The first night of the historic 2024 Gold Cup Race of Champions race week of the NASCAR Kubota High Limit Racing Series got done and dusted on Thursday, August 22, at Silver Dollar Speedway in California, with 24 entries.
Corey Day, driving the #14 entry, began his Gold Cup Race of Champions title defense with a dominating win in the Thursday night event at Silver Dollar Speedway.
Corey Day emerged victorious after beating Spencer Bayston during the first restart and stayed out front without any challenge to cross the finish line in P1. Day started the race from eighth position and grabbed the lead for the first time from Hendrick Motorsports and Kyle Larson’s brother-in-law Brad Sweet on lap 8 of the 30.
Day will come back on Saturday, August 24, to win back-to-back Gold Cup Race of Champions and a prize money of $100,070.
Meanwhile, Spencer Bayston finished runner-up, followed by Chase Johnson, Chris Windom, and Shane Golobic in the top five. Zeb Wise, Andy Forsberg, Sean Becker, Dylan Bloomfield, and Ryan Bernal completed the top 10.
Kyle Larson’s brother-in-law Brad Sweet finished 12th in the final running order.
NASCAR Kubota High Limit Racing race at Silver Dollar Speedway final results
Below are the final results of NASCAR’s Kubota High Limit Series race at Silver Dollar Speedway:
- #14 - Corey Day
- #5 - Spencer Bayston
- #24C - Chase Johnson
- #55 - Chris Windom
- #17W - Shane Golobic
- #26 - Zeb Wise
- #92 - Andy Forsberg
- #7B - Sean Becker
- #18 - Dylan Bloomfield
- #73 - Ryan Bernal
- #21 - Cole Macedo
- #49 - Brad Sweet
- #42X - Justyn Cox
- #13 - Justin Peck
- #9P - Parker Price-Miller
- #83T - Tanner Carrick
- #2K - Gauge Garcia
- #18T - Tanner Holmes
- #2XM - Max Mittry
- #21P - Robbie Price
- #45M - Jake Morgan
- #15 - Nick Parker
- #45 - Landon Brooks
- #88A - Joey Ancona
Kubota High Limit Series points table
- Brad Sweet - 2457
- Corey Day - 2178
- Justin Peck - 2076
- Spencer Bayston - 1985
- Tyler Courtney - 1981
- Parker Price-Miller - 1963
- Zeb Wise - 1881
- Rico Abreu - 1831
- Brent Marks - 1801
- Chris Windom - 1696
Catch the other half of NASCAR Kubota High Limit Racing Series drivers at the Silver Dollar Speedway on Friday (August 23) before Saturday’s main event.