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USAC: MCI Worldcom Western Midget Car Series Race Results, Bakersfield

13 March 2000

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
MCI WORLDCOM USAC WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: March 11, 2000 -- Bakersfield, California - Bakersfield Speedway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Clay Klepper, 17x, Hartman-12.678; 2. Kasey Kahne, 29, Tomassi-12.793; 3. Steve Paden, 63, Pinkston-12.910; 4. Wally Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-12.933; 5. Jimmy Sills, 40, Calderwood-13.005; 6. Robert Dolacki, 31, Hogan-13.017; 7. Danny Ebberts, 14, Ebberts/Schlacter-13.066; 8. Brian Stanfill, 24, Hart-13.066; 9. Bobby Boone, 96, Boone-13.084; 10. Larry Brown, 36. Brown-13.122; 11. Alex Harris, 54, Harris-13.135; 12. Rick Hendrix, 12, Hendrix-13.233; 13. Scott Nail, 71, Haynes-13.235; 14. Josh Wise, 37, Mitchell-13.254; 15. Marc DeBeaumont, 117, Hartman-13.301; 16. John Sarale, 2, Caves-13.380; 17. Chris Oddo, 23, Oddo-13.415; 18. Thomas Meseraull, 00, Meseraull-13.423; 19. Jerry Kobza, 10, Walker-13.460; 20. Dwayne Marcum, 5, Marcus-13.538; 21. Shane Scully, 56, Scully-13.708; 22. Tatsu Iino, 95, Brown-14.732; 23. Billy Sipe, 42, Sipe-15.003; 24. Bill Lawless, 17, Hartman-19.001; 25. Derrick Hearron, 27, Hearron-NT; 26. A.J. Johnson, 81, Johnson-NT; 27. Annie Coppel, 10x, Walker-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Ebberts, 2. Kobza, 3. Nail, 4. Klepper, 5. Sarale, 6. Pankratz, 7. Brown, 8. Iino, 9. Hearron. 1:46.24

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Kahne, 2. Oddo, 3. Stanfill, 4. Wise, 5. Sills, 6. Harris, 7. Marcum, 8. Sipe, 9. Johnson. 1:46.27

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Meseraull, 2. Scully, 3. Hendrix, 4. DeBeaumont, 5. Dolacki, 6. Paden, 7. Boone, 8. Klepper, 9. Coppel. 1:46.38

SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Pankratz, 2. Sills, 3. Brown, 4. Paden, 5. Boone, 6. Sarale, 7. Harris, 8. Hearron, 9. Iino, 10. Dolacki, 11. Sipe. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kasey Kahne, 2. Clay Klepper, 3. Danny Ebberts, 4. Thomas Meseraull, 5. Wally Pankratz, 6. Alex Harris, 7. John Sarale, 8. Bobby Boone, 9. Marc DeBeaumont, 10. Brian Stanfill, 11. Scott Nail, 12. Larry Brown (#95), 13. Shane Scully, 14. Jerry Kobza, 15. Derrick Haerron, 16. Jimmy Sills, 17. Josh Wise, 18. Steve Paden, 19. Rick Hendrix, 20. Chris Oddo. NT

**Oddo flipped during the feature. Paden suffered a concussion in an accident during the feature and was transported to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield for treatment.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Sills, Laps 26-30 Kahne.

NEW MCI WORLDCOM WESTERN MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Klepper-102; 2-Kahne-92; 3-Ebberts-87; 4-Meseraull-70; 5-Paden-70; 6-Ryan Newman-63; 7-Dave Darland-57; 8-Pankratz-55; 9-Boone-54; 10-A.J. Fike-53.

NEXT MCI WORLDCOM WESTERN MIDGET CAR RACE: March 25 - Madera (CA) Speedway

Text provided by USAC

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