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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.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	3	0:46.837	0	21
Bill Smithem	2	6	0:46.597	6	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	2	0:46.324	10	14
Chris C Brown	4	5	0:46.462	4	12
Mike Erter	5	4	0:46.433	3	10
Glenn Sprechini	6	8	0:46.748	13	8
Andrew Forrester2	7	13	0:46.508	8	6
Donald Warren2	8	11	0:46.544	4	5
Ian Wilson2	9	9	0:46.476	4	4
Stuart Wright	10	15	0:46.498	9	3
Gregory T Herr	11	10	0:46.507	4	2
Bill Colley II	12	14	0:46.509	5	1
Pierre Binette	13	12	0:46.466	12	0
David L Cooke	14	7	0:46.415	8	0
Mike Zakar	15	1	0:47.352	4	1
Randy Lloyd	16	16	1439:59.1000	0	0

Phil Peterson started from the pole, with Breuning alongside him on the front row. Breuning took the lead early on and stayed there. An early yellow dropped a few drivers a lap down, but it was pretty smooth sailing from there on out. Breuning took the checkered, his first Indy 100 win in the Lotus 49, with Don Warren saving fuel in 2nd place and Ian Wilson rounding out the podium; Mike Zakar was 4th and polesitter Peterson finished 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	2	0:53.187	0	21
Donald Warren2	2	3	0:53.433	6	16
Ian Wilson2	3	6	0:53.971	0	14
Mike Zakar	4	4	0:53.542	4	12
Philip Peterson	5	1	0:53.558	11	11
Mike Erter	6	5	0:53.316	4	8
Stuart Wright	7	7	0:53.726	6	6

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.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
George Sandman	1	1	1:12.451	0	22
Bill Smithem	2	3	1:14.747	0	16
Larry Eaglen	3	4	1:14.714	2	14
Chris Augustine	4	8	1:15.215	10	12
Andrew Forrester2	5	6	1:16.362	4	10
Chris C Brown	6	7	1:19.442	0	8
Donald Warren2	7	2	1:14.149	6	6
Pierre Binette	8	5	1:15.418	8	5
Mike Erter	9	9	1439:59.1000	0	0
Marcellus Breuning	10	10	1439:59.1000	0	0

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