July 5, 2008 - With Dillon Battistini having won 3 races already and being in the season points lead, Raphael Matos and Richard Antinucci, with one win each, decided that they had better do some catching up and let him take the day off – points wise.
So, just as these two guys did at St. Petersburg back in April, they took turns winning a Lights double header. While they were doing that, Dillon [Panther Racing], a road racer who had won 3 ovals, finished 17 and 20th at The Glen.
It was a hard day’s work for all. Although the Lights Series has had two races on IndyCar race weekend the two were on different days. Not this time. They had about a 90-minute break between races and raced 200 miles – the same day.
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June 21, 2008 – On the day that looked like Arie Luyendyk, Jr. was finally going to have his first Indy Lights victory Dillon Battistini pulled a rabbit out of the hat on lap 102 of the 115.
It was Arie’s seventh season in the Indy Lights Series, and he was not short on experience. This was his 53rd race in the series and he had taken the pole at the Iowa Speedway and led every single lap – until he came up on lap traffic with only 14 laps left.
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June 1, 2008 – Just looking at the front row for the start of the Firestone Indy Lights race at The Milwaukee Mile track in West Allis, Wisconsin, was enough to tell one that there could well be a surprise winner – unless Jeff Simmons was going to win. And if Jeff had won that would not have been a surprise. But he didn’t!
On the pole was rookie Pablo Donoso from Chile. He was driving for Team Moore Racing. His highest starting position in the 5 previous races had been 10th. But there he was on the pole non-the-less. As for the track being a one mile oval, that was not an issue for him.
In 2007, Pablo drove in the USAC Silver Crown Series for A. J. Foyt Racing. And he was also in that series in 2006. Before that, he raced road courses like the Star Mazda Series and Formula Renault in Argentina. And never mind that his best finish in this season’s five races had been 12th – what might you expect from poor starting positions with this year’s talent?
But you had to say that Donoso on the pole was a surprise. So was the driver sitting next to him on the front row.
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