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USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: March 14, 2014 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Markus Niemela, 73, Ford-15.225; 2. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-15.385; 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-15.425; 4. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-15.538; 5. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-15.594; 6. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-15.640; 7. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-15.671; 8. Troy Ruterford, 81, Watt-15.738; 9. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-16.016; 10. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-16.040; 11. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-16.101; 12. Trent Carter, 13, Carter-16.256; 13. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-16.299; 14. Connor Kassik, 26, Kassik-16.307; 15. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-16.398; 16. Tony Everhart, 55, Everhart-16.534; 17. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-16.630; 18. Garrett Long, 38, Long-16.912; 19. Robert Nuckles, 27, Nuckles-17.756; 20. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-18.370; 21. Jim Richardson, 8, Richardson-18.561; 22. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-20.337; 23. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-20.344.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Faria, 2. Kaeding, 3. Niemela, 4. Liggett, 5. Hawkins, 6. Carlile, 7. Everhart, 8. Nuckles. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Howell, 2. Mitchell, 3. Logan, 4. Kassik, 5. Sibley, 6. Ennis, 7. Rutherford. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. R.Vander Weerd, 2. Barnes, 3. J.Vander Weerd, 4. Hurst, 5. Carter, 6. Long, 7. Richardson. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dennis Howell, 2. Richard Vander Weerd, 3. Jace Vander Weerd, 4. Danny Faria Jr., 5. Bud Kaeding, 6. Markus Niemela, 7. Marty Hawkins, 8. Austin Liggett, 9. Troy Rutherford, 10. Kevin Barnes, 11. Matt Mitchell, 12. Landon Hurst, 13. Garrett Long, 14. Trent Carter, 15. Jonathan Logan, 16. Robert Nuckles, 17. Jim Richardson, 18. Rusty Carlile, 19. Tony Everhart, 20. Chris Ennis, 21. Jeff Sibley, 22. Connor Kassik. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Howell.

NEW WEST COAST SPRINT POINTS:

NEXT WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE: March 22 – Bakersfield, CA – Bakersfield Speedway

Howell (of Rancho Palos Verdes) has been sturdy the last several times he's shown up, but he was bulletproof last night. Jace (who ran second most of the feature) and Rich (who came from tenth or so after getting squeezed early on) took shots at him again and again, but Dennis had the car and unflappable chops to pull away from them as well as avoid the severe misfortunes of the suddenly expiring cushion in turn four.

Faria did his usual come-through-the-field thing (tho more by attrition than passing this time, at least until the late going). Liggett likewise. Turn Four extinguished a good ten of the non-wings after the Outlaws and Kings ran off 35 in a row almost without incident (until after the flag was thrown). Mitchell had been in contention for the podium until he made the casualty list in the late laps. 

'13 Champ Daryn Pittman took the lead from Donny Schatz to win an expeditious but uneventful Outlaw feature on a track that seemed to work well for the more experienced drivers tonight by contrast with last year's destruction derby. 

If you're coming tomorrow and don't yet have tickets, I'd suggest getting there by 4:30-4:45. The Friday crowd wasn't SRO, but the place was pretty full. 

NEW USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Liggett-110, 2-Niemela-106, 3-Howell-97, 4-Rutherford-91, 5-R.Vander Weerd-90, 6-J.Vander Weerd-88, 7-Mitchell-82, 8-Faria-78, 9-Hurst-64, 10-J.J. Yeley-64.