Golobic Rolls To Third King Of The West Sprint Car Win
At Petaluma Speedway

Petaluma, CA...July 14...Shane Golobic scored the victory in the 30 lap King Of The West/NARC Fujitsu Sprint Car Series Main Event Saturday night at Petaluma Speedway. This was his third win of the season aboard the Tarlton Motorsports entry, and the win paid $3,000. Golobic is currently second in series points. He charged out into the lead at the start, and the race had a red flag immediately when Marcus Dumesey and Colby Copeland ended up flipping on the back straightaway.

Golobic again grabbed the lead, followed by point leader Kyle Hirst. A low pass in Turn 3 of the ninth lap gained Bud Kaeding second, and he set his sights on leader Golobic. Tanner Thorson made the inside pass in Turn 2 on lap 12 to steal third from Hirst. In the waning laps, Kaeding began to pressure Golobic, but Golobic made a good pass on the outside of a slower car as they raced to the white flag. Golobic went on to score the satisfying victory ahead of Kaeding, Thorson, Hirst, Chase Johnson, Copeland, Jason Statler, Willie Croft, Sean Watts and Richard Brace Jr.

Kaeding set the quick lap of 12.779, beating the 12.826 effort of Hirst. The 19 car field ran three 10 lap heat races, and Golobic, Watts and Copeland picked up the wins. Golobic grabbed the pole for the Main Event by holding off Hirst to win the six lap Trophy Dash.

Mitch Machado continued his strong bid for The Lumberjacks Restaurant Super Stock championship by winning his 4th straight 25 lap Main Event and sixth of the season. Machado won by about six car lengths ahead of reigning champion Matt While. Manny Avilla was a distant third with Shawn McCoy the final lead lap finisher. Steve Studebaker, Tim O'Hara, Snazzy Duckworth, Sean Cook, Austin Ohlinger and Sid Hess rounded out the Top 10. Eight lap heat race wins were recorded by Machado and Studebaker.

After a rough start, reigning General Hydroponics Redwood Dwarf Car champion Dave Mosier seems to have hit his stride. Mosier won a good battle with Adam Teves and Chad Mathias to collect his third straight 25 Main Event victory. Scooter Gomes outran Zack Albers in another good battle for fourth as Mark Hanson, John Peters, Carol Mendenhall, Miranda Chappa and Brandon Gentry completed the Top 10 at the checkered flag. Teves, Hanson and Mosier each won their respective eight lap heat races.

Jeremy Tjensvold became the fourth straight different winner in the Jake's Performance Hobbies Mini Stock 20 lap Main Event. It was also his first start and he collected his win with Danny Manzoni close behind in second. Samone Chrisman was about a straightaway behind the leaders in third as Roberta Broze, Roy Dearing, Sean Hale, Trevor Rodriguez, Tom Brown, Dave Spindell and Sophie Shelley made up the remainder of the Top 10. Spindell and Brown each won six lap heat races.

Next Saturday night is another special Open Wheel themed show with the PitStopUSA.com Winged 360 Sprint Cars, a shootout race between the BCRA and USAC Western States Midgets and the Santa Rosa Auto Body 600 Micros. The Jake's Performance Hobbies Mini Stocks will also be back for the four division program. For further information, go to www.petaluma-speedway.com.


Petaluma Speedway Unofficial Race Results
Fujitsu King Of The West/NARC Sprint Cars
Results are not official
1     #21x Shane Golobic    
2     #0 Bud Kaeding
3     #3c Tanner Thorson
4     #83 Kyle Hirst
5     #68 Chase Johnson
6     #16a Colby Copeland
7     #00 Jason Statler
8     #29 Willie Croft
9     #98 Sean Watts
10     #2r Richard Brace Jr
11     #25 Bobby McMahan
12     #57 Dustin Golobic
13     #12 Jarrett Soares
14     #18 Jenna Frazier
15     #9n Geoff Ensign
16     #24 Colby Johnson    
17     #28 Nathan Rolfe    
18     #83sa Matt Dumesny    
19     #14 Marcus Dumesny        

Lumberjacks Restaurant Super Stocks
Results are not official
1     #22m Mitch Machado
2     #3 Matt While
3     #07 Manny Avila
4     #60 Shawn McCoy
5     #46 Steve Studebaker
6     #27 Tim O'Hara
7     #18 Snazzy Duckworth
8     #11c Sean Cook
9     #85 Austin Ohlinger
10     #51d Sid Hess

General Hydroponics Redwood Dwarf Cars
1     #23r Dave Mosier        
2     #42r Adam Teves
3     #9r Chad Matthias
4     #66r Scooter Gomes
5     #22r Zack Albers
6     #79r Mark Hanson
7     #71r John Peters
8     #11r Carroll Mendenhall
9     #81 Miranda Chappa
10     #31r Brandon Gentry
11     #03r Mike Affonso
12     #13r Trevor Mendenhall
13     #34r Sam Borland    
14     #43r Michael Williams
15     #21r Marcus Hardina        
16     #08r Adam Freitas
17     #59r Matt Hagemann            

Jake's Performance Hobbies Mini Stocks
Results are not official
1     #3xr Jeremy Tjensvold    
2     #m1a Danny Manzoni
3     #7c Samone Chrisman
4     #25c Roberta Broze
5     #c4 Roy Dearing
6     #32 Sean Hale
7     #7 Trevor Rodriguez
8     #3r Tom Brown
9     #13 Dave Spindell    
10     #22z Sophie Shelley    
11     #8 Adin Avila