From Dick Jordan
Brent Kaeding won the USAC Western Classic Sprint Car feature at Ocean Speedway Friday night while Cory Kruseman picked up the USAC Western Midget Victory.
USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 6, 2012 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-12.600; 2. Shane Golobic, 46, Golobic-12.617; 3. Kyle Hirst,14, Pierson/Vertullo-12.824; 4. Rick Ziehl, 41w, Ziehl-12.894; 5. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-12.944; 6. Eric Rossi, 99, Rossi-13.040; 7. Brent Kaeding, 69, BK-13.057; 8. Jerry Bonnema, 58, Bonnema-13.115; 9. Marty Hawkins, 3m, Hawkins-13.226; 10. Cory Kruseman, 73x, Ford-13.264; 11. Tommy LaLiberte, 20x, LaLiberte-13.394; 12. Taylor Simas, 7T, Simas-13.547; 13. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-13.627; 14. Mike Martin, 16, Martin-13.707; 15. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-13.879; 16. Gordon Rodgers, 94, Dusin-14.208; 17. John Gerber, 14s, Gerber-14.800; 18. Jerry Cisco, 4B, Baisden-14.918; 19. Andy Forsberg, 92, Forsberg-NT; 20. Jamie Hood, 33, Hood-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. Hunt, 3. Brent Kaeding, 4. Kruseman, 5. Ziehl, 6. Rodgers. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Golobic, 2. Martin, 3. Bud Kaeding, 4. Bonnema, 5. Gerber, 6. LaLiberte. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hirst, 2. Hogg, 3. Hawkins, 4. Simas, 5. Rossi, 6. Cisco. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brent Kaeding, 2. Kyle Hirst, 3. Eric Rossi, 4. Cory Kruseman, 5. Marty Hawkins, 6. Tommy LaLiberte, 7. Tony Hunt, 8. Shauna Hogg, 9. Jerry Baonnema, 10. Mike Martin, 11. Rick Ziehl, 12, Taylor Simas, 13. Jewrry Cisco, 14. John Gerber, 15. Ryan Bernal, 16. Bud Kaeding, 17. Shane Golobic, 18. Gordon Rodgers. NT
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**Forsberg flipped during qualifying.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Brent Kaeding.
NEW USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT STANDINGS: 1-Hogg-348, 2-Hunt-272, 3-Scott Pierovich-189, 4-Hawkins-177, 5-Simas-155, 6-Rodgers-152, 7-Brian McClish-138; 8-Tom Baker-134, 9-Tim Skoglund-117, 10-Cody Gerhardt-117.
NEXT USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT CAR RACE: July 14 – Madera (CA) Speedway
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USAC MOPAR WESTERN MIDGET RACE RESULTS: July 6, 2012 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-13.463; 2. Cody Swanson, 71, Swanson-13.531; 3. Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-13.614; 4. Cole Carter, 10, Cook-13.626; 5. Danny Ebberts, 5, VanDyne-13.640; 6. Frankie Guerrini, 63, Guerrini-13.657; 7. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-13.659; 8. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-13.661; 9. Cory Kruseman, 73, Ford-13.679; 10. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Johnson-13.688; 11. Troy Rutherford, 86, Martens-13.735; 12. Ryan Bernal, 72, Ford-13.861; 13. Sean Dodenhof, 9D, Dodenhof-14.006; 14. Jimmy Christian, 10c, Walker-14.002; 15. Wink Schweitzer, 9B, Dodenhof-14.034; 16. David Prickett, 15, Neverlift-14.037; 17. Pete Davis, 00, Davis-14.114; 18. Jake Swanson, 05, Swanson-14.180; 19. Floyd Alvis, 21x, Roza-14.231; 20. Connor Kassik, 115, Neverlift-14.483; 21. Adam Kaeding, 27c, Blackwell-14.796; 22. Nick Foster, 1x, Foster-14.871; 23. Jimmy Voitel, 21, Voitel-15.040; 24. Cole Wood, 17w, Wood-15.308; 25. Ryan Shupe, 10x, Shupe-19.162; 26. Niuck Chivello, 27,
Chivello-NT; 27. Alex Schutte, 23, Martens-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Dodenhof, 2. Pierovich, 3. Kruseman, 4. Davis, 5. Wood, 6. Ebberts. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Christian, 2. C.Swanson, 3. J.Swanson, 4. Guerrini, 5. Kaeding, 6. Shupe, 7. Gardner. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Golobic, 2. Rutherford, 3. Pankratz, 4. Foster, 5. Schweitzer, 6. Alvis. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. Chivello, 3. Prickett, 4. Voitel, 5. McQueen, 6. Carter. NT
SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Ebberts, 2. McQueen, 3. Gardner, 4. Schweitzer, 5. Alvis, 6. Kaeding, 7. Wood, 8. Shupe. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Shannon McQueen, 3. Shane Golobic, 4. Danny Ebberts, 5. Ronnie Gardner, 6. Sean Dodenhof, 7. David Prickett, 8. Nick Chivello, 9. Scott Pierovich, 10. Jimmy Christian, 11. Jake Swanson, 12. Pete Davis, 13. Nick Foster, 14. Jimmy Voitel, 15. Wink Schweitzer, 16. Randi Pankratz, 17. Frankie Guerrini, 18. Cole Carter, 19. Cody Swanson, 20. Ryan Bernal, 21. Troy Rutherford. NT
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**Bernal and Guerrini flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Pankratz, Laps 3-15 Pierovich, Laps 16-30 Kruseman.
NEW MOPAR USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-McQueen-359, 2-Pierovich-284, 3-Chivello-279, 4-Prickett-270, 5-J.Swanson-261, 6-Carter-241, 7-Kassik-188, 8-Schutte-187, 9-Guerrini-175, 10-C.Swanson-169.
NEXT MOPAR USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: July 14 – Madera (CA) Speedway