As the pace car left the track and the lights went green, the 'little master' had his Evo literally pasted to the tail pipe of Summerbell's TA1, with Guyana's Andrew King in a similar position behind him as they negotiated turn 1. By turn 2 he had already effected an effortless pass to take the lead, opening a 4 secs. gap by the end of lap 1. This gap was to be doubled by the time the Clerk of Course amazingly made a belated decision to red flag the race at the end of lap 6. This action was taken due to an accident involving Guyana's Kevin Jeffrey, Canada's Paul Vieira and Barbados' Stuart Williams on the inside of turn 1 at the start of lap 4. The yellow caution came out in the turn immediately and all drivers had negotiated their way safely past the danger on two occasions before the race was stopped. This saw all the cars return to the pit in preparation for the restart which was sometime in coming as there was another downpour causing a halt to any further racing action for more than an hour.
Having watched Stuart disappear in the distance over those six laps would have been enough cause for concern among his fellow CC competitors. While they pondered their faith, the betting spectators assembled at every vantage point around South Dakota, scrambled to see if they were any takers on who would occupy second position for the remaining races, the winner seemingly a forgone conclusion.
The race was restarted after another rain delay which lasted for just over an hour. It was more of the same as Stuart once again dominated the field, five of the sixteen starters on a track that was quickly drying under the blazing heat that had returned. Mark Maloney whose car had now been repaired was also a starter but immediately found the going tough as he had to contend with a serious misfire. He finished in seventh position behind his father Doug in sixth. Andrew King continued to be plagued by the problems he had at Round 2 and was one of the lapped competitors. Barbados registered their first two causalities when Stuart Williams in the outclassed Williams Equipment Ltd., KDJ Auto Parts & Mix 96.9FM Toyota Starlet retired on lap 1 with a blown engine. Steve King in the Percy King Auto Parts & Castrol Nissan Skyline competing in the merged Group 4 Class completed a dismal event after he broke the spare gearbox that he changed to after breaking the original one during a practice session. It was a very disappointing outcome for Steve whose practice times suggested that he would have dominated his Group on Race Day.