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OCEAN SPRINTS POINTS BATTLE RAGES ON
TO FRIDAY'S ROUND FIVE
WATSONVILLE,
CALIFORNIA (May 29, 2012) – Friday night, Ocean Speedway Watsonville will host the fifth round of
the hotly contested 2012 Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo that has
produced a points battle with Fremont's Shane Golobic leading Stockton's Brad
Furr by only one point.
The Winged
360 action on the quarter-mile dirt oval has been torrid with four different
winners through the first four races. Campbell's Bud Kaeding won the season opener aboard the #20 Werbach
Motorsports entry before his father Brent won in the Al's Roofing #69 in the
following race. 2011 Ocean Sprints
champion Ronnie Day of Salinas steered the Keith Day Trucking #22 to victory
lane on May 11 before 2010 Ocean Sprints champion Tommy Tarlton won in the
Tarlton & Son #21 on May 18.
Golobic and
Furr have been unable to stand atop the new Ocean Speedway podium but lead the
points due to consistency. Golobic has
two third place finishes along with a second and a fourth in 2012, while Furr
has a fifth, fourth, third, and second place finishes with only a win needed to
complete the top-five cycle.
Day runs
third in the standings, just 18 points behind Golobic, despite a pair of DNFs
this season. Day has two quick-times and
three heat race wins that have propelled him up in the points. San Martin's "Cowboy" Craig Smith
and Gilroy's Kurt Nelson round out the
top-five in the points standings.
The balance
of the top-ten includes San Jose's Nick Green, rookie Jason Chisum of Salinas, Salinas' Carter Train, San Jose's Ryan Rusconi, and Jeremy Chisum
of Salinas. Young rookie Carson Macedo of Lemoore, CA will return to Ocean Speedway
on Friday night in the Tarlton & Son #21x after finishing fifth in his last
start.
Friday's
races for the Ocean Sprints will also include racing for the American Stocks,
Micro 600s, IMCA Modifieds, and Wingless Sprints. Adult tickets are just $17 with seniors 65+
$15 and kids ages 6-12 are $13. The
family pass for two adults and two children is value priced at just $55. Qualifying will get underway at 6 p.m. with fan gates opening at 4:30
p.m.
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
Ocean
Speedway would like to thank Taco Bravo, Digital Delivery Networks, Get Som
Sports, Ray Scheidt's Electric, Hoosier Tires West, and Kaeding Performance for
their support of the 2012 Ocean Sprints presented by Taco Bravo.
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