There are generally two tracks running in each heat.	Michael Aubuchon moves his car into the turn.

This year the race-from-the-front and from-behind strategies battled all through qualifying and the Final. Recently, race-from-behind has seemed less effective, but it saw a resurgence this year.

Qualifying took place on the fast and simple Hockenheim, the tighter and slower Melborne, and the long and heavy braking Spa. Nearly half of all the top finishers from each heat used a race-from-the-back strategy of one sort or another including Rob Kircher, Dennis Nicholson, Lane Newbury, Franklin Haskell, and Doug Schulz. But Jim Fleckenstein, Bruno Passacantando, Don Tatum, Gerald Lientz, Kevin Keller, and Doug Galullo qualified with more of a race-from-the-front strategy. Tatum qualified twice in the preliminaries which meant that Bruce Rae qualified for the Final with a third place finish.

The Final devolved into a two-car race by the end. There were certainly other cars that contended on Catalunya. Don Tatum, Kevin Keller, and Lane Newbury all mixed it up with the leaders. But for most of the race it was clear that Jim Fleckenstein and Doug Schulz would duel for the wood at the end just as they had last year. In 2008 both crashed in the last corner, this year only one of them would.

Jim started the race from the front of the grid and pushed early, extending a gap while using up most of his wear over the first half of the race. Doug started mid-pack on the grid but used a high start speed to get up to the back of the front runners by corner #2. From there Doug ran a more conservative race and conserved his wear for a late charge - outlasting the other front runners to be Jim's primary competition. By the last lap, they ran neck and neck heading into the fifth corner. Jim went faster through the outside of that corner using his last wear and then performed a late brake to stay out of the next corner, gaining the arrow. Doug then dove inside, used a wear and entered the next corner on the outside to stay ahead of him. This proved to be decisive as Doug was able to block Jim in the second to last corner and forced him into two naked chance rolls which culminated again in his crash in the last corner. Doug is now the third two-time Speed Circuit champion - joining Kevin Keller and Gerald Lientz as co-holders of that lofty pedigree.

More details on Speed Circuit racing as practised at WBC at http://www.lucidphoenix.com/sc/wbc/

Doug Schulz moves his car on his way to his second title.	Doug Galullo takes a corner.
Boys and their toys are much in evidence as part of the appeal on the newly researched tracks.	Dennis Nicholson, Bruno Passacantando and Jimmy Fleckenstin man their cars.