King of the hill

Laguna Seca was all about one man with Celso Jorge completing a brilliant clean sweep of race wins.

Proving practice makes perfect, Celso racked up more laps than any other driver in advance of the race and these translated into race pace that the rest of the field struggled to respond too, the turbo/gyro package of the Antares car proving too strong.

Leading the chase during the sprints were the works M-sport car of Matt Lewis and Anthony Cochrane in the newly entered A-Tek  team running a customer M-sport car.

Heading into the feature race however, the MP009 cars seemed to have made a huge leap in performance and were contesting for the pole, but Celso pulled it off leaving the top three covered by less than 160ths of a second.

From the start Anthony Cochrane unexpectedly hounded Celso hard with the Antares car possibly running a one stop strategy. Inevitably they were both soon off with Celso loosing a wing and Anthony dropping down to 6^th leaving Matt Lewis and an impressive Carl Dixon up front. Matt was unable to take the advantage however nursing an overheating car due to a bad radiator setting selection.

After the final pit stops all four contenders were once again together but the order had changed. Anthony looked set to challenge for the win but suffered an untimely technical problem allowing that man Celso back through into a lead that would not be challenged after a calm and measured recovery from the earlier incident. Matt Lewis completed the podium in second after solving the overheating issue with an impressive drive from Carl Dixon taking 3rd in his first race for A-Tek

Leaving this USA round, Local driver AJ Weber leads the championship thanks to his Shanghai and Estoril wins despite a chassis struggling for speed. With season budget remaining, new parts are due on the car very soon so the championship race is very much hotting up.... stay tuned