The Brit Andersen Motorsports Team came off of week with their first top ten finish of the season. They were looking to again build momentum off the last two weeks finishes.

The first round of practice would find Lauren at the top of the speed chart setting fast time at 19.8 sec. The second round of practice would find Lauren sixth on the speed chart posting a time of 19.8 sec. The top six cars in this practice had times that were only separated by 6 / 100 sec.

The first heat race would find Lauren starting on the outside pole position with the #28 of Zak Aszklar on the pole. Lauren got a good jump on the start but Zak fought back hard to take the lead. Lauren and the #12 of Frank Cardile would battle side by side for several laps behind Zak. It was at lap seven that Lauren would plant the #70 down low under Zak off turn four and put her in the lead for good. Lauren would cross the finish line with Frankie in second and Zak in third. It was a hard fought battle with a lot of side by side very clean and exciting racing. It was the second consecutive heat win for the Brit Andersen Motorsports Team.

The feature would find Lauren starting in the third position with the #28 of Zak Aszklar on the pole and the #54 of Harry Wheeler on the outside pole. Lauren again got a good a good start at the drop of the green flag and quickly got by Harry and was in hard pursuit of Zak. Lauren and Zak raced hard for two laps till Lauren completed the pass off turn four down low under Zak to take the lead. Lauren would lead till lap ten with the #20 of Matt Galko and the #38 of Tommy Barrett in hard pursuit of the lead. The top three cars had a sizeable lead on the field. It was at lap ten that Matt got aggressive and tapped Lauren at the apex of turn three and four. Matt then decided to move Lauren in turn four with contact on her right rear corner. It turned the #70 car around in front of the on- coming field of cars at the exit of turn four. The #70 car was hit in the front by the #21 of  Erica Santos who dove low and then hit hard in the left rear by the #84 of Joey Cipriano. The car had substantial damage to the left rear and Lauren ended her night in the infield with a 21^st place finish. It’s a far cry from what this team deserves with all the momentum they have built over these last two weeks only to be taken out by rookie driver at lap ten.

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