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San Jose’s Bud Kaeding, third from right, celebrates with friends and family after his sprint car feature win at Watsonville Speedway on Friday night. (Top Dawg Photos)<\/p>\nWATSONVILLE \u2014 San Jose\u2019s Bud Kaeding scored his first sprint car triumph of the season, while Salinas\u2019 Camron Diatte topped the dwarf car field to grab the Mark Biscardi Memorial at Watsonville Speedway on Friday.<\/p>\n
Kaeding jumped into the lead at the waving of the Keith Trusso green flag in the 25-lap sprint car feature. Bakersfield\u2019s Jett Yantis carved his way into second and hounded Kaeding for a majority of the race.<\/p>\n
San Jose’s Bud Kaeding, third from right, celebrates with friends and family after his sprint car feature win at Watsonville Speedway on Friday night. (Top Dawg Photos)<\/p>\n
On one occasion, Kaeding dove low working lapped cars and Yantis blasted around to take the lead, only to have a caution negate the pass. After that Yantis tried his best, but Kaeding was mistake free up front on way to his first win of the year.<\/p>\n
Hard Charger Yantis, Colfax\u2019s Cole Croft, Salinas\u2019 Caleb Debem and fast qualifier Landon Henry of Sacramento rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n
Henry brings the point lead into next week, looking to wrap up the sprint car title at Watsonville Speedway.<\/p>\n
South Bay Dwarf Cars<\/p>\n
The South Bay Dwarf Cars saw an amazing 38-car turnout to race in memory of the late Mark Biscardi, who died in April. Several gracious individuals raised extra money for the purse and special awards during the night.<\/p>\n
Santa Rosa\u2019s Joey Lingron thundered into the lead when the main event got underway. He looked strong up front early on until biking in turn four on lap six, which dropped him several spots in the order.<\/p>\n
Salinas veteran Camron Diatte then found himself up front and kept the field at bay over the course of the 26-lap feature. The well-prepared surface allowed for some fantastic dwarf car racing behind him though.<\/p>\n
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Salinas’ Camron Diatte celebrates after his South Bay Dwarf Cars win at Watsonville Speedway on Friday night. (Top Dawg Photos)<\/p>\n
With things remaining entertaining behind him Diatte had to withstand a final one lap shootout to the finish. Campbell\u2019s Marty Weisler and Hollister\u2019s Chris Durden attempted to steal it on the last circuit, but Diatte hung tough and snagged the checkered flag ahead of both drivers.<\/p>\n
Baypoint\u2019s Danny Wagner, Pleasanton\u2019s Toby Brown, Santa Cruz\u2019s Terre Rothweiler, Auburn\u2019s Dan Geil, Brentwood\u2019s David Hays, Placerville\u2019s Corey Eaton and Campbell\u2019s Eric Weisler ran fourth through 10th, respectively.<\/p>\n
Hobby stocks<\/p>\n
The hobby stocks showcased a close battle up front between Watsonville drivers Adriane Frost and point leader Lilly Mead during the initial seven laps. The pair raced side by side while giving the fans on hand a tremendous display of hobby stock competition.<\/p>\n
Frost suffered a flat tire that took away her shot at victory. Mead led the remainder to scoop up her fourth win of the Watsonville Speedway campaign. Scotts Valley\u2019s Mark Cooper, Merced\u2019s Xavier Baez, Watsonville\u2019s Steve Remde and Morgan Hill\u2019s Jim DiGiovanni filled out the top five.<\/p>\n
Four bangers<\/p>\n
In the four bangers division, Scotts Valley\u2019s Ryan McClelland jumping into the lead. He held command until Santa Paula\u2019s Diego Nava took control on lap 11 and led the final four circuits to pick up another win at the track. McClelland and Union City\u2019s David Dupius also made the podium.<\/p>\n
IF YOU GO<\/p>\n
Fan Appreciation Night<\/p>\n
When: Friday, 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
Events: 360 Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Stock Car, Four Bangers<\/p>\n
Where: Watsonville Speedway<\/p>\n
Tickets: WatsonvilleSpeedway.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATSONVILLE \u2014 San Jose\u2019s Bud Kaeding scored his first sprint car triumph of the season, while Salinas\u2019 Camron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[172376,104582,172375,172371,88,90,89,172370,172373,172374,14615,104581,172372],"class_list":["post-434097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-four-bangers","tag-gary-thomas","tag-hobby-stocks","tag-salinas-camron-diatte-tops-dwarf-car-field-to-grab-the-mark-biscardi-memorial","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-joses-bud-kaeding","tag-santa-paulas-diego-nava","tag-south-bay-dwarf-cars","tag-sprint-cars","tag-watsonville-speedway","tag-watsonvilles-lilly-mead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}