3 June 2000.  World Speed podium streak still alive at Irwindale.

World Speed Mazda driver Grant Ryley helped maintain the string of five consecutive podium finishes for World Speed in the Star Mazda Series by finishing second in Round Two of the the Red Line Oil Championship at Irwindale Speedway.

Ryley, driving the #14 Cupertino Electric Formula Mazda, challenged eventual winner Matt Beardsley throughout the 75 lap feature, actually passing Beardsley late in the race, only to be repositioned by officials as the pass was made right as the caution was coming out for a spin on the track.  "I had a run off of him coming out of turn four and passed him going into one, but unfortunately someone was spinning in turn three, and at Irwindale they reset the field based on the last green flag lap so I had to move back behind him," Ryley said.

Scott Bradley, piloting the #19 Radvision/Polycom machine, started third on the grid and was maintaining his position only to be blocked by lapped traffic several times, allowing the machines of Bryan Selby and Bernardo Martinez to squeeze past.  "The car had the legs over Selby and Martinez, but I got blocked coming out of turn two and that opened the door for them to get past and get some space on me, I was closing in on them when the late caution flags came out and we ran out of laps," Bradley said.

Fellow World Speed competitors Alex Figge and Rick Waddell got their first finishes on the challenging half mile oval, posting finishes of twelfth, and seventeenth respectively.  The Star Mazda Series moves to the high speed Willow Springs Raceway for their next event on June 24-25.