BERNAL TOPS FARIA IN KINGS 30-LAPPER

Hanford, CA……..USAC West Coast Sprint Car point leader Ryan Bernal of Hollister, Calif. won Saturday night’s 30-lap race at Keller Auto Speedway at the Kings Fairgrounds, passing Danny Faria Jr. on the white-flag lap and leading the last two laps in his Tri-L Mandarin Ranch/Core Power ART/S & S. Faria took second ahead of Jace Vander Weerd, D.J. Johnson and Jake Swanson. Faria led the first two laps, Bernal led 14 and Faria the next 12 before Bernal’s winning pass.

USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: March 28, 2015 – Hanford, California – Keller Auto Speedway at Kings Fairgrounds

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Max Adams,, 5X, Adams-15.857; 2. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-15.948; 3. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-15.978; 4. Jake Swanson, 92, Sertich-16.017; 5. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-16.101; 6. D.J. Johnson, 33, Johnson-16.134; 7. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-16.165; 8. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Bowman-16.303; 9. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-16.312; 10. Tristan Guardino, 81, Watt-16.318; 11. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-16.322; 12. Brody Roa, 48, Leonard-16.328; 13. Colton Slack, 81M, Watt-16.491; 14. Trent Carter, 13, Carter-16.521; 15. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-16.591; 16. Shannon McQueen, 87, Van Meter-16.638; 17. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-16.639; 18. Matt Day, 97, Day-17.302; 19. Jeff Bothelo, 14, Bothelo-NT; 20. Dwayne Marcum, 25, Yount-NT; 21. Johnathon Henry, 17, Shanoian-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Slack, 2. Guardino, 3. J.Vander Weerd, 4. Adams, 5. Swanson, 6. McQueen, 7. Bothelo. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faria, 2. Bernal, 3. Hurst, 4. R.Vander Weerd, 5. Carter, 6. Barnes, 7. Marcum. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Roa, 2. Marcham, 3. Sibley, 4. Johnson, 5. Henry, 6. Day, 7. Liggett. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ryan Bernal, 2. Danny Faria Jr., 3. Jace Vander Weerd, 4. D.J. Johnson, 5. Jake Swanson, 6. Landon Hurst, 7. Trey Marcham, 8. Max Adams, 9. Austin Liggett, 10. Johnathon Henry, 11. Tristan Guardino, 12. Jeff Sibley, 13. Colton Slack, 14. Kevin Barnes, 15. Trent Carter, 16. Brody Roa, 17. Shannon McQueen, 18. Richard Vander Weerd, 19. Matt Day, 20. Dwayne Marcum, 21. Jeff Bothelo. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Faria, Laps 2-16 R.Vander Weerd, Laps 17-28 Faria, Laps 29-30 Bernal

NEW USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Bernal-250, 2-Faria-236, 3-J.Vander Weerd-196, 4-Liggett-175, 5-R.Vander Weerd-169, 6-Hurst-168, 7-Copeland-166, 8-D.J. Johnson-162, 9-Marcham-159, 10-Bud Kaeding-122.

NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT RACE: April 4 – Bakersfield (CA) Speedway