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JakCrawford
Black Flag RacingMicroMax
Sunday Report
The trackwasmuchquicker Sundaymorning compared toSat-
urday’s session, with eight drivers able todipbelow the one-min-
ute mark. Championship leader Jak Crawford (Birel) earned his
third pole position of the series, adding five more points to his
advantage with a 59.110-second lap. Grant Langon (Aluminos)
led for much of the session, but settled for the second spot, about
two tenths off. Tait Blum (Kosmic) was third with Josh Pierson
(Tony Kart) andDiego LaRoque (CRG) making up the fast five.
The 10-lap Prefinal nearly saw Crawford slip back as he’s
done in the past, but it would not be as the five-time race win-
ner scored the win. Leading the field to the green flag, he was
dropped back to third behind Blum and LaRoque on lap two.
The three were out front away from the field, but were reeled
in by a large second group. This gave Crawford the chance to
strike back, as he fought his way to the lead once again. Craw-
ford held off Blum at the line for the win by 76 thousandths of
a second. Max Wright (Energy) came from 11th to third, with
SebastianDavis (Tony Kart) and LaRoquemaking up the top-five.
Crawford signed, sealed and delivered the perfect end to his
perfect main event streak, scoring the sixth Final victory in dom-
inant fashion. The race beganwith a restart, after Davis entered
the track without the permission of the officials for showing up
late to the grid. One the race resumed, Crawford pulled away
quickly and early.Wright moved to second on the opening lap,
and stuck with the five-time winner early on, but Crawford laid
down fast lap after fast lap to pull away. At the line, the margin
of victory was six seconds as the Texan earned his sixth straight
main event win and the championship.Wright was second, but
ended up havingan issue in techwith the clutch, which removed
him from the results and off the championship podium. The great
fight for third, which later would be the runner-up position, was
won by Cole Keith Cotham (Birel). The group was shuffled up
with awreck, including at least four drivers with two laps to go.
Cotham edged out Langon by inches at the line for the spot,
along with earning the #GoRotax Hard Charger Award of a
free set ofMojo tires presentedby theMAXSpeedGroup. Austin
Torgerson (KGB) was fourth in the final order with Blum finishing
fifth. Davis andArndt completed the championship podium.
Sunday’sPodium
