Bakersfield, CA……..USAC West Coast Sprint Car point leader Ryan Bernal of Hollister, Calif. recorded his third consecutive feature win Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway. Wheeling the Mike Phulps machine he passed Danny Faria Jr. on lap seven amd led the rest of the way to beat Jace Vander Weerd, Faria, Troy Rutherford and Cory Kruseman.
USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: April 4, 2015 – Bakersfield, California – Bakersfield Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-13.184; 2. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-13.501; 3. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-13.650; 4. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-13.762; 5. Troy Rutherford, 11, Rutherford-13.931; 6. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Bowman-13.988; 7. Max Adams, 5X, Adams-14.065; 8. Cory Kruseman, 21K, Kruseman-14.072; 9. D.J. Johnson , 33, Johnson-14.109; 10. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-14.111; 11. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-14.212; 12. Trent Carter, 13, Carter-14.368; 13. Kyler Shaw, 92K, Shaw-14.410; 14. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-14.415; 15. Johnathon Henry, 17, Shanoian-14.492; 16. Matt Day, 97, Day-14.517; 17. Koen Shaw, 88K, Shaw-14.566; 18. Kyle Smith, 55, Smith-14.577; 19. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-14.591; 20. Tristan Guardino, 81, Watt-14.652; 21. David Taylor, 74, Taylor-14.711; 22. Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-14.835; 23. Cody Majors, 54, Majors-14.871; 24. Ryan Timmons, 29T, Timmons-15.029; 25. Shannon McQueen, 87, Van Meter-15.228; 26. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-15.756; 27. Shelden DeBlauw, 45, DeBlauw-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. J.Vander Weerd, 2. Bernal, 3. Gansen, 4. Kyler Shaw, 5. Ennis, 6. Sibley, 7. McQueen, 8. Day. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Vander Weerd, 2. Kruseman, 3. Roa, 4. Rutherford, 5. Guardino, 6. Hurst, 7. Ko.Shaw, 8. Barnes, 9. Majors. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Henry, 2. Johnson, 3. Faria, 4. Marcham, 5. Smith, 6. DeBlauw, 7. Taylor, 8. Timmons. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Guardino, 2. Barnes, 3. Sibley, 4. Hurst, 5. Smith, 6. Koen Shaw, 7. Day, 8. McQueen, 9. Ennis, 10. Taylor, 11. Majors, 12. DeBlauw. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ryan Bernal, 2. Jace Vander Weerd, 3. Danny Faria Jr., 4. Troy Rutherford, 5. Cory Kruseman, 6. Trey Marcham, 7. Brody Roa, 8. Richard Vander Weerd, 9. Landon Hurst, 10. Johnathon Henry, 11. D.J. Johnson, 12. Koen Shaw, 13. Chris Ennis, 14. Kyle Smith, 15. Jeff Sibley, 16. Tristan Guardino, 17. Kyler Shaw, 18. Kevin Barnes, 19. Shannon McQueen, 20. David Taylor, 21. Chris Gansen, 22. Matt Day. NT
**Carter and Adams flipped during qualifications.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Faria, Laps 6-30 Bernal.
NEW WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Bernal-320, 2-Faria-297, 3-J.Vander Weerd-261, 4-R.Vander Weerd-221, 5-Marcham-213, 6-Hurst-205, 7-Johnson-200, 8-Austin Liggett-175, 9-Colby Copeland-166, 10-Guardino-134.
NEXT WEST COAST SPRINT RACE: April 11 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway
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- Article Date: 4/5/2015