MBR Bracket's Steppat Racing In Indy 150

  The FRL's FASCAR series reaches it's penultimate round at the Indianapolis speedway for the Indy 150. The field of 9 drivers set out on a single pace lap to get the grid ready for green flag racing. As the green flag waved, all 9 cars charged through Turn 1 without much incident and 60 laps of racing commenced. 

 Andrew Steppat started from the pole and quickly secured the lead, followed closely by Ethan Maestri. Behind them, the contest for positions three through six would rage between Travis Billingsley, Preston Liberatore, Paul Maestri and Seth Jensen. Eventually the scrum would shuffle out the Ford's driven by Preston and Seth. The battle for third would settle into a cold war between the Toyota's of Travis and Paul, with Travis looking to have the better of it for most of the race. 

 Further back, Nicholas ran afoul of internet issues early on and would post and unfortunate DNF. Ghabe Stouffer would find himself trundling around in seventh, but having a better time of it than Tony Tyree, who was having all manner of trouble keeping his #47 Chevy pointed the right way on the circuit. 

 Up front, Ethan and Andrew would trade positions on 4 occasions early on, the last of those 4 lead changes would occur under scary circumstances as Ethan would lose the backend of the #3 Toyota and would spin into Turn 2, nearly clipping the inside wall. This setup Andrew for a long cruise out front with Travis being his nearest competition, some 8 seconds behind him. Travis would have some difficulty keeping himself out of trouble later in the race and got tangled with several cars to bring out the only caution of the race. After things got sorted, the green flag waved with 8 laps to go. Andrew Steppat, his sizable lead having been erased by the caution flag, found himself being harassed by Ethan Maestri. With 5 laps to go, Andrew would sail off into Turn 3 with Ethan Maestri close behind, taking the wind off his tail and causing him to wash up the track and into the wall. Ethan would inherit the lead and Travis would move into second place before Andrew would get collected and back up to speed.

 With just a couple laps to go and several seconds between cars, the final running order looked to be set. However, Travis would find himself pushing into Turn 1 and lost the grip in his #18 Toyota, causing him to wash up the track. This allowed Andrew to claim at least one lost position and even allowed Paul Maestri to advance into third place. The checkered flag flew with Ethan Maestri claiming his second win of the season, Andrew Steppat making the most of it in second and Paul Maestri getting his second podium of the series in third. 

 The final round goes back to Daytona to settle the series under the lights on March 7th.