Hot battle Scott Borchetta wins Group 6 Championship Race and Feature Race at Circuit of the Americas
Scott Borchetta chased, got past and held off pole-sitter # 46 Jody O’Donnell who slid off in turn 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LZlwFUwcTM
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# 36 Edward Savadjian qualified first but DNS Group 6 feature race. Burned plug in Jim Kitzmiller’s big block.
# 69 Dave Kunicki and # 33 Mike Donohue were 2 & 3 in the 38-car field. (down from 46 cars a year ago). # 28A Mark Hilderbrand also shown.
The beautiful Corvettes of # 84 Jim Sandberg, # 37 Clair Schwendeman, # 16 Steve Cole and # Scott Brady really stood out.
# 71 John Scott broke an axle, possibly from a bumpy track exacerbated by extremely hot weather conditions.
# 31 Mark Horner led # 26 Rick Ortman and # 11 John Miller in Group 12a.
Hi-rez photos available from by David Gillen, david@dgillenphoto.com
Results compiled by Jan Hyde (rev)
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