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BRENT KAEDING MAKES IT KAEDINGS
2-FOR-2 SO FAR IN 2012 OCEAN SPRINTS
WATSONVILLE,
CALIFORNIA (May 5, 2012) – Ageless veteran Brent Kaeding drove the Al's Roofing Supply #69 to
victory lane in Friday night's Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo at Ocean
Speedway Watsonville, leading opening night feature winner Bud Kaeding across
the line to continue the Kaeding's dominance over the 2012 Ocean Sprints
campaign so far.
"Tonight
the track slicked off and I was chasing it around the fence," Kaeding
said. "Golobic snuck underneath me
and woke me up. I was happy to see that
yellow....great night for us and I was
fortunate to have Al with us here tonight as well."
Stockton's Brad Furr led the action from the
pole position leading the first seven laps of competition while Brent and Bud
both made charges through the field, from fourth and seventh starting positions
respectively. Brent Kaeding engaged in a
slicing back-and-forth battle with Shane Golobic of Fremont for the second spot while Bud
Kaeding took over fourth by lap six.
2011 Ocean
Sprints champion Ronnie Day of Salinas retired to the infield one lap
later with a blown engine after starting third and winning a heat race earlier
in the night. It was a tough break for
the #22 Keith Day Trucking team.
Brent
Kaeding made the cushion work to narrowly edge past Furr for the lead on lap
eight and take off to a comfortable advantage when the first caution flew on
lap 11. After officials gathered up the
damaged race car of Nick Ringo III of Morgan Hill, racing resumed with Kaeding
driving away on the restart.
Golobic
snookered Furr for the second position on the restart and brought Bud Kaeding
with him.Golobic began to reel in Brent
Kaeding and got underneath him in turn one when the caution came out on lap
16. San Jose's Nick Green, who had run as high
as fifth, dropped out after stalling in turn four with a flat tire. Unfortunately, Green was unable to return to
the speedway in time for the restart.
On the
restart, Brent Kaeding scrambled to the inside to halt Golobic's momentum and
that set up the Bud Kaeding and Shane Golobic duel for second. Bud and Golobic put on one of the best
battles in recent Ocean Sprints history for second, with Bud trying numerous
times to complete the slidejob out of turn four. Finally on lap 24, Bud completed the deal and
worked to catch Brent in lapped traffic.
Bud Kaeding
closed within one car length of Brent when the caution came out for a stalled
Kurt Nelson on lap 25. Race fans were on
the edge of their seats expecting a shootout between Brent, Bud, and Golobic,
but Brent Kaeding proved too strong as he drove to a commanding victory.
At the
finish it was Brent Kaeding, Bud Kaeding, Golobic, Furr, and "Cowboy"
Craig Smith of San Martin who incredibly drove from 17th to a fifth place
finish.
"It
was a good race and I'm happy overall," Golobic said. "We kinda showed our cards to Brent
there when I got him on the bottom in one and two, and on the restart he went
down there too."
Bud Kaeding
was happy to see his dad back in victory lane.
"He's
been working hard to win for the last few years so it's cool to see him smiling
in victory lane," Kaeding said. "Tonight just didn't fall our way.Who knows if that yellow hadn't come out what would happened."
Smith was
credited with the DDNi Hard Charger award while the Ray Scheidt's Electric Fast
Time award went to Furr with a time of 12.584 seconds in qualifying around the
quarter-mile clay oval. Heat race wins
went to Furr, Bud Kaeding, and Day.
The Ocean
Sprints presented by Taco Bravo will return to action next Friday night at
Ocean Speedway Watsonville.
For more
information on the Ocean Sprint Cars presented by Taco Bravo log onto http://www.oceansprints.com
and for more on the Ocean Speedway visit http://www.oceanspeedway.com
Ocean
Speedway would like to thank Taco Bravo, Digital Delivery Networks, Get Som
Sports, Ray Scheidt's Electric, Hoosier Tires West, and Kaeding Performance for
their support of the 2012 Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo.
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