KAEDING TAKES “FARIA MEMORIAL” AT TULARE

 


Tulare, CA……..Bud Kaeding of Campbell, Calif. won Saturday night’s “Chris & Brian Faria Memorial” at the Gropetti Automotive Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway in his Bowman Racing entry, leading the final 14 laps of the 21-lap race. He passed series point leader Ryan Bernal on lap eight and led the rest of the way to beat Bernal, Jace VanderWeerd, Peter Murphy and Richard VanderWeerd. Bernal will take a 15-point lead over Jace VanderWeerd into an April 30 race at Tulare.


 


USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE RESULTS: April 16, 2011 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway – “Chris & Brian Faria Memorial”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-16.265; 2. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-16.334; 3. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-16.381; 4. Ryan Bernal, 11D, Olmstead-16.414; 5. T.J. Smith, 14, LeGras-16.456; 6. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-16.604; 7. Steven Tiner, 94, Tiner-16.749; 8. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-16.764; 9. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-16.884; 10. Peter Murphy, 4, Eberhardt-16.888; 11. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-16.918; 12. Greg Alexander, 72, Tyler-16.986; 13. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-16.997; 14. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-17.154; 15. Cole Peard, 58, Peard-17.242; 16. Kolby Araki, 71G, Ishii-17.307; 17. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-17.346; 18. Andrew Murray, 18, Murray-17.775; 19. Matt Day, 97, Day-17.885; 20. Jeff Miller, 5X, Swaim-17.909; 21. Dave Knott, 28, Knott-18.810; 22. Nico Russo, 3N, Russo-NT; 23. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faria, 2. Bernal, 3. Murphy, 4. Hamblin, 5. Kirkbride, 6. Tiner, 7. Araki, 8. Miller. NT.


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gutierrez, 2. Kaeding, 3. J. VanderWeerd, 4. Smith, 5. Knott, 6. Carlile, 7. Murray. NT.


 


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R. VanderWeerd, 2. Alexander, 3. Howell, 4. Logan, 5. Peard, 6. Day, 7. Russo. NT.


 


FEATURE: (21 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Jace VanderWeerd, 4. Peter Murphy, 5. Richard VanderWeerd, 6. Wes Gutierrez, 7. Ricky Kirkbride, 8. Justyne Hamblin, 9. Kolby Araki, 10. Dennis Howell, 11. Nico Russo, 12. Dave Knott, 13. Rusty Carlile, 14. Steven Tiner, 15. Jeff Miller, 16. Greg Alexander, 17. Cole Peard, 18. Jonathan Logan, 19. Danny Faria Jr., 20. T.J. Smith, 21. Matt Day. NT.


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**Faria flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Bernal, Laps 8-21 Kaeding.


 


NEW WEST COAST 360 SPRINT POINTS: 1-Bernal-185; 2-J.VanderWeerrd-170; 3-Gutierrez-161; 4-Kaeding-148; 5-Alexander-141; 6-Hamblin-136; 7-R.VanderWeerd-133; 8-Smith-121; 9-Faria-114; 10-Logan-93.


 


NEXT WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: April 30 - Tulare, California – Gropetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway