KAEDING WINS OSKALOOSA’S “ULTIMATE CHALLENGE” & $15,000
Oskaloosa, Iowa……..Bud Kaeding of Campbell, Calif. raked in the $15,000-to-win prize for winning Tuesday night’s Casey’s General Stores “Ultimate Challenge” AMSOIL USAC National Sprint race at Southern Iowa Speedway. The victory was the second in three nights for USAC’s Silver Crown point leader. He also won Sunday night’s “Non-Wing Knoxville Nationals” at the Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway. Kaeding wheeled his Alviso Rock/High Five Pizza Maxim/Speedway Chevy past Bryan Clauson on lap 16 and led the rest of the way to beat Clauson, Levi Jones, Damion Gardner and Dave Darland. Jones continues to lead the National standings entering this Saturday night’s “Joe James/Pat O’Connor Memorial” at the Salem (Ind.) Speedway.
USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 10, 2010 – Oskaloosa, Iowa – Southern Iowa Speedway – Casey’s General Stores “Ultimate Challenge”
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Kyle Larson (#2 Yeley), .2. Bryan Clauson (#2B RWB), 3. Robby Wolfgang (#7k Williams), 4. Scotty Weir (#12B RWB), 5. Kyle Cummins (#21x Pollock), 6. Bill Rose (#6 Rose), 7. Steve Thomas (#20T Thomas), 8. Henry Clarke (#67 Kunz), 9. Shane Hmiel (#17s 56 Inc.). NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Dave Darland (#39 Goodnight), 2. Damion Gardner (#71 DG), 3. Robert Ballou (#81 MPHG), 4. Chris Windom (#11 Walker), 5. Keith Bloom (#27 Braund), 6. Brady Bacon (#99 Tel-Star), 7. Chris Urish (#77u Urish), 8. Ricky Williams (#11w Williams), 9. Casey Riggs (#37 Indiana Underground). NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Tracy Hines (#4 Hines), 2. Levi Jones (#20 Stewart), 3. Jon Stanbrough (#53 Fox), 4. Bud Kaeding (#29 BK), 5. Casey Shuman (#4G Cook), 6. Jerry Coons Jr. (#69 Dynamics), 7. Kevin Swindell (#1 Big Game), 8. Russ Harper (#9 Harper), 9. Chris Morgan (#F1 Morgan). NT
FIRST QUALIFIER: (8 laps - no points) 1. Larson, 2. Rose, 3. Clauson, 4. Harper, 5. Weir, 6. Wolfgang, 7. Thomas, 8. Morgan, 9. Ballou. NT
SECOND QUALIFIER: (8 laps – no points) 1. Coons, 2. Bacon, 3. Kaeding. 4. Jones, 5. Windom, 6. Hines, 7. Swindell, 8. Williams, 9. Hmiel. NT
THIRD QUALIFIER: (8 laps – no points) 1. Gardner, 2. Darland, 3. Shuman, 4. Cummins, 5. Riggs, 6. Urish, 7. Stanbrough, 8. Bloom. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Bryan Clauson, 3. Levi Jones, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 7. Brady Bacon, 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Kevin Swindell, 10. Shane Hmiel, 11. Casey Shuman, 12. Casey Riggs, 13. Russ Harper, 14. Ricky Williams, 15. Robby Wolfgang, 16. Chris Urish, 17. Kyle Cummins, 18. Kyle Larson, 19. Robert Ballou, 20. Keith Bloom Jr., 21. Scotty Weir, 22. Bill Rose, 23. Chris Windom, 24. Steve Thomas. NT
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**Ballou & Morgan flipped during the first qualifier. Bloom and Stanbrough flipped during the third qualifier. Rose and Windom flipped on lap 1 of the feature. Larson flipped on lap 15 of the feature. Ballou flipped on lap 15 restart of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 Clauson, Laps 10-30 Kaeding.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,621; 2-Gardner-1,534; 3-Clauson-1,504; 4-Coons-1,388; 5-Windom-1,358; 6-Hine-1,312; 7-Darland-1,086; 8-Clarke-1,063; 9-Hmiel-920; 10-Stanbrough-773.
NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR DIRT STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,404; 2-Gardner-1,287; 3-Clauson-1,245; 4-Windom-1,169; 5-Coons-1,129; 6-Hines-1,089; 7-Darland-1,086; 8-Clarke-828; 9-Stanbrough-767; 10-Ballou-666.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – August 14 – Salem (IN) Speedway – ”Joe James/Pat O’Connor Memorial”