CLAUSON’S NDC LEAD NOW 5!

 


Tulare, CA……..Bud Kaeding of Campbell, Calif. captured Saturday night’s 30-lap 31st “Pacific Coast Nationals” AMSOIL USAC National and USAC/CRA Sprint race at the Gropetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway, leading the final 23 laps after race leaders Bryan Clauson and Damion Gardner tangled and flipped. Neither driver was injured in the incident, two of seven flips which interrupted Saturday’s Sprint racing action. Following Kaeding’s Alviso Rock/High Five Pizza Maxim/Speedway Chevy were newly-crowned AMSOIL National Champion Levi Jones, Tracy Hines, Justin Grant and Matt Mitchell. Jones finished the National campaign with a 132-point margin over runner-up Gardner and sliced Clauson’s USAC National Drivers Championship lead to five points with two races remaining (at Ventura and Irwindale, Calif.). Mike Spencer, the USAC/CRA point leader, finished seventh and increased his insurmountable lead over Danny Sheridan to 356 points with just one race remaining, at Perris, Calif. Nov. 27. Clauson led the first seven laps before he and Gardner tangled. Jones’ championship is his fourth, which ties Steve Butler’s USAC National Sprint Championship record.


 


USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL & CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: November 13, 2010 – Tulare, California – Gropetti Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway – “31st “Pacific Coast Nationals”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-14.853; 2. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.071; 3. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.132; 4. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-15.134; 5. Justin Grant, 5x, Baldwin-15.259; 6. Casey Shuman, 4g, Cook-15.268; 7. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.382; 8. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.395; 9. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-15.447; 10. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-15.457; 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-115.466; 12. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-15.472; 13. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-115.482; 14. Matt Mitchell, 37x, Mitchell-15.484; 15. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.497; 16. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-15.534; 17. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-15.568; 18. Nic Faas, 7, Priestley-15.590; 19. Tim Kaeding, 83, Roth-15.592; 20. Cory Kruseman, 21k, Kruseman-15.628; 21. Casey Riggs, 37, Riggs-15.679; 22. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-15.697; 23. Geoff Ensign, 5E, Ensign-15.716; 24. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-15.804; 25. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-15.912; 26. Danny Faria Jr., 2x, Faria-15.940; 27. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Kirkbride-15.972; 28. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-16.003; 29. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-16.018; 30. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-16.114; 31. Danny Ebberts, 01, Carroll-16.211; 32. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett-NT; 33. Jim Richardson, 8, Richardson-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Sheridan, 2. Riggs, 3. Clauson, 4. Grant, 5. East, 6. Stanbrough, 7. R.VanderWeerd, 8. Carlile. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Faas, 2. Gardner, 3. Clarke, 4. A.Williams, 5. Mitchell, 6. Faria, 7. Argo, 8. Shuman. NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. T.Kaeding, 2. B.Kaeding, 3. Coons, 4. Darland, 5. Hines, 6. Ebberts, 7. Kirkbride, 8. Ensign. NT


 


FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Kruseman, 3. Windom, 4. J.VanderWeerd, 5. C.Williams, 6. Gutierrez, 7. Spencer. NT


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Shuman, 4. East, 5. Mitchell, 6. Spencer, 7. Faria, 8. R.VanderWeerd, 9. C.Williams, 10. Argo, 11. Kirkbride, 12. Carlile, 13. Ensign, 14. Ebberts. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Justin Grant, 5. Matt Mitchell, 6. Casey Shuman, 7. Mike Spencer, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Austin Williams, 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 11. Dave Darland, 12. Danny Faria Jr.13. Bobby East, 14. Richard VanderWeerd, 15. Jace VanderWeerd, 16. Henry Clarke, 17. Casey Riggs, 18. Cory Kruseman, 19. Nic Faas, 20. Tim Kaeding, 21. Danny Sheridan, 22. Bryan Clauson, 23. Damion Gardner, 24. Jon Stanbrough. NT


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**Logan flipped during qualifying. Gutierrez flipped during the fourth heat. Ensign flipped during the semi. Clauson, Gardner, Sheridan and T.Kaeding flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Clauson, Laps 8-30 B.Kaeding.


 


FINAL USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-L.Jones-2,094; 2-Gardner-1,962; 3-Clauson-1,927; 4-Coons-1,744; 5-Hines-1,733; 6-Windom-1,707; 7-Darland-1,313; 8-Clarke-1,312; 9-Shane Hmiel-1,080; 10-Stanbrough-1,065.


FINAL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR DIRT STANDINGS: 1-L.Jones-1,781; 2-Gardner-1,602; 3-Clauson-1,557; 4-Windom-1,451; 5-Coons-1,388; 6-Hines-1,373; 7-Darland-1,313; 8-Stanbrough-1,065; 9-Clarke-982; 10-Robert Ballou-796.


NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Spencer-1,402; 2-Sheridan-1,044; 3-Mitchell-963; 4-Kruseman-938; 5-Blake Miller-770; 6-A.Williams-641; 7-Greg Bragg-621; 8-Tony Jones-610; 9-David Cardey-602; 10-C.Williams-588.


 


NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: November 27 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway – “Glenn Howard Memorial”