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Golobic Thrills Crowd With Last Lap Pass For Win

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Silver Dollar Speedway Golobic Advances 13 Spots to Win Sprint Car Main Event CHICO, Calif., May 10, 2024…Shane Golobic thril
Fan Appreciation Night This Friday May 10

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Silver Dollar Short Track Rescheduled for Saturday...

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Golobic Thrills Crowd With Last Lap Pass For Win

Golobic Thrills Crowd With Last Lap Pass For Win

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Silver Dollar Speedway Golobic Advances 13 Spots to Win Sprint Car Main Event CHICO, Calif., May 10, 2024…Shane Golobic thrilled the crowd on Friday night with a late race maneuver that even shocked his crew in victory lane. With just two laps to...more
Fan Appreciation Night This Friday May 10

Fan Appreciation Night This Friday May 10

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Silver Dollar Speedway Contact: SLC Promotions, silverdollarspeedway@yahoo.com Fan Appreciation Night up Next at Silver Dollar Speedway CHICO, Calif., May 6, 2024…SLC Promotions is pleased to announce that this Friday night, May 10th, is Fan...more
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Silver Dollar Short Track Rescheduled for Saturday, May 18 Due to Inclement Weather May 2, 2024 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 2, 2024) – This weekend’s Silver Dollar Short Track, scheduled for Saturday, May 4 at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California, has been postponed...more
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Gravel Wins Friday Night Race
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9/11/2021

9/11/2021

Silver Dollar Speedway


Gravel Wins Friday Night Race

CONNECTICUT NATIVE WINS FIRST FEATURE AT CALIFORNIA'S SILVER DOLLAR SPEEDWAY

The Greatest Show on Dirt didn’t disappoint in quickly making up for the two-year abscence from California.

Four different leaders and eight unofficial lead changes wowed the Silver Dollar Speedway crowd on Friday night as the 67th running of the Gold Cup Race of Champions brought the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series back to town.

It was a long awaited return (728 days) for the Chico faithful, but it was an even longer awaited victory for David Gravel.

Specifically, it took eight years, 17 races, and 530 laps for the Watertown, CT native to break through at the 1/4-mile bullring and claim his first-career win at Silver Dollar Speedway. In the grand scheme of things, it marked nine wins in 2021 for the Big Game Motorsports #2 and gave Gravel 67 career wins with the Series, which moves him into 13th on the All-Time Wins List.

To get the job done, Gravel had to outlast Colby Copeland, Sheldon Haudenschild, and Brad Sweet through an intense four-war war for the top spot. He became the fourth and final leader on Lap 17, then survived lap traffic and the final restart to score the victory by 1.202-seconds.

“Man, I’ve been coming here for a long time,� Gravel said on his Silver Dollar history. “I’ve always struggled to qualify well here, but we timed in good tonight and that put us in a solid position. We’re constantly learning, I mean this is still our first year together. I think we’re really growing and everyone is meshing between Tod [Quiring], Cody [Jacobs], Trey [Bowman], and Scott [Vogelson]. Feels great to finally get a win here, especially in such an exciting race.�

Before Gravel’s glory, the spotlight was shined brightly on Colby Copeland of Roseville, CA. The 29-year-old, in his 17th World of Outlaws start, earned the pole position and put the country on upset alert as he eyed his first-career victory.

Copeland shot to the lead of the 35-lapper and controlled the opening 10 laps aboard the Laramie #16A. However, intense traffic created chaos and allowed outside polesitter Sheldon Haudenschild to close and eventually put the NOS Energy Drink #17 to the point on Lap 11.

Haudenschild’s reign was short-lived as he, Copeland and Brad Sweet took each other three-wide the next time by. Copeland slid through the middle across Haudenschild’s nose and Sweet capitalized, nailing the bottom and rolling on past to lead Lap 12.

Sweet’s shot at the top lasted two whole laps before Copeland built his momentum and whipped back by on the cushion. He would lead another three circuits before fifth-starting Gravel appeared from nowhere and drove by them all on the low line as Lap 17 clicked off.

The remains of lap traffic and the final restart with eight laps to go tried to derail Gravel, but he was not to be denied as he drove away with his first-career Silver Dollar triumph to kick off the Gold Cup.

“Tomorrow being 40 laps is pretty close to tonight’s length,� Gravel thought on track conditions. “I really hope they can give us the same surface, it was awesome. I think in open track the top was better, but traffic was crucial tonight and I hit the bottom at the perfect times behind those guys. Hopefully we put on another awesome show tomorrow night.�

Shattering his former career-best finish (13th) with the World of Outlaws, Roseville’s Colby Copeland crossed the line with a second-place effort and received a standing ovation from the Chico crowd as the leading Californian.

“Any driver when you lead laps you want to win, so there’s a bit of disapointment there,� Copeland noted. “But these guys are the best of the best. I’m out there ripping and they give there extra 10% and start blowing by me. It’s a whole different pace out here. I felt like we raced good, though. It was a lot of fun and all I can ask for is the same speed tomorrow night.�

Grass Valley’s Brad Sweet continued his consistent championship campaign with his 31st podium finish aboard the Kasey Kahne Racing, NAPA Auto Parts #49. He’s hoping that losing his streak of Gold Cup prelim wins will transition to finally scoring a Gold Cup title in the finale tomorrow.

“It was a great race track tonight, I thought,� Sweet said. “We were just a little off with the setup, but we have something to build on for tomorrow. Hopefully we can come back and get us a Gold Cup.�

Closing out the top-five on Friday night was Sheldon Haudenschild in the fourth spot and Kraig Kinser with his fourth top-five finish of the year.

Rounding out the top-10 at Silver Dollar was Shark Racing’s Jacob Allen in sixth, California’s Dominic Scelzi with a season-best seventh, Kasey Kahne Racing’s James McFadden in eighth, Roth Motorsports pilot Kasey Kahne in ninth, and KSE Hard Charger Carson Macedo in 10th-from-21st.

UP NEXT (Sat): The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series return to Chico, CA’s Silver Dollar Speedway tomorrow, Saturday, September 11 for the finale of the 67th Gold Cup Race of Champions. If you can’t be here, you can watch Every Lap LIVE on DIRTVision.

NOS Energy Drink Feature Results (35 Laps) – 1. 2-David Gravel [5][$10,000]; 2. 16A-Colby Copeland [1][$5,500]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet [4][$3,200]; 4. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild [2][$2,600]; 5. 11K-Kraig Kinser [3][$2,350]; 6. 1A-Jacob Allen [8][$2,150]; 7. 41S-Dominic Scelzi [17][$2,100]; 8. 9-James McFadden [12][$1,950]; 9. 83-Kasey Kahne [19][$1,900]; 10. 41-Carson Macedo [21][$1,850]; 11. 83T-Tanner Carrick [14][$1,400]; 12. 38B-Blake Carrick [6][$1,200]; 13. 15-Donny Schatz [22][$1,000]; 14. 7-Carson Short [10][$950]; 15. 88N-DJ Netto [23][$900]; 16. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss [11][$900]; 17. 42X-Tim Kaeding [15][$900]; 18. 2K-JJ Ringo [16][$900]; 19. 7S-Jason Sides [20][$900]; 20. 37-Mitchell Faccinto [9][$900]; 21. 29-Willie Croft [13][$900]; 22. 93-Kalib Henry [24][$900]; 23. 53-Jessie Attard [18][$900]; 24. 1S-Logan Schuchart [7][$900]. Lap Leaders: Colby Copeland 1-10, 14-16; Sheldon Haudenschild 11; Brad Sweet 12-13; David Gravel 17-35. KSE Hard Charger Award: 41-Carson Macedo[+11]

NEW Championship Standings (67/80 races): 1. Brad Sweet (8,864); 2. David Gravel (-128); 3. Carson Macedo (-180); 4. Donny Schatz (-252); 5. Sheldon Haudenschild (-286); 6. Logan Schuchart (-360); 7. James McFadden (-736); 8. Kraig Kinser (-1022); 9. Brock Zearfoss (-1284); 10. Jacob Allen (-1548).

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