By: Joe Burrage & The Insider

The defending King of the West Champion Tim Kaeding and the Roth Motorsports Team has been on role for the past month. Kaeding picked up two wins with the World of Outlaws and has never felt more confident behind the wheel of a sprint car.

On Saturday night Kaeding and the Roth Motorsports Team owned by Dennis and Teresa Roth made its way to the Antioch Speedway in Antioch, California for the King of the West Series opener. The action packed 1/3 mile bullring has been good to Tim Kaeding over the years and the San Jose, California driver was looking to keep the momentum going.

Tim Kaeding and Chico, California Jonathan Allard started the feature event on the front row. Kaeding wanted to get the jump on Allard immediately and use the cushion to his advantage and he did just that when he saw the green flag. Kaeding muscled ahead of the white No.0 sprinter going into turns one and two and he started to stretch his lead going down the back stretch, after the first lap was completed Kaeding had opened up five car length lead.

Kaeding continued to drive a solid race and even when he had to deal with multiple side by side restarts the No.83 sprinter was up for the task. Kaeding would open up a sizeable lead and he quickly started to work lapped traffic in the final stages of the race. As Kaeding worked traffic perfectly, Jonathan Allard car started to come alive. Allard would get closer and closer to Tim Kaeding as the race continued but it was not enough as Tim Kaeding drove underneath the checkered flag for his first King of the West Sprint Series win of the 2012 season.

“First and foremost I have to thank Dennis and Teresa Roth for giving this opportunity to drive their car in 2012,” said Kaeding. “I also have to thank my crew, Sonny Kratzer and the guys have this 83 car working great anywhere on the track, its so fun to drive this car right now and I am so excited to get another win for them and hopefully we can keep this going the rest of the year. I also have to thank all of the fans for coming out tonight and supporting 410 sprint car racing here in California, I hope everyone had a good time.”