West Coast entries topping Wednesday’s Chili Bowl qualifying
night include 2011 A-main starter and 11-time A-main starter Jason Leffler (Long Beach, CA) in Keith Kunz Motorsports’ #71
Great Clips-ASE-TRD-Toyota-IWX-Advanced Racing Bullet/Speedway Toyota,
three-time A-main qualifier Josh Ford (Oxnard, CA) in Keith Ford’s #73 King Racing Products-A&A
Precision Machine-Berry Pack-JFM-Pacific Coast Maint. Spike/Bob Wirth and past
A-main starter Gary Taylor
(Snohomish, WA) aboard the Loyet Motorsports #05T Vacuworx
International-Loyet Landscape Maintenance Inc.-Meramec Heights Collision
Center-Butler Built Professional Seat Systems-Beaver Stripes & Graphics Spike/Esslinger.
Previous series champions competing on Wednesday include
1999 BCRA champion Matt Streeter (Galt,
CA) in his #14JR S&S Automotive-T&T Trucking-ART Enterprises
Spike/S&S Chevy, 2010 BCRA champion David Prickett (Fresno, CA) in the Neverlift Motorsports #15P
Crysalli-Manitowoc-Fruitful Juice-Prickett's Dist. Spike/Van Dyne Chevy and
USAC/CRA Sprint Car champion Mike Spencer (Temecula, CA) in the Proflyer Enterprises #51S Pecon
Builders-Proflyer Racign Engines-Weiler Farms Spike/Proflyer.
Additional West Coast entries include Matt Hummel (San Jose, CA) in the Kasey Kahne Racing #9H
Factory Kahne-Ollie’s Bargain Outlet-ASE-Sage Fruit Spike/Speedway Engines, Cole
Peard (Quincy, CA) in Gordon & Alisa
Peard’s #58 Peard Trucking-Yeley Racing F5 Twister, Chris Ennis (San Diego, CA) in Calvin Martens’ #86E Woodworks
Unlimited-Ryni Mfg.-Awesome Raceware-Hooker Harness-Spy Optics TCR/Esslinger, Kevin
Michnowicz (Lomita, CA) in Ron Bach’s
#21JR Ron Bach Const-T-Shirts by Timeless-Fabozzi Metal Works-Doug's Auto Body
Spike/Gaerte, Josh Pelkey
(Peoria, AZ) in Robbie & Gaye Allen’s #12 JR ABC Body Shop-NAPA Martin
Seniour-Electromotive-Total Seal Rings Spike/Esslinger, Dustin Weland (Parker, CO) in Erich Weland’s #88W Boesel Ent-Bad
Company-Threaded Ink Media Beast/Scat V4, Brent Camarillo (Camarillo, CA) in Bill Camarillo’s #51 Agromin-UniCor-Roy's
Towing-Waste Management-Open Range Spike/Ed Pink Chevy, Jimmy Voitel (Covina, CA) in his own #21V So-Cal
Performance-Arts & Letters Signs-KAR Construction-E&R Glass-Tony Maro
Auto Body Ellis/Van Dyne Chevy and Shaun Insley (Royal Oak, New Zealand) in Californian Andy
Bondios’ #47x Barnes Oil Pumps-Advanced Suspension-Kenny's Components-Brown
& Miller Bondio/Barnes.
Of Wednesday’s West Coast
entrants, only Leffler made the 2011
A-Main.
Rookies entries include 16-year-old Harli White (Lindsay, OK) aboard Shannon McQueen’s
(Bakersfield, CA) #7W American Waste Control-Waurika Truck & Tire-Quantum
Consulting-K&N Filters-Eibach Springs Spike/Esslinger, Tyler
Reddick (Corning, CA) aboard the 2B Racing
Champion Oil-Integra Shocks-Benic Enterprises Beast/Fontana, Mike
Lapp (Goodyear, AZ) aboard his own #8
Stealth/Chevy II-Fontana, Ricky Wright, Jr. (Ponca City, OK via San Jose, CA) in Doug &
Britton Bock’s #35W GetSom Sports TCR/Esslinger, Jace VanderWeerd (Visalia, CA) aboard Ron Vanderweerd’s #8V
VanderWeerd Construction-Battery Worx Spike/Stanton Mopar, Robbie
Whitchurch (Chico, CA) in the Whitchurch
& Sons Trans. #82W Whitchurch & Sons Trans.-Cycleland-Fauver Race
Engines Stealth/Mopar and Bob Lawlor (San Carlos, CA) in Floyd Alvis’ #83X B.L. Transport-Champion
Automotive-Lindsey Enterprises-F&D Welding Stealth/Gaerte.
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