Monday, August 12, 2013

Gibson 500 Under the Lights

The series went to the bull ring in Bristol for this week's race. A wild race spin wise, and the record for most cautions in one race!

Bowen leads the boys to the line and the race begins!
 Lap 71: The leading 4 start to pull away, with Fischer jumping to 2nd on the first lap
 Lap 115: The top 4 opened up a huge lead until the pit stops started. Bowen gave up the lead to fill up on the green flag cycle
 Lap 118: Still during the pit stop cycle, Tabulov got caught up in Flint's spin a lap after he rejoined the track ruining his day. Flint's day got much worse. No caution.
 Lap 215: Powers was the leader after the pits, he was working his way through traffic while being chased by Bowen as you can see in the right side of the picture
 Lap 230: Dorian got under Baros to force the issue spinning both up the track. This caused the first caution of the day as the cars stopped on the apron
 Lap 286: Fischer worked his way through traffic during the pit cycle to take the lead from Walkowiak
 Lap 320: Zetticci passes Fischer, and a few laps later, Fischer spins and hits the wall. He came down infront of Walkowiak blocking the field but no caution. Zetticci and the cars almost lapped managed to make up tons of time on the majority of the field. McAffee picked up damage after being hit by Unger while stopped.
 Lap 359: Flint spins out right infront of the leader in turn 4, comes down and hits Powers knocking him out of contention. The pace car came out bunching the field up
 Lap 418: The first DNF of the race, Wick blows an engine which made Taylor Motorsport's day even worse.
 Lap 425: Zetticci, with the help of traffic, passes Walkowiak puttin 19 cars a lap down and making the race all but his.
 Lap 492: The race was quiet until Flint turned Fischer for his 3rd crash of the day. This brought out the final caution of the day
 And under caution, Zetticci picks up his first win of his career.
  The race was pretty bad, Zetticci led the last 200 and the non cautions ruined a few drivers days. But Barros ended up with a top 3 SOMEHOW. He has the best luck in the field and it shows with his points lead.

The series heads to Indy next weekend, will the points shift any more?


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