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California Sprint Car & Midget Power Poll for June 5, 2012
ELK GROVE, CALIFORNIA (June 5, 2012) - The latest edition of the California
Sprint & Midget Power Poll had one of the closest battles for the
top spot yet. Bud Kaeding used a second place Ocean Sprints run on
Friday night and a win in Saturday's King of the West at Hanford to
maintain the top spot over his brother Tim Kaeding.
Since our last poll,
TK picked up a victory at Calistoga with King of the West and also
finished third at Hanford. TK and Bud joined USAC/CRA points leader
Mike Spencer as the three drivers that each earned at least one first
place vote from our media voting panel.
Steven Tiner (6th),
Andy Forsberg (7th), and Kyle Hirst (10th) are all making their poll
debuts while Nic Faas reappears in the top-ten.
Notably slipping in
the poll are Kyle Larson and Ryan Bernal who suffered from "out of
sight, out of mind" by not racing in California this weekend. Sean
Becker, fresh off a BCRA Midget win at Placerville, surprisingly fell two
spots while also leading the Silver Dollar 410 points.
About the CA Sprint Car & Midget Power Poll:
Eligible drivers come from any injected winged or non-wing Sprint Car division in the state along with full Midgets as well.
The poll includes
top-ten lists from various media members including site editor Steven
Blakesley, photographer Chris Cleveland, announcers Troy Henning, Ron
Lingron, and Bill Sullivan, King of the West PR guru Gary Thomas, and
driver PR specialist PJ Peterson. A statistical analysis of California
racing stats by Jeff Bye, Jr. is combined with the media poll to create
a current picture of the top-10 drivers in the state.
Power polls will be
released every first and third Tuesday throughout the racing season
until the first week of December, when StevenBlakesley.com will crown a
California Sprint & Midget Power Poll" champion for the season.
To view this week's top-10, visit http://www.stevenblakesley.com
www.stevenblakesley.com
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