing everything he could to just stay within a second of him. He never got close enough to threaten Sandman, until Sandman went wide in the final section of the track and Breuning could sneak through to take the lead. It was enough for him to stay in front and win the race, ahead of Sandman and Mike Erter. Newcomer Matt Shinoski was 4th and Bill Smithem rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	2	1:4.222	0	20
George Sandman	2	1	1:4.262	1	18
Mike Erter	3	4	1:5.31	1	14
Matt Shinoski	4	6	1:5.400	2	12
Bill Smithem	5	3	1:4.750	3	10
Ian Wilson2	6	7	1:5.859	8	8
Larry Eaglen	7	5	1:5.678	7	6
Chris C Brown	8	9	1:7.991	17	5
Philip Peterson	9	8	1:5.990	11	4
David Tamira	10	10	1439:59.1000	0	0

Initially it was pole sitter Breuning that appeared to be taking it away, but a pitlane speeding penalty dropped him to 5th. It was Smithem that took over the helm, chased down by Darryl Wineinger. As they flew by the white flag, Wineinger passed Smithem into turn one for the win. On the final turn, with the checkered in sight, they both went off on their own account. Wineinger saved himself and took the win, while Smithem wasn’t so lucky and crippled to the flag in 7th. Erter moved up to 2nd because of that, while Breuning put a last lap pass on Potgieter for what was now suddenly for 3rd. An exciting race for sure!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Darryl Wineinger	1	5	1:53.810	1	20
Mike Erter	2	3	1:54.53	0	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	1	1:53.532	1	16
Rod Potgieter	4	4	1:54.618	3	12
Philip Peterson	5	7	1:54.788	8	10
Larry Eaglen	6	8	1:55.702	16	8
Bill Smithem	7	2	1:53.820	10	6
Danny K Passmore	8	6	1:54.913	9	5
Chris C Brown	9	9	2:1.75	9	4
Andrew Forrester2	10	10	1:57.718	20	3

Mike Erter led the field to the green flag and had a good start, taking the lead, while Breuning and Smithem struggled with fishtailing cars, mixing things up right away: It was Phil Peterson running 2nd initially, while Warren got unlucky with a black flag for passing illegally at the messy start.

The yellows bunched the field back up again and the final part of the race was a battle for the win between Erter and Breuning, swapping positions all the time, while Smithem had worked his way back up to 3rd and was sitting on the bench to see the two leaders mess up. They didn’t; The final yellow ended the battle, caused by a touch between Colley and Peterson – the latter getting the short end of the stick. Finishing under yellow, Breuning took the win ahead of Erter and Smithem, Warren was 4th and Colley 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	3	0:31.240	0	21
Mike Erter	2	1	0:31.251	0	17
Bill Smithem	3	2	0:31.186	4	14
Donald Warren2	4	4	0:31.298	2	12
Bill Colley II	5	10	0:31.404	4	10
Andrew Forrester2	6	8	0:31.410	0	8
Jack Wilson21	7	6	0:31.302	0	6
Chris C Brown	8	7	0:31.651	0	5
Philip Peterson	9	5	0:31.418	4	4
Rafael Rodrigues5	10	9	0:31.217	4	3