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Killer "B" Racing -- 2010 NEWS & NOTES
1/1/10 -- Check out the progress of Braedens new Car on his facebook page -- He will be driving the #83 a 2006 Rude Chassis this year.
1/5/10 -- Braedens 2010 Schedule is up and posted under our Schedule Tab.....Check it out!!!!!
2/6/10 -- Spokane County Fairgrounds Indoor Karting Series. Braeden finished 3rd in the first heat and won the second heat. The body of the kart broke in the Main event on the pace lap and he was spun on the first turn of the first lap. Braeden came back from last and battled the broken body and finished 4th. Great Job Braeden.
4/7/10 -- State Line Speedway -- The track held a fun race for the late models present. Braeden, after posting a 13.8 second lap finishes the race in 1st. Good Job Braeden.
4/17/10 -- Sunset Speedway. Braeden Qualified on the poled today and finished 2nd in the Heat. After starting 10th in the main, Braeden worked his way up and by lap 7 he takes the lead on his way to a dominating Main Event win. Good Job Braeden.
5/1/10 - Sunset Speedway -- Braeden Wins The Clone Engine Heat, Clone Engine Main Event - Unlimted Trophy Dash and the Unlimited Main Event. Fantastic Nght For Braeden. Great Job!
5/15/10 -- Sunset Speedway -- Braeden Wins Again(3-In A Row) At Sunset Speedway Saturday, Winning the Clone Trophy Dash, Heat & Main Events. Also wins the Unlimited Heat and 23rd in the Unlimited Main after leading most of the race and then got punted by the 2nd place car.
5/22/10 -- State Line Idaho. Braeden Qualifies fourth for his first INSSA race ever and finishes fourth in the Main......Great Job Braeden!!!!!
6/5/10 -- Sunset Speedway, Washington Braeden Qualifies on the pole in the clone class and second in Unlimited Class. He then wins both main events and the Clone Trophy Dash. Awesome Work Braeden!!!!
6/15/10 -- Montana Raceway Park -- ARCA West Race -- Braeden fought an ill handling car all day and still brought home a 12th place finish in this 150 lap race. Good Job Braeden. Hope we can give you a better car next out...ONE POSITIVE NOTE Braeden won the Trophy Dash!!!!
6/26/2010 -- State Line Idaho -- INSSA -- Braeden led for the first 31 laps of the main event and then got punted and spun around by another car. Braeden battled back to finish 10th. Great Job Braeden....
7/3/2010 -- Montana Raceway Park -- ARCA Race -- OK weekend. Braeden wins the Trophy Dash and goes on to finish 12th in the race out of 32 cars. Still tryinh to figure out the new car set up
7/14/10 -- Montana 200 weekend. Braeden was 15th quickest in practice out of 35 cars so we thought we were going to have a great weekend. But we missed the setup on the car the second day and he qualified 37th out of 47 drivers. On any other day this time would have been in the top 5 but this was Montana 200 and all the best driver in the west coast were here. In the LCQ somebody forced Braeden into the outside wall and tore the car up pretty bad ended our day on lap 10. Onto the next race. Good Job Braeden Sorry we couldn't give you a fast car.
7/24/10 -- Braeden was back karting this weekend and had a great weekend. He won both heats and Won the Main event convincingly. Great Job Braeden.
7/31/10 -- Braeden ran Friday and Sunday in the INSSA race and the Idaho 200 race. He was running in the top ten all night long when oil on the track led to a spin and going a lap down. The officials missed the call and Braeden ended up a lap down and fought back all night to get 13th place.
Sunday Idaho 200 race was AWESOME - Braeden ran good and hard all day long and ended up finishing in the top ten against the best drivers in the Northwest and gained a lot of respect in his Inaugural ID200. Congratulations Braeden on a great run we are all very proud of you..
8/14/2010 - SUNSET SPEEDWAY -- Braeden sits on the Pole Position and after battling an ill handling Kart in the Heats goes on to win the Main Event and the Trophy Dash. Great Job Braeden
8/21/2010 - Stateline Speedway -- Braeden Qualified 5th with the fastest time he has ever ran at Stateline Speedway. Then after being caught up in someone else's wreck in the heat, he took out his back up car and brought home a respectable 7th place finish, all but locking up 2010 Rookie of The Year. GREAT JOB Braeden.
8/28/2010 - Sunset Speedway - Braeden Qualify's 3rd and battles an failing engine to bring home a second place finish and maintaining his points lead.
9/11/10 - Braeden Qualified 9th while battling an ill handling car. He ran as hight as fourth in the main event but blew a power steering pump line with 27 laps to go. The crew got him back out only losing a lap and he battled home with no power steering to bring home a 7th place finish. Great Job Braeden.
BRAEDEN ALSO WON 2010 INSSA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR - CONGRATULATIONS!!! ON A GREAT SEASON
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2009 news archive
Stateline Practice Day -- Wins Main
Sunset Speedway Race #1 April 18th -- Qualifies Second, Blows Engine In Main
SCR Race #1 May 3rd -- Qualifies Eighth, Wins Trophy Dash, Wins Heat, Fourth In Main
Stateline ICAR Race #1 May 2nd -- Rain Out
SCR Race #2 May 30th -- Qualifies Fifth, Wins Trophy Dash, 2nd Heat(after being spun out in turn two by another racer), Blows Water Pump While Leading Main Finishing 10th.
Stateline ICAR Race #2 June 6th -- Qualifies Second, 2nd in Trophy Dash After Spinning Going For The Win, 2nd In Heat, 2nd In Main
Sunset Speedway June 13th -- Qualifies Dead Last With Engine Problem, Struggles All Night With Engine, 3rd In Second Heat, Finally Gets It Running And Wins The Main
SCR Race #3 June 27th -- Bad Day At The Races. Qualfied Fifth And Appeared It Was Going To Be A Great Night, But A Five Dollar Seal And No Auto Parts Stores Open Kept Us From Racing At All. We Tried To Fabricate A Part But It Failed After Two Laps. I guess We Have To Pay Our Dues!!!!
Stateline Icar Race #3 July 11th -- Qualified 13th due to a tire issue. Won the Trophy Dash -- Went from 13th to 4th in 12 Laps and were on our way to the front when we ran over something on the track and put a hole in our oil pan. We will get them next time.
Montana 200 - July 18th -- Had Tons of fun and learned a lot. Thanks to the management for treating us like gold. We finished 12th in the first qualifier and 7th in the second qualifier. 28th overall. Great Learning Experience. Had no idea the quality of multi million dollar teams that were going to show and we were only one place and a crash that took us out, away from making the biggest event of the year. Great Job Braeden!!!!
Sunset Speedway July 25th, 2009 -- Fun night of racing at the kart track. Since we still repairing the late model Braeden went to the kart races and quallified on the pole. Won his heat race and finished 3rd in the main. Dear old dad beat Braeden in the main and won it.
July 31st -- Idaho 200 -- Finished 7th on Friday and 7th on Sunday due to a spin (rookie mistake). We will do better next year. Battled set up issues all day Sunday due to being involved in a wreck on Friday.
August 14th -- Kalispell Invitational / ARCA West Race. Started 23rd out of 31 entered cars. Climbed all the way up to finish 13th. Great weekend and good job Braeden
Sunset Speedway August 22nd -- Qualified Outside Pole. FInished second by 3 inches in the Dash. Won the Heat and went from last to finishing second in the Main Event. Just ran out of laps. Two more laps and he would have won!
September 5th -- Stateline Speedway ICAR -- Braeden was among the fastest cars tonight and qualified 4th. He then won the A Trophy Dash. Braeden's excellent night was cut short due to a broken oil pump.
September 12th -- SCR -- Braeden Qualified 6th out of 16 cars. He finished third in Heat "A". In the main he led three laps and then decided to try the dirt on the backstretch. After recovering from the spin and minor contact Braeden restarted the race in 15th and drove through the field for an awesome 6th place finish
September 26th -- ICAR Final Season Race -- Braeden had an awesome night and finished 6th overall out of 26 cars. Had some problems with the sway bar in qualfiying and qualified 13th. Braeden was running 2nd and 3rd all main and with 3 laps to go ran up on lapped traffic. The lapped traffic stayed in the racing line and was shuffled back to a 5th place finish. The 2nd main was marred by a 5 car accident which shuffled back to 18th and then with 15 laps to go Braeden drove from 18th to a 8th place finish. Great Job Braeden.