Tasca is the defending event champion.

Head gets the early lead and starts to pull away. He gets about 300 feet out, starts moving around, then breaks the tires loose and has to back off the throttle. Tasca drives around him about 400 feet out and pulls away for the win.

Bob Tasca III's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.007), 330 ft(-0.015), 660ft(0.312). MOV: 1.0563 seconds (more than 100 feet).

Tasca will give up lane choice to Cruz Pedregon in the next round.