2013 Round of California

2013 Round of California
Date	March 3, 2013
Location	Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California
Laps	90
Polesitter	Adrien Devereux
First	Adrien Devereux
Second	Arto Kekkonen
Third	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.

Pre-race storylines

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

Coming soon.

Results

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

Points

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

• 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.