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Shane Golobic wins 1st career GSC main event
by Gary Thomas

Saturday, April 12, 2008 Results
Qualifying 410 Sprints Results

WATSONVILLE, CA (4-12-08) - 16 year-old Shane Golobic put together an impressive night of action Saturday at the Ocean Speedway and capped it all off with a dominating drive to lead all 30 laps and pick up his first career Golden State Challenge Series main event win. The youngster looked very good at the track during the first GSC stop in March and came back this time to very nearly record a clean sweep aboard the Brian Sperry wrenched car.

Driving the Joe Von Schriltz owned No. 121 Golobic was the class of the field all night long as he set fast time, won the dash and proceeded to easily win the 30 lap A-main event. Warm temps during the day caused the track to dry out considerably as the evening went on and when feature time came about; the bottom groove was the place to be. The Fremont driver jumped out to big leads during much of the race however, and his only real challenge came after a handful of laps were completed.

Golobic had been leading the first four laps by a fairly large margin, but as traffic came into play it allowed current Golden State Challenge Series point leader Jonathan Allard of Chico to close in. Just as that happened though a caution flew on lap six and at the same time, disaster almost struck for the leaders as Ken Fredenburg spun in front of them. Golobic clipped Fredenburg and it sent the No. 23 car upside down to bring out the red flag. Thankfully for the youngster his car was fine and he was able to continue on without any worries.

The final 24 laps saw Golobic pull out to a commanding lead as he drove away from the field to convincingly pick up his first career Golden State Challenge Series main event victory. “This is just awesome and it really hasn’t sunk in yet,” the 16 year-old said in the pits following the races. Golobic credited crew chief Brian Sperry for giving him a great car all night long as well as former GSC champ Tim Green for coaching him during the night. He and father John also wanted to thank car owner Joe Von Schriltz as this has been a great combination for the youngster during two starts in the machine this season. Golobic became the third first time winner during the first seven races of the '08 season.

Allard held onto the second position the whole way to score his best finish of the early GSC season aboard the Williams Motorsports No. 0 and defending GSC champ Brent Kaeding of Campbell finished third to score his third straight podium. Scotts Valley’s Evan Suggs brought home a fourth place finish for the second straight week in a row in the GLR Investments No. 33e with Campbell’s Bud Kaeding rounding out the top five aboard the Alviso Rock No. 29.

The rest of the top 10 in the 30 lap feature was made up of Los Gatos' Jason Statler, Los Angeles’ Tyler Walker, Ripon’s Brandon Carey, Fresno’s Mark Workentine and Petaluma’s Mike Mossi. It was the second consecutive week that Mossi had a good finish and it was nice to see for a guy that travels up and down California with an open trailer on a shoe string budget.

The Golden State Challenge Series will make its way to the Petaluma Speedway next Saturday night for the eighth race of the season.