3 TULARE WINS FOR KAEDING THIS SEASON!

 


Tulare, CA……..Bud Kaeding of Campbell, Calif. scored his third USAC West Coast 360 Sprint victory of the season at the Gropetti Automotive Tulare Thunderbowl Saturday night, passing series point leader Ryan Bernal on lap 17 and leading the final 14 laps of the "Pombo-Sargent Classic." Bernal finished second ahead of Richard VanderWeerd, Peter Murphy and Greg Alexander. Kaeding also posted the fastest qualifying time in his Alviso Rock/High Five Pizza Maxim/Shaver. The series heads for Hanford, Calif. next Saturday.


 


USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE RESULTS: May 14, 2011 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-16.347; 2. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-16.538; 3. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-16.539, 4. Nic Faas, 4X, Alexander-16.657; 5. Ryan Bernal, 11D, Olmstead-16.794; 6. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-16.827; 7. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-16.918; 8. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-16.934; 9. Kolby Araki, 71G, Ishii-17.100; 10. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-17.116; 11. Greg Alexander, 72, Tyler-17.159; 12. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-17.168; 13. Davey Pombo, 38, Eames-17.180; 14. T.J. Smith, 14, LeGras-17.236; 15. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-17.243; 16. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-17.393; 17. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-17.472; 18. Peter Murphy, 4, Eberhardt-17.545; 19. Adam Frith-Smith, 62X, Frith-Smith- 17.777; 20. Nico Russo, 3N, Russo-18.341; 21. Jeff Miller, 5X, Swaim-18.354; 22. Matt Day, 97, Day-18.478; 23. Andrew Murray, 18, Murray-19.064; 24. Danny Sheridan, 18X, Kittle-25.230.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Howell, 2. Faria, 3. Gutierrez, 4. Kaeding, 5. Pombo, 6. Faas, 7. Day, 8. Frith-Smith. 3:06.33


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. Alexander, 3. J.VanderWeerd, 4. Logan, 5. Smith, 6. Carlile, 7. Russo, 8. Murray. 3:05.15.


 


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hawkins, 2. Murphy, 3. Kirkbride, 4. Hamblin, 5. R.VanderWeerd, 6. Miller, 7. Araki, 8. Sheridan. 3:11.90.


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Richard VanderWeerd, 4. Peter Murphy, 5. Greg Alexander, 6. Davey Pombo, 7. Danny Sheridan, 8. Ricky Kirkbride, 9. Dennis Howell, 10. Jonathan Logan, 11. Justyne Hamblin, 12. Danny Faria Jr., 13. Wes Gutierrez, 14. T.J. Smith, 15. Marty Hawkins, 16. Nic Faas, 17. Jace VanderWeerd, 18. Rusty Carlile, 19. Kolby Araki, 20. Nico Russo, 21. Matt Day, 22. Adam Frith-Smith, 23. Jeff Miller, 24. Andrew Murray. NT.


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Alexander, Laps 7-16 Bernal, Laps 17-30 Kaeding.


 


NEW WEST COAST 360 SPRINT POINTS: 1-Bernal-286; 2-R.VanderWeerd-259; 3-Alexander-253; 4-Gutierrez-249; 5-J.Vanderweerd-249; 6-Kaeding-219; 7-Hamblin-209; 8-Howell-195; 9-Murphy-182; 10-Smith-178.


 


NEXT WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: May 21 - Hanford, California – Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway