Posted By: stevenblakesley on May 07 2011 at 03:55:12 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BUD KAEDING UPHOLDS KAEDING
DOMINANCE OF THE OCEAN SPRINTS
WATSONVILLE,
CALIFORNIA (May 7, 2011) – The Kaeding family continued their dominance at Ocean Speedway on
Friday night with 2010 USAC Silver Crown champion Bud Kaeding winning the Ocean
Sprints presented by Taco Bravo feature.Kaeding used the same circumstances as brother Tim did in winning the
April 15 event, using lapped traffic to grab the victory over Ronnie Day.
Kaeding,
who will begin his title defense in the Silver Crown cars later this month, has
spent the early portion of the season competing in the non-wing ranks
throughout California.
Rookie Rico
Abreu of St.
Helena
started on the pole for the 30 lap feature, but on the opening lap
fast-qualifier Justin Sanders of Prunedale had a wild flip in turn two to force
a complete restart.
Sanders
claimed fast-time earlier in the night with a near track record at 11.589
seconds, but the Ray Scheidts Electric Fast Time qualifier was done for the
night.
Salinas’ Ronnie Day and Shane Golobic of Fremont stormed past Abreu on the restart
with Day holding a large lead through a lap three caution.
The caution
initially flew for San Jose’s Nick Green spinning in turn three, but also saw
incoming points leader Tommy Tarlton of Easton come to a stop in the infield
with front end damage.
Green was
able to refire but Tarlton had to be towed to the pits.His 19th place finish dropped him
out of the points lead in the series.
Tommy
Laliberate and heat race winner Ryan Rusconi both went to the work area under
yellow and restarted at the rear.
The caution
came out again on lap 10 for Orval Zane Burke, Jr. stopping in turn two in
front end damage.
On the
restart, Kaeding moved past Abreu for third and went after Golobic.After another brief caution, Kaeding and
Golobic engaged in torrid battle for second with Day only a few car lengths
ahead.
Kaeding
took over second for good on lap 18 and reeled in Day.Working through lapped traffic out of turn
four, Kaeding swept past Day to take the lead on lap 23.
The caution
came out again on lap 24 and Golobic passed Day on the ensuing restart.The closing stages of the race saw Golobic
make a valiant effort to close on Kaeding, moving within one car length into
turn four before the rear end broke.
Kaeding
took the checkered flag ahead of Day, Abreu, Laliberate, and Jerry
Bonnema.Golobic stalled in turn four
and was scored eighth.Although
Laliberate’s charge through the field was impressive, the DNNi Hard Charger
award went to Nick Ringo, Jr. who drove from 16th to seventh in the
feature.
With the
second place finish, Day takes over the points lead from Tarlton by seven points
with Abreu, Sanders, and Green rounding out the top-five.
In heat
race action earlier in the evening, Rusconi, Golobic, and Day claimed
victories.Gift certificates were
awarded throughout the night by Kaeding Performance on behalf of KSE Steering,
Weld Wheels, Brown & Miller, Saldana Racing Products, Butlerbuilt Seats,
Hunt Magnetos, and Racing Optics.
Full
results are available at www.oceansprints.com
or at www.mylaps.com
The Ocean
Sprints presented by Taco Bravo will return next Friday night with racing to get
underway at 6 p.m. and fan gates opening at 4:30 p.m.
For
more information on the Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo, log onto to www.oceansprints.com and for more on
the Ocean Speedway visit www.oceanspeedway.com
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