Scelzi Garners Second Top Five of the Season During Event at Silver Dollar Speedway

Inside Line Promotions – CHICO, Calif. (March 30, 2015) – Dominic Scelzi powered to his second top five of the season last Friday at Silver Dollar Speedway.

Scelzi kicked off the race in the Dan Monhoff sprint car by qualifying 14th quickest, which was only two spots out of the heat race inversion on the quarter-mile bullring.

“On Friday we were just a little free in qualifying, which ended up hurting us,” Scelzi said. “In the heat race we tried some different things to try to get a handle on a slick track. They helped and so we made a few more changes for the main event and it was absolutely perfect.”

After finishing where he started – fifth – in a heat race, Scelzi lined up on the outside of the seventh row for the main event.

“It was really, really slick with a cushion right on the edge and a little grip on the bottom,” he said. “I moved up to about ninth or 10th on the bottom. I was biding my time. I never saw anybody get up top. On a restart I went up there and picked off two or three cars. A couple of laps later I moved up there in turns three and four as well and ran the top the rest of the race.”

Scelzi mastered the cushion en route to a fifth-place result.

He returned to Silver Dollar Speedway on Saturday in his Roth Motorsports backed, family owned sprint car for the Mini Gold Cup with the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.

“We qualified in the heat race inversion, which was great,” he said.

Scelzi’s qualifying effort of 16th quickest out of 44 competitors lined him up on the pole of a heat race, which he led for the first half of the 10 laps.

“We had a couple of restarts with Brad Sweet next to me and we were able to get away,” he said. “Unfortunately we had a mag come loose, which retarded the engine. It was popping and sputtering. It was like running on seven cylinders instead of all eight.”

Scelzi held on for a fourth-place finish in the heat race to lock himself into the main event, which he started 14th.

“We ended up changing motors because we couldn’t find the issue until we got the motor out,” he said. “However, mechanical issues slowed us in the main event and we ended up pulling in early.”

Scelzi was credited with a 26th-place finish.

He is slated to return to action this Saturday at Placerville Speedway in Placerville, Calif., with the King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series. Scelzi has a pair of top fives and three top 10s in his last four races at the high-banked track.