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Hossfeld's post race thoughts from Thompson's Icebreaker Even drivers who finished well had a mountain to climb to get there. Chuck Hossfeld finished a close second to Civali, but didn’t have an easy time doing that. “We qualified poorly...we had a bad tire,” said Hossfeld. “[In the race] we got running and something happened with John Blewett. I don’t know what happened, but he got a little sideways and ended up bumping me, it wasn’t intentional or anything, and we ended up spinning.
“We had a championship-type day. If we could run like that every week, we’ll be good. It was like a Stefanik-type day. We climbed up out of a hole after spinning. They made the right calls in the pits and made the car even better than on the first run and we were this close to winning. I’m happy with that.” Hossfeld did come close to winning. On the final lap, he thumped Civali in turn two. They got side-by-side briefly, but Civali kept the top spot and went on to the victory. “It was a green-white-checker finish,” said Civali. “The tires got a little bit cold on the yellow. So on the restart, the tires were spinning, the car was pushing in the middle of the turn and loose up off. I was just trying to hold on. Hossfeld was real good. I was just trying to hold him off enough.” “It was a green-white-checkered and I knew that on the first lap, I could size him up,” said Hossfeld. “I knew that I would be better because I had fresher tires. I was going to make the move on the white [flag] lap and I had a good run on him coming out of turn two. He just came to the bottom and blocked me…a lot. But I’ve been on the other side of the fence where I had to block someone and it is what it is. It’s racing for the win on the last lap. I think that there are no rules there, so I don’t fault him. But I think if he didn’t throw that block, we would have won the race that’s for sure.”
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