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(September 24, 2005 - Chowchilla, CA) Peter Murphy raced to a thrilling victory at Chowchilla Speedway in a borrowed car. The transplanted Australian approached his good friend Tommy Tarlton earlier in the week and convinced Tarlton the timing was right to compete against the young guns of SCRA’s 360 wingless division.
Murphy rewarded his benefactor by copping the top prize as he raced past Chad Boespflug on lap 23 of 30. His victory was still in doubt as Boespflug came back with a vengeance; he re-passed Murphy only to have Murphy retake the lead once again, all during lap 24. Murphy’s victory seemed assured with only a handful of laps remaining, but alas, another dilemma. After the white flag was displayed, a three-car crash involving Jonathon Logan, Stan Yockey and Chris D’Arcy in turn one brought out a red flag. Another chance for Boespflug? Not quite. Murphy held onto his precarious lead for a green-white-checkered even though he had to accomplish the feat twice.
After starter Lee Jaskowiak threw what appeared to be the final white flag of the evening, D’Arcy came to a stop in turn four bringing out the yellow for the final time. It was De’ja vu again, as Murphy finally completed the green-white-checkered for his first win of the season. Boespflug held onto second while Danny Olmstead garnered the final podium spot after running in the top three all evening. Rounding out the top-five were Andy Ferris, who started on the outside of the first row, and Steven Williams.
Williams is a story unto himself. The point’s leader started way back in 14th position as a result of failing to transfer out of his heat race. The local area resident (Madera) charged through the field and was up to sixth by lap 11 only to be derailed. He made a bonsai move into turn three attempting to pass two cars at one time, tangled with one and came to a stop in the middle of the turn. On the restart, Williams was placed at the rear of the field but that failed to deter his determination or progress as his worked his way forward. His fifth-place finish enable him to retain the season’s points lead over Boespflug (702 to 665) although it was reduced from an advantage of 56 points to just 37. Williams also received the Hard Charger award for his 14th to fifth-place finish. Murphy jumped from 27th to 18th in the points by virtue of his victory.
Davey Pombo was the “Hard Luck” award recipient of the evening. After qualifying third and winning his heat, Pombo finished third in the dash and was poised for a strong showing in the main. That all came to an abrupt ending on lap six when the Kerman, CA resident lost control of his potent machine at the start-finish line, hit the outside retaining wall and flipped. Fortunately, he walked away uninjured.
The three-car crash (including a flip by Logan) on the white flag during the main didn’t produce any injuries, and surprisingly, all three, Yockey, D’Arcy and Logan restarted the race.
Chad Boespflug captured his fourth Dash of the year in a close battle with Andy Ferris, who was making only his second start of 2005 with SCRA. Boespflug earned a total of three points in the Dash Masters standings but failed to gain any ground on leader Danny Olmstead, who also earned three points. Olmstead has 30 points to Boespflug’s 25.
Heat winners included Aaron Altaffer, Boespflug and Pombo while Murphy topped the qualifying charts with a run of 15.504.
Heat #1 10 Laps: 1st #84 Aaron Altaffer, 2nd #32 Jonathon Logan, 3rd #21 Peter Murphy, 4th #59 Richard Harvey, 5th #7 Stan Yockey, 6th #13 Darrin Simus
Heat #2 10 Laps: 1st #98 Chad Boespflug, 2nd #11D Danny Olmstead, 3rd #8 Jim Richardson, 4th #33 Evan Suggs, 5th #69 Aaron Chaney, 6th #6a Bobby Elliott
Heat #3 10 Laps: 1st #3 Davey Pombo, 2nd #16 Andy Gregg, 3rd #77 Chris D’Arcy, 4th #4j Andy Ferris, 5th 77s Brian Schuler, 6th Steven Williams
Dash 6 Laps: 1st #98 Boespflug, 2nd #4j Ferris, 3rd #3 D. Pombo, 4th #11D Olmstead, 5th #59 Harvey, 6th #21 Murphy
Main Event 30 Laps: 1st #21 Murphy, 2nd #98 Boespflug, 3rd #11D Olmstead, 4th #4j Ferris, 5th #93 Williams, 6th #33 Suggs, 7th #59 Harvey, 8th #69 Chaney, 9th #32 Logan, 10th #8 Richardson, 11th #84 Altaffer, 12th #12 Simus, 13th #77 D’Arcy, 14th #7 Yockey, 15th #77S Schuler, 16th #6a Elliott, 17th #3 Pombo, 18th #16 Gregg
Qualifying: #21 Murphy 15.504, #11D Olmstead 15.507, #3 D. Pombo 15.646,#59 Harvey 15.817, #69 Chaney 15.836, #93 Williams 15.842, #12 Simus 15.844,#98 Boespflug 15.864, #4j Ferris 15.933, #32 Logan 15.953, #33 Suggs 16.012,#77 D’Arcy 16.062, #84 Altaffer 16.249, #8 Richardson 16.249, #16 Gregg 16.386, #7 Yockey 16.445, #6a Elliott 16.451, #77s Schuler 16.857, #73 McKane N/T
Point Standings Sept 24
DRIVER TOTAL
#93 Steven Williams 702
#98 Chad Boespflug 665
11 Danny Olmstead 605
#77 Chris D’Arcy 526
#59 Richard Harvey Jr. 525
#8 Jim Richardson 474
#32 Jonathon Logan 470
#35 Tyler Spath 439
#69 Aaron Chaney 371
#55 Andy Forsberg 250
#97 Matt Day 212
#3 Davey Pombo 196
#33 Evan Suggs 173
#51X Rusty Carlile 159
#77s Brian Schuler 158
#35x Albert Pombo 154
#55 Ricci Faria 150
#55 Peter Murphy 135
#67 Shain Matthews 120
#12 Grant Jones 119
#4J Andy Ferris 116
#21t Howard Smith 97
#7 Stan Yockey 94
#2H Steve Thomas 90
#16X Andy Gregg 84
75 Todd Hunsaker 79
#44 David Hair 77
#11S Robert Stice 64
#99 Kiwi Alexander 55
#21 Jay Ervine 50
#17c Jimmy Crawford 50
#55 Johnny Rodriquez 49
#71 Johnny Gray 48
#51 Jeff Gardner 47
#37 Troy Hovey 45
#0 Mike Kirby 43
#84 Aaron Altaffer 41
#78 Mark Barroso 39
#3g Greg Porte 38
#22 Jeff Fiscus 31
#12 Darrin Simus 29
#33 Daniel Hood 29
#64 Darren Slater 23
#6a Bobby Elliott 21
#21A Roy Guy III 20
#98x Jeremy Ellertson 19
#24 Brandon Thompson 17
#35R Ryan Devitt 11
#19 Terry Foster 10
#21t Chris Smith 4
Passing Master Points Sept 24
NAME TOTAL
#11 Danny Olmstead 30
#98 Chad Boespflug 25
#93 Steven Williams 13
#59 Richard Harvey 12
#35 Tyler Spath 10
#32 Jonathon Logan 10
#55 Johnny Rodriquez 7
#77 Chris D’Arcy 6
#69 Aaron Chaney 5
#3 Davey Pombo 5
#8 Jim Richardson 4
#55 Andy Forsberg 4
#51 Rusty Carlile 3
#67 Shain Matthews 3
#99 Kiwi Alexander 3
#4J Andy Ferris 2
#6 Hunsaker 1
#21 Peter Murphy 1
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