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Starting from Pole Position, Taylor Jordan was a factor at the front of the field all race long and he wound up leading the most laps as well. As always at Gateway, the racing was close, fast and furious. At times a bit too close. Several yellows slowed down the pace, but the green flag would ignite things instantly.

A late crash between Colley and Smithem caused the race to finish under yellow, with Taylor Jordan leading, Don Warren in 2nd and Breuning in 3rd, both a lap down from earlier problems. Craig Hawkins and Bill Colley rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	1	0:27.740	4	22
Donald Warren2	2	17	0:27.605	4	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	7	0:27.504	4	14
Craig Hawkins	4	19	0:27.962	6	12
Bill Colley II	5	18	0:27.896	12	10
Bill Smithem	6	15	0:27.710	8	8
Philip Peterson	7	12	0:27.589	11	6
Ian Wilson2	8	11	0:27.807	8	5
Andrew Forrester2	9	13	0:28.86	6	4
Chris C Brown	10	5	0:28.3	10	3
Kirk Pedersen	11	16	0:28.364	16	2
David Cooke	12	10	0:27.861	12	1
Larry Eaglen	13	8	0:27.996	18	0
Jack Wilson21	14	4	0:27.599	20	0
Patrick Day	15	3	0:27.820	8	0
David E Brown	16	2	0:28.10	4	0
Danny K Passmore	17	6	0:27.802	8	0
Mike Erter	18	9	0:27.936	4	0
Haiden Wheeler	19	14	0:28.91	4	0
David Tamira	20	20	1439:59.1000	0	0

Rafael Rodrigues qualified on the pole of a strong 24 car field for the Indy 100. As usual the racing was very close and some drivers were probably too ambitious too early. There were several yellows following pile ups, because if something goes wrong while racing in a close pack, it goes wrong big.

At the end, only three drivers survived the mayhem: Rodrigues, Craig Hawkins and Patrick Day, who duked it out for the win clean and respectful. Rodriguez beat Hakwins to the line by 0.007 of a second, with Day right on their tail. Of the 24 cars started, 3 reached the finish line with 0.08 of a second!

Pederson and Shinoski were 4th and 5th, though not rolling at the end.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Rafael Rodrigues5	1	1	0:46.476	12	22
Craig Hawkins	2	24	0:46.366	12	16
Patrick Day	3	7	0:46.197	17	14
Kirk Pedersen	4	17	0:46.132	20	12
Matt Shinoski	5	20	0:45.974	14	10
Chris C Brown	6	6	0:46.536	8	8
Les Bentz	7	16	0:46.296	22	6
Larry Eaglen	8	10	0:46.137	20	5
Michael Lemanczyk	9	22	0:45.891	20	4
Haiden Wheeler	10	3	0:46.429	20	3
Gregory T Herr	11	12	0:46.357	20	2
Steven Kiefer	12	14	0:46.426	9	1
Marcellus Breuning	13	8	0:46.737	12	0
Donald Warren2	14	2	0:46.251	13	0
Stuart Wright	15	23	0:46.164	8	0
Bill Colley II	16	21	0:46.487	7	0
Johnny Berardi	17	5	0:46.820	17	0
Danny K Passmore	18	4	0:46.623	12	0
Jack Wilson21	19	11	0:45.941	20	0
Aaron M Blackburn	20	18	0:46.492	20	0
Lawrence Hochgesang2	21	15	0:46.594	13	0
Philip Peterson	22	13	0:46.543	15	0
Andrew Forrester2	23	19	0:46.141	12	0
Ian Wilson2	24	9	0:46.740	8	0

David Cook returned to the league with a blistering pole position, making no secret of his intentions: He led the race flag to flag and won with dominance.

Darryl Wineinger, who started alongside on the front row, chased him in 2nd position. Breuning took 3rd at the start but touched the inside wall of the hairpin on lap 2 and spun; He had to wait for the entire 18 car field to get buy and had his work cut out for him. Patrick Day was happy to take 3rd, while Matt Shinoski finished a strong 4th and Don Warren rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	1	1:11.770	6	22
Darryl Wineinger	2	2	1:12.529	2	16
Patrick Day	3	4	1:12.586	0	14
Matt Shinoski	4	8	1:13.215	0	12
Donald Warren2	5	5	1:13.184	8	10
Rafael Rodrigues5	6	9	1:13.314	2	8
Marcellus Breuning	7	3	1:12.911	4	6
Larry Eaglen	8	6	1:13.799	10	5
Philip Peterson	9	10	1:14.75	8	4
Roland Olsen	10	13	1:14.664	8	3
Steven Kiefer	11	11	1:14.331	2	2
Andrew Kupersmith	12	14	1:14.711	10	1
Kirk Pedersen	13	15	1:16.536	4	0
Michael Lemanczyk	14	18	1:15.449	14	0
Chris C Brown	15	17	1:19.880	14	0
Rod Potgieter	16	12	1:14.966	0	0
Andrew Forrester2	17	16	1:17.647	20	0
Craig Hawkins	18	19	1:20.399	6	0
Mike Erter	19	7	1439:59.1000	0	0

Returnee Donald Strout took the pole position at Phoenix, with Patrick Day in 2nd. Breuning and Eaglen shared the second row on the grid. As always, the racing was tight on the 1-mile oval, with all four drivers chasing each other closely. Day and Strout took themselves away from that action by pitting early, will Breuning and Eaglen stayed out.

More cautions brought it all back together. On lap 63, Breuning and Strout touched, sending both to the back of the lead lap after pitstops. Breuning benefited from a gap on the high side on the restart, making up 3 spots.

A late yellow on lap 71 took the back markers to the back of the line, with Breuning and Day fighting for the lead and Peterson and Forrester doing the same for 3rd. Day, having sustained minor damage from the cause of that final yellow, saw Breuning take the win by 0.043 of a second while Peterson snatched the final podium spot from Forrester.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	3	0:23.217	8	20
Patrick Day	2	2	0:23.245	4	17
Philip Peterson	3	6	0:23.229	4	14
Andrew Forrester2	4	9	0:23.312	0	12
Darryl Wineinger	5	11	0:23.280	10	10
Bill Smithem	6	10	0:22.981	4	8
Larry Eaglen	7	4	0:23.199	13	6
Chris C Brown	8	7	0:22.998	9	5
Jack Wilson21	9	15	0:23.154	12	4
Bill Colley II	10	14	0:23.181	13	3
Kirk Pedersen	11	5	0:23.190	14	2
Donald Strout	12	1	0:23.238	10	2
Les Bentz	13	12	0:23.406	9	0
Lawrence Hochgesang2	14	13	0:23.350	9	0
Roland Olsen	15	8	0:23.394	10	0
Stuart Wright	16	16	0:23.534	4	0
Donald Warren2	17	17	1439:59.1000	0	0

Although Breuning started from the pole and took the lead initially, Darryl Wineinger took advantage when Breuning spun around coming out of the corkscrew on lap 9 and never looked back. Breuning didn’t hit anything and returned in 4th behind Mike Erter and Bill Smithem. Both pitted a few laps earlier than him and when the pit stops were done, Breuning was in 2nd with a 4 second deficit on the leader. He closed in little by little, but not enough to be a threat and Darryl Wineinger took the checkered ahead of him. Smithem was 3rd, Erter 4th and Phil Peterson scored a 5th place after a strong a consistent race..

Breuning wins the Season 13 championship, with Bill Smithem 2nd and Mike Erter 3rd.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Darryl Wineinger	1	2	1:14.123	1	21
Marcellus Breuning	2	1	1:13.630	6	17
Bill Smithem	3	3	1:14.236	3	14
Mike Erter	4	4	1:14.148	2	12
Philip Peterson	5	7	1:15.705	5	10
Danny K Passmore	6	5	1:15.563	12	8
Rod Potgieter	7	6	1:15.682	11	6
Larry Eaglen	8	10	1:15.804	16	5
Ian Wilson2	9	8	1:16.304	12	4
Stuart Wright	10	14	1:17.325	3	3
Andrew Forrester2	11	9	1:16.445	16	2
Chris C Brown	12	11	1:19.518	5	1
Lawrence Hochgesang2	13	12	1:19.541	20	0
Les Bentz	14	13	1:26.592	12	0