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As the race progressed, the 21-lap event was a showcase
for the Top Kart squad with the top two spots held by Wehrheim
and Scribner comfortably and the exceptional drive by the
Stars rookie Neil Alberico (Top Kart). Showing stints of quickness
throughout the weekend and the coaching by Kartel Motorsports
Joey Hand, Alberico showed his cards in the last race, moving
from 16th into the top five within the first four laps. Eventually
moving into third, the Top Kart trio ran uncontested to a sweep
of the TaG Final 2 podium - Wehrheim, Scribner, and Alberico.
G-Phactory/Sodi Racing USA’s Pat Iannucci, another ICA transfer,
gained five spots for fourth with Wimsett duplicating his Final 1
performance with a fifth.
JICA
With the new day came a lot of excitement early on for the
JICA division. Drivers were very inpatient and began using their
new bumpers more. Formal and Neri would start the finals from
the front row with Madrigal and Remo Ruscitti (Italkart) in row
two.
The first of two Finals was a wild one with the JICA running
in the wet for the first time this weekend. Crossing the stripe for
the first time Neri was on point with the rest of the starting top
five falling in behind. The top three got an early breakaway until
slight contact between Formal and Remo sent Formal around
in the wet conditions, dropping him back in the field. A lap later,
the top point was given to Ruscitti when Neri lost it coming
onto the front stretch. That moved a charging Jarvis Gennari
(CRG) and Karam into the top three. Gennari, the defending
class champion, came up from the 10th while the FirstKart.com
duo of Spencer Pigot and Miles Maroney - from 17th and 23rd
- broke into the top five. Up front, Ruscitti would go on to win
his first Stars final about 1.5-seconds in front of Gennari. Pigot
and Maroney both were able to get by Karam for
third and fourth.
Using his pole position start to his advantage,
Formal put down a solid run of laps to take the
point in the second final and led green to checker
for the win. The second best run of the 21-lap race
was JICA rookie Tyler Thomas (Top Kart). Getting
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a great start from sixth, he moved into third by lap five and into
the second spot by lap seven. The gap between him and Formal
remained the same for the rest of the laps with the Tony Kart
driver getting the checkered by 1.301-seconds. Happy to keep
his rain dance going all day, Gennari was again strong in the wet,
moving from 10th to third for a second podium on the day. Neri
held on for fourth with Ruscitti completing the top five.
Cadet
After two failed attempts to get the nine lap heat race going
the front two rows swapped giving Santino Ferrucci (S1) the
pole and lead position after the first lap. In typical Cadet fashion,
the top spot was not held long with the drivers continuing to
shuffle the top spots. In the end, Garret Grist (Top Kart) won a
photo finish over Andrew Murray (Birel) by just 0.005-seconds
with Ferrucci in tow. Logan Bearden (Birel) was fourth with Trent
Hindman (Merlin) fifth.
For the main events, Murray earned the least amount of
points with a win and two runner-up finishes and went off from
the pole position. Ferrucci’s better qualifying time broke the tie
with Grist for the other front row starting position.
Getting underway on the wet track for the first final, Murray
got turned around going through turn one, ending a disappoint-
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