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Pole sitter Marc Breuning led the race until a technical issue took him out on lap 33, trying again after that but the tech issue persisted, and his race was done.

Goerge Sandman, who had started last on the grid, had worked his way to 2nd by then and took over the lead. Rod Potgieter followed, now in 2nd and Fozzi Fozillo in 3rd. Bill Smithem and Larry Eaglen rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
George Sandman	1	10	1:4.770	0	20
Rod Potgieter	2	4	1:5.368	5	16
Fozzy Fozillo	3	5	1:5.772	3	14
Bill Smithem	4	3	1:4.795	6	12
Larry Eaglen	5	6	1:6.89	11	10
Ian Wilson2	6	8	1:6.217	13	8
Marcellus Breuning	7	1	1:4.725	4	8
Chris C Brown	8	9	1:9.318	19	5
Donald Warren2	9	2	1:5.572	10	4
Glenn Sprechini	10	7	1:6.929	1	3
Mike Erter	11	11	1439:59.1000	0	0
JD Wardlow	12	12	1439:59.1000	0	0

Starting from the pole, Breuning led flag to flag at Mid Ohio. Bill Smithem had to recover from a spin in turn one and reclaim 2nd from Mike Zakar, who finished 3rd. Rod Potgieter finished 4th and Andrew Forrester made it to another top 5 finish!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:23.963	0	22
Bill Smithem	2	2	1:24.164	5	16
Mike Zakar	3	4	1:25.214	1	14
Rod Potgieter	4	3	1:24.796	8	12
Andrew Forrester2	5	8	1:28.848	8	10
Philip Peterson	6	6	1:25.842	13	8
Stuart Wright	7	7	1:29.792	10	6
JD Wardlow	8	9	1:28.772	17	5
Donald Warren2	9	5	1439:59.1000	0	0

Polesitter Bill Smithem started fast with front row starter Breuning and rookie Austin Dilts on his tail, but unfortunately he ran wide exiting the final turn on lap 4 and spun into the inside wall. He was forced to pit and wound up finishing 8th, while Dilts and Breuning raced for the win. Dilts took the lead with a better executed pit stop, but Breuning stuck to him for a bit until small mistakes started coming and he lost ground. Austin Dilts won his first outing in the 79s, with Breuning holding on to 2nd, Mike Erter in 3rd, Rod Potgieter in 4th and rookie Morgan Smith in 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Austin Dilts	1	3	1:53.204	16	21
Marcellus Breuning	2	2	1:53.544	9	16
Mike Erter	3	4	1:54.884	2	14
Rod Potgieter	4	5	1:54.993	15	12
Morgan Smith3	5	10	1:54.890	22	10
Larry Eaglen	6	11	1:55.359	11	8
Ian Wilson2	7	12	1:56.122	2	6
Bill Smithem	8	1	1:53.666	9	6
Don Anderson2	9	13	1:56.6	11	4
Chris Augustine	10	14	1:56.749	19	3
Glenn Sprechini	11	9	1:55.29	11	2
Fozzy Fozillo	12	6	1:55.122	10	1
Stuart Wright	13	19	1:58.103	4	0
Caleb Rybalka	14	18	1:56.995	15	0
Chris C Brown	15	17	1:59.894	15	0
Pierre Binette	16	8	1:55.884	16	0
Andrew Forrester2	17	16	1:56.910	20	0
JD Wardlow	18	15	1:58.592	10	0
Philip Peterson	19	7	1:58.215	11	0
Les Bentz	20	20	1439:59.1000	0	0

Don Warren took the pole at the tricky triangle, with Danny Passmore alongside him. As always, Pocono delivered some very close racing and some yellows. Breuning took himself out of contention brushing the wall in turn 2. Stofer, Passmore, Warren, Smithem and Erter all remained in close proximity of one another.

A late yellow bunched all of it back up; Breuning got his lap down as the lucky dog, but for him it didn’t matter. The battle for the win was tight and close, with Stofer beating Erter to the line by 0.001 of a second. Warren managed to stay ahead of Passmore by 0.05 for third and Bill Smithem took fifth as Peterson and Breuning spun on the last turn, taking Wright with them.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Chris Stofer	1	4	0:55.196	4	21
Mike Erter	2	5	0:54.974	5	16
Donald Warren2	3	1	0:55.262	4	15
Danny K Passmore	4	2	0:55.192	0	12
Bill Smithem	5	7	0:54.948	8	10
Philip Peterson	6	6	0:55.329	12	8
Marcellus Breuning	7	3	0:54.965	9	6
Stuart Wright	8	9	0:55.957	9	5
Jack Wilson21	9	8	0:55.795	11	4

Both Polesitter Erter and front row starter Breuning spun their wheels on launch, though they didn’t touch it was Erter hitting the wall and Breuning taking the lead. Cooke caught up fast, but he pitted during the first yellow and handed the lead back to Breuning. Warren chased him for a good bit but didn’t seem to be too interested in leading.

With a mid-race yellow, Kiefer took the lead as most others took tires and thus spent more time on pit road. Cooke quickly demoted Kiefer to 2nd, while Breuning and Warren duked it out for the podium spots. Cooke won by 3 1/2 seconds, with Breuning and Warren following, Smithem in 4th and Kiefer rounding out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	12	0:31.257	2	20
Marcellus Breuning	2	2	0:31.236	0	17
Donald Warren2	3	3	0:31.233	2	14
Bill Smithem	4	8	0:31.427	0	12
Steven Kiefer	5	4	0:31.430	0	10
Andrew Forrester2	6	7	0:31.479	0	8
Jack Wilson21	7	11	0:31.664	6	6
Mike Erter	8	1	0:31.70	2	6
Glenn Sprechini	9	6	0:31.553	6	4
Chris C Brown	10	9	0:31.686	4	3
David L Cooke	11	5	0:31.637	2	2
JD Wardlow	12	10	0:31.731	8	1
Fozzy Fozillo	13	13	1439:59.1000	0	0