Chanse Vigen, who now calls Calgary home, finished in first place after one night of racing at the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede.
Vigen, defending his title, raced through on a slow, somewhat muddy track in a penalty-free time of 1:05.07.
Locally, High River's Jason Glass came in 13th, with DeWinton's Dayton Sutherland coming in 21st and Blackie's Jordie Fike came through in 30th but he did get dinged for a two second penalty for a false start.
Jason Glass is in first place in the world standings.
This is the third event of the season and the first using only three wagons per heat, over 12 heats for a total of 36 drivers and wagons competing.
The top 3 wagons in the aggregate after Saturday night's races will compete in the final on Sunday.
Here are last night's results:
Day 1 Results
1 - Chanse Vigen - Volker Stevin Canada - 1:05.07
2 - Kurt Bensmiller - Grey Eagle Resort & Casino - 1:05.70
3 - Jamie Laboucane - Wild Rows Pump & Compression Ltd. - 1:06.13
4 - Ross Knight - Komat Drilling Ltd. - 1:06.20
5 - Wade Salmond - De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. - 1:06.57
6 - Kris Molle - Benoit Oilfield Construction (1997) Ltd. - 1:06.58
7 - Troy Flad - Shadow Rathole Drilling Ltd. - 1:06.88
8 - Mitch Sutherland** - Grey Eagle Resort & Casino - 1:07.08
9 - Troy Dorchester* - PureChem Services - 1:07.17
10 - Layne Flad - Hranco Industries Ltd. - 1:07.24
11 - Tuff Dreger - Hearts and Hoofprints - The Les David Foundation - 1:07.29
12 - Evan Salmond - De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. - 1:07.32
13 - Jason Glass - Birchcliff Energy Ltd. - 1:07.42
14 - Dean Dreger - Regulator's Oilfield Hauling Ltd. - 1:07.61
15 - Layne MacGillivray - Cascade Energy Services - 1:07.64
16 - Todd Baptiste - Starbucks Eagles Landing - 1:07.91
17 - Rae Croteau Jr. - Tornado Projects Ltd. - 1:08.00
18 - Logan Gorst - One Arrow First Nation - 1:08.02
19 - Doug Irvine - Super Slings Inc. - 1:08.08
20 - Preston Faithful - Tribal Chiefs Employment and Training Services Association - 1:08.41
21 - Dayton Sutherland - Kinsmen Consulting - 1:08.52
22 - Chance Thomson - Palliser Sales Ltd. - 1:08.82
23 - Chad Fike - TOMCO Group of Companies - 1:09.00
24 - Luke Tournier - Sanatec Environmental/Sanatec Plumbing - 1:09.14
25 - D.J. King - AJS Indigenous Housing Solutions Inc. - 1:09.29
26 - Cruise Bensmiller - Lockbox Storage - Medicine Hat, AB - 1:09.41
27 - Josh Hrynyk - Spider Electric Ltd. - 1:09.70
28 - Evan Magee - Crush it - Hard Iced Tea - made with Provincial Vodka! - 1:09.90
29 - Chance Bensmiller - Wiser Oil Corp. - 1:10.24
30 - Jordie Fike - Abacus & Field LLP - Chartered Professional Accountants - 1:10.98
31 - Cody Ridsdale - Bäre Activewear - 1:11.82
32 - Obrey Motowylo - The Co-operators - 1:11.91
33 - Chance Flad - Aspen Crossing - 1:12.73
34 - Darcy Flad - Dynamic Industrial Solutions - 1:13.65
35 - Dustin Gorst - Century Downs Racetrack and Casino - 1:14.56
36 - Roger Moore - AdOil Inc./Canadian Abandonment Services - 1:15.02
* Roger Moore drove for Troy Dorchester
** Kurt Bensmiller drove for Mitch Sutherland