From: keeper@deeptht.armory.com (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: 8-15 sprints, Watsonville
Date: 17 Aug 92 04:04:39 GMT
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Organization: The Armory



Hmm...

Can't think of anything to say straight off, so I'll get right to it.

August 15, 1992.  Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, 1/4-mile clay oval

(California)

 
   WATSONVILLE -- The man they call ``BK'' came, saw and conquered
Watsonville Speedway on Saturday night. The sprint car racer, Brent
Kaeding of Campbell, won a heat race and led the feature race flag to
flag.
   Kaeding also won the Northern Auto Racing Club's visit to the 
speedway, last month. He was coming off a victory Friday night in 
Chico.
   ``This is a new car,'' Kaeding said, ``and things are looking 
good. Hopefully we'll be ready for the (World of) Outlaws when they 
come to town,'' referring to an upcoming event in San Jose.
 
   The race nearly ended with a Kaeding one-two, as Brent's father, 
Howard Kaeding, was running up front for most of the 30-lap race until
a crash on lap 21.
   Kaeding had just passed Earle Stanton for second when Stanton 
tried to dive inside in the next corner. The two made contact, and 
Kaeding flipped three times. He was not injured, but was upset.
   ``We named him, 20 years ago, `Earle the Squirrel','' he said. 
``He's still got the same name. Racing is 90 percent disappointment. 
I'd have liked to beat Brent, but actually he'd probably have beaten 
me.''
   Stanton was ejected from the race for rough driving following the 
incident, but maintains that the crash was just a racing incident.
   ``I didn't do in intentionally,'' Stanton said. ``It's just the 
way Howard races, and the way I race -- we both race tough.''
   The crash put Pat Rose of San Jose into second, where he remained 
for the rest of the event.
 
   Last week's winner, Jason Statler of San Jose, never even made it 
to the main event. He barely missed getting a transfer spot in his 
heat race, so was in the last-chance B-main event.
   But bad luck reared its ugly head at Statler shortly after the 
first lap of that race. After making contact with another car coming 
out of Turn 4, Steve Osbourne nearly flipped down the front straight. 
Once the car came down on four wheels, Osbourne was headed toward the 
infield when Statler attempted to avoid the incident by taking the 
inside line. Contact was made, and Statler spun, then was collected by
Keith Nafzger.
   Statler and Osbourne were not able to continue, but Nafzger just 
borrowed a new wing from local driver Jamie Hood and returned to the 
fray. However, Nafzger became another innocent victim of the crash, 
later in the race, and finally called it a night.
 
   The only injury of the night was not to a racing driver, but to a 
driver of a push truck.
   In the waning moments of the feature race, the cars of Gary Wiley 
and Freddie Plourdes came together. Wiley, having lost steering, 
veered to the infield and into the pickup truck of Mike Luhdorff from 
San Jose, the door of which was open. Luhdorff twisted an arm, and 
opted to have it checked out at Watsonville Community Hospital.
 
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Good quote I got from Brent Kaeding, regarding the move by "Earle the
Squirrel":  "If you give a squirrel too many nuts, that's what happens."

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   Saturday's sprint car results from Watsonville Speedway:
 
   Fast Time -- 12.672 seconds; Pat Rose, San Jose
 
   Trophy Dash, 4 laps
 1. Tom Henry, Gilroy
 2. Earle Stanton
 3. Brent Kaeding, Campbell
 4. Rose
 
   Heat Race 1, 8 laps
 1. Rose
 2. Jeff Mendes, Gilroy
 3. Peter Gimeniz, Gilroy
 4. Dave McGourty, Campbell
 
   Heat Race 2, 8 laps
 1. Kaeding
 2. Dave Rule, San Jose
 3. Jim Perry Jr., Concord
 4. Howard Kaeding, Campbell
 
   Heat Race 3, 8 laps
 1. Henry
 2. Charlie Caraccilo, San Jose 
 3. Joe von Schriltz
 4. Greg Bauer, San Jose
 
   Heat Race 4, 8 laps
 1. Jamie Hood, Scotts Valley
 2. Stanton
 3. Gary Wiley, San Jose
 4. Ken Bowman, San Jose
 
   B-Main Event, 12 laps
 1. Chuck Miller, Morgan Hill
 2. Tony Bettencourt, San Jose
 3. Mike Sargent, San Jose
 4. Freddie Plourdes, Petaluma
 
   Main Event, 30 laps
 1. Brent Kaeding
 2. Rose
 3. Mendes
 4. McGourty
 5. von Schriltz
 6. Bettencourt
 7. Rule
 8. Caraccilo
 9. Sargent
10. Bowman
11. Wiley
12. Aaron Miller, San Jose
13. Plourdes
14. Gimeniz
15. Howard Kaeding
16. Stanton
17. Hood
18. Bauer
19. Henry
20. Perry
 
From: rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Richard Beckett)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:49:21 GMT
Subject: Re: On Board Cameras
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK