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RTound 6 - Aug 30
he month of August saw a pair of double header weekends on the docket, with the second one being the ‘Make-Up Weekend’ originally scheduled at the
beginning of the year. Now re-badged as Round #6 for the Super Series, the championship took to the Grande layout for the only time this year, with plenty of action taking place around the three-quarter mile course.
Qualifying would see a new face at the front, as Seth Willits made the most of his 2-lap opportunity to score his first Super Series pole position, while former 2016 championship contender Aaron Scott came out of the woodwork to claim P2, and Sprint Series standout Evan Lawrence round out the top 3. When the heat races got underway however, it was P12 qualifier Chris Huerta doing the heat race sweep, which was only the second time that has happened this year. That would of course score him the pole position in the A-Main, and he would be joined in the front row by fellow heat race winner Andres Prieto. Other heat race winners would include Paulo Franca, overall point leader Diego Morales, and Sportsman point leader Pietro Moro.
The C-Main would see Joe Sabella line up P1 at the start, but it would be Heather Perrin taking over the top spot right away. Spencer Russell may have started in 3rd, but issues in the first two laps saw him slip back almost outside the top 10. In the C-Main after being light at scales, Russell then proved why he normally was an A-Main driver, working his way back up with every lap. While Perrin held off the onslaught of challengers for several laps out front, Russell worked his way up into third with just a few laps to go, and with two to go, took over the top spot. It was a wild few laps inside the top 6 or so with a penalized driver making their life difficult, but in the end, the top 5 would cross the line within a half a second of each other, with Russell scoring the win, and Perrin settling for second.
The B-Main would again see a few drivers in it that would normally be in the A-Main, some because of penalties, and others from incidents, but all looking to score the A-Main transfer. Leading the field away for the final standing start of the day would be Frank Hsu, who immediately came under fire at the drop of the green, with Jeremy Aldridge slotting into the lead. Aldridge would lead the first couple of laps before Paulo Franca took over the spot, only to serve a penalty right afterwards and hand things over to Evan Karp. Karp too would lose the lead -this time to Sam Hunt- and would also have to fight off Aldridge to hold onto second. As the laps wound down, it was Hunt that would feel the pressure from Karp, who stole back the lead on the penultimate lap. Coming to the checkers it was Karp VS Hunt, but in the perfect place was Aldridge, who leapfrogged both and stole away the victory.
A Main Podium
B-Main Jeremy Aldridge
C-Main Spencer Russell