The 100th Anniversary season of chuckwagon racing was nothing short of spectacular for Chanse Vigen, who ultimately captured his first career World Championship as a chuckwagon driver. In a truly remarkable season, Chanse posted forty top ten runs, including a remarkable twenty first place runs, and ten other runs that also cracked the top five. He qualified for 5 Championship final heats, and won 3 show titles at the Grande Prairie Stompede, Ponoka Stampede and the Battle of the Rockies to cap off the 100th Anniversary of chuckwagon racing in extraordinary record breaking style.
At the Ponoka Stampede, Chanse made history by sweeping all 6 first place day monies in a dominating performance, breaking a 62 year record in the process of 5 set by the legendary driver Dale Flett at the Calgary Stampede in 1962.
Chanse was the WPCA Top Rookie Driver in 2012, won the Calgary Stampede’s Orville Strandquist Memorial Award in 2013, has had five horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence., an four horses named to the Calgary Stampede’s Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence. Chanse is a five-time World Champion outrider, was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Outrider in 2001, and was the WPCA’s Most Improved Outrider in 2002. He has outrode for four Calgary Stampede COWBOYS Rangeland Derby Championship outfits, five Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners, and four Ponoka Stampede winners. Chanse is a third generation World Champion whose father is former driver Mike Vigen, and his grandfather was chuckwagon legend Ralph Vigen. He is a cousin to fellow driver Rae Croteau Jr., works as an oilfield salesman and enjoys hockey, basketball, and golf in the off season. Chance and his wife Brie make their home in Calgary, Alberta.
