Bud Kaeding Wins Sprint Feature at Tulare

From Dick Jordan

Bud Kaeding drove to the Sprint Car victory during the “31st “Pacific Coast Nationals” at Gropetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway Saturday. Rounding out the top five were Levi Jones, Tracy Hines, Justin Grant and Matt Mitchell.

USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL & CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: November 13, 2010 – Tulare, California – Gropetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway – “31st “Pacific Coast Nationals”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-14.853; 2. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.071; 3. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.132; 4. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-15.134; 5. Justin Grant, 5x, Baldwin-15.259; 6. Casey Shuman, 4g, Cook-15.268; 7. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.382; 8. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.395; 9. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-15.447; 10. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-15.457; 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-115.466; 12. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-15.472; 13. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-115.482; 14. Matt Mitchell, 37x, Mitchell-15.484; 15. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.497; 16. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-15.534; 17. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-15.568; 18. Nic Faas, 7, Priestley-15.590; 19. Tim Kaeding, 83, Roth-15.592; 20. Cory Kruseman, 21k, Kruseman-15.628; 21. Casey Riggs, 37, Riggs-15.679; 22. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-15.697; 23. Geoff Ensign, 5E, Ensign-15.716; 24. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-15.804; 25. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-15.912; 26. Danny Faria Jr., 2x, Faria-15.940; 27. Ricky
Kirkbride, 87, Kirkbride-15.972; 28. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-16.003; 29. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-16.018; 30. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-16.114; 31. Danny Ebberts, 01, Carroll-16.211; 32. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett-NT; 33. Jim Richardson, 8, Richardson-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Sheridan, 2. Riggs, 3. Clauson, 4. Grant, 5. East, 6. Stanbrough, 7. R.VanderWeerd, 8. Carlile. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Faas, 2. Gardner, 3. Clarke, 4. A.Williams, 5. Mitchell, 6. Faria, 7. Argo, 8. Shuman. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. T.Kaeding, 2. B.Kaeding, 3. Coons, 4. Darland, 5. Hines, 6. Ebberts, 7. Kirkbride, 8. Ensign. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Kruseman, 3. Windom, 4. J.VanderWeerd, 5. C.Williams, 6. Gutierrez, 7. Spencer. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Shuman, 4. East, 5. Mitchell, 6. Spencer, 7. Faria, 8. R.VanderWeerd, 9. C.Williams, 10. Argo, 11. Kirkbride, 12. Carlile, 13. Ensign, 14. Ebberts. NT

FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Justin Grant, 5. Matt Mitchell, 6. Casey Shuman, 7. Mike Spencer, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Austin Williams, 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 11. Dave Darland, 12. Danny Faria Jr.13. Bobby East, 14. Richard VanderWeerd, 15. Jace VanderWeerd, 16. Henry Clarke, 17. Casey Riggs, 18. Cory Kruseman, 19. Nic Faas, 20. Tim Kaeding, 21. Danny Sheridan, 22. Bryan Clauson, 23. Damion Gardner, 24. Jon Stanbrough. NT
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**Logan flipped during qualifying. Gutierrez flipped during the fourth heat. Ensign flipped during the semi. Clauson, Gardner, Sheridan and T.Kaeding flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Clauson, Laps 8-30 B.Kaeding.

FINAL USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-L.Jones-2,094; 2-Gardner-1,962; 3-Clauson-1,927; 4-Coons-1,744; 5-Hines-1,733; 6-Windom-1,707; 7-Darland-1,313; 8-Clarke-1,312; 9-Shane Hmiel-1,080; 10-Stanbrough-1,065.
FINAL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR DIRT STANDINGS: 1-L.Jones-1,781; 2-Gardner-1,602; 3-Clauson-1,557; 4-Windom-1,451; 5-Coons-1,388; 6-Hines-1,373; 7-Darland-1,313; 8-Stanbrough-1,065; 9-Clarke-982; 10-Robret Ballou-796.
NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Spencer-1,402; 2-Sheridan-1,044; 3-Mitchell-963; 4-Kruseman-938; 5-Blake Miller-770; 6-A.Williams-641; 7-Greg Bragg-621; 8-Tony Jones-610; 9-David Cardey-602; 10-C.Williams-588.

NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: November 27 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway – “Glenn Howard Memorial”