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Monday

ILLINOIS ON THE 4TH

1938 INTERNATIONAL

VINTAGE COMMERICIAL TRUCK PROJECTS

by Middendorf Brothers

211 South West Street

Jacksonville, Illinois

www.middendorfs.com

www.auction-zip.com

1-217-243-5486

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INDYCAR IN MICHIGAN........RACE TWO

This statement seemed to be very close to the truth. The first half of the race was run under many yellow flags, it seemed that every restart they would get to do a couple of laps and then 'bang' another car entanglement.

JAMES JAKES, 2ND - SIMON PAGENAUD, 1ST - MIKE CONWAY, 3RD

Simon Pagenaud, winning his first IndyCar race, was happy to have it over with. It was a crazy race right fromt the beginning. Cars smacking into the walls, the tires, each other and finally having an eight car pile-up. From that point on it was a race. For a long time it looked like Mike Conway was going to win again which would have given him a $50,000 bonus, but as racing goes it just wasn't to be. Second went to James Jakes, with his highest finish yet, and third went to Mike Conway.

I think the next three races are on oval tracks which will eliminate Mike Conway. After his very bad accident at the Indy 500 a couple of years ago he has decided that he will no longer race on oval tracks. He just wasn't comfortable with them. Hopefully, when IndyCar gets back to the road tracks in July, Dale Coyne Racing will pick him up again.

Takuma Sato hit the wall or a tire barrier on lap 24. Tony Kanaan started in something 19th spot and for a while challenged 1st, 2nd and 3rd, but ended up in 12th.

center photo credit: © Julian Gonzalez / Detroit News

Sunday

ENGLAND ON THE 3RD

1939 DAIMLER

COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS AND SPORTSCARS

by Barons

Esher Hall

Sandown Exibition Park

Esher, Surrey

United Kingdom

www.barons-auctions.co.uk

+44 (0) 8454 30 60 60

photo credit: Barons Auctions

INDYCAR IN MICHIGAN........RACE ONE

RYAN HUNTER-REAY, 2ND - MIKE CONWAY, 1ST - JUSTIN WILSON, 3RD

They were able to beat the rain and Mike Conway won by a nearly a full 12 seconds. That doesn't happen very often in IndyCar, they are uaually much closer than that, tenths or hundredths of a second. Conway was brought in for the race by Dale Coyne Racing, the team that went 20 years without a win and has now had three. To add the icing to the cake, Justin Wilson, came in third and is also from Dale Coyne Racing. Second place went to Ryan Hunter-Reay, last year's champion.

In some ways Detroit still has a problem getting it together. If anyone remembers that last year they had a problem with the track coming apart. Repair patches pulling up and leaving large holes in the track and the patches getting tangled up in the cars. This year they had some loose tires that were used to warn drivers of the road edge (I think), but when these were hit they went out into the track interferring with at least three cars.

And what of Tony Kanaan and Takuma Sato? Kanaan claimed that his car was 'horrible' even though he spent some time in the front. Sato had a spin and his car was never the same after that. Kanaan ended in 13th and Sato in 19th.