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TARLTON WINS THIRD STRAIGHT OCEAN RACE, FORSBERG RACES INTO KEY
WATSONVILLE,
CALIFORNIA (July 30, 2012) – Tommy Tarlton in the Tarlton & Son #21 continued his dominance
over the Ocean Sprints Sprints presented by Taco Bravo by winning his third
straight Johnny Key Classic qualifier at Ocean Speedway Watsonville on Friday
night. Tarlton's win also meant that
second place finisher Andy Forsberg of Auburn, CA is locked into the Johnny Key as
well.
Tarlton
carries a huge head of steam into the 52nd Johnny Key Classic on Saturday
August 25, which will pay $10,000 to win courtesy of DDNi. Joining Tarlton and Forsberg so far is San Jose's Nick Green. The top-two in Ocean Sprints points not
locked in, and the highest finishing non-qualified car on August 17, will also
join the list of qualifiers as we count down to the Key.
"Paul
always gives me a good car," Tarlton said. "It's a big couple of weeks coming up here for us and our
team.Watsonville is a blast and definitely a lot of
fun. To get three in a row here is
unbelievable!"
Friday's
feature was led to green by Forsberg, a multi-time Silver Dollar Speedway and
Placerville Speedway champion. Forsberg
led the way through a series of red flags and caution flags in the first five
laps. Australia's Josh Ruhs and Salinas' Carter Train flipped on lap three
and collected young Carson Macedo to end all three of their nights. On the following restart, fast-time qualifier
Justin Sanders, now living in Watsonville, had a big flip in Orval Burke's
OB1 entry.
Tim
Decarlo, Jr. was also victim of a flip on the next attempt for a restart. After things settled down, the race went
green on lap five with Forsberg in the lead while Tarlton found himself mired
in seventh.
Stockton's Brad Furr briefly took second
from Green on the restart but Tarlton was the car with the biggest head of
steam. Tarlton made his way into the
top-five past Jason Statler on lap 10 and took over second on lap 16.Furr followed Tarlton past Green as well.
Furr passed
Tarlton for second on lap 19, but Tarlton came back at him on lap 22 to go
after race leader Forsberg in lapped traffic. Tarlton made a big statement by reeling in Forsberg and sweeping past
him on lap 27 to take the lead.
Tarlton led
the final three laps for his fifth win at Ocean Speedway in 2012 ahead of
Forsberg, second place in points Brad Furr, points leader Shane Golobic of
Fremont, and Statler. Only seven of the
21 starters finished on the lead lap in a torrid 25 lap green flag run.
Heat race
wins went to Forsberg, Lance Norick of Arizona, and Green. The DDNi Hard Charger for the evening was Burt Foland, Jr. Sanders won his second
straight the Ray Scheidt's Electric fast-time award with an 11.453 second lap.
"I
might have gone into a little bit of cruise control in the last few laps but I
guess I should have done a better job of looking at the scoreboard,"
Forsberg said."I'm out of my
element here and inexperience bit us.Tommy's
pretty tough down here and we're satisfied!"
The Ocean
Sprints presented by Taco Bravo will break until the final Johnny Key Classic
qualifier on Friday August 17th.
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.
July 27,
2012 Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo - Watsonville, California
RAY SCHEIDT'S ELECTRIC QUALIFYING: OB1 Justin Sanders 11.453
HEAT RACEONE: 92 Andy Forsberg
HEAT RACE TWO: 90 Lance Norick
HEAT RACE THREE: 14 Nick Green
30 LAP
FEATURE: 1) 21 Tommy Tarlton 2) 92 Andy Forsberg 3) 2 Brad Furr 4) 9J Shane
Golobic 5) 00 Jason Statler 6) 98 Ryan Rusconi 7) 14 Nick Green 8) 58 Jerry
Bonnema 9) 21m Mike Henry 10) 99 Wayne Katen 11) 8 Jeremy Chisum 12) 4x Burt
Foland, Jr. 13) 37 Michael Twitchell 14) 90 Lance Norick 15) 72W Kurt Nelson
16) OB1 Justin Sanders 17) 4 Tim Decarlo, Jr. 18) 41W Joshua Williams 19) 2x
Carter Train 20) 21x Carson Macedo 21) 99AU Josh Ruhs
LAP
LEADERS: 92 Andy Forsberg 1-26, 21 Tarlton 27-30
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