KRUSEMAN WINS SANTA MARIA’S “DOUG FORT MEMORIAL”
Santa Maria, CA……..Cory Kruseman of Ventura, Calif. won Saturday night;s 30-lap “Doug Fort Memorial” USAC Western Sprint race at Santa Maria Speedway. He caught Bud Kaeding on lap six and led the rest of the way in his Lucas Oil/Kruseman’s Sprint Car & Midget Driving School Eagle/RC Performance Mopar. Danny Faria Jr. was second ahead of Kaeding, fast qualifier Troy Rutherford and Markus Niemela. Seires point leader Ryan Bernal had to jump into a back-up car, then flipped during the feature event.
USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 6, 2013 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria Speedway – “Doug Fort Memorial”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Troy Rutherford, 11, Rutherford-14.385; 2. Bruce St. James, 7K, St.James-14.542; 3. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-14.557; 4. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-14.561; 5. Cory Kruseman, 21K, Kruseman-14.613; 6. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-14.615; 7. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-14.643; 8. Markus Niemela, 81, Watt-14.675; 9. D.J. Netto, 88N, Netto-14.691; 10. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-14.709; 11. Kevin Barnes, 38B, Barnes-14.745; 12. Jeff Sibley, 18, Watt-14.843; 13. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-14.872; 14. A.J. Bender, 12, Bender-14.875; 15. Aiden Corish, 3K, Kruseman-15.027; 16. Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-15.086; 17. Cotton Farmer, 15, HAL-15.180; 18. Jay Waugh, 89K, Kruseman-15.222; 19. Austin Stone, 29X, Coffman-15.370; 20. Tobey Sampson, 82, Sampson-15.371; 21. Bill Jones, 16, Jones-15.698; 22. Kolby Araki, 30K, Araki-15.819.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Carlile, 2. Kaeding, 3. Bernal (#86 Ennis), 4. Rutherford, 5. C.Gansen, 6. Kirkbride, 7. Stone, 8. Araki. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Niemela, 2. Kruseman, 3. Farmer, 4. Bender, 5. St. James, 6. Barnes, 7. Sampson. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Waugh, 2. Faria, 3. Corish, 4. Sibley, 5. Jones, 6. Netto. NT
DASH: (6 laps) 1. Kaeding, 2. Niemela, 3. St. James, 4. Kruseman, 5. Carlile, 6. Faria, 7. Sibley, 8. Rutherford. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Danny Faria Jr., 3. Bud Kaeding, 4. Troy Rutherford, 5. Markus Niemela, 6. D.J. Netto, 7. Jay Waugh, 8. Rusty Carlile, 9. Kolby Araki, 10. A.J. Bender, 11. Ricky Kirkbride, 12. Jeff Sibley, 13. Austin Stone, 14. Aiden Corish, 15. Chris Gansen, 16. Cotton Farmer, 17. Tobey Sampson,18. Kevin Barnes, 19. Bill Jones, 20. Bruce St. James, 21. Ryan Bernal. NT
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**Bernal flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Kaeding, Laps 6-30 Kruseman.
NEW USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Bernal-608, 2-Richard Vander Weerd-564, 3-Faria-546, 4-Kaeding-513, 5-Niemela-464, 6-Jace Vander Weerd-412, 7-Carlile-404, 8-Kirkbride-310, 9-Barnes-284, 10-Landon Hurst-281.
NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT RACE: July 13 – Hanford, CA - Kings Speedway
