Opening the new season at Phoenix, it was defending champion Taylor Jordan on the pole. Initially he got away by about 1.5 seconds, but Breuning reeled him in. Just as the battle was about the start, the yellow came out and bunched up the field. What followed was close racing as always. On the final pitstops, Don Warren was out quickets and took the lead ahead of Jordan. Breuning and Smithem were right on their tail. Warren managed to hold of Jordan by 0.004 of a second, Breuning was 3rd and Smithem 4th; Haiden Wheeler was 5th and the top 5 cars were within 0.6 seconds of each other!
| Driver | Finish | Start | Fastest | Incidents | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald Warren2 | 1 | 4 | 0:23.244 | 0 | 20 |
| Taylor Jordan | 2 | 1 | 0:23.256 | 0 | 18 |
| Marcellus Breuning | 3 | 3 | 0:23.240 | 4 | 14 |
| Bill Smithem | 4 | 6 | 0:23.121 | 4 | 12 |
| Haiden Wheeler | 5 | 2 | 0:23.119 | 6 | 10 |
| Kirk Pedersen | 6 | 10 | 0:23.483 | 8 | 8 |
| Andrew Forrester2 | 7 | 8 | 0:23.250 | 0 | 6 |
| Ian Wilson2 | 8 | 9 | 0:23.222 | 6 | 5 |
| Chris C Brown | 9 | 7 | 0:23.166 | 10 | 4 |
| Larry Eaglen | 10 | 11 | 0:23.507 | 19 | 3 |
| Ben Henry2 | 11 | 5 | 0:23.456 | 8 | 2 |
| Jack Wilson21 | 12 | 12 | 0:23.595 | 11 | 1 |