Category: Season 17

It was Chris Brown that started his home race from the pole position, but Breuning, Warren and Smithem soon worked their way forward. Breuning and Warren scuffled a little in the first half of the race and the battle intensified the closer they came to the end. An unfortunate Net-Code event sent Warren into the wall, leaving the way open for Breuning, with Smithem right on his tail as well as Forrester and Ortscheid. On the final lap, Smithem and Forrester touched slightly, sending the former into the wall. Breuning held on to the lead, followed by Forrester and Ortscheid while Eaglen and Wilson rounded out the top 5.

Don Warren led the field to the new season’s first green flag but went a little deep into one and saw Breuning sneak through. Breuning extended the lead, but on lap 4 missed turn 5 and dropped back. Helped by the expected misfortune of others, he came back to the front and took the lead when Eaglen missed turn 7. Equally lucky was Bill Smithem, who started from the pit lane with a tech issue and made it back to P2 at the end. Eaglen got 3rd back after a speeding penalty on pit lane, when Phil Peterson spun on the penultimate lap, but Peterson hung onto 4th ahead of Don Warren who, after his own set of mishaps, still finished 5th.