Tulare, CA — (May 12, 2012) — Rico Abreu and Kyle Larson scored victories Saturday at Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway. Abreu picked up his first career winged 410 sprint car feature win with the Golden State King of the West Sprint Car Series. Larson passed Bud Kaeding with five laps to go and motoring to the USAC West Coast 360 Sprint Car series win.
Cancen Oil KWS Series presented by Goodyear Results – Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway Saturday May 12 “Chris & Brian Faria Memorial”
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Fast time: Roger Crockett 13.800
Heat one: Kyle Hirst, Shane Golobic, Roger Crockett, Cory Eliason, Trey Starks, Sean McMahan, Doug Gandy
Heat two: Tommy Tarlton, Tim Kaeding, Jonathan Allard, Bud Kaeding, Andy Gregg, Mike Faria, Koen Shaw
Heat three: Willie Croft, Brent Kaeding, Bobby McMahan, Peter Murphy, Cody Lamar, Chad Compton, Geoffrey Strole
Heat four: Kyle Larson, Evan Suggs, Rico Abreu, Jason Statler, Craig Stidham, Pat Harvey, Danielle Simpson
Dash: Rico Abreu, Willie Croft, Kyle Hirst, Kyle Larson, Tommy Tarlton, Roger Crockett, Bobby McMahan, Jonathan Allard
LCQ: Andy Gregg, Sean McMahan, Trey Starks, Craig Stidham, Cody Lamar, Chad Compton, Mike Faria, Doug Gandy, Danielle Simpson, Pat Harvey, Geoffrey Strole
Amain: Rico Abreu, Jonathan Allard, Tim Kaeding, Tommy Tarlton, Kyle Hirst, Roger Crockett, Trey Starks, Brent Kaeding, Andy Gregg, Peter Murphy, Evan Suggs, Craig Stidham, Chad Compton, Kyle Larson, Cody Lamar, Sean McMahan, Bobby McMahan, Bud Kaeding, Shane Golobic, Cory Eliason, Jason Statler, Willie Croft
USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE RESULTS: May 12, 2012 – Tulare, California – Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway – “Chris & Brian Faria Memorial”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. D.J. Netto, 7N, Netto-16.101; 2. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-16.236; 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-16.267; 4. Markus Niemela, 81, Watt-16.320; 5. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-16.386; 6. Kyle Larson, 72, Ford-16.390; 7. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-16.415; 8. Peter Murphy, 11, Iturriria-16.484; 9. Matt Mitchell, 18, Watt-16.491; 10. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-16.492; 11. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-16.569; 12. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-16.588; 13. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-16.601; 14. Bobby Bender, 12, Bender-16.608; 15. Ronnie Gardner, 73, Ford-16.655; 16. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-16.668; 17. Austin DeBlauw, 65, DeBlauw-16.681; 18. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-16.738; 19. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-16.785; 20. Kolby Araki, 30K, Araki-16.803; 21. Steve Conrad, 56, Swaim-16.825; 22. Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-16.935; 23. Tyler Dolacki, 18X, Dolacki-16.952; 24. Danny Sheridan, 18K, Kittle-17.027; 25. Matt Day, 97, Day-17.067; 26. Adam Frith-Smith, 62, Frith-Smith-17.123; 27. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-17.145; 28. Austin Smith, 14, Springstead-17.147; 29. Jared Little, 25, Little-17.235; 30. Kyle Smith, 51T, Smith-17.454; 31. Burt Foland Jr., 4, Foland-17.589; 32. Don Gansen, 7G, Gansen-17.913; 33. Ray Knight, 6K, Knight-17.972.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Mitchell, 2. Hamblin, 3. Conrad, 4. Carlile, 5. Netto, 6. DeBlauw, 7. Little, 8. Day, 9. Knight. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kaeding, 2. Barnes, 3. C. Gansen, 4. Ennis, 5. K. Smith, 6. Frith-Smith, 7. Bender, 8. Larson. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faria, 2. R. Vander Weerd, 3. Logan, 4. Hawkins, 5. Dolacki, 6. Liggett, 7. Gardner, 8. Foland. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Niemela, 2. Murphy, 3. Sheridan, 4. Kirkbride, 5. D. Gansen, 6. A. Smith, 7. Araki, 8. J. Vander Weerd. NT
SEMI: (7 laps) 1. Liggett, 2. Netto, 3. J. Vander Weerd, 4. Larson (#73), 5. D. Gansen, 6. Dolacki, 7. Little, 8. DeBlauw, 9. K. Smith, 10. Foland, 11. Day, 12. Knight, 13. Bender, 14. A. Smith, 15. Frith-Smith. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kyle Larson (#73), 2. Bud Kaeding, 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 4. Matt Mitchell, 5. Jace Vander Weerd, 6. Rusty Carlile, 7. Marty Hawkins, 8. Ricky Kirkbride, 9. Austin Liggett, 10. Don Gansen, 11. Markus Niemela, 12. Chris Ennis, 13. Tyler Dolacki, 14. Chris Gansen, 15. Steve Conrad, 16. Jonathan Logan, 17. Kevin Barnes, 18. D.J. Netto, 19. Danny Faria Jr., 20. Danny Sheridan, 21. Justyne Hamblin, 22. Peter Murphy. NT
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**Larson flipped during the second heat. J. Vander Weerd flipped during the fourth heat. A. Smith flipped during the semi.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-19 Mitchell, Laps 20-25 Kaeding, Laps 26-30 Larson.