There is nothing more exhilarating than winning a championship on the same day you win a race. Or is it the other way around? Either way, that was the thrill that Alex Lloyd and his Sam Schmidt Motorsports’ team experienced at the Infineon road course.
In our first story of the season we asked, “Can Anyone Stop Alex Lloyd?” Today that question was answered. No!
Officially the challengers went down in flames, so to speak, in today’s 30 lap Race 1 at the Carneros 100 in Sonoma, California. Alex again put his name in the IRL record book with his 8th win of the season, a new single season IPS record.
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At Kentucky Speedway Saturday night, after the IndyCar race, Super Aguri Panther Racing’s rookie Hideki Mutoh showed that the Indy Pro Series is making good progress developing drivers who can win on BOTH ovals and road courses. Mutoh-san, having won the pole and first race at the IMS Liberty Challenge double header in June, won the Kentucky 100 pole and race with as much professional class as you could imagine.
Hideki became the fourth IPS driver to join the, should we say, “IPS Complete Driver Club.” The other members are Jeff Simmons [2005], Wade Cunningham [2006] and Alex Lloyd {2007] who have won both oval and road course races. None of these three won their first oval and road race the same year though.
To gain his membership Mutoh, unlike the first three, had to pass a test, a very challenging test, given to him by not one but two of the other “Club” members. Hideki was ready for all challenges and tests when he arrived at the track. In qualifying, he kept the pole from Lloyd, who had to accept second, and Cunningham, who qualified third, by setting a new track record at 191.276 mph.
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Alex Lloyd started on the pole again for the fourth time. This time on the 2.258 mile Mid-Ohio road course. For the first 10 or so laps it looked like this would be his race. However, Richard Antinucci, driving for his uncle’s Cheever Racing in a number 51 car, had an agenda of his own. Having qualified 4th he worked his way up to 2nd and on lap 16 of the 40 made his move on Lloyd and then dominated the rest of the race.
Antinucci, whose hometown is Rome, Italy, where his uncle Eddie grew up, showed what he had learned from European Formula 3 racing and claimed his first Pro Series win. He drove a flawless race and just kept getting faster as the laps progressed. He turned in the quickest lap of the race on the next to last lap, 110.898 mph.
Lloyd, who also sat on the pole at Nashville last weekend but ended up finishing 11th there while Robbie Pecorari won that race, finished a far away 22nd at Mid-Ohio when his gearbox blew up on lap 24.
Wade Cunningham, who had qualified 6th for Mid-Ohio, methodically worked his way up to 2nd for his 5th podium finish this season. He just didn’t have the speed, though, to do anything but watch Antinucci from behind. Cunningham, the 2005 Pro Series champion, finished 4th at Nashville, behind Pecorari, Logan Gomez and Jaime Camara on the concrete oval.
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