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excting finishes to a Super Series race ever, and that just happened to be last year’s Classico Grand Prix. For 2020, it didn’t look like the race would emulate that finish at first, but by the end, it was a 5-way battle for supremacy...
Right from the start it would be point leader Diego Morales leading the field away from the P2 spot on the grid, and with the infighting immediately behind him, he would pull out to an almost 2-second lead at a quarter distance. Behind him though, a charging Sam Hunt was looking to make it three A-main wins in a row, and joined by Patrick Britain, the pair slowly began to reel in Morales. By the halfway point the lead was down to just under a second, while the chasing duo had also built a near 2-second lead on to the chasing pack behind. Crossing the line for the start of lap 14 of 20 it was now a three-horse race for Morales, Hunt and Britain, and it looked like it would be a mirror image of 2019 as the lead trio had 3 seconds over Ayrton Demoss and Paulo Franca, who had emerged as the pack leaders behind.
Hunt wasted no time however, and attacked into Kimbrell, and with Morales over the outside, the fight continued down the hill and eventually into a three-wide situation before the lap was over. The result? No change in position, but about a second lost in their advantage. More of the same the next lap, but this time it was Britain moving up into second, but the trio had lost yet more time; third times a charm? Negative. The next lap saw Morales still in the lead, and while Hunt and Britain swapped places once again, not only had Ayrton DeMoss gone purple with fast lap and Franca in tow, but they had erased the gap to the leaders.
Masters
1 Diego Morales
2 Max DeMoss
3 Jose da Silva
4 Matt Steele
5 Michael Chen
Points Drop
1544 (291) 1360 (304) 1278 (240) 1157 (181) 1086 (111))
Grand Masters
1 Tony Wika
2 John Rice
3 Vladimir Orlov
4 Jeff Latimer
5 Tom Zevin
Points Drop
Sportsman
Points Drop
1312 (304) 1157 (181) 1119 (209) 1107 (241) 1086 (111)
1107 (241) 1 1001 (0) 2 907 (136) 3 726 (115) 4 707 (145) 5
Pietro Moro Matt Steele Jacob Reis Tony Wika Michael Chen