Justin Sanders won a thriller with the High Limit Series Saturday at Placerville (Video Highlights from FloRacing.com)
There have been several drivers over the course of Sprint Car Racing to rightfully earn the moniker of "Super Sub" - a title reserved for those who tentatively step into a seat with lofty expectations and promptly deliver results.
On Saturday night at Placerville Speedway, Justin Sanders joined that club.
Filling in for Aaron Reutzel - who suffered a broken foot at Eldora Speedway last month - the Aromas, California native was entrusted with the Kubota High Limit Racing championship hopes for Ridge & Sons Racing on the west coast, and he's living up to the hype.
Scoring his first-career national series victory, the 32-year-old did it in thrilling fashion as he passed Kaleb Montgomery coming to the white flag and survived a hectic last lap by 0.104-second at the stripe.
While it was Sanders' first national win as the pilot, it was also Aaron Reutzel's first national win in the crew chief role, who is still at the track each night and getting Sanders acclimated with his #87.
Sanders' first, to go along with Reutzel's first four, brings the Ridge & Sons Racing group to five trips to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane in 2025 - and puts them 15-points behind the championship lead with Kubota High Limit Racing.
On the bitter end of defeat at Placerville was Kaleb Montgomery, who led the opening 33 laps before the late-race heartbreak. The Templeton, California 25-year-old was still all smiles post-race, plenty happy with his performance against a national caliber field while still in the early stages of his wing racing career. He certainly won over a heap of race fans entering the Gold Cup Race of Champions next week.
Closing out a podium that was completely controlled by California natives was Visalia, CA transplant, Cory Eliason. It was his fourth-career podium with Kubota High Limit Racing, but the first driving for Washington car owner Shannon Wheatley.
Brad Sweet, from 15th, and Spencer Bayston closed out the top-five at Placerville. Rounding out the top-10 was Tanner Thorson, Shane Golobic, Daison Pursley, Andy Forsberg, and Gauge Garcia.
THE ALL-IN NOTEBOOK (8/16/25)
Placerville Speedway (Placerville, CA)
Dirt Draft Fastest in Hot Laps - Daison Pursley (10.346)
Capital Custom Trailers QuickTime - Justin Sanders (10.295)
TJ Forged Heat One Winner - Tanner Carrick
DMI Heat Two Winner - Jake Andreotti
BR Motorsports Heat Three Winner - Daison Pursley
Rod End Supply Heat Four Winner - Corey Day
C-Main Winner - Jace Park
FK Rod Ends Dash Winner - Kaleb Montgomery
Winters Performance B-Main Winner - Tanner Thorson
Jake's Golf Carts Fastest Lap Award - Corey Day (11.643)
Rod End Supply Hard Charger - Tanner Thorson +15 (21st-to-6th)
Lap Leaders - Kaleb Montgomery 1-33; Justin Sanders 34-35
Kubota A Feature (35 Laps): 1. 87-Justin Sanders[3]; 2. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[1]; 3. 45-Cory Eliason[4]; 4. 49-Brad Sweet[15]; 5. W-Spencer Bayston[5]; 6. 88-Tanner Thorson[21]; 7. 17W-Shane Golobic[9]; 8. 13-Daison Pursley[6]; 9. 92-Andy Forsberg[14]; 10. 2K-Gauge Garcia[11]; 11. 42-Sye Lynch[18]; 12. 83T-Tanner Carrick[8]; 13. 26-Justin Peck[16]; 14. 41-Dominic Scelzi[17]; 15. 0-Tim Kaeding[10]; 16. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[22]; 17. 24-Rico Abreu[25]; 18. 19-Brent Marks[23]; 19. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[12]; 20. 10-Dominic Gorden[24]; 21. 14-Corey Day[2]; 22. 7B-Sean Becker[19]; 23. 7P-Jake Andreotti[7]; 24. 24D-Danny Sams III[13]; 25. X1-Chance Grasty[20]
Winters Performance B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 88-Tanner Thorson[1]; 2. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 3. 19-Brent Marks[3]; 4. 10-Dominic Gorden[5]; 5. 21-James McFadden[10]; 6. 17M-Colby Copeland[7]; 7. 9-Chase Randall[11]; 8. 21L-Landon Brooks[6]; 9. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield[8]; 10. 15-Michael Sellers[9]; 11. 73-Ryan Bernal[4]; 12. 24-Rico Abreu[12]; 13. 17-Jace Park[13]; 14. 5-Brenham Crouch[14]
C Feature (8 Laps): 1. 17-Jace Park[1]; 2. 5-Brenham Crouch[3]; 3. 2XM-Max Mittry[4]; 4. 24K-Koa Crane[5]; 5. 9F-DJ Freitas[6]; 6. 12J-John Clark[2]; 7. 7W-Dennis Scherer[8]; 8. 18T-Tanner Holmes[7]
FK Rod Ends Dash (7 Laps): 1. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[1]; 2. 14-Corey Day[2]; 3. 87-Justin Sanders[3]; 4. 45-Cory Eliason[6]; 5. W-Spencer Bayston[7]; 6. 13-Daison Pursley[5]; 7. 7P-Jake Andreotti[4]; 8. 83T-Tanner Carrick[8]
TJ Forged Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 83T-Tanner Carrick[2]; 2. 17W-Shane Golobic[3]; 3. 24D-Danny Sams III[1]; 4. 87-Justin Sanders[4]; 5. 7B-Sean Becker[5]; 6. 19-Brent Marks[7]; 7. 88-Tanner Thorson[6]; 8. 15-Michael Sellers[9]; 9. 17-Jace Park[10]; 10. 24K-Koa Crane[8]
DMI Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7P-Jake Andreotti[1]; 2. 2K-Gauge Garcia[2]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet[3]; 4. 41-Dominic Scelzi[5]; 5. W-Spencer Bayston[4]; 6. 10-Dominic Gorden[8]; 7. 17M-Colby Copeland[7]; 8. 9-Chase Randall[10]; 9. 5-Brenham Crouch[6]; 10. 18T-Tanner Holmes[9]
BR Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 13-Daison Pursley[1]; 2. 0-Tim Kaeding[2]; 3. 92-Andy Forsberg[6]; 4. 42-Sye Lynch[3]; 5. 45-Cory Eliason[4]; 6. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[5]; 7. 21L-Landon Brooks[7]; 8. 21-James McFadden[8]; 9. 12J-John Clark[9]; 10. 9F-DJ Freitas[10]
Rod End Supply Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Corey Day[1]; 2. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[2]; 3. 26-Justin Peck[3]; 4. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[4]; 5. X1-Chance Grasty[5]; 6. 73-Ryan Bernal[9]; 7. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield[8]; 8. 24-Rico Abreu[6]; 9. 2XM-Max Mittry[7]; 10. 7W-Dennis Scherer[10]
Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 87-Justin Sanders, 00:10.295[7]; 2. W-Spencer Bayston, 00:10.395[12]; 3. 24D-Danny Sams III, 00:10.537[18]; 4. 7P-Jake Andreotti, 00:10.546[4]; 5. 83T-Tanner Carrick, 00:10.582[14]; 6. 2K-Gauge Garcia, 00:10.586[3]; 7. 17W-Shane Golobic, 00:10.631[5]; 8. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:10.681[9]; 9. 7B-Sean Becker, 00:10.707[13]; 10. 41-Dominic Scelzi, 00:10.715[10]; 11. 88-Tanner Thorson, 00:10.767[16]; 12. 5-Brenham Crouch, 00:10.772[2]; 13. 19-Brent Marks, 00:10.780[19]; 14. 17M-Colby Copeland, 00:10.801[8]; 15. 24K-Koa Crane, 00:10.841[1]; 16. 10-Dominic Gorden, 00:10.876[15]; 17. 15-Michael Sellers, 00:10.896[6]; 18. 18T-Tanner Holmes, 00:10.910[20]; 19. 17-Jace Park, 00:10.967[11]; 20. 9-Chase Randall, 00:11.083[17]
Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying B (2 Laps): 1. 45-Cory Eliason, 00:10.562[16]; 2. 3-Kaleb Montgomery, 00:10.633[17]; 3. 13-Daison Pursley, 00:10.672[14]; 4. 14-Corey Day, 00:10.717[13]; 5. 0-Tim Kaeding, 00:10.722[15]; 6. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr, 00:10.756[4]; 7. 42-Sye Lynch, 00:10.806[6]; 8. 26-Justin Peck, 00:10.813[2]; 9. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:10.817[11]; 10. X1-Chance Grasty, 00:10.824[10]; 11. 92-Andy Forsberg, 00:10.845[5]; 12. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:10.851[12]; 13. 21L-Landon Brooks, 00:10.863[20]; 14. 2XM-Max Mittry, 00:10.934[19]; 15. 21-James McFadden, 00:10.957[7]; 16. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield, 00:11.071[18]; 17. 12J-John Clark, 00:11.151[1]; 18. 73-Ryan Bernal, 00:11.264[8]; 19. 9F-DJ Freitas, 00:11.284[3]; 20. 7W-Dennis Scherer, 00:11.447[9]
NEW 2025 Kubota High Limit Racing Championship Standings (After 29/51 Races):
Kasey Kahne Racing #49 (1,704 PTS... -)
Ridge & Sons Racing #87 (1,689 PTS...-15)
Clauson-Marshall Racing #7BC (1,671 PTS... -33)
Rico Abreu Racing #24 (1,633 PTS... -71)
Murray-Marks Motorsports #19 (1,584 PTS... -120)
Rudeen Racing #26 (1,479 PTS... -225)
Rod Gross Motorsports #88 (1,471 PTS... -233)
Buch Motorsports #13 (1,265 PTS... -439)
Jason Meyers Racing #14 (1,245 PTS... -459)
Chase Randall Racing #9R (1,188 PTS... -516)
CJB Motorsports #5 (1,147 PTS... -557)
Mosites Lynch Racing #42 (1,102 PTS... -602)
Randerson Racing #24D (973 PTS... -731)
UP NEXT: The 71st Gold Cup Race of Champions is next for Kubota High Limit Racing. Held from Thursday-Saturday, August 21-23 at Chico's Silver Dollar Speedway, the prestigious California crown jewel will feature split-field preliminary fields before the famed $100,071-to-win finale. Fans can buy tickets at HighLimitRacing.com.