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Matos And Davison Indy Lights Winners At Mid-Ohio

LEXINGTON, OH – Raphael Matos and James Davison raced to victory in a pair of Firestone Indy Lights races at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Matos led all 40 laps of the first Mid-Ohio 100 and Davison led only the final lap.

For Matos, he won for the third time this season and he has won race one of every double-header weekend this season. He drove the Automatic Fire Sprinklers car fielded by Andretti Green Racing.

“It doesn’t get any better than this,” Matos said. “We’ve had some trouble this season, particularly with the ovals. We knew we could be strong on the road courses and we’ve dominated in these races.”

Franck Perera took second followed by Richard Antinucci.

Jonny Reid and J. R. Hildebrand were fourth and fifth followed by veteran driver Jeff Simmons.

A thunderstorm delayed the start of the second Mid-Ohio 100 and due to television commitments, the event was shortened to 40 minutes.
Reid led all but the final lap and he had victory in his grasp until he pulled in on the final lap thinking the race was over. “I didn’t have any communications and I thought the race was over. I am very ashamed,” he said.

Second place was held by a handful of drivers and Davison was the final driver to assume the runner-up position. When Reid erred, Davison took the checkered flag for the first time.

“This is our best result of the season,” Davison said. “I had a chaotic race and I even went off into the gravel trap once. My engineer told me to keep the car on the track and I did after running off. Until today, I’ve had zero luck and this win is fantastic.”

He drove a Sam Schmidt Motorsports entry and the accomplished team earned its 26th victory. The team also won for the third consecutive time all with different drivers.

Wade Cunningham came from the back to grab second place just ahead of Pablo Donoso.

Spins and yellow flags dominated the action with cars sliding off the track on every lap. The cars started on rain tires but once the weather cleared, the drivers had to seek out the wet spots to keep their cars going forward.

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