Golobic Controls Gold Cup SCCT Opener

CHICO, Calif. — So far this season Shane Golobic has been on a mission at Silver Dollar Speedway and that continued Wednesday night when the reigning track champion captured the SCCT-sanctioned Pacific Sprint Cup for the second straight year.

Golobic made the winning move past Andy Forsberg on lap six and held off all challengers working lapped traffic to perfection. It marked his 13th career Elk Grove Ford Sprint Car Challenge Tour presented by Abreu Vineyards triumph, which ranks No. 1 all-time.

Forsberg led the field to green after winning the High Sierra Industries Dash and held command early on. A few stoppages occurred early but after a lap three restart the remainder went green to checkered.

92 17 Sikver Dollar — Shane Golobic (17) races under Andy Forsberg at Silver Dollar Speedway. (Joe Shivak photo)

Golobic hounded Forsberg looking to find a way by and got to his inside with six laps complete. After that Golobic worked traffic well but had to hit his marks as Forsberg closed in on numerous occasions.

As he always does, Golobic never faltered and accepted the checkered flag for victory over Forsberg and Tanner Carrick who rounded out the podium.

It was Golobic’s fourth win in five races at Silver Dollar Speedway this season.

Chase Johnson crossed the stripe in fourth with Chance Grasty putting together an impressive run in fifth. Kyle Larson ran sixth.

Fifty-five cars cars competed on opening night of the 69th Gold Cup Race of Champions. Larson opened the night by earning the Sierra Foothills Wine Services Fast Time Award with a lap of 11.788 around the quarter-mile.

The finish
Feature (30 laps): 1. 17W-Shane Golobic[2]; 2. 92-Andy Forsberg[1]; 3. 83T-Tanner Carrick[4]; 4. 28-Chase Johnson[7]; 5. 1-Chance Grasty[10]; 6. 57-Kyle Larson[6]; 7. 21-Shane Hopkins[22]; 8. 115-Nick Parker[8]; 9. 4SA-Justin Sanders[13]; 10. 0-Jonathan Allard[23]; 11. 45-Jake Morgan[17]; 12. 21T-Cole Macedo[15]; 13. 7B-Sean Becker[18]; 14. 8-William Fielding[24]; 15. 8JR-Brian McGahan Jr[21]; 16. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[20]; 17. 10-Dominic Gorden[16]; 18. 76-Kenny Allen[5]; 19. 7-Ashton Torgerson[3]; 20. 94X-Landon Brooks[12]; 21. 22C-Carly Holmes[11]; 22. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield[14]; 23. 7C-Tony Gomes[19]; 24. 4-Corey Day[9]