Phoenix always makes for some close racing and the season 9 opener was no exception. Sometimes too close. The first yellow didn’t occur until mid race, when newcomer Fletcher had a crash off turn 4. Yellows breed yellows and on lap 54 Breuning and Smithem came together causing a big mess for everyone.
Once they got going again, it was Ravon and Day fighting hard for the win with a few scary moments between them. Ravon took it by 0.063, with newcomer Mike Erter a strong 3rd!
Driver | Finish | Start | Fastest | Incidents | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rick Ravon | 1 | 2 | 0:23.212 | 8 | 21 |
Patrick Day | 2 | 1 | 0:22.964 | 8 | 17 |
Mike Erter | 3 | 3 | 0:23.126 | 0 | 14 |
Bill Colley II | 4 | 12 | 0:23.15 | 2 | 12 |
Andrew Forrester2 | 5 | 8 | 0:23.61 | 0 | 10 |
Randy Dale | 6 | 11 | 0:23.574 | 4 | 8 |
Severiano Espinoza | 7 | 9 | 0:23.342 | 0 | 6 |
Bill Smithem | 8 | 7 | 0:23.43 | 4 | 5 |
Marcellus Breuning | 9 | 5 | 0:23.41 | 4 | 4 |
Shaun Fletcher | 10 | 10 | 0:23.519 | 8 | 3 |
Chris C Brown | 11 | 6 | 0:23.310 | 10 | 2 |
Fozzy Fozillo | 12 | 4 | 0:23.302 | 4 | 1 |