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David Cook returned to the league with a blistering pole position, making no secret of his intentions: He led the race flag to flag and won with dominance.

Darryl Wineinger, who started alongside on the front row, chased him in 2nd position. Breuning took 3rd at the start but touched the inside wall of the hairpin on lap 2 and spun; He had to wait for the entire 18 car field to get buy and had his work cut out for him. Patrick Day was happy to take 3rd, while Matt Shinoski finished a strong 4th and Don Warren rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
David Cooke	1	1	1:11.770	6	22
Darryl Wineinger	2	2	1:12.529	2	16
Patrick Day	3	4	1:12.586	0	14
Matt Shinoski	4	8	1:13.215	0	12
Donald Warren2	5	5	1:13.184	8	10
Rafael Rodrigues5	6	9	1:13.314	2	8
Marcellus Breuning	7	3	1:12.911	4	6
Larry Eaglen	8	6	1:13.799	10	5
Philip Peterson	9	10	1:14.75	8	4
Roland Olsen	10	13	1:14.664	8	3
Steven Kiefer	11	11	1:14.331	2	2
Andrew Kupersmith	12	14	1:14.711	10	1
Kirk Pedersen	13	15	1:16.536	4	0
Michael Lemanczyk	14	18	1:15.449	14	0
Chris C Brown	15	17	1:19.880	14	0
Rod Potgieter	16	12	1:14.966	0	0
Andrew Forrester2	17	16	1:17.647	20	0
Craig Hawkins	18	19	1:20.399	6	0
Mike Erter	19	7	1439:59.1000	0	0

Returnee Donald Strout took the pole position at Phoenix, with Patrick Day in 2nd. Breuning and Eaglen shared the second row on the grid. As always, the racing was tight on the 1-mile oval, with all four drivers chasing each other closely. Day and Strout took themselves away from that action by pitting early, will Breuning and Eaglen stayed out.

More cautions brought it all back together. On lap 63, Breuning and Strout touched, sending both to the back of the lead lap after pitstops. Breuning benefited from a gap on the high side on the restart, making up 3 spots.

A late yellow on lap 71 took the back markers to the back of the line, with Breuning and Day fighting for the lead and Peterson and Forrester doing the same for 3rd. Day, having sustained minor damage from the cause of that final yellow, saw Breuning take the win by 0.043 of a second while Peterson snatched the final podium spot from Forrester.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	3	0:23.217	8	20
Patrick Day	2	2	0:23.245	4	17
Philip Peterson	3	6	0:23.229	4	14
Andrew Forrester2	4	9	0:23.312	0	12
Darryl Wineinger	5	11	0:23.280	10	10
Bill Smithem	6	10	0:22.981	4	8
Larry Eaglen	7	4	0:23.199	13	6
Chris C Brown	8	7	0:22.998	9	5
Jack Wilson21	9	15	0:23.154	12	4
Bill Colley II	10	14	0:23.181	13	3
Kirk Pedersen	11	5	0:23.190	14	2
Donald Strout	12	1	0:23.238	10	2
Les Bentz	13	12	0:23.406	9	0
Lawrence Hochgesang2	14	13	0:23.350	9	0
Roland Olsen	15	8	0:23.394	10	0
Stuart Wright	16	16	0:23.534	4	0
Donald Warren2	17	17	1439:59.1000	0	0

Although Breuning started from the pole and took the lead initially, Darryl Wineinger took advantage when Breuning spun around coming out of the corkscrew on lap 9 and never looked back. Breuning didn’t hit anything and returned in 4th behind Mike Erter and Bill Smithem. Both pitted a few laps earlier than him and when the pit stops were done, Breuning was in 2nd with a 4 second deficit on the leader. He closed in little by little, but not enough to be a threat and Darryl Wineinger took the checkered ahead of him. Smithem was 3rd, Erter 4th and Phil Peterson scored a 5th place after a strong a consistent race..

Breuning wins the Season 13 championship, with Bill Smithem 2nd and Mike Erter 3rd.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Darryl Wineinger	1	2	1:14.123	1	21
Marcellus Breuning	2	1	1:13.630	6	17
Bill Smithem	3	3	1:14.236	3	14
Mike Erter	4	4	1:14.148	2	12
Philip Peterson	5	7	1:15.705	5	10
Danny K Passmore	6	5	1:15.563	12	8
Rod Potgieter	7	6	1:15.682	11	6
Larry Eaglen	8	10	1:15.804	16	5
Ian Wilson2	9	8	1:16.304	12	4
Stuart Wright	10	14	1:17.325	3	3
Andrew Forrester2	11	9	1:16.445	16	2
Chris C Brown	12	11	1:19.518	5	1
Lawrence Hochgesang2	13	12	1:19.541	20	0
Les Bentz	14	13	1:26.592	12	0

Robert Love was back for the Pocono race and showed his intentions by taking the pole. As always, the racing was close and fierce at the tricky triangle. On lap 27, Love and Day touched, but luckily both could get fixed up and remained on the lead lap. After the restart, the field split somewhat, but with less than ten to go, they bunched up again and it was anybody’s race.

On lap 48, Stuart Wright scraped the wall and couldn’t be avoided by Shinoski, who took a literal ‘leap of faith’. The race finished under yellow with Day ahead, joined on the podium by Rodrigues and Breuning. Love and Wilson rounded out the top 5.

Breuning secured the championship with his 3rd spot, so the final race next week at Laguna Seca will be for bragging rights mostly.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Patrick Day	1	4	0:47.262	12	20
Rafael Rodrigues5	2	2	0:47.573	0	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	5	0:47.623	0	15
Robert Love2	4	1	0:47.286	8	14
Ian Wilson2	5	8	0:47.312	0	10
Larry Eaglen	6	7	0:47.156	2	8
Matt Shinoski	7	9	0:47.208	4	6
Stuart Wright	8	10	0:47.419	6	5
Philip Peterson	9	3	0:47.78	4	4
Chris C Brown	10	6	0:47.306	4	3

Patrick Day, returning to the series after a long hiatus, was blazingly quick, although Breuning beat him to the pole by 0.002 of a second in a ‘do-or-die’ lap. Day instantly took the lead and though Breuning could hang with him, there wasn’t any viable attempts to challenge the lead. On the 9th lap, however, Day spun around. Breuning barely missed him and took over the helm. Despite Day being faster and closing in, Breuning never relinquished the lead again, helped by the fact that Day had another off.

Behind them it was Bill Smithem defending 3rd from Mike Erter, while Matt Shinoski took 5th after a good race with Don Warren.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:13.822	1	22
Patrick Day	2	2	1:13.614	8	16
Bill Smithem	3	5	1:14.118	0	14
Mike Erter	4	4	1:14.166	0	12
Matt Shinoski	5	7	1:14.422	4	10
Donald Warren2	6	3	1:14.369	4	8
Rod Potgieter	7	6	1:14.537	6	6
Philip Peterson	8	10	1:14.843	3	5
Larry Eaglen	9	9	1:15.119	5	4
Rafael Rodrigues5	10	11	1:15.202	3	3
Ian Wilson2	11	8	1:15.35	9	2
Chris C Brown	12	12	1:20.416	10	1