The USAC Western HPD Midget Championship season opener at The Dirt Track at Kern County Raceway Park in Bakersfield, Calif. has been cancelled due to threatening weather.
USAC was to make its initial appearance on the dirt surface at Kern County this Friday night as the USAC Western HPD Midgets were scheduled to invade the one-third-mile oval.
The series competed on the Kern County quarter-mile pavement in 2014 and 2015, but Friday would have been the first event on the new dirt track. Jesse Love III from Menlo Park, Calif. was the 2014 winner on the pavement and Clovis, California’s Dylan Nobile won twice there last year.
Love III’s son, Jesse Love IV of Menlo Park, Calif., was last season’s USAC Western “Restricted” HPD Midget champion. Female competitors Antonia Bosacci of Mountain View, Calif. and 2014 Western Dirt HPD Midget champ Ashley Hazelton, Chatsworth, Calif. were also expected to compete.
Orange, California’s Wally Pankratz, the 2000 USAC Western Midget champion, and Daniel Anderson, who finished 5th in the series’ most recent visit to the city of Bakersfield (on the dirt at Bakersfield Speedway) were to battle it out on the clay.
The USAC Western HPD Midget Championship now shifts its focus to the pavement at Madera (Calif.) Speedway on Saturday, March 19. The Western Dirt HPD Midgets resume Saturday, April 16 at Lemoore (Calif.) Raceway.
- administrator on Mar 11, 2016
- Article Date: 3/10/2016