PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Dominic Scelzi claimed his initial Placerville Speedway win during the 2021 Dave Bradway Jr. Memorial and returned Friday to bring home his second, this time around with the SCCT 360 Sprint Cars.
It marked his eighth career triumph with the Elk Grove Ford Sprint Car Challenge Tour presented by Abreu Vineyards, moving him into sole possession of second on the all-time list. The $3,000 win on opening night of the Bradway came aboard his familiar Scelzi Ent./ Red Rose Transportation No. 4D1 machine.
“This place has always been one of those tracks that’s been a bit tough on me, but Jimmy Carr keeps giving me great race cars and we’ve come a long way as of late,” said a happy Scelzi in victory lane. “It’s such a tough field of cars out here in California that you almost have to be perfect. Corey Day has lit a fire under me as well and he pushed me hard there, but fortunately, I was able to fend him off and get my first 360 win at Placerville.”
Justin Sanders snagged the High Sierra Industries Dash and led the early stages of the feature, which saw a long green flag run. Close racing occurred up front with several battles taking place throughout the field. With lapped traffic coming into play things got real as the top-five cars all bunched up.
Sanders was picking his spots well, but on lap 19 caught the berm just hard enough to send him sliding over the edge, allowing Scelzi the chance to grab the top-spot. Andy Forsberg and Corey Day were also right their looking to pounce on the leader. Day was able to make the pass of Forsberg and then came after Scelzi while running the extreme low line around the bullring.
Day would nip Scelzi at the line to lead lap 24, only to have the two-time NARC champ move back around to lead lap 25. As the race wound down Day hounded Scelzi’s tail tank looking for a way by but banged the cushion hard in turn four on lap 38, which let Scelzi escape en route to the checkered flag.
Scelzi became the first two-time winner in SCCT action this year and crossed the stripe ahead of Day, Michael Faccinto, Sanders and Shane Golobic in the top-five. The remainder of the top-10 was filled out by Forsberg, Caeden Steele, Sean Becker, 18th starter Dylan Bloomfield and Arizona driver Ashton Torgerson.
Feature Finish (35 Laps)
1. 4D1-Dominic Scelzi[2]; 2. 41-Corey Day[6]; 3. X1-Michael Faccinto[5]; 4. 4SA-Justin Sanders[1]; 5. 17W-Shane Golobic[13]; 6. 92-Andy Forsberg[3]; 7. 121-Caeden Steele[11]; 8. 7B-Sean Becker[14]; 9. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield[18]; 10. 02-Ashton Torgerson[7]; 11. 69-Bud Kaeding[9]; 12. 17-Kalib Henry[10]; 13. 7C-Tony Gomes[24]; 14. 42X-Justyn Cox[20]; 15. 21-Shane Hopkins[16]; 16. 2L-Logan Forler[19]; 17. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[22]; 18. 83T-Tanner Carrick[12]; 19. 94TH-Kyle Hirst[23]; 20. 7-Jake Morgan[17]; 21. 9L-Luke Hayes[8]; 22. 12R-Mitchell Faccinto[15]; 23. 5V-Colby Copeland[4]; 24. 46JR-Joel Myers Jr[21]