Lime Rock: Carbone Dominates from Pole
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akeville, CT – Victor Carbone bounced back from his first DNF of the year in race one earlier today to take a commanding victory in the second and final F2000 race of the weekend at Lime Rock. Alegra Motorsports’ Carbone dominated round ten of the season, leading from pole to further extend his points lead over Cole Morgan, who won the first round at Lime Rock this morning. One very-hard chagrining Daniel Erickson finished second after starting a distant 14th in an amazing drive. Phil Lombardi rounded off the podium with the Masters Class win.
It was Carbone’s fifth win of the season and first since Mosport.
“This is a huge weight off my shoulders, especially due to the DNF this morning,” said Carbone. “I need to thank my Alegra crew because they had to put the car back together and did a great job all weekend.”
Daniel Erickson finished second, putting on quite the show for the Lime Rock fans from his 14th place starting position. The Australian rookie commented that the car “was on fire” and went onto say: “We moved up during the race and eventually moved into second but the tires fell off at the end so I was just holding position, especially with all the lapped cars that were getting in the way.”
Phil Lombardi made it his second Masters Class win of the day and second third place finish of the day in his GTP Motorsports Van Diemen. “The car was great, so props to the GTP Motorsports guys,” Lombardi commented. “The traffic today was no heads up, I even had contact with one of the backmarkers.”
Fabio Orsolon, also recovering from a DNF in his Alegra Motorsports entry in the morning race, finished fourth ahead of Tim Minor – who makes it two top fives in one day.
Jonathan Scarallo came home in sixth with Stevan McAleer, Felix Serralles, Cole Morgan and Bobby Caldwell rounding out the top ten.
For Morgan, it was an exciting day. The 2007 F2000 Champion took home the win in the first race, but could only muster a ninth place effort as he lost the brakes on his K-Hill Motorsports Van Diemen on lap one after contact with Jonathan Scarallo.
“I got into Jonathan in the first time and it shifted the crush box, snapping the reservoirs for the brake fluid,” said Morgan. “The rest of the race was done without brakes, which was sort of exciting.”
Chris Livengood missed the race after his Work Racing team found water in three of four cylinders on their Zetec motor. Tim Paul also missed the race after extensive crash damage in the first race earlier today. Jesse Yorio didn’t see the green flag following mechanical issues and Charles Finelli turned over the #83 entry to Brendan Puderbach for the second race of the day.
The CellMark Paper Hard Charger award went to Masters Class driver Keith McCrone, who recovered from a 28th place starting position to finish 13th.
The F2000 action continues in two weeks time at Road America with rounds 11 and 12 of the 2010 season, August 6-8.
Results:
Pos No. Name Laps Total Tm Diff Gap Avg. Speed Best Tm 1 23 Victor Carbone 30 25:53.052 - - 106.397 50.912 2 2 Daniel Erickson 30 25:54.491 +1.439 +1.439 106.298 50.475 3 3 Phil Lombardi/M 30 26:03.584 +10.532 +9.093 105.680 51.120 4 26 Fabio Orsolon 30 26:04.124 +11.072 +0.540 105.644 50.904 5 88 Tim Minor/M 30 26:16.148 +23.096 +12.024 104.838 51.698 6 22 Jonathon Scarallo 30 26:16.423 +23.371 +0.275 104.820 50.865 7 14 Steven McAleer 30 26:17.209 +24.157 +0.786 104.767 51.372 8 17 Felix Serralles 30 26:18.397 +25.345 +1.188 104.688 51.361 9 1 Cole Morgan 30 26:26.017 +32.965 +7.620 104.186 51.520 10 80 Bobby Caldwell 30 26:28.232 +35.180 +2.215 104.040 51.885 11 08 John Dole/M 30 26:29.636 +36.584 +1.404 103.948 51.911 12 25 Jeff McCusker/M 30 26:31.723 +38.671 +2.087 103.812 52.253 13 5 Keith McCrone/M 30 26:43.902 +50.850 +12.179 103.024 51.499 14 27 Craig Clawson/M 29 25:57.677 1 Lap 1 Lap 102.545 52.144 15 69 Paul Farmer/M 29 26:03.250 +5.573 +5.573 102.179 52.530 16 12 Bob Reid/M 29 26:19.579 +21.902 +16.329 101.123 53.225 17 95 Peter Gonzalez/M 29 26:20.753 +23.076 +1.174 101.048 52.367 18 83 Brendan Puderbach 29 26:31.173 +33.496 +10.420 100.386 52.191 19 61 Tom Drake 28 26:07.785 2 Laps 1 Lap 98.371 54.065 20 51 Dan Denison/M 24 21:52.286 6 Laps 4 Laps 100.734 53.028 DNF 7 Brent Gilkes/M 12 11:12.880 18 Laps 12 Laps 98.229 52.563 DNF 70 Tom Fatur/M 10 8:56.933 20 Laps 2 Laps 102.583 51.953 DNF 90 Robert Wright/M 10 9:36.230 +39.297 +39.297 95.587 53.598 DNF 97 Chris Gumprecht 9 8:22.734 21 Laps 1 Lap 98.605 53.846 DNF 28 Ardie Greenamyer/M 3 3:01.530 27 Laps 6 Laps 91.026 55.737 DNS 37 Chris Livengood 0 -.--- - - - -.--- DNS 06 Tim Paul 0 -.--- - - - -.--- DNS 89 Jim Hanrahan 0 -.--- - - - -.--- DNS 11 Jesse Yorio 0 -.--- - - - -.---