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Ocean Sprint Car
Series presented by Taco Bravo returns to Ocean
Speedway this Friday night May 7
By Gary Thomas
Watsonville, CA – May 4, 2010…Following
the inaugural appearance outside of Watsonville this
past weekend the Ocean Sprint Car Series presented
by Taco Bravo will return home this Friday night to
the Ocean Speedway for the third round of racing in
the 2010 season.
The most recent event for the series was held this
most recent Friday at the Santa Maria Speedway and
featured one of the most bizarre endings seen in
recent memory, as defending Ocean Sprints champion
Tommy Tarlton and Campbell's Bud Kaeding fought it
out for the win right down to the wire. The wild
finish saw Kaeding flipping down the front stretch
after contact with a lapped car, which ultimately
resulted in Tarlton getting to the line first for
the victory.
After the exciting main event win in Santa Maria
Tarlton goes into this weekend with blazing-hot
momentum and sits atop the Ocean Sprint Car Series
presented by Taco Bravo standings. In addition to
his triumph with the Ocean Sprints last week, the Easton driver also tallied
a clean sweep on Saturday night with the Golden
State Challenge Series to cap a huge weekend of
racing aboard his Corporate America Lending, Sharp
Insurance No. 21. Tarlton last season captured four
victories at the Ocean Speedway and will be looking
his first win of the year at the Santa Cruz County
Fairgrounds track on Friday.
Former two-time Ocean Sprint Car Series champion
Brent Kaeding of Campbell ranks second in the standings going
into this Friday and is just three-digits behind
Tarlton for the lead. "BK" has driven his Al's
Roofing Supply, Kaeding Performance No. 69 to
finishes of third and fourth in the first two races
and will be looking for season win number one on
Friday. Kaeding is also the current point leader
with the Golden State Challenge 410 Sprint Car
Series.
Having a strong start to the year so far is veteran
Eric Rossi of Gilroy, who has charged through the pack to
score fifth and sixth place finishes respectively to
open the season aboard the Team RCR, Chase Wood
Racing No. 4r sprinter. The former Dave Bradway Jr.
Memorial winner has looked extremely racy during the
first two events and ranks third in the Ocean
Sprints points, just five-markers back of the lead
coming into Friday.
After being scored 14th at Santa Maria
three-time & defending USAC Silver Crown champion
Bud Kaeding goes into this Friday sitting fourth in
the Ocean Sprints standings. The driver of the
Sala/Matherly Racing, M&M Powder Coaters No. 19 will
be looking to make it three wins in a row at Ocean
Speedway, after winning with the Ocean Sprints on
April 16 and then the GSC 410's on April 24.
Currently rounding out the top-five in the Ocean
Sprint Car Series presented by Taco Bravo standings
is the Stadelhofer Construction, Peppermill Casino
No. 99x of Elk Grove's Kyle Larson. The 17-year-old
scored a runner-up finish at the opener and then
backed that up with a sixth place effort this past
Friday in Santa Maria. Fellow 17-year-old racer Justin
Sanders sits sixth in the standings aboard his North
County Plastering, STS Trucking No. 17 mount and
will be looking to rebound after a tough ending this
past Friday. The Prunedale competitor finished
fourth at the season-opener in Watsonville and then ran 13th in the feature at Santa Maria.
Former King of California Ronnie Day is coming off
an impressive outing at the Santa Maria Speedway and
goes into this Friday seventh in the Ocean Sprint
Car Series presented by Taco Bravo standings. The
Salinas
veteran picked-up a strong runner-up finish in the
main event at Santa Maria behind the
wheel of the Keith Day Trucking, El Camino Machine &
Welding No. 22. Also coming off a solid run in
Santa Maria is Morgan Hill's Devon
Ostheimer, who ranks eighth in the Ocean Sprints
points. The 16-year-old was the Sun-Electric
hard-charger at the opener on April 16 and then
scored an seventh place effort this past Friday
aboard the MDR Machine, German Auto Body No. 5
sprinter.
Fan-favorite Peter Murphy currently sits ninth in
the standings going into this weekend and will look
to score his first Ocean Sprints win of the season
on Friday, after a third place finish in
Santa Maria at the helm of
his Buster & Ziggy Enterprise, Tachi Palace Hotel &
Casino No. 11 machine. The Clovis racer started 14th
in the main event at Santa Maria and moved through the field
to earn the "Fully-Charged" hard-charger award
presented by Sun-Electric. A three-way log-jam for
10th is also seen going into Friday
between Gilroy's Kurt
Nelson, San Jose's Matt Sargent
and Corralitos' Jerry Bonnema, with the trio being
28-points out of the lead.
Other drivers expected in action with the Ocean
Sprint Car Series presented by Taco Bravo this
Friday night at Ocean Speedway will include Scotts
Valley's Evan Suggs, Pleasanton's Brad Furr,
Visalia's Cory Eliason, Clarksburg's Justyn Cox, San
Martin's Craig Smith, San Jose's Ryan Rusconi and
Wayne Katen, Morgan Hill's Ricky Wright Jr.,
Gilroy's Ken Fredenburg and Jon Maiwald, Tracy's
Steve Osborne and more.
The front gate of the Ocean Speedway will open at
4:30pm this Friday night May 7 with hot laps at
5:45, qualifying around 6 and racing to follow. All
seating will be general admission with adult tickets
costing $16, children 6-12 $11 and kids five and
under free. A family pack featuring two adults and
two kids is available for $40 and seniors 65 and
older with id will be $14. The Ocean Speedway is
located on the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in
Watsonville,
California.
For more information on the Ocean Sprint Cars
presented by Taco Bravo log onto
http://www.oceansprints.com
and for more on the Ocean Speedway visit
http://www.oceanspeedway.com
Coming up- The Ocean Sprint Car Series presented by
Taco Bravo will be back in action at Ocean Speedway
next Friday night May 14, with that being followed
with a Saturday evening event at the Groppetti
Automotive Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare on May 22
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