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April 13, 2010 at
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Photo by http://www.paultrevinoracingphotos.com
Bud Kaeding drives Roth Motorsports sprinter to runner-up finish with Golden State Challenge Series at Chris & Brian Faria Memorial in Tulare
By Gary Thomas
Tulare, CA – April 13, 2010…Making a rare start in the potent Roth Motorsports No. 83jr sprint car Campbell, California's Bud Kaeding put together a strong outing at the Groppetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway Saturday night and just missed out on getting to victory lane by bringing home a runner-up finish after leading a number of laps in the feature.
The second place finish was Kaeding's best of the young season with the Golden State Challenge 410 Sprint Car Series following a seventh place result during the season-opener in Placerville on March 27. "I want to thank Dennis and Teresa Roth and this whole team for giving me a chance to drive the 83jr because it's a pleasure to race this thing and it was really fast tonight," said Kaeding. "I obviously would have liked to win, but it was still a pretty good night for the first time out so we'll take it."
After getting the call late in the week to drive for Roth Motorsports this past Saturday Kaeding began the Chris & Brian Faria Memorial by ripping off the fourth fastest lap of the night in qualifying aboard the DTR Transport, HR Cattle No. 83jr KPC.
Starting from fourth in his heat race the three-time and defending USAC Silver Crown champion settled into third the first few laps and then executed a slider in turn three to grab second from father Brent Kaeding. He then began to track down leader Jonathan Allard and made a beautiful move in turn one on the last lap to slide in front to take the lead. Allard attempted to cross over and was able to get back alongside, but Kaeding kept his foot in the throttle up high in turns three and four to charge off the final corner to score the exciting win.
The good things kept coming for Kaeding when he drew the pole position for the dash and made good use of it by dominating the six lap contest to put the Roth Motorsports, Lazy J Cattle mount on the front row of the 30-lap feature. The track surface had gotten considerably drier as the night went on and by the end of the evening had become extremely slick, with the preferred groove being right up against the wall that hugs the 1/3 mile clay oval. The 30-year-old driver used his vast experience across the country on such track surfaces to charge into the lead at the waving of the green flag in the main event.
Kaeding sat out front unchallenged until Allard got underneath him to take the lead on a lap five restart, but the Campbell driver was able to get back side-by-side with him and the two fought it out for the top-spot until making contact in the second corner, which saw Allard spin to a stop. Luckily for Kaeding though he was able to straighten the car back out and keep the motor lit to maintain the lead. As the race played on he would stretch out a fairly sizable advantage, but young Kyle Larson would slowly close in with the laps winding down and make the pass for the lead just a handful of circuits prior to the finish. Kaeding tried to fight back, but couldn't make anything happen with the 17-year-old and crossed under the Willie Williams checkered in second.
This Friday will find Kaeding making a visit to his home track of Ocean Speedway to climb aboard the Sala/Matherly Racing, M&M Powder Coaters No. 19 Maxim for the opener of the Ocean Sprint Car Series presented by Taco Bravo. Last season Kaeding made eight Ocean Sprints starts at the track picking up seven top-five finishes, but wasn't able to get a win and he'll look to change that in 2010 right off the bat. "We were always fast last year and came close, but just couldn't seem to find our way to victory lane," he said. "It should be a strong field on Friday, but I'll be giving it my best shot to try and get it done for Brian Matherly, Mike Sala and the whole team."
On Saturday Kaeding is expected to be in action with the Golden State Challenge Series at the Petaluma Speedway in what will be the fourth round of racing for the traveling 410 tour. The 30-year-old veteran raced to a win at the hooked-up 3/8 mile clay oval in April of 2008 with GSC and will look to do it once again this weekend.
For more info on Campbell, California's Bud Kaeding please visit http://www.budkaedingracing.com
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Three-time & defending USAC Silver Crown Series champion Bud Kaeding will head to his home track of Ocean Speedway on Friday night looking to put the Sala/Matherly Racing, M&M Powder Coaters, Kaeding Performance No. 19 into victory lane with the Ocean Sprint Car Series presented by Taco Bravo. Photo by http://www.johnsracingphotos.com
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April 13, 2010 at
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Figures, if Tim was driving he would have either crashed by himself, or crashed and taken someone else out with him. Seems like that is about all he does these days...
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April 13, 2010 at
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April 13, 2010 at
09:39:36 PM by runnindafonz
Way to go bud don't listen to the dumb a$$ post above it's called a slump Tk ran strong at Attica last Friday I think it shows that bud himself is deserving of a quality ride himself along with Tim
get balls and run the top!!!
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April 13, 2010 at
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Posted By: runnindafonz on April 13 2010 at 09:30:36 PM
Way to go bud don't listen to the dumb a$$ post above it's called a slump Tk ran strong at Attica last Friday I think it shows that bud himself is deserving of a quality ride himself along with Tim
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A slump...ask Kraig Kinser about his slump at tsr lmfao...a slump would not be wrecking every night and having a good finish once a month....
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April 14, 2010 at
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410sprint84 must be a dumb ass couch potato that has never been in a sprintcar! I just LOVE stupid posts.
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April 14, 2010 at
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Posted By: keith-9b on April 14 2010 at 05:07:15 AM
410sprint84 must be a dumb ass couch potato that has never been in a sprintcar! I just LOVE stupid posts.
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Why the hostility? Can you just not handle the truth or what? I mean look at the facts....because that is what I am going by.
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April 14, 2010 at
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Posted By: 410sprint84 on April 13 2010 at 04:46:03 PM
Figures, if Tim was driving he would have either crashed by himself, or crashed and taken someone else out with him. Seems like that is about all he does these days...
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I've listened and read articles regarding each WoO race this year...and from what I can tell, TK has been either crashed out (maybe once was his fault) or has just had bad luck. He's a true hard-nose racer who deserves the ride that he's in...if you look at the Volunteer Speedway weekend, he crashed Friday night and was very very sore the next day and sacked it up and raced Saturday night and unfortunately crashed again...is there a lot of equipment being torn up? Yes. However, prior to the Volunteer weekend, the crashes happened when he was running in the top ten...
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April 14, 2010 at
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It takes a special car owner to keep pulling out the checkbook for their "win it or wear it" driver.
I've always loved TK's enthusiasm and passion he shows for the sport... it DOES seem a lot of other drivers crash less than he does and win comparible or higher amounts of races.
Seems also we were saying the same thing about TK years ago. You'd think it would all click.
Hopefully he steers around a few messes and wins some this year; I like the Kaedings.
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April 14, 2010 at
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The season is still early. Tims goal is to be top seven in points at twenty races so they can stay on the tour. I thinks it's very possible for him still. It's a win it or wreck it life style for Tim and always has been understandable he's on the wrong side of that right now but it will change. But let's see this was a well written article by GT about BUDs successful night in the jr car not "het look Tk is sure crashin alot " so some one coming to his defense should have been expected.
get balls and run the top!!!
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April 14, 2010 at
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How about instead of bashing Bud's brother on this post, someone just says "Congrats on a Good Night, Bud!!"
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April 14, 2010 at
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Posted By: Some Guy In Texas on April 14 2010 at 10:52:25 AM
It takes a special car owner to keep pulling out the checkbook for their "win it or wear it" driver.
I've always loved TK's enthusiasm and passion he shows for the sport... it DOES seem a lot of other drivers crash less than he does and win comparible or higher amounts of races.
Seems also we were saying the same thing about TK years ago. You'd think it would all click.
Hopefully he steers around a few messes and wins some this year; I like the Kaedings.
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Tim is just fine. He had his steering break at Volunteer speedway at full speed and yes the car got destroyed... I simply cannot think of one single marvelous driver who could have saved that. Impossible to do actually. Shoot at Tulare Tim was the class of the field and got taken out by Ben Gregg when he decided to suddenly change racing lines right in front of him. All this is pointless though, people will just make up their own opinion whether it be rooted in facts or not and well it seems Tim gets the brunt of the misdirected animosity because he along with Wild Child races hard and are the most exciting winged sprint car drivers racing today. As for his car owner getting tired of writing checks for destroyed race cars... Dennis Roth I would wager is the wealthiest car owner in sprint car racing. He has in his car EXACTLY who he wants. You should have seen Dennis when Tim literally smoked the Trophy Cup field coming from 24th to 1st to win after qualifying number 1 and winning the overall points. Dennis gave the money back to make a wish foundation and still paid Tim his share of the winnings from his own pocket.--------- Now for what this thread was all about, CONGRATS Bud Kaeding on your solid finish. Bud is really starting to become a good winged racer. He has always had the talent in the nonwinged cars and now the wing deal seems to be picking up steam for him. Good Job!
Cheers!
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