CHICO, Calif. (September 6, 2022) — By Gary Thomas
Chico, CA…Fremont’s Shane Golobic has been as hot as any driver in California the last few weeks and added another victory on Wednesday night, by picking up the Sprint Car Challenge Tour sanctioned “Pacific Sprint Cup” at Silver Dollar Speedway.
Sharing victory lane with Golobic on Wednesday was San Jose throttle masher Shawn Jones, who earned his first Joe Hunt Magnetos Wingless Tour triumph of the season.
The 30-lap SCCT feature began with 15-year-old Chance Grasty jumping into the lead. The Suisun City youngster held a steady lead out front as the action was hot and heavy behind him. Elk Grove’s Kyle Larson had spun out on the original attempt and many eyes were turned his way, with the 2-time Gold Cup champ blasting his way through the field. Grasty led the first laps of his career with the Sprint Car Challenge Tour but when traffic came into play it gave Max Mittry and Golobic a chance to close.
On lap 13 Mittry carved his way past Grasty and brought Golobic along for second. The racing continued to keep fans on the edge of their seats with side-by-side action all through the field. Larson ended up cracking into the top-five on lap 20 as he found the high side to his liking. Golobic was also able to make his way by Mittry with 21 laps complete to snag the lead that he would never relinquish. The driver of the Matt Wood Racing/ NOS Energy Drink No. 17w accepted the checkered flag for his 11th career Sprint Car Challenge Tour win.
Larson continued his charge as the laps wound down and got past Mittry just before the finish to end up second. Mittry crossed the stripe in third to earn his first ever SCCT podium. Lincoln’s Tanner Carrick and Grasty rounded out the top-five. Completing the top-10 were Joel Myers Jr., Landon Brooks, Michael Faccinto, Pit Stop USA Hard Charger Tim Kaeding and Sean Becker.
Kyle Larson began the evening by earning the Bianchi Farms Fast Time Award by touring the bullring in 12.272 seconds. He went home with $800 total courtesy extra money from Joey and Joelle Carr.
Shawn Jones won the Hunt Magnetos Wingless Tour main event.
Gold Cup Race of Champions – Night #1
Silver Dollar Speedway
Chico, California
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Sprint Car Challenge Tour
Qualifying Flight A
1. 1-Chance Grasty, 12.522[3]
2. 38B-Blake Carrick, 12.553[5]
3. 17W-Shane Golobic, 12.566[4]
4. 9L-Luke Hayes, 12.606[6]
5. 83SA-Isaiah Vasquez, 12.634[7]
6. 94X-Steel Powell, 12.730[8]
7. 42X-Tim Kaeding, 12.757[2]
8. 33H-Eric Humphries, 12.897[1]
Qualifying Flight B
1. 5V-Landon Brooks, 12.348[6]
2. X1-Michael Faccinto, 12.402[3]
3. 7C-Kaleb Montgomery, 12.572[8]
4. 28-Chase Johnson, 12.698[7]
5. 21-Shane Hopkins, 12.704[1]
6. 77-Ryan Lippincott, 12.779[4]
7. 5-Kenny Wanderstadt, 12.872[5]
Qualifying Flight C
1. 57-Kyle Larson, 12.272[7]
2. 83T-Tanner Carrick, 12.299[2]
3. 2XM-Max Mittry, 12.411[3]
4. 14W-Ryan Robinson, 12.446[6]
5. 83V-Sean Becker, 12.490[5]
6. 15-Cody Key, 12.551[1]
7. 21X-Gauge Garcia, 12.596[4]
8. 4SA-Justin Sanders, 12.596[8]
Qualifying FLight D
1. 88N-DJ Netto, 12.349[2]
2. 46JR-Joel Myers Jr, 12.438[8]
3. 75-Tony Gomes, 12.465[3]
4. 33-Dylan Bloomfield, 12.491[6]
5. 78-Bret Barney, 12.591[1]
6. 92-Andy Forsberg, 12.607[4]
7. 8JR-Brian McGahan Jr, 12.798[5]
8. 87-Ashlyn Rodriguez, 12.938[7]
Heat Race #1 (8 Laps)
1. 17W-Shane Golobic[2]
2. 1-Chance Grasty[4]
3. 9L-Luke Hayes[3]
4. 38B-Blake Carrick[1]
5. 94X-Steel Powell[6]
6. 83SA-Isaiah Vasquez[5]
7. 42X-Tim Kaeding[7]
8. 33H-Eric Humphries[8]
Heat Race #2 (8 Laps)
1. 7C-Kaleb Montgomery[2]
2. X1-Michael Faccinto[1]
3. 5V-Landon Brooks[4]
4. 28-Chase Johnson[3]
5. 21-Shane Hopkins[5]
6. 77-Ryan Lippincott[6]
7. 5-Kenny Wanderstadt[7]
Heat Race #3 (8 Laps)
1. 2XM-Max Mittry[2]
2. 83T-Tanner Carrick[1]
3. 57-Kyle Larson[4]
4. 14W-Ryan Robinson[3]
5. 83V-Sean Becker[5]
6. 21X-Gauge Garcia[7]
7. 15-Cody Key[6]
Heat Race #4 (8 Laps)
1. 46JR-Joel Myers Jr[1]
2. 88N-DJ Netto[4]
3. 92-Andy Forsberg[6]
4. 33-Dylan Bloomfield[3]
5. 8JR-Brian McGahan Jr[7]
6. 87-Ashlyn Rodriguez[8]
7. 78-Bret Barney[5]
8. 75-Tony Gomes[2]
Dash (6 Laps)
1. 1-Chance Grasty[2]
2. 5V-Landon Brooks[1]
3. 2XM-Max Mittry[3]
4. 17W-Shane Golobic[4]
5. 57-Kyle Larson[6]
6. 46JR-Joel Myers Jr[5]
7. 88N-DJ Netto[8]
8. 7C-Kaleb Montgomery[7]
B-Main (12 Laps)
1. 83SA-Isaiah Vasquez[2]
2. 21X-Gauge Garcia[1]
3. 87-Ashlyn Rodriguez[4]
4. 42X-Tim Kaeding[7]
5. 75-Tony Gomes[9]
6. 78-Bret Barney[6]
7. 77-Ryan Lippincott[3]
8. 15-Cody Key[5]
9. 5-Kenny Wanderstadt[8]
A-Main (30 Laps)
1. 17W-Shane Golobic[4]
2. 57-Kyle Larson[5]
3. 2XM-Max Mittry[3]
4. 83T-Tanner Carrick[9]
5. 1-Chance Grasty[1]
6. 46JR-Joel Myers Jr[6]
7. 5V-Landon Brooks[2]
8. X1-Michael Faccinto[10]
9. 42X-Tim Kaeding[24]
10. 83V-Sean Becker[17]
11. 28-Chase Johnson[16]
12. 14W-Ryan Robinson[13]
13. 33-Dylan Bloomfield[14]
14. 38B-Blake Carrick[15]
15. 9L-Luke Hayes[11]
16. 92-Andy Forsberg[12]
17. 21-Shane Hopkins[18]
18. 87-Ashlyn Rodriguez[23]
19. 21X-Gauge Garcia[22]
20. 94X-Steel Powell[19]
21. 83SA-Isaiah Vasquez[21]
22. 88N-DJ Netto[7]
23. 7C-Kaleb Montgomery[8]
24. 8JR-Brian McGahan Jr[20]
Hunt Magnetos Wingless Tour
Heat Race #1 (8 Laps)
1. 51-Shane Hopkins[3]
2. 14-Shawn Jones[8]
3. 7M-Jake Morgan[5]
4. 151-Eric Hopkins[1]
5. 17-Anthony Snow[2]
6. 24N-Nick Larson[10]
7. 17M-Evan Gularte[4]
8. 33-Heath Holdsclaw[9]
9. 60-Scott Clough[7]
10. 7-Trey Walters[6]
Heat Race #2 (8 Laps)
1. 2STX-Brent Steck[1]
2. 3-Nick Robfogel[4]
3. 12-Jarrett Soares[2]
4. 7EJ-Josh Young[3]
5. 3T-Daniel Whitley[9]
6. 79-Mark Hanson[5]
7. 16-Nathan Johnson[8]
8. 121-Brian Slubik[6]
9. 31P-Eathon Lanfri[10]
10. 98Z-Jordan Garretson[7]
A-Main (25 Laps)
1. 14-Shawn Jones[1]
2. 7M-Jake Morgan[4]
3. 3T-Daniel Whitley[10]
4. 12-Jarrett Soares[3]
5. 24N-Nick Larson[11]
6. 7EJ-Josh Young[8]
7. 33-Heath Holdsclaw[15]
8. 31P-Eathon Lanfri[18]
9. 60-Scott Clough[17]
10. 17-Anthony Snow[9]
11. 151-Eric Hopkins[7]
12. 7-Trey Walters[19]
13. 79-Mark Hanson[12]
14. 98Z-Jordan Garretson[20]
15. 17M-Evan Gularte[13]
16. 16-Nathan Johnson[14]
17. 2STX-Brent Steck[6]
18. 51-Shane Hopkins[2]
19. 3-Nick Robfogel[5]
20. 121-Brian Slubik[16]