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Note: Charles will start the main event from P6 due to a penalty.
RACE results from Miller Motorsports Park, Utah.
| 1 |
7 |
John Edwards |
22 |
42:39.039 |
- |
- |
1:44.471 |
105.032 |
| 2 |
77 |
22 |
42:53.553 |
+14.514 |
+14.514 |
1:45.222 |
104.282 |
| 3 |
20 |
Joel Miller |
22 |
43:01.175 |
+22.136 |
+7.622 |
1:44.760 |
104.742 |
| 4 |
21 |
Peter Dempsey |
22 |
43:05.281 |
+26.242 |
+0.868 |
1:45.643 |
103.867 |
| 5 |
5 |
Tom Gladdis |
22 |
43:05.574 |
+26.535 |
+0.293 |
1:45.168 |
104.336 |
| 6 |
15 |
Taylor Hacquard |
22 |
43:08.010 |
+28.971 |
+2.436 |
1:45.614 |
103.895 |
| 7 |
14 |
Eric Freiberg |
22 |
43:16.847 |
+37.808 |
+8.837 |
1:46.041 |
103.477 |
| 8 |
82 |
Billy Goshen |
22 |
43:20.399 |
+41.360 |
+3.552 |
1:45.463 |
104.044 |
| 9 |
53 |
Mike Hill |
22 |
43:22.126 |
+43.087 |
+1.727 |
1:46.096 |
103.423 |
| 10 |
51 |
Alex Ardoin |
22 |
43:29.326 |
+50.287 |
+7.200 |
1:46.212 |
103.310 |
Andersen Racing Takes Star Mazda Team Points Lead After Three of Its Drivers Finish in Top Five At Miller Motorsports Park Saturday
TOOELE, Utah, May 17 - Unofficially Andersen Racing took the lead in the team standings of the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear after three of its drivers finished in the top five in Round 2 Saturday at Miller Motorsports Park. The Palmetto, Fla.-based team unofficially now has 64 points to JDC Motorsports' 55.
If Miller would have finished just one position further back Saturday, Andersen Racing drivers would be holding the points lead in all three series in which the team competes. RLR/Andersen Racing's J.R. Hildebrand is the current Firestone Indy Lights point leader, while Andersen Racing's Anders Krohn tops the F2000 Championship Series point standings.
Although Miller finished third to polesitter/race winner John Edwards and Hall on Saturday, two other Andersen Racing drivers applied a lot of pressure by finishing right behind him in fourth and fifth. Peter Dempsey placed fourth in Andersen Racing's No. 21, which is sponsored by Center Jewellers.ie and Quayside.ie, while Tom Gladdis finished fifth in the team's Marrache & Co. No. 5.
After a wreck behind the front-runners in Turn 1 on the first lap, Edwards was able to wiggle away from the field on the restart on lap three. With no more full-course yellows on the circuit's 3.048-mile outer course, he built up an insurmountable lead. Miller's bobble also helped Dempsey, of Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland, who moved into third on lap four. Gladdis, a resident of Gibraltar and a native of the Isle of Wight, England, was fifth at that point.
Both Dempsey and Gladdis claimed that the driver sandwiched between them in fourth, Ernesto Otero, was blocking excessively. The Star Mazda officials agreed, and penalized Otero 30 seconds after the race to move Dempsey from fifth to fourth and Gladdis from sixth to fifth.
Gladdis got by Dempsey on the next-to-last lap, but Dempsey got him back on the final circuit.
There was only 0.293 of a second between those two teammates at the wire.
A fourth Andersen Racing driver, Jonny Baker of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, finished 12th in the Allied Interior Products car. Andersen Racing is sponsored by Allied Building Products Corp.
Gladdis set the third-fastest lap of the race with a 1:45.168 (104.336 miles) while he was battling Dempsey on lap 21. Hall had the fourth-fastest lap of the race with a 1:45.222 (104.282 mph) on the same lap.
Saturday's race, part of the Larry Miller Automotive Group Utah Grand Prix, will be televised on SPEED at 3 p.m. Eastern time May 31.
The series' third race of the year will be held at Watkins Glen, N.Y. June 7.
For more information see andersenracingteam.com and andersenracepark.com. The series' Web site is at starmazda.com.
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