Louis Foster was fast all weekend long here in Detroit, Michigan. Foster qualified P1 for Sundays race. At the drop of the green flag there was an issues going on Nolan Siegel. Siegel did not start the race until lap four suffering a half shaft issue which caused it to be replaced. With Foster already getting comfortable and being in a reserved status, the first FCY (full course yellow) happened on lap four with Bryce Aron hard into the wall ending his day early.
As racing continues and the track goes back to green flag conditions Ricardo Escotto (R) receives a blocking penalty from Race Control and would have to give up three positions. As this happens Jack Miller is making moves to make his way up the leaderboard charging from P8 to P6 with a fierce defensive battle with Callum Hedge (R). Miller was having a great drive playing defense and overruns the turn and is in the track runoff.
Jacob Abel started the race P2 and was trying to maintain the position but was playing defense with Michael D'Orlando (R). The drivers were heading into Turn 3 and they run wide and Abel makes contact causing D'Orlando to spin and Abel makes contact with the front wing with his left rear. Abel did not result any damage from this incident but D'Orlando had a broken wing that was hanging on for the remainder of the race. As this plays out, this incident allows Hedge and Chadwick to gain ground on Abel.
One driver that has been reserved all day has been Caio Collet. He played defense a lot of the race and tried to push ahead when needed to, but still resulted in a P2 finish. Around lap twenty-five issues aroused from driver to driver. Lindsay Brewer had to head into her pit due to shifting issues, and Jack Miller heading into the runoff area again resulting in a FCY.
Things started to get tense after this FCY and drivers started pushing a lot more harder and trying to gain positions. As the green flag drops heading into Turn 3 Jamie Chadwick and Yuven Sundaramoorthy make contact resulting in a broken front wing for Yuven and a right rear flat for Chadwick. With all this going on, fierce driving and blocking was taking place. Escotto was given a drive through penalty for blocking. His team was radioing him to "Box this lap." Escotto was still racing very hard and passed the pit lane entrance twice! Race Control then intervened and disqualified Escotto ending his day early. Ricardo later interviewed said "I didn't have any radio..."
With three to go, a massive pileup of James Roe, Niels Koolen (R), Nolan Allaer (R), and Christian Bogle happens bringing out the last and final FCY. The race was 45 laps or 55 minutes. Unfortunately due to the last FCY drivers were finishing the race under yellow flag conditions. The top 10 finishing drivers were P1 Foster, P2 Collet, P3 Hedge, P4 Rowe, P5 Abel, P6 Gold, P7 De Alba Jr, P8 Pierson, P9 Browne, P10 D'Orlando.
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