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George Sandman was on the pole taking the field to the green flag. Maybe a little hesitation on the call, it was Taylor Jordan that responded right on thee green and he took the lead instantly.

Jordan, Sandman and to a lesser extent Breuning led the field, with Breuning dropping back bit by bit, unable to keep the blistering pace up front. Sandman got close a few times, but Jordan held him off and managed to keep him at bay. He won the race, with Sandman and Breuning on the podium. Don Warren took 4th after initial problems early on and Larry Eaglen was 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	2	1:12.795	0	21
George Sandman	2	1	1:12.719	0	17
Marcellus Breuning	3	3	1:13.657	4	14
Donald Warren2	4	4	1:13.658	6	12
Larry Eaglen	5	5	1:14.819	6	10
Ian Wilson2	6	7	1:15.566	8	8
Philip Peterson	7	6	1:14.304	10	6
Andrew Forrester2	8	9	1:16.146	6	5
Chris C Brown	9	8	1:19.290	8	4
Ronald grayson	10	10	1439:59.1000	0	0

Opening the new season at Phoenix, it was defending champion Taylor Jordan on the pole. Initially he got away by about 1.5 seconds, but Breuning reeled him in. Just as the battle was about the start, the yellow came out and bunched up the field. What followed was close racing as always. On the final pitstops, Don Warren was out quickets and took the lead ahead of Jordan. Breuning and Smithem were right on their tail. Warren managed to hold of Jordan by 0.004 of a second, Breuning was 3rd and Smithem 4th; Haiden Wheeler was 5th and the top 5 cars were within 0.6 seconds of each other!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Donald Warren2	1	4	0:23.244	0	20
Taylor Jordan	2	1	0:23.256	0	18
Marcellus Breuning	3	3	0:23.240	4	14
Bill Smithem	4	6	0:23.121	4	12
Haiden Wheeler	5	2	0:23.119	6	10
Kirk Pedersen	6	10	0:23.483	8	8
Andrew Forrester2	7	8	0:23.250	0	6
Ian Wilson2	8	9	0:23.222	6	5
Chris C Brown	9	7	0:23.166	10	4
Larry Eaglen	10	11	0:23.507	19	3
Ben Henry2	11	5	0:23.456	8	2
Jack Wilson21	12	12	0:23.595	11	1

It was George Sandman that took the field to the green flag, but it was Taylor Jordan that took the lead. Sandman followed him closely, but a pit lane speeding penalty ruined his ambitions of further challenging the new champion. With 8 wins out of 12 races he was the man to beat.

Breuning joined the two fastest guys on the podium 50 seconds later, with Bill Smithem in 4th and Mike Erter rounding out the top 5.

Season 14 saw an increase in grid size, a trend Retro CART hope to continue into season 15, which starts two weeks from today in Phoenix. SEE YOU THEN!!!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	2	1:12.178	1	21
George Sandman	2	1	1:12.237	11	17
Marcellus Breuning	3	4	1:13.927	0	14
Bill Smithem	4	3	1:13.515	4	12
Mike Erter	5	5	1:14.266	1	10
Philip Peterson	6	8	1:14.31	8	8
Ian Wilson2	7	9	1:15.404	16	6
Larry Eaglen	8	7	1:15.20	13	5
Stuart Wright	9	14	1:16.356	5	4
Chris C Brown	10	11	1:18.766	17	3
Andrew Forrester2	11	13	1:21.674	15	2
Ben Henry2	12	10	1:17.809	10	1
Donald Warren2	13	6	1:15.288	4	0
Jack Wilson21	14	12	1439:59.1000	8	0

Having started from the pole, returning driver Haiden Wheeler was a strong force to be reckoned with the entire race. Taylor Jordan was up at the front all the way as well, until he got caught up in accidents – the 2nd of which ended his day. The same was true for Breuning, Warren, Erter and Smithem. The race finished under yellow with Wheeler followed by Colley, Wright, Brown and Forrester.

Taylor Jordan’s points lead is now enough for the Season 14 championship, so we congratulate him on that!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Haiden Wheeler	1	1	0:47.286	12	21
Bill Colley II	2	13	0:47.515	0	16
Stuart Wright	3	15	0:47.548	8	14
Chris C Brown	4	8	0:47.65	8	12
Andrew Forrester2	5	12	0:47.147	0	10
Jack Wilson21	6	14	0:46.886	17	8
Taylor Jordan	7	4	0:46.990	8	7
Bill Smithem	8	2	0:46.955	12	5
Mike Erter	9	5	0:47.374	4	4
Larry Eaglen	10	11	0:47.233	10	3
Marcellus Breuning	11	6	0:47.497	17	2
Danny K Passmore	12	9	0:47.88	12	1
Donald Warren2	13	7	0:47.406	12	0
Robert Love2	14	3	0:46.719	12	0
Philip Peterson	15	10	0:49.964	8	0
Bob Mills	16	16	1439:59.1000	0	0

Bill Smithem surprised himself and everyone else with a blazingly fast lap in qualifying, that put him on the pole. In the race, it was Taylor Jordan that took the lead, followed by Breuning, who got around Smithem in the 2nd turn.

Jordan quickly pulled away and Breuning soon saw Smithem overtake him for 2nd. Although both wore their tires down hard, it stayed that way. Larry Eaglen and Bob Mills rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	2	1:11.559	0	21
Bill Smithem	2	1	1:12.141	1	17
Marcellus Breuning	3	3	1:12.548	2	14
Larry Eaglen	4	6	1:13.71	7	12
Bob Mills	5	8	1:13.333	0	10
Ian Wilson2	6	5	1:12.792	9	8
Philip Peterson	7	7	1:13.421	4	6
Chris C Brown	8	10	1:15.189	3	5
Donald Warren2	9	4	1:13.164	7	4
Andrew Forrester2	10	9	1:16.400	3	3