BARBERDODGE: Barber Dodge Results - Mid Ohio
10 August 1998
LEXINGTON, Ohio (Aug. 9)- John Fogarty was one of the few drivers who welcomed the storm clouds that approached the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Sunday before the start of the Barber Dodge Pro Series race. A heavy downpour delayed the start of the Barber Dodge race and produced challenging circumstances for the drivers; how to negotiate Mid-Ohio's 2.258-mile road course on rain tires while the track was slowing drying after the storm. Fogarty, who learned how to handle tricky situations on his family'sCalifornia ranch, adapted the best, taking the lead from Todd Snyder on lap 18 to win his first Barber Dodge race. Nicholas Rondet was a distant second 16.513 seconds behind. Giovanni Anapoli finished third in his best effort this season.
Prior to Sunday, Fogarty's best finish was a seventh in the season opener at Sebring.
"I'm extremely happy," Fogarty said. "This year hasn't been going that well for me. In the previous race at Watkins Glen I did really well and I was actually kind of praying for rain for this race and I got what I wanted." It was a wild race. Fogarty, who started 12th, was the fifth driver to lead the race.
The top two drivers in the point standings, Jeff Simmons and Thomas Schie, spun while leading. Simmons finished 26th and Schie recovered to place eighth. Even Rondet spun three times.
With Schie's and Simmons' misfortune, Todd Snyder regained the points lead with his fourth-place finish. Snyder leads Schie by three points (85-82) with five races remaining in the championship.
Results Sunday from the 40-minute Barber Dodge Pro Series race at the
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio with finishing position, starting position, driver, hometown or country, laps, reason out if any, and prize money. All cars are identical Reynard Dodge V-6, open-wheel, single-seat race cars on Michelin racing tires.
1 (12) Jon Fogarty, Portola Valley, Calif., 82.806 mph, 25, $12,000 2 (5) Nicolas Rondet, France, 25, $8,000 3 (4) Giovanni Anapoli, Italy, 25, $6,000 4 (7) Todd Snyder, Sheffield, Mass., 25, $4,000 5 (8) Alex Gurney, Newport Beach, Calif., 25, $2,500 6 (17) Owen McAuley, Ireland, 25, $2,500 7 (2) Shane Donley, Las Vegas, 25, $1,800 8 (1) Thomas Schie, Norway, 25, $1,700 9 (10) Eric Tresslar, Denver, 25, $1,600 10 (3) Will Langhorne, Washington, D.C., 25, $1,500 11 (19) Tom Woods, Rancho Cordova, Calif., 25, $1,400 12 (9) Rocky Moran, Jr., Coto de Caza, Calif., 25, $1,300 13 (20) Jamie Menninga, Pella, Iowa, 25, $1,200 14 (22) Jeff Altenburg, Catonsville, Md., 25, $1,100 15 (16) Charles Willis, Germantown, Tenn., 25, $1,000 16 (21) Brian Pelke, Lansing, Ill., 25, $500 17 (18) Gregg Borland, Elkhart Lake, Wis., 25, $500 18 (15) Peter Boss, Narragansett, R.I., 24, $500 19 (24) Patsy DiFillippo, Apollo, Pa., 24, $500 20 (25) Scott Mayer, Franklin, Wis., 23, $500 21 (11) Samer Hindi, Los Angeles, 21, contact, $500 22 (13) John McCaig, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 21, contact, $500 23 (23) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Boca Raton, Fla., 21, contact, $500 24 (26) Stephen Sardelli, Jamestown, R.I., 14, flat tire, $500 25 (6) Sepp Koster, The Netherlands, 8, contact, $500 26 (14) Jeff Simmons, Granby, Conn., 7, contact, $500Length of Race: 25 laps for 55.472 miles Time: 40 minutes, 11.632 seconds Average speed: 82.806 mph Margin of victory: 16.513 seconds Lap leaders: Thomas Schie, 1; Giovanni Anapoli, 2-4; Jeff Simmons, 5-7; Todd Snyder, 8-17; Jon Fogarty, 18-25. Fastest race lap: Jon Fogarty, 1:29.35 Fastest qualifier: Thomas Schie, 1:24.421, 96.289 mph Progressive Driver Award: Owen McAuley (17 to 6) Purse: $53,100
Points after 7 of 12 rounds:
1. Todd Snyder, 85 2. Thomas Schie, 82 3. Jeff Simmons, 78 4. Will Langhorne, 69 5. Nicholas Rondet, 55 6. Giovanni Anapoli, 54 7. Shane Donley, 43 8. Jon Fogarty, 39 9. Sepp Koster, 36 10. Alex Gurney, 36 Next race is Road America on Aug. 16
