2011 Watkins Glen Twin 150K's

2011 Watkins Glen Twin 150k's
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Date	September 25, 2011
Location	Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY
Laps	27
Polesitter	Suiiju Dejao (race one) Rene Recarmier (race two)
First	Packer Carroll (race one) Todd Wodarczyk (race two)
Second	Suiiju Dejao (race one) Kurt Walker (race two)
Third	CJ Cameron (race one) Wesley Savage (race two)
Cautions	0 (both races)
Race Results

The 2011 Watkins Glen Twin 150k's was the 13th event of the 2011 ARLA Elite Series season. The races were held at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.

Pre-race storylines

Shane Lake signed on with Pearson/Sweeney Motorsports for the balance of the 2011 season, driving the No. 82D Saar.

Dan Mullen stepped into the booth and provided commentary for the race, returning the favor Scott Bush did in covering the TM Master Cup Round of Michigan.

Race one

Suiiju Dejao scored the pole for the first race, and raced Packer Carroll hard in the first corner, but Carroll fell back in behind Dejao heading up the esses.. On Lap 14, Dejao slid wide off the next-to-last corner, and Packer made his move on the outside of Dejao off the final corner. He was not in the preferred line, but Packer was still able to outbrake Dejao into turn 1 and was able to eventually complete the pass heading into the esses.

Several cars had difficulties navigating the Bus Stop chicane during the event, including Michael Madrigal, Bruce Wilkinson, and Scott Dalitz.

Carroll went on to dominate the second half of the race, sailing to his first victory of the season in the No. 71 Grape Soup Volpi. Dejao would finish second.

After the race, Packer would treat the fans to his patented Bronco Buster Burnout down the front stretch.

Chuck Bloomers would notch his career-best finish with a 10th-place effort.

The top 10

Position	Number	Driver	Sponsor	Team	Car
1	71	Packer Carroll	Grape Soup	Gravity Racing, Inc.	Volpi VC03
2	37	Suiiju Dejao	B.B. Wolf's Rib Emporium	MRD Motorsports	Nemoto Celerox
3	313	CJ Cameron	—	White Mountain Motorsports	Meridian Bolt
4	66	Edwin Schwarzloski	tirADE	M&J Racing	Saar Eagle
5	77	Jeremy West	Scorpion Electronics	Patterson Autosport	Fortner FS260
6	91	Phil Summers	Grease Burger	Grease Burger Racing	Velocity V2
7	24	Libby Bell	Patriot Cola	Power Steering, Inc.	JD Predator
8	8	Lucas Sweeney	Sisco	Pearson/Sweeney Motorsports	Saar Eagle
9	10	Dan Mackay	Grease Burger	Grease Burger Racing	Velocity V2
10	89	Chuck Bloomers	—	Bloomers Family Racing Team	Cromwell CS

Race two

Rene Recarmier qualified on pole for this race, however, due to penalties incurred after the last race, Recarmier started at the rear of the field. Brenda Riggs would start first on the grid. Riggs would lead 11 of the first 12 laps before going out in an accident with Kevin Monroe in the Bus Stop.

Tyson Lautenschlager and Gary DeSouza got together on the first lap, leading to a scary wreck which saw Lautenschlager's No. 70 Karl Revolution get airborne entering the Boot.

Scott Morales and Amy Harrison got together on Lap 5 with Morales smacking the guard rail coming into the Esses and then being pushed over by Harrison's Kivett. Benji Flynn, Makoto Yamada, and Leigh Gruell were also involved in the incident. Morales' car would end up on its roof.

Also, this race saw the return of the No. X/0 car, this week being piloted by Ebenezer Quiggles, Jr. And, like at the 150 Laps of Dwyer, OEN experienced technical problems whenever the car was on camera.

Yevgeny Kuznetsov made his debut in the race for RUS Autosport, which also marked Tolyatti's debut in the series. It was speculated that Kuznetsov brought the same car to Watkins Glen that Tolyatti attempted to put on the grid for the TM Master Cup Round of Indianapolis.

Recarmier and Derek Dudding got together on Lap 11 in the Boot, with Recarmier picking up damage after he dumped the slower TTE of Dudding. Recarmier would end up in 20th place.

Todd Wodarczyk passed Taylor Brillon coming into the Boot to take the lead – a lead he would not relinquish, giving Gravity Racing, Inc. its second twin-race sweep of the season (the first was at Verdugo).

The top 10

Position	Number	Driver	Sponsor	Team	Car
1	3	Todd Wodarczyk	Zombiebusters.com	Gravity Racing, Inc.	Volpi VC03
2	98	Kurt Walker	Radii	Kurt Walker Motorsports	EFR Journey
3	6	Wesley Savage	Liquid Insomnia 3-Day Energy	Devin Rogers Motorsports	Savage Strike
4	31	Ricky Flush	—	White Mountain Motorsports	Meridian Bolt
5	47	Kyle Eckerton	Xenos Motors, Inc.	Xenos Development	Xenos Hilt
6	65	Taylor Brillon	RoniZone	M&J Racing	Saar Eagle
7	211	Bob Stephans	Big Bunny BBQ	Big Bunny Racing	Tonare Thunder
8	82ж	Yevgeny Kuznetsov	Tolyatti	RUS Autosport	Tolyatti 1107
9	155	Ashley Tucker		Jaguar Racing	Lenard Q9
10	51	Jason Bates	Karl's Siphoning Hoses	Karl, Inc. Racing	Karl, Inc. Revolution

Postrace penalties

• None