Forum: Northern California Sprint Car (go)
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Qualifying

Brent Kaeding 12.232
Tommy Tarlton 12.260
Bud Kaeding 12.421
Matt Sargent 12.486
Justin Sanders 12.490
Ricky Wright 12.551
Evan Suggs 12.598
Kevin Pylant 12.724
Ronnie Day 12. 773
Burt Foland Jr 12.795
Andy Ferris 12.807
Jason Newton 12.853
Steve Osborne 12.883
Cory Eliason 12.497
Kurt Nelson 12.903
Keith Day 12.908
Brad Furr 12.941
Wes Guterriez 13.063
Wayne Katen 13.163
Anthone Simone 13.348
Craig Smith 13.471
Jerry Bonnema 13.476
Jerry Wise Jr 13.528
Mike Stallings 13.626
Billy Chester 15.230

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T-shirt weather here in the booth. Very nice evening along the Monterey coastline.

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Heat One Lineup
Foland, Suggs
Sargent, BK
Osborne, K. Day
Katen, Bonnema
Chester

Results: Suggs, BK, Sargent, Foland, Osborne, Bonnema, Katen, K. Day, Chester

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Heat Two
Ferris, Pylant
Sanders, Tarlton
Eliason, Furr
Simone, Wise

Results: Pylant, Tarlton, Sanders, Simone, Furr, Ferris, Eliason, Wise

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Heat Three
Newton, R. Day
Wright, Bu. Kaeding
Nelson, Guterriez
Smith, Stallings

Results: Bu. Kaeding, Newton, R. Day, Guterriez, Nelson, Wright, Stallings, Smith

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Thanks for the updates, how about the spec sprints?

sorry didn't see other post

Heat Race Notes:

H1:Suggs checked out completely, a yellow on lap 6 bunched em up but BK had nothing for him.

H2: Pylant in the 09 Kaeding House Car ran good for the win. Great Drive for Sanders finishing 3rd behind Tarlton.

H3: Newton ran a good race leading until lap 4 when Bud went by. The track was going away at that point, Ronnie Day couldnt do much and Cowboy was having handling problems.

On the side:

Got the crackberry working in the Bermuda Triangle! Woohoo!

American Stocks on the track for thier A right now, track is coming back into shape!

Light field for the non-wing cars this week

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thanks for the updates. have the parents in town this weekend (from Indiana) so can't be at the races.

you shoulda gone to indiana for mothers day!

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A Main Line Up

Suggs, Sanders

Sargent, Bud Kaeding

Tarlton, BK

Pylant, Ronnie Day

Foland, Newton

Osborne, Nelson

Furr, Guterriez

Simone, Wright

Ferris, Eliason

Kieth Day, Katen

Cowboy, Bonnema

Wise, Stallings

Chester

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2-time IMCA Modified Champ Clay Daly put on a clinic in the 25 lap modified A Main over Movrich and Nott. Kenny Nott had a great drive coming from the back to 3rd.

Sprint Cars pushing off now at 9:20 pm.

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first start called back, Suggs jumped the start by a country mile. Complete restart got to turn two when Sargent went over. He is ok. Waiting to push off for take three.

Yellow lap one, turn one, Eliason around.

running order: 33e, 19,17,21, 69, 09, 20, 4, 72w, 31, 2, 10, 007, 35, 9j, 4j, 58, 39, 22, 83m, 23, 28, 00x

Yellow on restart, Gutteriez around in turn one.

Suggs leads the restart, Tarlton and BK past Bud on the backstretch, BK past Tarlton

Yellow for Gutterriez in turn 4. He's done for the night.

2 in the books, yellow for Cowboy. Bicycled in 2 and stopped. (nice save though!)

Yellow for Foland and Chester on the frontstretch

Fuel Stop!

Sanders leads on the restart, BK, Suggs, Tarlton, Bud

Yellow lap 5 for Pylant stopped in turn 2

Sanders past Suggs on the restart, BK past Suggs

Yellow lap 11 for Simone in turn 2 with a spin

Yellow lap 18 for Bonnema spin in turn one. 17 in the books, Justin Sanders is driving the wheels off the #17!

running order: 17, 69, 33e, 19, 21, 72w, 2, 20 , 35, 22, 31.....

Yellow for Kieth Day stalled outside turn one.

Race distance now cut to 25 laps.

Cowboy and Bonnema get together in turn 4, red flag on lap 25 coming to the checkers. Leader was not accross the line. Its going to be a green white checker finish!

running order: 17, 33e, 69, 19, 21, 72w, 2, 35, 20, 31.....

JUSTIN SANDERS HOLDS ON FOR THE WIN! Suggs 2nd, Bud Kaeding, BK, and Tarlton round out the top 5

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Indiana no good right now ..... lots of rain. Brother is at Eldora in a tent in the rain! (near Indiana border)

Thanks for the updates. Ocean seems to produce a lot of yellows & reds. Not sure if it's the tight, close racing or all the up & coming, younger drivers.

the track roughed up in spots after the stock cars and it seemed like it was slick getting off the top of turn 2, that is where guys had the most trouble, in the bumps in 1 and 2 and off 2. the track slicked off and what cushion there was, was way out there. guys were racing hard with each other and battling the track. still some good racing. when BK is hammering the top and can't pull the pass off around sanders who was glued to the bottom it gives you an idea of how things were. not bad mouthing anything, it just was what it was and everyone delt with it the best they could. sanders did a great job not giving up the bottom and not making any mistakes. if anyone was going to beat him they were going to have to drive around him and the track would just not allow that tonight.

i know it was a long race with the yellows and stuff at the beginning, but i still do not agree with calling the race five laps short, because of the amount of time it ran, when there was still 30 min till curfew. i think sanders would have still won, but there were battles further back that, given the chance, could have been better sorted out with a few more laps. guys were fighting so hard for positions from about 8th through 14th that on the last green, white, checkered restart guys were passing and running 3 wide before the cone. i think there were about 5 cars penalized after the race.

to indy and beyond!!

well I was late to the track tonight. I was testing my setup with the laptop teathered to the BB and gave it one last shot. BINGO! LOL. Ok, load up and go. Oh wait, kid delay. Then I was nervous that it wouldnt work due to my experience with the Cingular Air card and its POS connectivity. Fear not, it worked like a charm, never dropped once on me! woohoo! Mystery Of THe Bermuda Triangle solved! Set to go for next week.

Post race comments:

The frustration level from Evan and Bud were clearly evident in the frontstretch interviews. For Evan, it was definately one that got away and Bud was classic. It was something to the effect, "Ive been doing this for 10-11 years, I do this for a living. I dont lose to rookies. But he (Justin) drove a great race."

For the crowd, this was a popular win. They went nuts! He commented on the final caution, "when we were coming out of turn 4 and those guys got together in front of me I almost shit my pants." The crowd was howling, lol. I guessing he probably really does need some clean nomex. The leaders all went to the inside berm to avoid it. Im sure Mr. P wont mind the doughnuts on his infield grass. hahaha.

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Buzz, when Rick made the call to go 25 laps, they were nearing another fuel stop situation and didnt want to do that on top of the fact that the running time was way over an hour by lap 17.

Yeah we had time to go another 5 laps, but the "what ifs" were apparently a little too spooky given the events of the race and the full moon, lol. Im not gonna fault em.

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The results as I have em printed out. (disclaimer: if there were penalties handed out, I have no knowledge of it)

Sanders, Suggs, Bud, BK, Tarlton, NelsonFurr, Ronnie Day, Wright, Stallings, Pylant, Newton, Simone, Ferris, Keith Day, Osborne, Wise, Eliason, Smith, Bonnema, Chester, Foland, Guterriez, Sargent, Katen

Margin Of Victory: .808

Fastest Race Lap: Evan Suggs 13.249

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