THE ONLY OVAL; An American wins on the oldest oval, but Champ Car fans should probably not get comfortable with the concept.(Motorsports)
AutoWeek, June, 2004
Byline: J.P. VETTRAINO Ryan Hunter-Reay marked his turf at Wisconsin State Fair Park as emphatically as the alpha male timber wolf marks his pack's corner of the Yukon. Hunter-Reay led all 250 laps. Had it not been for seven caution periods, he would have lapped all 17 of his opponents, probably twice.
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The suspense lasted a dozen laps, by which point Hunter-Reay was already 2.5 seconds clear of second place and lapping the first backmarker. Given the camera's tendency to focus on the leader in a narrowly defined strip of track, this probably did not make good television. Yet ...
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