Category: Season 15

Taylor Jordan was the man to beat all afternoon long, having started from the pole. Breuning couldn’t keep up and lost a few extra seconds when he overshot turn one. The field stretched thin, but the looming issue was tirewear for many. Two laps before the end, Jordan made a rare and uncharacteristic mistake coming off the final turn. He spun around and couldn’t be avoided by Rodrigues. It handed Breuning the win, Smithem moved up to 2nd and Rod Potgieter grabbed the final podium spot, while Rodrigues still classified 4th and Peterson rounded out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	2	1:4.465	1	20
Bill Smithem	2	3	1:5.22	5	16
Rod Potgieter	3	10	1:5.984	2	14
Rafael Rodrigues5	4	7	1:5.112	13	12
Philip Peterson	5	8	1:5.409	10	10
Ian Wilson2	6	5	1:5.380	9	8
Bob Mills	7	12	1:6.820	6	6
Larry Eaglen	8	9	1:5.776	11	5
Andrew Forrester2	9	11	1:7.39	18	4
Tommy Cook	10	6	1:5.435	17	3
Donald Warren2	11	4	1:5.215	4	2
Taylor Jordan	DQ	1			1

It was George Sandman that led the field to the green flag, but Taylor Jordan took the lead in turn one and didn’t seem to leave much doubt on where he wanted to be. Sandman followed, stayed close initially, until an incident with a back marker that was a lot slower than he expected ended his pursuit and he called it a race.

Aaron Blackburn took over in the chase with Bill Smithem following him after Breuning had gone off on lap 5. Breuning later had another issue, touching the #16 because of going in too deep in turn 5. He had to claw his way back from 8th, managed to pass several cars, including Phil Peterson on the last lap – who in is own right was having a good day.

So Jordan, Blackburn and Smithem were on the podium, Breuning and Peterson rounded out the top 5 finishers.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	2	1:52.302	5	21
Aaron M Blackburn	2	4	1:53.745	6	16
Bill Smithem	3	5	1:53.382	5	14
Marcellus Breuning	4	3	1:53.734	16	12
Philip Peterson	5	10	1:54.859	14	10
Larry Eaglen	6	11	1:55.405	17	8
Bob Mills	7	12	1:55.662	4	6
Stuart Wright	8	15	1:57.596	13	5
Ian Wilson2	9	9	1:55.675	16	4
Chris C Brown	10	14	2:0.576	9	3
Danny K Passmore	11	7	1:54.572	6	2
Andrew Forrester2	12	13	1:57.56	20	1
George Sandman	13	1	1:52.492	4	1
Donald Warren2	14	6	1:54.568	15	0
David Tamira	15	8	1:55.482	14	0

Taylor Jordan led the field to the green with Breuning alongside and Warren and Smithem in hot pursuit. An early yellow tempted most drivers to pit and Breuning took the lead, but it didn’t take Jordan to come back after the slower pitstop. The same thing happened under the 2nd yellow. The fight for the lead was close, with Jordan, Breuning and Warren, also joined by Rodrigues who recovered from being a lap down early on!

On the final lap, with Jordan leading, Breuning and Rodrigues unfortunately touched, sending both to the back of the field and limping home. Jordan took the win followed by Warren, Smithem, Wilson and Forrester.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	1	0:31.34	4	22
Donald Warren2	2	6	0:30.950	0	16
Bill Smithem	3	3	0:31.142	4	14
Ian Wilson2	4	4	0:31.361	4	12
Andrew Forrester2	5	12	0:31.60	0	10
Bill Colley II	6	10	0:31.383	10	8
Marcellus Breuning	7	2	0:30.988	4	6
Rafael Rodrigues5	8	8	0:31.27	4	5
Les Bentz	9	9	0:31.172	0	4
Philip Peterson	10	7	0:31.252	8	3
Jack Wilson21	11	5	0:31.359	6	2
Chris C Brown	12	11	0:31.642	4	1

Jordan led the field to the green flag with George Sandman behind him and once the racing started, that’s how it remained. Although Sandman did get fairly close to the leader, he wasn’t in a position to take over. Behind them, losing about a second per lap, it was Breuning and Smithem – also without much fight between them. It was Larry Eaglen that rounded out the top 5 on the street course of Belle Isle, which always takes a few victims and this race was no different.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	1	1:19.865	0	22
George Sandman	2	2	1:19.898	5	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	3	1:21.16	0	14
Bill Smithem	4	4	1:20.948	5	12
Larry Eaglen	5	5	1:22.621	1	10
Ian Wilson2	6	7	1:22.757	6	8
Chris C Brown	7	9	1:25.750	4	6
Andrew Forrester2	8	8	1:26.887	10	5
Donald Warren2	9	6	1439:59.1000	4	4

It was Bill Smithem that led the field to the green flag, but Taylor Jordan soon made it past him. Breuning – coming from 5th on the grid got up to 2nd quickly and started giving Jordan a little work. Unfortunately, on lap 39, the racing got a little too close and they touched going into turn 3, with Breuning violently slamming into the wall. His fast repair saved his day but put him 2 laps down.

Bill Colley and Bill Smithem took over the challenge but never got close enough, despite a late yellow bunching them back up to the leader. Jordan won, followed by Colley, Ian Wilson, Smithem and Chris Brown rounding out the top 5.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Taylor Jordan	1	2	0:28.57	4	21
Bill Colley II	2	9	0:27.945	4	16
Ian Wilson2	3	4	0:27.732	0	14
Bill Smithem	4	1	0:27.842	0	13
Chris C Brown	5	7	0:28.29	6	10
Andrew Forrester2	6	6	0:28.102	8	8
Marcellus Breuning	7	5	0:27.790	4	6
Jack Wilson21	8	3	0:28.164	7	5
Philip Peterson	9	8	0:28.257	6	4