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Davison wins for Vision Racing at Mid-Ohio |
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August 9, 2009 – Lexington. James Davison and Vision Racing took on the big teams, Sam Schmidt Motorsports and AFS Racing/Andretti Green Racing, and blew them away. Davison, who had won the pole for the Watkins Glen road race but settled for 2nd as J. R. Hildebrand won, started again by winning the pole at the 2.258 mile, 13-turn road course – and having learned a lesson.
James stood on it and led all 40 laps of the Mid-Ohio 100 to take the checkered flag. If you don’t let them pass you, you don’t have to pass them to win! It was the first win of the season for both Davison, and Tony and Laura George’s Vision Racing. It was not the first win at Mid-Ohio though for James. He won it last year too!
Behind Davison on the starting grid was James Hinchcliffe in 2nd and J. R. Hildebrand in 3rd. And like Davison, with his fastest lap of 109.427 mph, they also stayed in their positions without moving up or down and finished in those same spots and were all three on the podium together at the end. As they all showed, Mid-Ohio is a hard track to pass on!
The driver points standings is now: Hildebrand 420/ Saavedra [18th] 357/ Davison 341/ Cunningham [14th] 336 and Hinchclifffe 333.
The Infineon road race comes up next on August 23.
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