KAEDING WINS “SIN CITY SHOWDOWN”

 


Las Vegas, NV……..Three-time USAC Silver Crown Champion Bud Kaeding of Campbell, Calif. won Thursday night’s 20-lap “Sin City Showdown” for the USAC West Coast and ASCS Canyon Region Sprint cars at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. Kaeding trailed Ryan Bernal until the white-flag lap, the paced the final two circuits to win the race over Bernal, Casey Shuman, Troy Rutherford and Danny Sheridan. The race featured four different leaders. Danny Sheridan led the first three laps, Rutherford led the next two and Bernal led 13 before yielding to Kaeding. The race was a “special event” and did not offer points toward the 2012 USAC West Coast Sprint Car Championship, which kicks off next Saturday (March 17) at the Tulare (Calif.) Thunderbowl Raceway.


 


USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR SPECIAL EVENT RACE RESULTS: March 8, 2012 – Las Vegas, Nevada – Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track – “Sin City Shootout” – (Co-sanctioned by ASCS Canyon Region)


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Brian Hosford (#32B Weber), 2. Casey Shuman (#21X SDR), 3. Zach Sawyers (#XXX Sawyers), 4. Nick Aiuto (#27N Aiuto/Allen), 5. Jim Richardson (#8 Richardson), 6. Bruce St. James (#7K St. James) 7, Tony Everhart (#55 Everhart), 8. Kyle Evans (#84 Evans), 9. James Aragon (#99 Aragon). NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Troy Rutherford (#11 Rutherford), 2. Josh Pelkey (#12 Allen), 3. Bud Kaeding (#29 Bowman), 4. Brody Roa (#91R BR), 5. Jonathan Logan (#32 Evett/Logan), 6. Andy Reinbold (#19 Underwood), 7. Tom Hendricks (#14K Kruseman). NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Danny Sheridan (#21 Dorathy), 2. R.J. Johnson (#51 Martin), 3. Cory Kruseman (#21K Kruseman), 4. Jimmy Crawford (#3X Crawford), 5. Mike Martin (#16 Martin), 6. Stevie Sussex (#1 Sussex), 7. Rusty Carlile (#51X Carlile), 8. Ricky Kirkbride (#87 Van Meter). NT


 


FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Justin Quinn (#93 Quinn), 2. Charles Davis Jr. (#50 Massey), 3. Mike Spencer (#7 Priestley), 4. Ryan Bernal (#73X Ford), 5. Danny Faria Jr. (#17V Faria), 6. Josh Ford (#73 Ford), 7. Rick Ziehl (#41W Williams), 8. Bryan Swinehart (#8SK Swinehart). NT


 


ALSO AT TRACK: Dustin Morgan (#110 Jones)


 


SEMI #1: (10 laps) 1. Roa, 2. Ford, 3. Reinbold, 4. Martin, 5. Sawyers, 6. Logan, 7. Everhart, 8. Carlile. NT


 


SEMI #2: (10 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Faria, 3. Crawford, 4. Ziehl, 5. Hendricks, 6. St. James, 7. Aragon, 8. Richardson, 9. Sussex. NT


 


FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Casey Shuman, 4. Troy Rutherford, 5. Danny Sheridan, 6. Mike Spencer, 7. R.J. Johnson, 8. Josh Ford, 9. Mike Martin, 10. Charles Davis Jr., 11. Rick Ziehl, 12. Brian Hosford, 13. Zach Sawyers, 14. Cory Kruseman, 15. Jimmy Crawford, 16. Danny Faria Jr., 17. Tom Hendricks, 18. Andy Reinbold, 19. Justin Quinn, 20. Nick Aiuto, 21. Josh Pelkey, 22. Brody Roa. NT


 


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**Evans flipped during the first heat. Sussex flipped during the second semi. Aiuto and Pelkey flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Sheridan, Laps 4-5 Rutherford, Laps 6-18 Bernal, Laps 19-20 Kaeding.


 


NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT RACE: March 17 – Tulare (CA) Thunderbowl Raceway