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It was Don Warren starting from the pole in St.Louis, but he dropped off early on and fell even further back after a spin. The same fate came to Breuning, who fell back 3 laps after being caught off guard by Passmore washing up on the exit of turn 2.

It was Cooke and Erter with Passmore that were battling hard for the honors at the end, with Erter unfortunately losing it on the penultimate lap coming off turn 2. However, he was still ahead of Breuning in 4th, who was 3 laps down on the leaders at that point. Cook won, Passmore was 2nd, Erter remained on the podium despite the spin. Breuning and Forrester rounded out the top 5.

Mike Zakar started from the pole at Indy and the racing was close and furious as always. A three wide attempt into turn one knocked out a few drivers, amongst which was Zakar, unfortunately.

Breuning got caught up as well, took his fast repair and dropped a lap down, but a later yellow fell his way and he got back on the lead lap – but off sequence on pit strategy. A late yellow bunched them up with 10 to go. On the final lap, Smithem led Breuning coming off turn 4. Breuning went high to try and pass him but touched Mike Erter’s car and send him and himself into the wall. Cooke took the inside line and beat Smithem to the bricks by 0.047 of a second. Breuning limped to 3rd, Chris Brown got 4th and Erter made it to 5th.

George Sandman started from pole and walked away with the race, initially followed by Don Warren. Warren was overtaken by Bill Smithem after making an unscheduled pitstop and Larry Eaglen took 3rd place. It stayed that way till the end, with Chris Augustine and Andrew Forrester rounding out the top 5.

David Brown put his mean green machine on the pole and led the first part of the race. About mid race, the closely batteling leaders saw a slight touch between Brown and Breuning, sending the latter into the wall. A quick repair saved him from going a lap down and with more cautions, the bunching up of the field help him catch back up. Leader Smithem did everything he could to keep defending champ Cooke behind him, but a brush with the turn 2 wall allowed Cooke t grab the lead, while Breuning passed Brown for 2nd. Breuning was side by side with Cook as the white flag fell, but fell 0.041 short. Brown was 3rd only 0.097 behind the leader, so surely a very closely contested finish!

Pole sitter David Cooke led flag to flag in Laguna Seca ahead of George Sandman. Initially Breuning ran 3rd, but a misunderstanding with a back marker caused an incident and he dropped to 5th. It was Bill Smithem that grabbed the final podium spot ahead of Don Warren, who also had to pit for repairs after a mishap.

David Cooke is our Season 11 Champion. He won an impressive 10 races, the final 8 of them consecutively. Congratulations to him!

David Cooke started from the back of a 17-car field at Watkins Glen, but quickly made his way forward. Polesitter Breuning tried to give him a little run for his money, but he was just too fast and walked away with another great win. Duane Gibbs followed in 3rd position, with Bill Smithem and Mike Erter rounding out the top 5.