VANDER WEERD WINS AT KINGS

Hanford, CA……..Richard Vander Weerd of Visalia, Calif. led the final 12 laps of Saturday night’s 30-lap USAC West Coast Sprint race at Kings Speedway in his Vander Weerd Construction/Battery Worx Maxim/Shark. Series point leader Ryan Bernal was second ahead of Danny Faria Jr., Austin Liggett and fast qualifier Dennis Howell. Faria led the first 18 laps.

USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 8, 2013 – Hanford, California – Kings Speedway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-15.892; 2. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-15.912; 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-15.914; 4. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-16.045; 5. Jeff Sibley, 18, Watt-16.072; 6. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-16.096; 7. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-16.161; 8. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-16.226; 9. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-16.316; 10. Kolby Araki, 30K, Araki-16.614; 11. Don Gansen, 7G, Gansen-16.672; 12. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-16.690; 13. Max Adams, 5X, Adams-16.701; 14. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-16.806; 15. Austin DeBlauw, 65, DeBlauw-16.994; 16. Matt Day, 97, Day-17.026; 17. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-17.273; 18. Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-17.441; 19. Austin Stone, 29X, Coffman-20.284; 20. D.J. Netto, 88N, Netto-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ennis, 2. Bernal, 3. Howell, 4. Adams, 5. Day, 6. Araki, 7. Stone. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hurst, 2. Liggett, 3. Kaeding, 4. Barnes, 5. Netto, 6. Sibley, 7. D.Gansen. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Vander Weerd, 2. Faria, 3. DeBlauw, 4. Hawkins, 5. C.Gansen. NT

DASH: (6 laps) 1. Faria, 2. R.Vander Weerd, 3. Bernal, 4. Howell, 5. Kaeding, 6. Ennis, 7. Hawkins, 8. Liggett. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Richard Vander Weerd, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Danny Faria, Jr., 4. Austin Liggett, 5. Dennis Howell, 6. Chris Ennis, 7. Don Gansen, 8. D.J. Netto, 9. Landon Hurst, 10. Bud Kaeding, 11. Marty Hawkins, 12. Kolby Araki, 13. Kevin Barnes, 14. Austin Stone, 15. Jeff Sibley, 16. Matt Day, 17. Austin DeBlauw, 18. Chris Gansen, 19. Max Adams. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-18 Faria, Laps 19-30 R.Vander Weerd.

NEW USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Bernal-521, 2-R.Vander Weerd-496, 3-Faria-439, 4-Kaeding-399, 5-Jace Vander Weerd-356, 6-Markus Niemela-344, 7-Rusty Carlile-314, 8-Ricky Kirkbride-276, 9-Liggett-266, 10-Howell-250.

NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT RACE: June 22 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway – “Bud Stanfield Memorial”