The finish came in his 7th career start. In the CART Series, it's the 1st for the #42 and the 3rd from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 7th for the #42 and 271st from a crash.
Entering the first ever season of the SCRL's newest series, Gitirokh had been a veteran of the SCRL for several years, having picked up five career wins, four of which came in the SCRL ARCA Late Model Series, a season in which he would pick up his first ever SCRL Championship. Danyal's CART career would start off with a lackluster 26th at Phoenix, finishing 3rd and 4th in the twin Atlanta races, 29th at Indy before finishing 31st and 26th in the twin Trenton races.
Rookie Chase Miller would impress in qualifying, win the pole with a time of 39.698 seconds in just his seventh start. Gitirokh would struggle with his car in trying to find speed as he would post a time of 39.889 seconds, 0.191 seconds behind Miller's pole winning time, placing Gitirokh 26th overall. Posting the slowest time in qualifying was the #04 of Matt Boyle, who posted a time of 40.020, 0.322 seconds behind Miller.
On race day, Miller would trail for the first lap around the two mile track before knocking second Atlanta last-place finisher the #18 Miller entry of Jack Lagasee into last on Lap 2, but Lagasee was determined to not trail for the second time this season, as he would pass and knock points leader the #10 entry of Riley Spurlytube into last on Lap 3. Spurlytube would also remain in last for only one lap as he would knock the #68 Jordache Jeans entry of Christian Russel into last on Lap 4. By the time the field had made it's way back around to the start/finish line, the #77 of Ryan Pritchard had taken the final spot for the first time in the race, but his stay in last would also last just one lap before he knocked the #26 entry of Chad Myers into last on Lap 6. On Lap 7, it was the #88 McDonald's entry of Rohan Marmot who would trail, as he would become the first driver to trail back-to-back laps, before he knocked Chad back into last on Lap 9. Marcus Saatchi would fall back to last for the first time in his entire CART Series career on Lap 10, but his stay would be brief, as he knocked pole winner Chase Miller into last on Lap 11, but the next time by Miller had knocked the #6 RCA entry of Daniel Bouchard into last before the next time around it was the #4 entry of Joe Jefferson who was in last and would be there when the battle for last came to a crashing end.
As the field entered Turn 2, Danyal found himself racing four wide with the #13 Interstate Batteries entry of Dexter Black, second Trenton last-place finisher the #33 Purina entry of Matt McIntyre and the #7 Red Baron entry of Jay Jefferson as Danyal's car made slight contact with Black's car, sending both cars up the track and collecting four other cars, with Danyal hitting the wall at a scary angle that was head on into the concrete wall. Danyal's car was destroy beyond repair and was the only car unable to make it back to pit road, with the car listed as "out" by Lap 15.
Rounding out the Bottom Five were drivers also involved in the multi-car wreck, but were scored having completed 14 laps; 32nd was the aforementioned #33 of Matt McIntyre, 31st was the #48 entry of Carlos Rodriguez, 30th was the #7 of Jay Jefferson and 29th was Indy last-place finisher the #2 Coppertone entry of Mairin Tayami.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #42 had finished last in the CART Series as well at Michigan.
*This was the first time the #42 had finished last in the CART Series as well at Michigan.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
33) #42-Danyal Gitirokh / 13 laps / crash
32) #33-Matt McIntyre / 14 laps / crash led 1 lap
31) #48-Carlos Rodriguez / 14 laps / crash
30) #7-Jay Jefferson / 14 laps / crash led 2 laps
29) #2-Mairin Tayami / 14 laps / crash led 1 lap
33) #42-Danyal Gitirokh / 13 laps / crash
32) #33-Matt McIntyre / 14 laps / crash led 1 lap
31) #48-Carlos Rodriguez / 14 laps / crash
30) #7-Jay Jefferson / 14 laps / crash led 2 laps
29) #2-Mairin Tayami / 14 laps / crash led 1 lap
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