Category: Season 9

Pole sitter Breuning took the lead and never looked back at Laguna Seca, the final round of the 9th season. Several drivers struggled a little, among which Patrick Day and Steven Martinez, allowing Michael Kulaga to grab 2nd and Rafael Rodrigues to take 3rd. Eric Kulaga was 4th and Bill Smithem was 5th.

Season 9 is in the books; The 10th season will start in three weeks, so there will be two testing/recruiting events in between.

Thanks all for coming out this season and making this league what it has become!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:13.585	0	22
Michael Kulaga	2	5	1:14.304	4	16
Rafael Rodrigues5	3	11	1:13.911	7	14
Eric Kulaga	4	3	1:14.618	7	12
Bill Smithem	5	6	1:14.348	11	10
Patrick Day	6	4	1:13.949	16	8
Ian Wilson2	7	8	1:16.7	7	6
Steven Martinez	8	2	1:13.907	9	5
Andrew Forrester2	9	9	1:16.648	19	4
Chris C Brown	10	10	1:17.944	6	3
Mike Erter	11	7	1439:59.1000	0	0
Stuart Wright	12	12	1439:59.1000	0	0

Rick Ravon started from the pole, took the lead at the start and never looked back. Breuning followed in 2nd, while Fozillo had a great start and slotted into third. Behind them, turn one was chaos, with several drivers getting bottomed out on the outside curb, while Erter and Eric Culage touched. The rest of them had to take evasive action, some with more luck than others.

Michael Kulaga ended up finishing in 3rd behind the two leaders after Fozillo’s troubles, with Smithem in 4th and Steven Martinez in 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Rick Ravon	1	1	1:31.303	0	22
Marcellus Breuning	2	2	1:32.399	2	16
Michael Kulaga	3	6	1:33.127	2	14
Bill Smithem	4	8	1:32.746	6	12
Steven Martinez	5	4	1:32.484	13	10
Jonathan Smith12	6	12	1:33.373	4	8
Rafael Rodrigues5	7	11	1:32.163	4	6
Philip Peterson	8	13	1:33.9	6	5
Danny K Passmore	9	9	1:32.862	6	4
Andrew Forrester2	10	15	1:34.412	4	3
Eric Kulaga	11	3	1:32.656	7	2
Severiano Espinoza	12	16	1:35.334	5	1
Chris C Brown	13	14	1:37.40	5	0
Les Bentz	14	18	1:37.956	7	0
Fozzy Fozillo	15	5	1:33.255	2	0
Randy Dale	16	17	1:38.718	12	0
Stuart Wright	17	19	1439:59.1000	3	0
Mike Erter	18	7	1439:59.1000	4	0
Joseph McWhorter	19	10	1439:59.1000	4	0

Polesitter Steven Martinez and Patrick Day , together with Breuning, initially led the race and went back and forth. Breuning got caught up in a crash in front of him and was done. After that, it was Chris Brown giving him a real good run for his money, but in the process Brown spun – managed to keep it going – and finished 4th. The late yellow made it a two lap shoot out, Day managed to stay ahead of Mike Erter by 0.027 at the line! Ian Wilson finished 3rd and Andrew Forrester finished 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Patrick Day	1	2	0:27.979	2	21
Mike Erter	2	3	0:27.768	4	16
Ian Wilson2	3	12	0:27.748	6	14
Chris C Brown	4	10	0:27.795	2	12
Andrew Forrester2	5	5	0:27.788	0	10
Severiano Espinoza	6	7	0:27.954	7	8
Danny K Passmore	7	6	0:27.751	4	6
Eric Kulaga	8	9	0:27.953	0	5
Steven Martinez	9	1	0:27.656	4	5
JD Wardlow	10	11	0:28.249	3	3
Michael Kulaga	11	8	0:27.765	8	2
Bill Colley II	12	14	0:28.40	4	1
Philip Peterson	13	13	0:28.12	8	0
Marcellus Breuning	14	4	0:27.986	4	0
Randy Dale	15	15	1439:59.1000	0	0

Polesitter Marc Breuning led the first 19 laps, until he made a mistake in the penultimate corner and that allowed Patrick Day to take the lead. Both drivers had pretty equal pace and Breuning wasn’t gaining on Day despite a little faster pitstop. And then Day did the same thing Breuning did, returning the favor in an even prettier spin. He, too, avoid damage but lost the lead and allowed Breuning to take top spot. Third was Steven Martinez, 4th was Michael Kulaga and 5th his brother Eric Kulaga.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:13.765	2	22
Patrick Day	2	2	1:13.855	9	16
Steven Martinez	3	3	1:14.835	1	14
Michael Kulaga	4	7	1:14.590	0	12
Eric Kulaga	5	6	1:14.712	1	10
Mike Erter	6	4	1:14.309	5	8
Fozzy Fozillo	7	8	1:15.409	3	6
Bill Smithem	8	5	1:14.755	0	5
Joseph A. Syslo III	9	13	1:15.128	7	4
Ian Wilson2	10	10	1:16.25	0	3
Philip Peterson	11	9	1:15.775	10	2
Severiano Espinoza	12	12	1:17.542	4	1
Andrew Forrester2	13	11	1:17.506	8	0

It was Eric Kulaga led the field to the green flag from pole position. The field split up in two groups, but in each of them the racing was very close. The first yellow came around lap 20 and earned Breuning a black flag on the restart, dropping down to the final spot on the lead lap. A late caution got him back in contention. At the front, it was anyone’s race until Breuning took the white flag with Erter right on his tail; Mike Erter passed him between turns 2 and 3 and Breuning tried to come back coming off the final turn but was 0.027 short of keeping Erter from his first win in the series! Fozillo was 3rd, Love was 4th and Brown 5th.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Mike Erter	1	2	0:47.172	0	21
Marcellus Breuning	2	5	0:46.706	9	16
Fozzy Fozillo	3	8	0:47.105	4	14
Robert Love2	4	4	0:46.864	4	12
Chris C Brown	5	7	0:46.983	6	10
Ian Wilson2	6	6	0:46.984	5	8
Steven Martinez	7	3	0:47.358	8	6
Severiano Espinoza	8	12	0:46.901	9	5
Randy Dale	9	11	0:47.306	14	4
Les Bentz	10	14	0:46.943	12	3
Andrew Forrester2	11	9	0:47.241	8	2
Michael Kulaga	12	10	0:47.130	12	1
Eric Kulaga	13	1	0:47.274	8	1
Bill Colley II	14	15	0:47.458	8	0
JD Wardlow	15	13	0:47.554	10	0