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2nd through 7th. Aldridge would eventually hold on to the top spot as the rest of the group dropped Michael Chen, and although Jeremy would make it up to 20th in the A-Main in his quest for the cup, he would come up just 1 point short of Chen in the end.
The final A-Main of the year would be yet another edge of your seat affair, with most of the hardware contenders at the sharp end, sprinkled with them several drivers having break out performances as well. After sweeping the heat races, Michael Hazlewood would lead the field into the esses, but it would be Paulo Franca besting the less experienced driver at the start, leading the opening circuit. The counter attack would come a couple laps later, and it was Hazlewood back to the front on lap 4, with Andres Prieto working his way by as well, and Franca immediately going defensive. For Prieto, the championship was the carrot, as he looked to unseat Diego Morales from the top step here in the final round, but Michael’s advantage was already over a second because of the time lost in the Franca pass. It looked like it may be all Hazlewood, until Sean Fite was able to sneak past Franca before the defense started to really kill the rest of the pack, and when he linked up with Prieto things changed. Lap after lap the duo closed in on the lead, catching Michael with just 2 laps to go. Fite immediately made his move for the lead, and took the white flag out front; by the time they were coming around to finish the lap however, it was Hazlewood back out front, with Prieto on the prowl and Fite in third. Contact in the pass attempt would see Fite slip past both drivers to steal away the win, with Prieto giving the 2nd spot back to Hazlewood at the line. Further back, the other half of the overall championship battle saw Diego Morales cross the line 9th, good enough to win the Overall Championship by just 13 points...
Masters
1 Diego Morales
2 Max DeMoss
3 Jose da Silva
4 Matt Steele
5 Sheng Wu
Points Drop
2651 (291) 2330 (304) 2075 (58) 2033 (181) 1864 (186)
Grand Masters
1 Tony Wika
2 John Rice
3 Vladimir Orlov
4 Tom Zevin
5 Jeff Latimer
Points Drop
Sportsman
Points Drop
2256 (278) 2033 (181) 1833 (111) 1832 (120) 1799 (0)
1796 (177) 1 1710 (0) 2 1242 (0) 3 1226 (140) 4 1222 (115) 5
Pietro Moro Matt Steele Michael Chen Jeremy Aldridge Chase Nickells