Taylor takes lights to flag Nashville win.

Mark Taylor won the Cleanevent 100 Infiniti Pro Series race on Friday night at the Nashville Superspeedway. Taylor led all 77 laps of the event en route to victory in his No. 4 Fulmar Panther Racing Dallara-Infiniti.

There were only two caution periods during the event. Ed Carpenter brushed the wall in Turn 4 on Lap 22 and spun into the grass between pit road the mainstretch. On Lap 73 Brandon Erwin, while in third place, spun exiting Turn 4, but did not make wall contact.

The win was Taylor's fourth of 2003, his three other victories came this year at Homestead-Miami, Phoenix and Kansas. His four victories tie him with A.J. Foyt IV for most career victories and victories is a season.

The Englishman also won from the pole at Phoenix.

Tom Wood finished second, a career best. His previous best finish was third at Chicagoland in 2002 and Kansas in 2003.

Ross Fonferko finished third in the Cleanevent 100, his first Infiniti Pro Series race.

Taylor led all 77 laps en route to victory, marking the third time that a driver has led every lap in an Infiniti Pro Series event. Ryan Hampton led all 80 laps en route to victory in 2002 at Gateway and Taylor led all 100 laps en route to victory at Phoenix in 2003.

Taylor leads the points 271-175 over Thiago Medeiros and Ed Carpenter, who are tied for second.

POST-RACE QUOTES:

BRANDON ERWIN (No. 99 Natural Golf/Sam Schmidt Mtrspts. Dallara/Infiniti/ Firestone):
"We had a decent race car, but it was hard to deal with in traffic. It was pushing real bad. I can't say enough about the No. 99 Sam Schmidt/Natural Golf team. They're doing all they can for me, and hopefully we'll continue to go to the front and do well in Michigan."

CORY WITHERILL (No. 92 WSA Healthcare Dallara/Infiniti/Firestone):
"We had a good sixth-place car. I don't think we had the car to win this weekend. I think the car was good for where we finished, fifth or sixth place. Seeing the place we started the race in, I wish we could have finished a little better than that. It was all right, but it could have been a lot better. I think we were down on horsepower a little bit."

JONATHAN URLIN (No. 3 Budget Rent A Car of Canada Dallara/Infiniti/Firestone):
"I think we bent the front end a little bit. I just bent the geometry. We were just trying to keep it on the track and just finish the race for A&M Truck parts, AT&T Wireless and Budget Rent-a-Car. We wanted to bring the No. 3 home safely. We will try to turn it around next week. I'm looking forward to running in a big pack of cars at Michigan and being able to be there wide open right from the start. The concrete was a little bumpy at the start, but then you just get used to it. It is fun to drive on."

DAVE STEELE (No. 33 CURB Records Dallara/Infiniti/Firestone):
"We just sucked. That's pretty much it. Sometimes you just suck, and you just can't put your finger on it. That's kind of the way it was for us. As the race went on, we just picked up a bad push. It progressively got worse as the race went on. I tried to make adjustments in the car, but it didn't help. Those cockpit adjustments are just kind of band-aids. If you're way out of whack, it's not going to bring you back into the ballpark. That's just the way it goes sometimes."