AFS Racing IndyLights

Raphael Matos said before Race 1 of the same-day Corning Duels that he was focusing on the ‘big picture’ - aka the Firestone Indy Lights championship.

A victory on the 3.37-mile, 11-turn Watkins Glen International circuit brought that into focus. Matos, who started from the front row in the No. 27 Automatic Fire Sprinklers Inc. car for AFS Racing/Andretti Green Racing, recorded a 2.1290-second victory over Richard Antinucci in a race shortened one lap because of a one-hour limit.

Jeff Simmons, driving the No. 2 TMR/Xtreme Coil Drilling car, started and finished third, and Ana Beatriz advanced two positions to fourth in the No. 20 Healthy Choice/Sam Schmidt Motorsports car. Pablo Donoso finished fifth in the No. 22 TMR/Xtreme Coil Drilling car and Logan Gomez was sixth in the No. 23 Menards Guthrie Racing car.