CONOR DALY WINS HIS SIXTH RACE OF THE SEASON -- FROM HIS 8th POLE OF THE SEASON -- AT ROAD AMERICA IN ROUND 11 OF THE 2010 STAR


By Star Mazda

August 22, 2010

Elkhart Lake, WI (August 21, 2010) – Conor Daly, adding another layer of polish to an already gleaming season, won his 6th race from his 8th pole position in Round 11 of the 2010 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear at the Time Warner Cable Road Race Showcase at Road America.  The Indianapolis native, who dropped back to 3rd on the opening laps but fought his way back into the lead by lap 5, survived a full-course yellow in the closing laps that led to a one-lap shootout and brought his #22 Juncos Racing / INDECK / The College Network / Merchant Services Ltd. Mazda across the finish line 1.5 seconds ahead of the Venezuelan racer Jorge Goncalvez who started 3rd on the grid in the #9 Team Apex / Wabash Capital Investments Mazda.  Rounding out the top-3 with his first-ever Star Mazda Championship podium finish was Californian Connor De Phillippi, who qualified his #11 JDC Motorsports / MAZDASPEED Motorsports / Skip Barber Mazda on the outside of the front row, also his best-ever qualifying effort.

The top-finishing Expert and Master Series drivers were a replay of last weekend at Trois-Rivieres with Team GDT teammates J.W. Roberts (#65 Team GDT / General Data Tech Mazda and Carlos Conde (#31 Team GDT / Pronto-GMT / Olympus Securities Mazda winning their respective classes.  Roberts' drive was particularly notable as, in winning his class, he also finished 11th overall; he has now scored eight in-class victories this season and has clinched the 2010 Star Mazda Master Series Championship.

Norwegian racer Anders 'The Viking' Krohn, who qualified 7th and finished 4th in his #47 Andersen Racing / Norse Cutting & Abandonment / Trallfa / Colosseum Mazda, has not won a race this year, but has finished consistently well and positioned himself so that he is the only remaining driver in the field with a chance to keep Daly from winning the championship.  With two races left in the season, and a maximum of 90 points to be won by any one driver (44 for the win and 1 point for pole), Daly has 457 points and Krohn has 388.  And De Phillippi (5th in the championship) is leading the Rookie of the Year battle by a slim 10-point margin over Frenchman Tristan Vautier who is currently 6th in the championship with two wins in the #38 Andersen Racing / Moulin TP / Cecibon / Circuit du Laquais / Fontanel Mazda… but also several finishes well outside the top-10.    

 

Pos

No.

Name

Laps

Diff

Avg. Speed

Best Tm

In Lap

Sponsor

1

22

Conor Daly

19

103.008

2:07.494

6

INDECK, The College Network, Merchant Services Ltd.

2

9

Jorge Goncalvez

19

1.561

102.949

2:07.657

7

Wabash Capital Investments

3

11

Connor De Phillippi

19

2.314

102.920

2:08.064

4

Mazdaspeed Motorsports, Skip Barber

4

47

Anders Krohn

19

3.501

102.874

2:08.189

8

Norse Cutting and Abandonment, Trallfa Industries, Colosseum

5

66

Rusty Mitchell

19

4.696

102.829

2:08.321

5

Motorola, Petro Comm.

6

28

Juan Piedrahita

19

5.716

102.790

2:09.231

9

Petrosur, GFK Motors

7

16

David Ostella

19

9.542

102.644

2:08.762

3

GP Global Precast

8

25

Tatiana Calderon

19

9.986

102.627

2:08.792

11

JAC Motors

9

31

Carlos Conde

19

10.995

102.589

2:11.334

7

Pronto-GMT, Olympus Securities

10

57

Court Vernon

19

11.514

102.569

2:08.837

10

Capt. Harry's, GDT

11

65

J.W. Roberts

19

11.634

102.565

2:11.425

9

General Data Tech

12

20

Carlos Linares

19

11.925

102.553

2:09.943

6

Instituto Nacional De Deportes

13

38

Tristan Vautier

19

19.809

102.255

2:07.952

4

Moulin TP, Cecibon, Circuit du Laquais, Fontanel

14

81

Nick Andries

18

1 Lap

102.430

2:08.316

12

Indy 500/ American Icon Team Pelfrey

15

37

Dom Bastien

14

5 Laps

109.451

2:11.123

9

Andersen Race Park

16

17

Mikael Grenier

13

6 Laps

111.703

2:07.829

7

Slow Cow, April Super Flow, NAPA Auto Parts, HS Telecom, Desharnais

17

85

Chris Miller

8

11 Laps

109.422

2:09.644

4

Miller Milling, Red Line Oil

18

55

Gerry Kraut

7

12 Laps

97.360

2:09.787

5

Dougherty and Co./Dougherty Funding LLC.

19

18

Joao Horto

4

15 Laps

103.297

2:09.429

4

Wabash Capital Investments, BomBril - Programa LeiLoes

 

This is the second event of a 3-race, back-to-back 'road trip' for drivers and teams in the Star Mazda Championship.  The next event, Round 12 at MOBIL1 Presents the Grand Prix of Mosport will take the green at 1:15 pm Saturday, August 28.  The series' finale, also with ALMS at the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, will take place October 1.

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