2013 Round of California

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2013 Round of California
TM Master Cup Series Logo.png
Date March 3, 2013
Location Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California
Laps 90
Polesitter FRA.png Adrien Devereux
First FRA.png Adrien Devereux
Second FIN.png Arto Kekkonen
Third WAL.png Michael Sykes
Cautions 1
Race Results

The 2013 Round of California was the first round of the 2013 TM Master Cup season. For the second year in a row, the season opener was won by defending series champion Adrien Devereux, who one again achieved the Perfect 70 in the process.

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Pre-race storylines[edit | edit source]

The season-opening race was hosted at the Auto Club Speedway after the Las Vegas Autoring went to the ASCC.

Chris Davenport, Luciano Soveral, and Yevgeny Kuznetsov all crashed during qualifying. However, Davenport and Soveral had already set their first qualifying laps, and started the race in 8th and 30th respectively. Kuznetsov would start last in a field of 38 cars.

Summary[edit | edit source]

Coming soon.

Results[edit | edit source]

Position Number Driver Sponsor Team Car Points
1 1 FRA.png Adrien Devereux Haas Manufacturing Hodges-Walter Racing Calton-Morel Altair 70
2 9 FIN.png Arto Kekkonen Gessler/Red Bull Gessler Richter MC Team Gessler MTW12B 50
3 5 WAL.png Michael Sykes Launch Red Alert American Launch Energy Racing Team Inglesby Sonicboom 45
4 7 RUS.png Yuliya Nosova Arotel Katzev Engineering Katzev KE04 40
5 88 USA.png Scott Bates Budweiser Black Crown Team EFR Journey MC90 35
6 98 USA.png Ike Durbin Bloody X Terra International Motorsports Lycoia Brute 30
7 6 USA.png Chris Davenport Launch Lemon American Launch Energy Racing Team Inglesby Sonicboom 28
8 99 SEA.png Ebenezer Quiggles, Jr. VisitSealand Fluffy Penguin Onionburger TERMINATOR FPO-1000 26
9 17 USA.png Louis Kingston Chicago Cubs Star Nemoto Racing Nemoto Respetti 24
10 12 SUI.png Mélanie Clévenot Lynxe Lynxe Racing Lynxe L313 22
11 00 POR.png Gaspar de Sousa Kleffler Media BlackDiamond Racing Tremwell Knight 18
12 19 JPN.png Azuma Kazeyama Nemoto Star Nemoto Racing Nemoto Respetti 16
13 22 USA.png Peter Short Boeing/GE BlackDiamond Racing Tremwell Knight 14
14 72 USA.png Kevin Dwyer The Shafer Group Mitchell & Sons Racing Juneau S3 12
15 10 SWE.png Mathias Taube MaiaSoft/Red Bull Gessler Richter MC Team Gessler MTW12B 10
16 18 AUS.png Troy Adams Delano Star Nemoto Racing Nemoto Respetti 8
17 89 USA.png Craig Jonser SCARABS SCARABS Motors Omecha MA04 6
18 28 USA.png Scott Steudler Hershey's Manticore Engineering Manticore M1A1 4
19 16 USA.png Kurt Plissken Snake Coils Power Steering, Inc. Lycoia Interceptor 2
20 42 ITA.png Alessandro Rossini FIAM Scuderia Tutino Tutino T12B 1

Points[edit | edit source]

Adrien Devereux achieved the second Perfect 70 of his career, in only the fourth instance of this event.

Since this is the first race of the season, the results listed above and the points standings are identical.

Postrace penalties[edit | edit source]

  • Packer Carroll — Exclusion from Round of California. 30 points for causing a dangerous, avoidable collision and reckless driving, and one-race suspended ban until the conclusion of the Round of Wales.