Gaines was perfect on the tree and it still wasn't enough. Gaines led past the 660-foot timing mark, they were dead-even at 1,000 feet, then Connolly edged ahead.

Dave Connolly's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.012), 330 ft(-0.002), 660ft(-0.001), 1,000ft(0.000). MOV: 0.0021 seconds (approximately 8 inches).

Connolly ran low ET of the round and he will have lane choice against Enders-Stevens in round 2.