Category: Season 9

Polesitter Patrick Day stayed up top all race long in the 49s at Milwaukee tonight, which proved to be a handful for everyone. Passing appeared to be tricky on the one mile oval.

Breuning was within a second most of the time but couldn’t make any moves to challenge the leader. Chris Stofer came in third.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Patrick Day	1	1	0:31.234	0	22
Marcellus Breuning	2	2	0:31.323	0	16
Chris Stofer	3	3	0:31.409	0	14
Bill Smithem	4	4	0:31.458	0	12
Chris C Brown	5	5	0:31.872	4	10
Randy Dale	6	7	0:31.812	0	8
Andrew Forrester2	7	8	0:32.34	14	6
JD Wardlow	8	6	0:32.313	13	5

Patrick Day started from the pole and seemed in control as Breuning couldn’t get within 0.6 of him. Both drivers knew it would come down to the pitstop and they were right. Being just a tad too fast entering the pitlane, Day was held for a penalty and dropped down the order. Breuning got the lead handed to him and stayed there till the end, followed by Bill Smithem and Rafael Rodrigues.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	2	0:24.48	0	20
Bill Smithem	2	4	0:24.28	0	16
Rafael Rodrigues5	3	11	0:23.941	2	14
Blake Tschida	4	3	0:24.116	0	12
Wade Tschida	5	5	0:24.256	0	10
Mike Erter	6	7	0:24.112	0	8
Chris C Brown	7	9	0:24.262	0	6
Patrick Day	8	1	0:24.158	0	7
Les Bentz	9	8	0:23.953	2	4
Randy Dale	10	12	0:24.581	4	3
Severiano Espinoza	11	6	0:24.320	0	2
JD Wardlow	12	10	0:24.702	7	1
Bill Colley II	13	13	1439:59.1000	0	0

Breuning started from the pole with Ravon alongside him, but ultimately Breuning got himself in trouble early on and had to take a fast repair along with his victim Danny Passmore.

As the race progressed, several incidents and yellows bunched up the field again. A late yellow took us to a one lap shootout, in which Ravon proved to react the best and keep it up front ahead of Day and Breuning.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Rick Ravon	1	2	0:54.206	0	21
Patrick Day	2	6	0:54.280	0	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	1	0:54.58	4	15
Bill Smithem	4	3	0:54.486	12	12
Rod Potgieter	5	4	0:54.540	4	10
Chris C Brown	6	9	0:55.251	13	8
Danny K Passmore	7	5	0:54.321	8	6
JD Wardlow	8	7	0:55.66	12	5
Jon Saunders	9	11	0:55.733	13	4
Philip Peterson	10	10	0:54.941	13	3
Andrew Forrester2	11	8	0:55.354	10	2

The Indy 100 was a close race as always; several yellows came after incidents where drivers were taking it three wide. In the end, it was a four-way battle and it was Tommy Cook that beat Mike Erter to the line by 0.023, followed by Breuning and Smithem – all within a tenth of a second!

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Tommy Cook	1	10	0:46.52	11	20
Mike Erter	2	3	0:45.903	4	16
Marcellus Breuning	3	2	0:46.52	0	15
Bill Smithem	4	8	0:46.283	0	12
Chris C Brown	5	11	0:45.868	8	10
Philip Peterson	6	9	0:45.953	5	8
Randy Dale	7	12	0:46.396	6	6
Andrew Forrester2	8	5	0:46.338	6	5
Les Bentz	9	1	0:46.519	12	5
Rafael Rodrigues5	10	7	0:46.403	8	3
Robert Love2	11	6	0:45.976	10	2
JD Wardlow	12	4	0:46.895	8	1

Small field in the Long Beach race for the 49s; Early on there was a bit of a battle between Day and Breuning, which was mostly decided on small mistakes. Breuning took the lead and kept it there. Bill Smithem joined them on the podium.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:20.734	0	22
Patrick Day	2	2	1:20.713	2	16
Bill Smithem	3	3	1:21.280	4	14
Andrew Forrester2	4	4	1:25.858	0	12
Randy Dale	5	5	1:28.664	6	10
JD Wardlow	6	6	1:29.398	14	8

Marc Breuning started from the pole and led flag to flag in Long Beach. Behind him, it was Fozzy Fozillo that initially snatched 2nd from Bill Smithem, but he was overtaken by Rafael Rodrigues for 2nd place. Smithem finished fourth ahead of Mike Erter.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Marcellus Breuning	1	1	1:13.144	0	22
Rafael Rodrigues5	2	4	1:13.591	0	16
Fozzy Fozillo	3	3	1:13.469	2	14
Bill Smithem	4	2	1:13.379	4	12
Mike Erter	5	5	1:13.158	0	10
Rod Potgieter	6	6	1:14.799	2	8
Severiano Espinoza	7	7	1:14.807	0	6
Chris C Brown	8	8	1:19.199	4	5
JD Wardlow	9	9	1:20.114	18	4
Les Bentz	10	10	1:23.810	2	3

The first Lotus 49 event for Retro CART League was definitely a challenge for all involved. There were plenty of yellows as a result of ‘learning moments’ for all drivers. Once it got underway, there was some fun racing and it was Patrick Day that came out on top.

Driver	Finish	Start	Fastest	Incidents	Points
Patrick Day	1	1	0:29.495	6	22
Marcellus Breuning	2	4	0:29.716	4	16
Craig Hawkins	3	10	0:30.289	0	14
Chris C Brown	4	9	0:30.366	13	12
Rick Ravon	5	7	0:29.620	8	10
Randy Dale	6	8	0:30.423	8	8
JD Wardlow	7	5	0:30.432	6	6
Andrew Forrester2	8	6	0:30.179	6	5
Bill Smithem	9	2	0:30.175	21	4
Christopher Ragan2	10	3	0:29.808	6	3