Tulare, CA — (May 30, 2015) — Ryan Bernal and Brady Bacon won the USAC West Coast Sprint Car Series and Western Midget Car Series respectively on Saturday night at Thunderbowl Raceway. Bernal led all 30 laps of the sprint car feature while Bacon had a torrid race for the lead with Trey Marcum before having to hold off Richard Vander Weerd for the win.
USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2015 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Troy Rutherford, 11, Rutherford-16.081; 2. Brady Bacon, 73X, Ford-16.089; 3. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Bowman-16.330; 4. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-16.364; 5. Tristan Guardino, 81, Watt-16.385; 6. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-16.451; 7. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-16.658; 8. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-16.773; 9. D.J. Johnson, 33, Johnson-16.790; 10. Austin Liggett, 81M, Watt-16.797; 11. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-16.831; 12. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-16.924; 13. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-16.926; 14. Shannon McQueen, 87, Van Meter-17.439; 15. Johnathon Henry, 17, Shanoian-17.594.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Johnson, 2. Faria, 3. Marcham, 4. Rutherford, 5. Guardino, 6. Hurst, 7. Henry, 8. R.Vander Weerd. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Liggett, 2. Kaeding, 3. Bernal, 4. Bacon, 5. J.Vander Weerd, 6. McQueen, 7. Sibley. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ryan Bernal, 2. Danny Faria Jr., 3. Tristan Guardino, 4. Bud Kaeding, 5. D.J. Johnson, 6. Troy Rutherford, 7. Trey Marcham, 8. Jace Vander Weerd, 9. Jeff Sibley, 10. Shannon McQueen, 11. Brady Bacon, 12. Austin Liggett, 13. Landon Hurst, 14. Johnathon Henry, 15. Richard Vander Weerd. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Bernal.
NEW USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Faria-504, 2-Bernal-451, 3-J.Vander Weerd-393, 4-Johnson-375, 5-R.Vander Weerd-357, 6-Marcham-351, 7-Hurst-351, 8-Guardino-302, 9-Sibley-255, 10-Liggett-215.
NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT RACE: June 20 – Santa Maria (CA) Raceway
HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2015 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Brady Bacon, 73X, Ford-16.829; 2. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-16.833; 3. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-16.997; 4. Michael Faccinto, 35F, MF-17.059; 5. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-17.164; 6. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-17.184; 7. Richard Vander Weerd, 19S, Sala-17.322; 8. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-17.332; 9. Danny Faria Jr., 19W, Sala-17.365; 10. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-17.518; 11. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-17.680; 12. Steve Davis, 2D, Davis-17.783; 13. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-18.018; 14. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-18.712.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Faria, 3. McQueen, 4. Marcham, 5. Swanson, 6. Vander Weerd, 7. Bock .NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Pierovich, 2. Gard, 3. Chivello, 4. Gardner, 5. Faccinto, 6. Nichols, 7. Davis. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Richard Vander Weerd, 3. Cody Swanson, 4. Nick Chivello, 5. Danny Faria Jr., 6. Scott Pierovich, 7. Shannon McQueen, 8. Terry Nichols, 9. Steve Davis, 10. Britton Bock, 11. Trey Marcham, 12. Ronnie Gardner, 13. Michael Faccinto, 14. Brian Gard. NT
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**Gard flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Chivello, Lap 6 Marcham, Laps 7-9 Chivello, Lap 10 Marcham, Laps 11-30 Bacon.
NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-C.Swanson-168, 2-Gardner-154, 3-McQueen-153, 4-Marcham-149, 5-Nichols-148, 6-Pierovich-144, 7-Chivello-115, 8-Gard-114, 9-Davis-114, 10-Faccinto-99.
NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: July 3 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway