For the second time this week, Sean Hingorani has won an ARCA Menards Series West race at Irwindale Speedway.
Hingorani was able to retake the lead from teammate Isabella Robusto after she had a mechanical failure. After some late-race dramatics, including an official replay review of the final restart, the 17-year-old took the checkered flag for the second time this week.
Jack Wood finished in second, marking his best effort of the season for Billy McAnally Racing.
“Wasn’t expecting to run like that, didn’t really think we had the speed to run second,” Wood said. “Things just kinda fell our way there at the end, and we executed on restarts.”
Tyler Reif crossed the line in third place, with polesitter Nick Joanides finishing fourth, and Jaron Giannini finishing fifth in his second career ARCA start.
To round out the top 10, Kole Raz finished sixth, followed by Todd Souza in seventh, Jake Finch in eighth, Trevor Huddleston in ninth, and Eric Johnson Jr in 10th.
On the initial start of the race, polesitter Joanides fell to the rear of the field due to an unapproved adjustment, leaving the lead to Robusto. Robusto was able to retain the lead after some contact with Reif, but quickly lost it to Huddleston, who made an aggressive move to the bottom of the race track. The two would continue to run first and second until lap 15, when a spin by Garrett Zacharias brought out the first caution of the race.
The following restart saw less competition up front, as Huddleston settled into a car-length lead over Robusto by the time the field entered turn three. The two ran within a couple of car lengths of each other for the majority of the green-flag run, until lap 53 when the two raced side-by-side. The pair made contact, but Huddleston kept the lead, with Robusto riding closely behind. All the while, polesitter Joanides had made his way up to fourth by this point in the race.
However, ten laps later, while working through lapped traffic, Huddleston got loose on the bottom of the race track, paving the way for Robusto to pass for the lead.
From that point, Robusto was able to put a gap over Huddleston, as Joanides and Hingorani closed in on the front pair. By the time the race reached fifty laps to go, Robusto held a second and a half lead over Huddleston, thanks in part to lapped traffic.
However, it would be the same lapped traffic that slowed Robusto a few laps later, allowing Hingorani…
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