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THE ONLY OVAL; An American wins on the oldest oval, but Champ Car fans should probably not get comfortable with the concept.(Motorsports)

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Byline: J.P. VETTRAINO

Ryan Hunter-Reay marked his turf at Wisconsin State Fair Park as emphatically as the alpha male timber wolf marks his pack's corner of the Yukon. Hunter-Reay led all 250 laps. Had it not been for seven caution periods, he would have lapped all 17 of his opponents, probably twice.

The suspense lasted a dozen laps, by which point Hunter-Reay was already 2.5 seconds clear of second place and lapping the first backmarker. Given the camera's tendency to focus on the leader in a narrowly defined strip of track, this probably did not make good television. Yet from the top of the grandstand, with the whole floodlit track in sight range, ...

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