CHICO, CA (6/6/26) The NARC King of the West Sprint Car Series made their second appearance of the year at Silver Dollar Speedway for the David Tarter Memorial with 27 cars signed in for the 9th race of the 2026 season. Justin Sanders bested the 27-car field in ARP Qualifying to set Quick Time with a lap of 11.280 seconds. It was Sanders’ series-best 4th Quick Time of the 2026 season. The 2005 NARC King of the West series champion, Sean Becker, won Kaeding Performance Heat Race 1, his 1st Heat Race win of the season. Tanner Carrick made his 5th appearance of the year with NARC and picked up the win Hill’s Premium Meats Heat Race 2, his first Heat Race win of the season. Silver Dollar Speedway Promoter and NARC regular, Colby Copeland, won his 3rd Heat Race of the season in BMRS Heat Race 3. The three Heat Race winners and fastest transfer cars out of each Heat Race locked into the 6-lap HD Titanium Dash. Chance Grasty drew the pole of the HD Titanium Dash and won his 3rd Dash of the season in his 7th Dash appearance of the year. Sean Becker and Chance Grasty would enter turn 3 on the first lap side by side, with Grasty jumping out to lead lap 1 of the 35 lap event, honoring the late David Tarter. Grasty would stretch out a lead to well over a second before he entered lapped traffic.  Becker and Justin Sanders took advantage of traffic to close the gap on Grasty. Sanders made his way to second on lap 12 and started his pursuit of Grasty with 23 laps remaining. Becker and Mariah Ede would make contact with 13 laps completed, Ede ended upside down but walked away. Nick Parker spun and did a 360 off turn 4, bringing out a yellow flag with 13 laps completed. Jarrett Soares slowed to a stop on lap 21 to go. Sanders made a big run on the bottom of turns 1 and 2 with 13 laps remaining to take the lead from Grasty and started to stretch out his advantage. On the last lap Billy Aton and Anthony Pope came together in turn 1, resulting in Aton spinning, Justin Sanders made contact with Aton, having no where to go, and stopped, bringing out the yellow.  Grasty would inherit the and hold off the field for the final 2 laps to pick up his 1st career NARC King of the West victory.
DJ Netto went 12th to 5th, earning FK Rod Ends Hard Charger award honors. The NARC King of the West Sprint cars return to action on Thursday June 11th at Southern Oregon Speedway in White City, OR for Round 1 of the Fastest Five Days Road to Dirt Cup built by Lippert Construction. For more information, visit NARC410.com.  Follow us on X @NARC410, on Facebook.com/NARCKingoftheWest, and on Instagram NARC410.You can catch every NARC King of the West race live on FloRacing.com and the FloSports app. Hoosier Tire A Feature (35 Laps): 1. X1-Chance Grasty[1]; 2. 21-Colby Copeland[6]; 3. 0-Tim Kaeding[5]; 4. 21L-Landon Brooks[7]; 5. 88N-DJ Netto[13]; 6. 83T-Tanner Carrick[4]; 7. 17W-Shane Golobic[8]; 8. 29-Bud Kaeding[14]; 9. 10-Dominic Gorden[9]; 10. 41-Dominic Scelzi[10]; 11. 2A-Austin Wood[18]; 12. 24-Max Mittry[17]; 13. 2X-Justin Sanders[3]; 14. 26-Billy Aton[12]; 15. 88A-Joey Ancona[11]; 16. 7C-Ryan Bernal[15]; 17. 15-Nick Parker[19]; 18. 12J-John Clark[21]; 19. 4-Burt Foland Jr[24]; 20. 21X-Anthony Pope[23]; 21. 121-Caeden Steele[16]; 22. 7B-Sean Becker[2]; 23. 12-Jarrett Soares[22]; 24. 14-Mariah Ede[20]B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 15-Nick Parker[1]; 2. 14-Mariah Ede[2]; 3. 12J-John Clark[3]; 4. 12-Jarrett Soares[5]; 5. 21X-Anthony Pope[8]; 6. 4-Burt Foland Jr[9]; 7. 7W-Dennis Scherer[6]; 8. 9-Dustin Freitas[7]; 9. 551-Angelique Bell[4]HDTI Dash (6 Laps): 1. X1-Chance Grasty[1]; 2. 7B-Sean Becker[4]; 3. 2X-Justin Sanders[5]; 4. 83T-Tanner Carrick[3]; 5. 0-Tim Kaeding[6]; 6. 21-Colby Copeland[2]Kaeding Performance Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7B-Sean Becker[2]; 2. 2X-Justin Sanders[4]; 3. 10-Dominic Gorden[1]; 4. 88A-Joey Ancona[3]; 5. 29-Bud Kaeding[6]; 6. 24-Max Mittry[7]; 7. 15-Nick Parker[5]; 8. 551-Angelique Bell[9]; 9. (DNS) 9-Dustin FreitasHill’s Premium Meats Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 83T-Tanner Carrick[1]; 2. 21L-Landon Brooks[2]; 3. 41-Dominic Scelzi[5]; 4. 26-Billy Aton[3]; 5. 7C-Ryan Bernal[7]; 6. X1-Chance Grasty[4]; 7. 14-Mariah Ede[9]; 8. 12-Jarrett Soares[6]; 9. 21X-Anthony Pope[8]BMRS Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Colby Copeland[2]; 2. 17W-Shane Golobic[1]; 3. 0-Tim Kaeding[4]; 4. 88N-DJ Netto[3]; 5. 121-Caeden Steele[6]; 6. 2A-Austin Wood[7]; 7. 12J-John Clark[5]; 8. 7W-Dennis Scherer[9]; 9. 4-Burt Foland Jr[8]ARP Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 2X-Justin Sanders, 11.280[5]; 2. X1-Chance Grasty, 11.383[20]; 3. 0-Tim Kaeding, 11.396[1]; 4. 10-Dominic Gorden, 11.485[8]; 5. 83T-Tanner Carrick, 11.558[26]; 6. 17W-Shane Golobic, 11.613[19]; 7. 7B-Sean Becker, 11.614[16]; 8. 21L-Landon Brooks, 11.631[22]; 9. 21-Colby Copeland, 11.669[13]; 10. 88A-Joey Ancona, 11.677[21]; 11. 26-Billy Aton, 11.713[12]; 12. 88N-DJ Netto, 11.722[7]; 13. 15-Nick Parker, 11.741[25]; 14. 41-Dominic Scelzi, 11.746[14]; 15. 12J-John Clark, 11.749[3]; 16. 29-Bud Kaeding, 11.777[6]; 17. 12-Jarrett Soares, 11.866[10]; 18. 121-Caeden Steele, 11.885[17]; 19. 24-Max Mittry, 11.902[11]; 20. 7C-Ryan Bernal, 11.992[2]; 21. 2A-Austin Wood, 12.055[27]; 22. 9-Dustin Freitas, 12.124[23]; 23. 21X-Anthony Pope, 12.343[4]; 24. 4-Burt Foland Jr, 12.357[15]; 25. 551-Angelique Bell, 12.381[18]; 26. 14-Mariah Ede, 12.475[9]; 27. 7W-Dennis Scherer, 12.573[24]