CRA 1 AM RACE RESULTS

USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: May 31, 2014 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Markus Niemela, 73, Ford-15.225; 2. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-15.385; 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-15.425; 4. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-15.538; 5. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-15.594; 6. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-15.640; 7. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-15.671; 8. Troy Ruterford, 81, Watt-15.738; 9. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-16.016; 10. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-16.040; 11. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-16.101; 12. Trent Carter, 13, Carter-16.256; 13. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-16.299; 14. Connor Kassik, 26, Kassik-16.307; 15. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-16.398; 16. Tony Everhart, 55, Everhart-16.534; 17. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-16.630; 18. Garrett Long, 38, Long-16.912; 19. Robert Nuckles, 27, Nuckles-17.756; 20. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-18.370; 21. Jim Richardson, 8, Richardson-18.561; 22. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-20.337; 23. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-20.344.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Niemela, 2. Howell, 3. Bernal, 4. Mitchell, 5. Carter, 6. Adams, 7. Barnes, 8. Kassik. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hurst, 2. Rutherford, 3. Spencer, 4. Ennis, 5. Everhart, 6. Long, 7. Liggett, 8. Sibley. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Vander Weerd, 2. Faria, 3. Kaeding, 4. J.Vander Weerd, 5. Stone, 6. Day, 7. Nuckles, 8. Smith. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Liggett, 2. Stone, 3. Sibley, 4. Adams, 5. Barnes, 6. Long, 7. Day, 8. Nichols, 9. Kassik, 10. Everhart, 11. Carter, 12. Nuckles. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ryan Bernal, 2. Bud Kaeding, 3. Matt Mitchell, 4. Troy Rutherford, 5. Richard Vander Weerd, 6. Dennis Howell, 7. Danny Faria Jr., 8. Markus Niemela, 9. Landon Hurst, 10. Jace Vander Weerd, 11. Austin Ligget, 12. Chris Ennis, 13. Austin Stone, 14. Max Adams, 15. Kevin Barnes, 16. Matt Day, 17. Garrett Long, 18. Tony Everhart, 19. Terry Nichols, 20. Mike Spencer, 21. Jeff Sibley, 22. Connor Kassik. NT

**Nuckles flipped during the semi. Sibley flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Rutherford, Laps 2-17 Kaeding, Laps 18-30 Bernal.

NEW USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Niemela-402, 2-Mitchell-362, 3-J.Vander Weerd-355, 4-Rutherford-349, 5-Faria-332, 6-R.Vander Weerd-293, 7-Howell-282, 8-Nic Faas-281, 9-Liggett-273, 10-Hurst-259.

NEXT USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR RACE: June 7 – Hanford, CA – Kings Speedway