Bernal Wins USAC Portion of the Cotton Classic

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Tulare, CA — (October 12, 2014) — Ryan Bernal won the USAC West Coast Sprint Car Series feature Saturday night during the Cotton Classic at Thunderbowl Raceway. Geoff Ensign, Danny Faria Jr., Jake Swanson, and Richard Vander Weerd rounded out the top five.

USAC WEST COAST “SPECIAL EVENT” SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: October 11, 2014 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway – “Cotton Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-15.500; 2. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-15.718; 3. Jake Swanson, 92, Sertich-15.763; 4. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-15.776; 5. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-15.855; 6. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-15.862; 7. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-15.868; 8. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-15.929; 9. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-16,038; 10. Max Adams, 5X, Adams-16.057; 11. Kolby Araki, 30K, Araki-16.386; 12. Koen Shaw, 88K, Shaw-16.553; 13. Trent Carter, 13, Carter-16.604; 14. Matt Day, 97, Day-16.641; 15. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-16.713; 16. Greg Higginbotham, 11, Hogginbotham-16.796; 17. Jeff Bothelo, 14X, Bothelo-16.939; 18. Kyler Shaw, 92K, Shaw-17.274.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. Kaeding, 3. Ensign, 4. Carter, 5. Higginbotham, 6. Adams. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. J.Vander Weerd, 2. Faria, 3. R.Vander Weerd, 4. Botelho, 5. Araki. 6. Day. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Marcham, 2. Swanson, 3. Liggett, 4. Ky.Shaw, 5. Ko.Shaw, 6. Sibley. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ryan Bernal, 2. Geoff Ensign, 3. Danny Faria Jr., 4. Jake Swanson, 5. Richard Vander Weerd, 6. Jace Vander Weerd, 7. Max Adams, 8. Trey Marcham, 9. Kyler Shaw, 10. Kolby Araki, 11. Jeff Sibley, 12. Koen Shaw, 13. Jeff Bothelo, 14. Matt Day, 15. Trent Carter, 16. Bud Kaeding, 17. Austin Liggett, 18. Greg Higginbotham. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-14 Liggett, Laps 15-30 Bernal

USAC WEST COAST SPRINT POINTS: 1.

NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE: November 6 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway – “360 Oval Nationals”