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California Sprint & Midget Power Poll for September
19, 2012
Full poll results available at: http://stevenblakesley.com/news/9.19-sprintcarpoll.html
ELK
GROVE, CA (September 19, 2012) - Mike Spencer survived a
brutal onslaught of votes for Tim Kaeding and Kyle Larson to continue to top
the California Sprint & Midget Power Poll for another week. Spencer
won Saturday's Perris Auto Speedway USAC/CRA
feature for his eighth win of 2012, and leads the power poll by just one point
ahead of Kyle Larson and was only two points up on Tim Kaeding in our most
hotly contested poll yet.
Larson finds himself back onto the poll in the second
position thanks to a strong showing during the Gold Cup Race of Champions.
In six main events, Larson won three of them including the USAC Western
Sprints, Civil War Sprints, and the $20,000 Gold Cup finale on Saturday night
September 8. Larson ranked first among the media panel and is third in
the statistical category with six wins and ten top-fives in 17 starts.
Tim Kaeding ranks third in the poll after second and third
place finishes in the Gold Cup preliminaries. Andy Forsberg's win at Petaluma
leapfrogged him ahead of Tommy Tarlton, who picked up a win against an all-star
Rebel Cup field at Hanford.
Bud Kaeding used a critical win at Hanford
with the USAC West Coast 360s to gain three positions in the poll despite a
poor showing with the USAC/CRA at Perris.
The panel was hardest on Kyle Hirst and Stephen
Allard. Hirst has fallen to ninth place despite finishing in the top-11
in all three nights of the Gold Cup. Hirst's 18th place effort with the
Civil War at Petaluma may have done
him in. Stephen Allard failed to transfer out of the B in the Civil War
event at Petaluma and fell to tenth
on the Power Poll.
Narrowly missing the poll is Sean "The Shark"
Becker who was perhaps the most impressive local during the Gold Cup with a
preliminary win and a third place finish in the Saturday feature. Becker
had to transfer out of the B main in the Civil War at Petaluma,
however, and finished 22nd in the feature.
About the CA Sprint
Car & Midget Power Poll:
Eligible drivers come from any injected winged or non-wing
Sprint Car division in the state along with full Midgets as well.
The poll includes top-ten lists from various media members
including site editor Steven Blakesley, photographer Chris Cleveland,
announcers Troy Henning, Ron Lingron, and Bill Sullivan, King of the West PR
guru Gary Thomas, and driver PR specialist PJ Petersen.
A statistical
analysis of California racing
stats by Jeff Bye, Jr. is combined with the media poll to create a current
picture of the top-10 drivers in the state.
Power polls will be released every first and third Tuesday
throughout the racing season until the first week of December, when
StevenBlakesley.com will crown a California Sprint & Midget Power
Poll" champion for the season.
www.stevenblakesley.com
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