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Bacon Emerges with Tulare Western Midget Triumph

Tulare, CA……..AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Champion Brady Bacon of Broken Arrow, Okla. won Saturday night’s competitive Honda USAC Western Midget feature at Thunderbowl Raceway. He passed Trey Marcham on lap 11 and led the rest of the way in his Keith Ford Berry Back/King Racing Products machine. Richard Vander Weerd was second ahead of new series point leader Cody Swanson, Nick Chivello and Danny Faria Jr.

HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2015 – Tulare, California – Thunderbowl Raceway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Brady Bacon, 73X, Ford-16.829; 2. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-16.833; 3. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-16.997; 4. Michael Faccinto, 35F, MF-17.059; 5. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-17.164; 6. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-17.184; 7. Richard Vander Weerd, 19S, Sala-17.322; 8. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-17.332; 9. Danny Faria Jr., 19W, Sala-17.365; 10. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-17.518; 11. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-17.680; 12. Steve Davis, 2D, Davis-17.783; 13. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-18.018; 14. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-18.712.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Faria, 3. McQueen, 4. Marcham, 5. Swanson, 6. Vander Weerd, 7. Bock .NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Pierovich, 2. Gard, 3. Chivello, 4. Gardner, 5. Faccinto, 6. Nichols, 7. Davis. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Richard Vander Weerd, 3. Cody Swanson, 4. Nick Chivello, 5. Danny Faria Jr., 6. Scott Pierovich, 7. Shannon McQueen, 8. Terry Nichols, 9. Steve Davis, 10. Britton Bock, 11. Trey Marcham, 12. Ronnie Gardner, 13. Michael Faccinto, 14. Brian Gard. NT

**Gard flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Chivello, Lap 6 Marcham, Laps 7-9 Chivello, Lap 10 Marcham, Laps 11-30 Bacon.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-C.Swanson-168, 2-Gardner-154, 3-McQueen-153, 4-Marcham-149, 5-Nichols-148, 6-Pierovich-144, 7-Chivello-115, 8-Gard-114, 9-Davis-114, 10-Faccinto-99.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: July 3 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway

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