Nick Joanides headed to Colorado National Speedway with high hopes due to his past success at the track. In what is one of the biggest events of the season as the race was billed as a mini-shootout as this event combined the best of the Midwest and Southwest Series. The day started off well as the team ran laps in the top 5 in practice, but Nick was still not quite happy with the car. Practice was run early in the morning when the track was still cool. By the time qualifying rolled around several hours later, temperatures had increased nearly 20 degrees and the hot track resulted in a very loose race for Joanides and a 24rd place qualfying effort among nearly 40 competitors at the track. Nick's speed however was 7th fastest among the Midwest series teams in which Nick was competing in. 

Nick quickly picked up a couple of spots early in the race, however the beginning of the long day occurred on lap 10 when two cars in front of Nick got together and with the field still tightly bunched up, Nick slightly got into the rear of the car directly in front of him. Although the damage to the nose was minimal, it was enough that it bent the fan shroud opening upward, blocking air flow to the radiator, causing the car to overheat. Several yellow flags separated by 10 laps or less helped Joanides allow the car to cool down under caution and stay competitive and moving into the top 15 by lap 65. However soon after, Nick was hit from the rear and spun in turn 3. Nick completed the spin and got the car going just in front of the leaders to stay on the lead lap, but dropped him back to the 23rd position on the restart. With cautions still coming regularly, Nick began picking of cars and when the final caution flew at lap 110 of the 150 lap race, Nick had moved into the 12th position. The final restart came at lap 115 and Nick battled the 5th through 11th place pack of cars over the next 10 laps. Unfortunately the car extremely overheated causing the car to miss and lose significant power with Nicks lap times slowing by over a second per lap. With no more caution flags, Nick never got the opportunity to allow the car to cool down again and nursed it to the end. He did end up being credited with a 12th place lead lap finish in the Midwest Series.