Mike Cooper, of Syosset, N.Y., won his second second-career SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup series win over the weekend at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Cooper, driving the No. 6 AMG Racing/VEND3.com MX-5 Cup car, battled Polewinner Jeff Mosing early in the race to maintain the lead.
“The three cars were pretty equal – me, Dean and Jeff,” Cooper said of his battle Copeland and Mosing. “I was better in some places and they were better in some places. So, it was actually hard to get by one another. I knew that we had pretty equal cars and that they’d be pushing each other to go, trying to catch up to me. And, that I’d be punching a hole in the air. But, once we were out that far, I was just able to focus, hit my marks, and do the lap times we needed to do to stay out front and get the win.”
Mosing captured his first-career pole following qualifying and led the first three laps of race until he relinquished it to Cooper. Although Mosing regained the lead later on in the race, he was unable to maintain it but did manage to come in second place.
“I got a good start on the green,” Mosing said of his race start. “I was hoping they would try to dice it up early on. You get kind of antsy the first few laps. I was hoping to gap them enough to run out on my own, but the draft is huge here. So, it was only a matter of time before the other lead pack caught up to me and we started racing.”
The Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup series Championship point standings are as follows: Cooper and Mosing (62 points), followed by Jason Saini (49), Scott Shelton (47), Scott Dollahite (45). The next race in the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup series will be at Road Atlanta in April.
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