Mini Gold Cup

Just getting around to writing a quick wrap up of the WoO weekend up at Chico and it sounds like after reading the rundowns that Friday night was pretty phenominal while Saturday struggled to live up to Friday, even though Saturday provided excitement in the heats with Jason Meyers going 8th to 2nd for a dash spot and T-Mac going last to 5th to garner a transfer spot for the A.

Joey Saldana made it 5 for 5 for the million dollar operations (KKR & TSR) after winning Friday nights race from the 3rd row. That race included something like 12 cautions and 2 red flags for the 40 lap race and it took over an hour to complete. Sounded like the track was pretty tacky with some ruts, but from what I saw there was some great racing action when the green flag was out. Danny Lasoski and Steve Kinser avoided all of the trouble and ended up making mega-runs from the back of the pack to finish in the top five to save a lot of points.

Onto Saturday night with the track taking some rubber in the dash, as reported, but the heat races were pretty interesting on a slicker surface with those runs being made by Meyers and McCarl. Lots of passing going on throughout, but the feature wasn't as good even though Lasoski did challenge for the lead from Meyers on the backstretch of the last lap, but did come a little short as Meyers held on to win for the first time year. Great weekend for the DDNI #14 as they finished 2nd with a 1st. Saturday's win came after timing in at 31st on the night and going 8th to 2nd in his heat to make the dash. He definitely earned the win after a dismal qualifying effort.

Horrible weekend for the 3 time defending champion as his struggles continued at Chico with a fuel-line issue that sent him to the back on Friday (still finished 10th) and then struggling again on Saturday by coming home 13th. The points really shrank after these two races with The King and Meyers making up massive ground in that ground. The struggles could continue for Schatz as the WoO stays in Cali and head to Tulare, another short track he's struggled at in the past, for a double header starting Friday. I'll hopefully get a blog up a little quicker by this time next week recapping those races at the Thunderbowl!

Saturday Results
A-main (40 laps) - Starting Position [#]
1) 14-Jason Meyers[1] [$10,000]
2) 6-Danny Lasoski[10] [$5,000]
3) 20-Kraig Kinser[2] [$3,000]
4) 19-Craig Dollansky[6] [$2,700]
5) 11-Steve Kinser[4] [$2,500]
6) 7S-Jason Sides[7] [$2,200]
7) 55-Kerry Madsen[8] [$2,000]
8) R19-Jac Haudenschild[12] [$1,800]
9) 2-Jesse Hockett[9] [$1,600]
10) O-Jonathan Allard[13] [$1,450]
11) 35A-Wayne Johnson[15] [$1,300]
12) 24T-Tyler Walker[14] [$1,200]
13) 15-Donny Schatz[20] [$1,100]
14) 83-Tim Kaeding[16] [$1,000]
15) 6X-Kyle Hirst[19] [$950]
16) 1X-Randy Hannagan[11] [$900]
17) 5W-Lucas Wolfe[17] [$850]
18) 24-Terry McCarl[24] [$750]
19) 9-Joey Saldana[5] [$725]
20) 2SB-Sean Becker[23] [$700]
21) 8K-Chad Kemenah[18] [$700]
22) 26B-Bobby McMahan[21] [$700]
23) 11C-Roger Crockett[22] [$700]
24) 10-Sammy Swindell[3] [$700]

Lap leaders: Jason Meyers 1-40

Friday Results:
A-main (40 laps) - Starting Position [#]
1) 9-Joey Saldana[5] [$10,000]
2) 14-Jason Meyers[7] [$5,000]
3) 24-Terry McCarl[1] [$3,000]
4) 6-Danny Lasoski[21] [$2,700]
5) 11-Steve Kinser[24] [$2,500]
6) 8K-Chad Kemenah[14] [$2,200]
7) 10-Sammy Swindell[10] [$2,000]
8) 1X-Randy Hannagan[6] [$1,800]
9) 55-Kerry Madsen[17] [$1,600]
10) 15-Donny Schatz[3] [$1,450]
11) 19-Craig Dollansky[2] [$1,300]
12) 5W-Lucas Wolfe[18] [$1,200]
13) 20-Kraig Kinser[22] [$1,100]
14) 22-Brian Ellenberger[20] [$1,000]
15) 33E-Evan Suggs[19] [$950]
16) 83-Tim Kaeding[11] [$900]
17) O-Jonathan Allard[4] [$850]
18) 24T-Tyler Walker[12] [$750]
19) R19-Jac Haudenschild[8] [$725]
20) 7S-Jason Sides[25] [$0]
21) 92-Andy Forsburg[16] [$700]
22) 6X-Kyle Hurst[13] [$700]
23) 11C-Roger Crockett[9] [$700]
24) 2F-Brad Furr[15] [$700]
25) 1XX-Brett Miller[23] [$700]

Notes: Steve Kinser started 24th in the A-Feature after having to utilize a back-up car after an accident in the Crane Cams Dash.

Jason Sides used a World of Outlaws provisional to start the A-Feature.

Lap Leaders: Craig Dollansky 1-25, Joey Saldana 26-40