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Low fog covered the farm and marshland to the east, and when it burned off there was more of a view than at last month?s race weekend. The hills along the esses had been totally recontoured, with all the trees now gone, and the height of the hills reduced by about 20 feet. They had been cut back, away from the track as well, although not trimmed to their final form in the remodel.  With concrete walls lining the left side of the track to separate out the construction area, a new configuration was used for the first time, Sears 7A & 7B, 9A, to reduce speeds through the esses. This made race starts even more exciting with drivers turning immediately from Turn 7 back down the drag strip. Several times cars were able to go two-wide from there all the way to 7A.  The B group group got things going, with MTP Jacob Gross the first to establish a lap record for this configuration with a 1:23.872. Starting alongside was Chris Hill running for no points with MTP David Hughes and Danny Wafler filling row two. Tom Howhannesian and Mike Urban filled the third row. At the start Hill tried to take the lead around the outside, but Gross would have none of it.  Urban made the best start moving to fourth while Hughes fell back to fifth.  Hill took Gross under braking for Turn 7 but didn?t have as much momentum turning onto the drag strip, and Gross was able to slip back by on the inside heading into Turn 7A. A couple of laps later Hill tried it again and this time made it stick. Two laps later, though, Gross returned the favor and was back at the point.</div> <bR> <div> From that point there was little passing, but every position was being contested in the top seven throughout the race except for Wafler who ran a lonely third on the road. The top eight drivers were all turning laps within 1.4 seconds from each other, and the top five were running in the same second.  Wayne Yurtin tried to hand off the role of caboose in the train contesting fourth on the road, slipping inside Hughes going into Turn 7. But Hughes was late on the brakes as well and Yurtin went way wide half way around the corner and Hughes got him back.  The next lap Yurtin took the spot for good with an inside pass into the Carousel, finishing sixth on the road, fourth in USAC Formula Russell points. Gross won by .687 seconds over Hill with Wafler earning the tallest Russell trophy.  Second in points went to Urban ahead of Pete Ball. Behind Yurtin was Hughes and Jim Graber taking fifth in Russell points.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.russellracing.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.russellracing.com/"><U>http://www.russellracing.com/</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10c488c0.gif" border=0 width="584" height="396" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Christopher in number 14 setting up for the pass.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10d4a8e0.gif" border=0 width="586" height="398" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Going inside.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10e4a8e0.gif" border=0 width="586" height="398" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Making the move.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10f4a8e0.gif" border=0 width="586" height="398" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Leading the way.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1104a8e0.gif" border=0 width="586" height="398" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Where'd everybody go?  Oh, they're back there somewhere.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>