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Haughton Closes the Gap in Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series with COTA Sweep

iRacingBy iRacingFebruary 17, 2023No Comments5 Mins Read
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After a solid debut season in the Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series for 2022, Harley Haughton was one of many top iRacers determined to take home a greater share of Skip Barber Racing School’s prize pool for the 2023 campaign. He got a step closer to grand prize at the end of the season—a full-time ride in the 2023 Skip Barber Formula Race Series—with a sweep of both races at Circuit of the Americas on Thursday night, pulling him within one point of Diogo Pinto for the championship lead with two events left.

The United Kingdom-based Haughton, who races GT5 cars in the real world, was a class above the rest of the field all night on Thursday. He qualified nearly two tenths of a second faster than Przemyslaw Marek Lemanek before the first race and extended his lead to nearly a second before finishing the first lap of the first race. He got even more comfortable in the second race, where a spirited battle for second between Pinto, Lemanek, Josh Thompson, and Michael Janney allowed Haughton to check out and win by 6.701 seconds.

Still, the drama between that quartet produced some of the most exciting racing of the entire season. Almost all race long, they were separated by less than a second, and another pack of five cars came charging in behind them to make for a thrilling final lap. When all was said and done, second through 10th place were separated by under two seconds, and aside from Haughton in first and Brandon Hawkin in ninth, every other top-10 spot changed hands on the final lap.

Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series race one results from Circuit of the Americas were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.

1 1 3 Harley Haughton 8 8 35
2 5 18 Diogo C. Pinto 8 -2.941 0 2:06.283 32
3 3 1 Michael Janney 8 -3.399 0 2:06.072 30
4 6 11 Josh Thompson 8 -4.309 0 2:06.553 28
5 4 16 Jakub Maciejewski 8 -4.618 0 26
6 2 6 Przemyslaw Marek Lemanek 8 -5.283 0 2:06.895 25
7 10 17 Josh Poulain 8 -5.628 0 2:06.038 24
8 13 14 Brandon Hawkin 8 -11.083 0 2:06.567 23
9 15 13 Jordan Johnson5 8 -11.571 0 2:06.443 22
10 7 10 Michael A Romanidis 8 -15.013 0 2:06.589 21
11 14 8 Matt Bussa 8 -15.410 0 2:06.533 20
12 18 2 Sebastian Wheldon 8 -15.635 0 19
13 9 4 Simone Passoni 8 -16.326 0 18
14 16 15 Ross Banfield 8 -16.535 0 2:06.792 17
15 12 5 Matt J Caruana 8 -21.402 0 2:06.987 16
16 8 7 Johannes Traupe 8 -22.278 0 15
17 17 9 Matt M Adams 7 -1 L 0 2:07.819 14
18 11 19 Matthew Zeis 1 -7 L 0 13
19 19 226 Jonathan Winker 0 -8 L 0 12

Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series race two results from Circuit of the Americas were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.

1 1 3 Harley Haughton 8 8 2:05.991 35
2 4 11 Josh Thompson 8 -6.701 0 2:06.577 32
3 3 1 Michael Janney 8 -6.893 0 2:05.805 30
4 2 18 Diogo C. Pinto 8 -6.938 0 28
5 5 16 Jakub Maciejewski 8 -7.097 0 26
6 6 6 Przemyslaw Marek Lemanek 8 -7.709 0 2:06.331 25
7 15 5 Matt J Caruana 8 -8.198 0 2:07.530 24
8 10 10 Michael A Romanidis 8 -8.295 0 2:06.290 23
9 8 14 Brandon Hawkin 8 -8.408 0 2:05.809 22
10 11 8 Matt Bussa 8 -8.434 0 2:06.208 21
11 9 13 Jordan Johnson5 8 -13.035 0 2:06.294 20
12 12 2 Sebastian Wheldon 8 -14.883 0 19
13 14 15 Ross Banfield 8 -16.011 0 2:06.972 18
14 17 9 Matt M Adams 8 -17.468 0 17
15 18 19 Matthew Zeis 8 -17.849 0 16
16 16 7 Johannes Traupe 8 -18.962 0 15
17 7 17 Josh Poulain 8 -54.071 0 14
18 13 4 Simone Passoni 3 -5 L 0 13
19 19 226 Jonathan Winker 0 -8 L 0 0

Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series points through three events are as follows:

  1. Diogo Pinto, 192
  2. Harley Haughton, 191
  3. Josh Thompson, 164
  4. Michael Janney, 160
  5. Brandon Hawkin, 144
  6. Matt Caruana, 141
  7. Przemyslaw Marek Lemanek, 118
  8. Jordan Johnson, 118
  9. Jakub Maciejewski, 116
  10. Josh Poulain, 115

Qualifying for next week’s Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series race from VIRginia International Raceway begins today, while registration is open now for the season finale at Road America. All broadcasts will begin at 8PM ET across iRacing social media channels. To sign up to compete, click here.

For more information on the Skip Barber Racing School, visit www.skipbarber.com. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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