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Pole sitter Bill Smithem led the first part of the race, when Breuning caught him there was a pretty good battle between the two and they swapped positions several times. With about 7 laps to go, Smithem ran wide and brushed the wall, causing his suspension to be out of wack. He finished, but had to watch Breuning grab top spot. Phil Peterson and Ian Wilson completed the event in 3rd and 4th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	3	0:29.3	0	21
Bill Smithem	2	1	0:28.975	2	17
Philip Peterson	3	2	0:29.142	4	14
Ian Wilson2	4	4	0:29.137	4	12
Roland Olsen	5	5	0:29.516	2	10
Stuart Wright	6	6	1439:59.1000	2	8
Mike Erter	7	7	1439:59.1000	0	0

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!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	4	0:23.374	4	20
Marcellus Breuning	2	3	0:23.185	8	16
David E Brown	3	1	0:23.385	4	15
Bill Smithem	4	9	0:23.224	6	13
Mike Erter	5	7	0:23.252	4	10
Andrew Forrester2	6	8	0:23.193	8	8
Chris C Brown	7	10	0:23.494	15	6
Stuart Wright	8	13	0:23.431	4	5
David L Cooke	9	12	0:23.413	7	4
Ian Wilson2	10	2	0:23.344	10	3
Glenn Sprechini	11	5	0:23.460	6	2
Philip Peterson	12	6	0:23.312	14	1
Bill Colley II	13	11	0:23.601	6	0
Randy Lloyd	14	14	1439:59.1000	0	0

Bill Smithem started from the pole and never looked back at the season finale at Watkins Glen, leading every lap and saving fuel as best he could. He came over the finish line with a sputtering engine, as did 2nd placed Breuning. Both leading cars were the only ones not to pit for fuel, which brought Breunign back from 5th to 2nd after a lap one spin. Stuart Wright grabbed 3rd place, followed by Ian Wilson and Pierre “PappaBinz” Binette.

Breuning had already secured the championship, Bill Smithem is 2nd and Don Warren (absent today) 3rd.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Bill Smithem	1	1	1:47.921	0	22
Marcellus Breuning	2	2	1:46.296	7	16
Stuart Wright	3	6	1:48.987	8	14
Ian Wilson2	4	4	1:49.201	14	12
Pierre Binette	5	3	1:46.797	14	10
Andrew Forrester2	6	5	1439:59.1000	6	8
Larry Eaglen	7	7	1439:59.1000	0	0

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!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	1	1:11.967	7	22
George Sandman	2	2	1:12.106	6	16
Bill Smithem	3	5	1:14.26	6	14
Donald Warren2	4	4	1:14.199	14	12
Marcellus Breuning	5	3	1:13.366	5	10
Larry Eaglen	6	11	1:14.961	15	8
Pierre Binette	7	6	1:14.896	14	6
Ian Wilson2	8	8	1:15.704	10	5
Chris C Brown	9	10	1:18.786	14	4
Andrew Forrester2	10	9	1:17.384	10	3
Mike Erter	11	7	1439:59.1000	0	0
David L Cooke	12	12	1439:59.1000	0	0

Newcomer Brown put his machine on the pole alongside Mike Erter, but the race was really anyone’s. The top 5-6 drivers were all in it and dicing the entire time. Three wide, two wide, and it all seemed to fit on the high banked oval as if it was made for it!

The pit stops pulled the field apart a little bit, but the fight for the top spot remained. Ultimately, David Brown inched it over the line ahead of Erter with Breuning in 3rd. The winning margin was too close to measure in 3 digits behind the dot! Steven Kiefer and Ian Wilson rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David E Brown	1	1	0:39.750	0	22
Mike Erter	2	2	0:39.917	0	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	3	0:39.877	0	14
Steven Kiefer	4	4	0:39.862	1	12
Ian Wilson2	5	5	0:39.898	0	10
Stuart Wright	6	10	0:39.816	0	8
Roland Olsen	7	7	0:39.835	2	6
Andrew Forrester2	8	9	0:40.48	0	5
Philip Peterson	9	8	0:39.793	5	4
Donald Warren2	10	6	0:39.910	2	3

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.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	16	1:31.751	5	21
Marcellus Breuning	2	1	1:32.531	0	17
Duane Gibbs	3	4	1:32.682	3	14
Bill Smithem	4	2	1:32.908	0	12
Mike Erter	5	5	1:33.530	0	10
Philip Peterson	6	8	1:33.731	8	8
Glenn Sprechini	7	6	1:33.637	7	6
Pierre Binette	8	17	1:34.43	9	5
Chris Augustine	9	7	1:33.821	2	4
Andrew Forrester2	10	13	1:34.698	4	3
Donald Warren2	11	3	1:33.182	10	2
Ian Wilson2	12	9	1:34.342	7	1
Warren Rodgers	13	10	1:34.129	6	0
Stuart Wright	14	14	1:35.527	7	0
Fozzy Fozillo	15	12	1:36.97	6	0
Larry Eaglen	16	11	1:35.33	6	0
Clinton Chambers	17	15	1439:59.1000	0	0