Corey Day wins second straight High Limit feature at Placerville
NXTbets Pro | Published On: August 23, 2026
Corey Day
Corey Day closed his final sprint car weekend of the season with a second straight Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing feature win, this time at Placerville Speedway in Placerville, California. He drove Jason Meyers’ No. 14 car to the victory and backed up the previous night’s feature win at Thunderbowl Raceway with another strong run under the lights at Placerville. The back-to-back results gave Day a clean finish to a weekend that highlighted how quickly he found his rhythm in the series. He arrived at Placerville carrying the momentum from the Thunderbowl win and left with another feature trophy in hand. The result also reinforced how sharp he has been in High Limit competition this season, because he did not need a long stretch to build his resume. He simply kept winning when the opportunity came. That consistency has carried through the final stage of his sprint car schedule and gave him another reason to leave the dirt track portion of his season on a high note.
Placerville momentum
The Placerville victory was Day’s sixth feature win in 13 High Limit starts this season, a sharp return every time he has climbed back into the car. That rate of production stands out because it shows he converted a limited number of series outings into a string of wins. He made the most of the trips that mattered and turned them into results that shaped the season around him. The win at Placerville also served as the capstone to his final sprint car weekend, which made the performance feel like a strong closing chapter rather than just another stop on the schedule. Day now moves away from the sprint car side of his season and turns his attention to his NASCAR ride with Hendrick Motorsports for the rest of the year. That shift gives him a different focus, but the form he showed in High Limit racing leaves him with plenty of momentum. He exits the sprint car portion of the season with multiple wins in close succession, and the Placerville run adds one more clean result to a year that has already delivered six feature victories in the series.
Landon Brooks
Landon Brooks gave Day the closest chase in the feature, finishing second after starting eighth. The run stood out because Brooks had to work forward from deep in the field before he reached the runner-up spot. He also backed up a strong performance from the previous night, giving him his second podium finish in two nights. That kind of consistency across two races put him among the top performers of the weekend, even if he came up short of the win at Placerville. Shane Golobic, Tanner Holmes and Giovanni Scelzi completed the top five, giving the feature a strong finish behind the front two runners. The order underlined how competitive the race stayed through the closing positions, with Brooks holding second and the next three drivers filling out the rest of the top five. Day’s win may have grabbed the headline, but the finish behind him gave Brooks another solid result and kept Golobic, Holmes and Scelzi in the mix at the front of the field.
