Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (April 18, 2011) – The newly-formed American Sprint Car Series Southern California Region was slated to kick off its inaugural season of competition a couple of weekends ago, but Mother Nature had other ideas by nixing the April 9 card with excessive rain. Now, the ASCS Southern California Region will try it again this Saturday night atop the 3/8-mile, high-banked Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway clay oval in Hanford, CA, with racing action set to go green at 6:30...more

Lonnie Wheatley, HANFORD, Cal. (April 23, 2011) – Fresno’s Tommy Tarlton made his ASCS presence known when he rallied from 22nd to claim third in the Lucas Oil ASCS National debut at Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway in February. So, when the ASCS Southern California Region contested its inaugural event on Saturday night atop the 3/8-mile Kings clay oval, it seemed only fitting that Tarlton tally the win in the 25-lapper. While Tarlton gridded the feature field outside the third row, it was pole...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (April 25, 2011) – Tommy Tarlton etched his name into the record books as the winner of the inaugural ASCS Southern California feature event this past Saturday night at Hanford’s Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway. The Fresno racer won’t have time to rest on his laurels though, as the ASCS Southern California winged forces take to Tulare’s high-banked, 1/3-mile Thunderbowl Raceway clay oval this Saturday night. Saturday’s tilt marks the second ASCS So Cal event of the...more

TULARE, Cal. (October 8, 2011) – Tim Kaeding won Saturday night’s ASCS Southern California Region season finale at the Thunerbowl Raceway. Kaeding beat SoCal champ Tommy Tarlton to the stripe, with Jac Haudenschild, Bud Kaeding and Craig Stidham rounding out the top five. ASCS Southern California Region Results from Thunderbowl Raceway: Heat One: 1. 2L-Logan Forler, 2. 3-Craig Stidham, 3. 21-Tommy Tarlton, 4. 94-Steven Tiner, 5. 57-Billy Butler, 6. 17v-Danny Faria, Jr., 7. 77n-Garrett...more

HANFORD, Cal. (September 10, 2011) – Tommy Tarlton rebounded from an opening-lap incident to win Saturday night’s ASCS Southern California main event at Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway. After being forced tailback after the opening-lap fracas, Tarlton raced back through the field and ultimately took the lead from Craig Stidham on the 16th round en route to his fifth series win of the year. Tarlton took the checkered flag ahead of Stidham, with Eric Humphries, Garrett Netto and D.J. Netto...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (October 3, 2011) – The inaugural season of ASCS Southern California Region competition comes to a close this Saturday night when the series takes to the 1/3-mile Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, CA. And, with five triumphs in seven ASCS SoCal events thus far in 2011, Tommy Tarlton has the top spot on the point charts locked up. With an April 30 victory at Thunderbowl among his five series wins, Tarlton holds an insurmountable 412-point lead over Eric Humphries,...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (September 6, 2011) – Action continues for the ASCS Southern California Region this Saturday night as the series takes to the 3/8-mile Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway clay oval in Hanford, CA. Following Saturday’s Kings card, only the October 8 event at Tulare’s Thunderbowl Raceway remains on the inaugural slate of ASCS SoCal competition. Tommy Tarlton has found the ASCS Southern Cal Region to his liking with four wins in six events, including the most recent...more

Lonnie Wheatley, HANFORD, Cal. (May 21, 2011) – Bud Kaeding picked off his first American Sprint Car Series Southern California Regional win by racing to victory lane in Saturday night’s 30-lap main event at Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway. The triumph marked Kaeding’s third career winged ASCS feature win after sweeping a Rocky Mountain Region weekend at Dodge City in July of 2007. Kaeding took Saturday night’s checkered flag in front of Ronnie Day, with Justin Sanders, current ASCS SoCal...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (May 16, 2011) – Round four of the inaugural ASCS Southern California Regional slate is set for Saturday night as the series takes to Hanford’s Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway. Out to the early ASCS SoCal points lead, Tommy Tarlton topped the inaugural series event at Kings on April 23 and guns for a third win in four tries. Tartlon not only won the season opener, but made it two in a row with a Thunderbowl triumph at Tulare a week later before having his win...more

Inside Line Promotions – HANFORD, Calif. (June 26) – It was a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde weekend for Tommy Tarlton. But after a mostly Jekyll outcome the last couple of weekends, he’ll take it. The Easton, Calif., native crashed while in the lead on Friday, dropping from a potential win to a fourth-place finish with the Ocean Sprints at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, Calif. However, Tarlton found some redemption and returned to his winning ways on Saturday at Giant Chevrolet Kings Speedway in...more