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Inside Line Promotions – CHICO, Calif. (April 15, 2025) – Dominic Scelzi captured a top-five result during the opening night of the Mini Gold Cup last weekend at Silver Dollar Speedway.
It was a strong night for Scelzi from the start as he qualified fifth quickest out of the 29 drivers. A heat race win locked him into the fifth starting position in the main event.
“We were really good,” he said. “We qualified good and heat raced good. There in the main event we were good as well. The track was just rough and one lane. I went searching early and that got me in trouble. Late in the race, I got rolling pretty good around the bottom. The last handful of laps I moved to the top in turns one and two. I closed on second and third, but it was incredibly hard to pass.”
The fourth-place finish marked Scelzi’s second straight top five.
The weekend concluded on Saturday with a NARC 410 Sprint Car Series show. Scelzi was seventh quickest in his group and he advanced from third to second place in a heat race, garnering the 12th starting spot in the main event.
“We were good until halfway,” he said. “Then we had zero grip and zero drive. The last five to seven laps I wasn’t able to maintain any longer. I feel like that’s unlike how we’ve been the last few weeks.”
Scelzi spent almost the entire race battling just outside the top five before fading in the last couple of laps to a 12th-place result.
“The restarts were pretty good for me, but the yellows killed me,” he said. “I went eighth to fifth and a red came out and negated it. Another time we went seventh to fifth and another caution negated it. I felt like the yellows didn’t fly when it helped. That’s just part of the luck in racing and it wasn’t on our side Saturday.”
Scelzi plans to invade Merced Speedway in Merced, Calif., this Saturday for a Sprint Car Challenge Tour event.
“I love Merced,” he said. “It always seems to race really good and it’s really racy. I won there in 2023 and hope we can get back to Victory Lane.”
QUICK RESULTS –
April 11 – Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, Calif. – Qualifying: 5; Heat race: 1 (1); Feature: 4 (5).
April 12 – Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, Calif. – Qualifying: 7; Heat race: 2 (3); Feature: 12 (12).
SEASON STATS –
7 races, 0 wins, 2 top fives, 5 top 10s, 7 top 15s, 7 top 20s
UP NEXT –
Saturday at Merced Speedway in Merced, Calif., with the Sprint Car Challenge Tour
MEDIA LINKS –
Website: http://www.DominicScelziRacing.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scelzi41
X: http://www.x.com/DominicScelzi
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- Shawn Miller on Apr 15, 2025
- Article Date: 4/15/2025 by Inside Line Promotions