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BUD KAEDING EARNS FIRST JOHNNY KEY CLASSIC STARTING SPOT
WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA (June 29,
2013) - 1996 Johnny Key Classic winner Bud Kaeding scored the first 2013
Johnny Key Classic qualifying race, leading 28 laps on Friday for the
win at John Prentice's Ocean Speedway Watsonville. Three more
qualifying nights remain for the $10,000 to win contest that will be
held on Saturday night August 24th.
Kaeding led comfortably for much of the race but that did not damper the hard-charging racing going on throughout the field.
At the start of the
feature, second in points Kurt Nelson of Gilroy went up the backstretch
wall and damaged the front axle on his #72w car. Coming to the
yellow, 2012 Ocean Sprints champion and fast-time qualifier Shane
Golobic spun and then went to the work area. San Jose's Ryan Rusconi
and Hanford's DJ Netto also made trips to the pits under the caution.
All four drivers
were able to return to action. On the second attempt at a start,
Corralitos' Jerry Bonnema slowed from the pole to hand the lead to
Lodi's Shawn Wright. The caution was flown on lap two for Bonnema
stalling. Golobic had already moved to ninth position by the time the
caution fell.
Kaeding used the
restart to shoot past Wright for the lead position and on the following
lap Pleasanton's Nathan Washam flipped to bring out a red flag. A
brief caution came out on lap five for Nicholas Ringo spinning.
Points leader Brad
Furr started seventh, and used the next six laps to make some
incredible high and low manuevers to charge past Kyler Shaw for third on
lap 11. The best battle of the race was a slidejob city between
Steven Tiner and Furr for second, with Tiner eventually getting the
best of Furr.
A caution at the
halfway mark of the race saw Golobic already up into fifth position. A
grinding crash on lap 20 saw Bonnema and Wright make hard contact on
the front stretch to end both of their nights.
Kyler Shaw, making
his series debut, had run side-by-side with Golobic for many laps
leading up to the caution but fell to ninth on the restart when he moved
to the outside. Golobic used to the restart to move past both Furr
and Tiner to take second, but he couldn't make up much ground on
Kaeding.
Bud Kaeding stormed
to a 3.117 second win ahead of Golobic, Tiner, Furr, and Rusconi who
overcame his own trip to the work area for a fifth place run.
"Yeah it's a lot
easier starting in the front!" Kaeding said. "Shane's proof you can
only get second from the back here, whether there's 14, 18, or 20 cars
here. We've been through a lot of stuff this year. This is what I love
doing - to come out here and race and it's what I've done my entire
life."
Golobic declined to
take the Nobel Construction Back Row Challenge earlier in the night,
but essentially raced from the back after early issues.
"Our car was really
good. Coming from the back and getting second says a lot about our
team. I gotta thank these guys a ton and we've been working pretty
hard on these Fox Shocks. I had to do the back row challenge
regardless of what I said earlier. I was hoping for one more yellow
towards the end but it was starting to lay rubber there near the end."
Heat race wins went
to Netto, Salinas' Jeremy Chisum, and Nelson. The DDNi Hard Charger was
Koen Shaw who drove from 17th to 7th. The Ocean Sprints presented by
Taco Bravo go dark until July 19th for the second Johnny Key
Qualifier. Up next at Ocean Speedway is the two-day Kaeding Classic
with USAC Sprints and Midgets on Friday night July 12th and Golden
State King of the West on July 13th.
For more information on the Ocean Sprints 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, Nobel
Construction, Get Som Sports, Ray Scheidt's Electric, Hoosier Tires
West, and Kaeding Performance for their support.
June 28, 2013 Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo - Watsonville, California
RAY SCHEIDT'S ELECTRIC QUALIFYING: 22 Shane Golobic 11.772
HEAT 1: 88n DJ Netto
HEAT 2: 8 Jeremy Chisum
HEAT 3: 72w Kurt Nelson
30 LAP FEATURE: 1) 29 Bud Kaeding, 2) 22 Shane
Golobic, 3) 94 Steven Tiner, 4) 2 Brad Furr, 5) 20x Ryan Rusconi, 6)
88n DJ Netto, 7) 88k Koen Shaw, 8) 25z Jason Chisum, 9) 10 Anthony
Simone, 10) 92 Kyler Shaw, 11) 4f Burt Foland, Jr., 12) 92 Nick Ringo,
Jr., 13) 72w Kurt Nelson, 14) 99x Shawn Wright, 15) 8 Jeremy Chisum,
16) 58 Jerry Bonnema, 17) 3t Nicholas Ringo, 18) 39n Nathan Washam NT
LAP LEADERS: 99x Shawn Wright 1-2, 29 Bud Kaeding 3-30
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