One of the hottest drivers the sport has seen in recent years, Chanse tied a record when he captured his third consecutive World Championship during one of the most memorable seasons in chuckwagon racing history. He recorded seventeen first-place runs, finished in the top ten on 39 of 49 running days, qualified for seven championship final heats, topped the aggregate at all seven, and won three show titles—highlighted by his first Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Championship, and wins at the Medicine Hat Stampede and the Battle of the Foothills in High River. He set track records at Ponoka Stampede and at the Battle of the North in Dawson Creek. His horse Junior was named Champion Right Leader on both the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence and the Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence.
During chuckwagon racing’s centennial season, Chanse made history at the Ponoka Stampede by sweeping all six first-place day monies, breaking a 62-year-old record set by Dale Flett in 1962.
A third-generation World Champion, Chanse is the son of former driver Mike Vigen and grandson of legend Ralph Vigen. He is a former WPCA Top Rookie Driver and Orville Strandquist Memorial Award winner, a five-time World Champion outrider, and has had multiple horses recognized at both the WPCA and Calgary Stampede levels. Chanse works as an oilfield salesman and, with his wife Brie, makes his home in Calgary, Alberta.
