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WILLIAMS DOMINATES AT CHOWCHILLA
by Dan Fleischer

(August 28, 2005 - Chowchilla, CA) Home field advantage and home cooking is prevalent in the NBA, NFL and in Major League Baseball, and it carried over into the SCRA ranks on Saturday night as Steven Williams, a nearby Merced resident (15 miles), dominated the field in event number 10 of the season. He not only captured the 30-lap feature, he won the dash as well, and finished second and third in the two heat races.

            By virtue of his dash victory, Williams started on the pole in the feature and was never challenged, romping to an “easy” victory over Danny Olmstead.  The word “easy” is really a misnomer, as the slippery track was difficult to negotiate as was lapped traffic, but Williams was up to the task.  Although two yellows were displayed during the event, bunching up the field, Williams distanced himself from the field and received the checkers with nearly a half-lap advantage. Likewise, Olmstead enjoyed a powerful evening with his second-place finish while winning heat number one, and trailing Williams to the finish-line in the dash.

            While the two front runners were “off and running,” a side-by-side battle enraged for the third and fourth positions between employee Chad Boespflug and his boss Richard Harvey.  The two exchanged the spot three times with the youngster slipping into the podium position with only two laps remaining.  This, despite a 360 degree spin between turns one and two (the second time he has performed this trick this season) in which he kept his foot on the throttle and motored down the backstretch. Newcomer Andy Ferris rounded out the top-five in addition to winning heat number one.

            The venue attracted only eight entrants, the smallest number this season, but they were joined by six cars from NCMA 360 carbureted sprints tagging onto the rear of the field.  Being out-powered didn’t deter this group and they put on a credible, competitive performance.

            Tyler Spath, who just returned from a Midwest tour where he had a credible showing, couldn’t get his newly rebuilt motor to fire correctly on all eight before hot-laps, became overly frustrated, packed his bags and went home. 

With his win, Williams not only joins Boespflug as a three-time winner on the season, he increased his point’s lead over his rival from 42 to 56 (654 to 598).  Earlier in the evening, it appeared that the Hanford teenager (Boespflug) would suffer a huge blow in the points when his machine developed problems after the first heat, forcing him to withdraw from the second and almost parking him for the night.  The crew worked feverishly to correct the problem allowing him to finish strongly in the feature. 

In the Passing Masters series, Olmstead jumped into the point’s lead with 27, replacing Boespflug who remains at 22.  Williams jumped into the third position with 13.           

Main event, 30 laps: 1st #93 Williams, 2nd #11D Olmstead, 3rd #98 Boespflug, 4th # 59 Harvey, 5th #4J Ferris, 6th #32 Logan, 7th D’Arcy, 8th #78 Barroso

Heat #1, 10 laps: 1st #4J Ferris, 2nd #77 D’Arcy, 3rd #93 Williams, 4th #59 Harvey, 5th #32 Logan, 6th #11D Olmstead, 7th #98 Boespflug, 8th #78 Barroso

Heat #2, 10 laps: 1st #11D Olmstead, 2nd #93 Williams, 3rd #32 Logan, 4th #59 Harvey, 5th #77 D’Arcy, 6th #4J Ferris, 7th 78 Barroso

Dash, 6 laps: 1st #93 Williams, 2nd #11D Olmstead, 3rd #59 Harvey, 4th #4J Ferris, 5th #32 Logan, 6th #77 D’Arcy.

Qualifying: #32 Logan, 15.274, #11D Olmstead 15.299, #59 Harvey 15.453, #98 Boespflug 15.542, #77 D’Arcy 15.814, #93 Williams 15,886, #4J Ferris 15.998, #78 Barroso 16.018

 POINT STANDINGS AUG 27

DRIVER TOTAL
#93 Steven Williams 654
#98 Chad Boespflug 598
#11 Danny Olmstead 533
#35 Tyler Spath 439
#77 Chris DArcy 491
#8 Jim Richardson 433
#59 Richard Harvey Jr. 469
#32 Jonathon Logan 425
#69 Aaron Chaney 332
#55 Andy Forsberg 250
#97 Matt Day 212
#3 Davey Pombo 159
#51X Rusty Carlile 159
#35x Albert Pombo 154
#55 Ricci Faria 150
#77s Brian Schuler 135
#33 Evan Suggs 121
#67 Shain Matthews 120
#12 Grant Jones 119
#21t Howard Smith 97
#2H Steve Thomas 90
#75 Todd Hunsaker 79
#44 David Hair 77
#7 Stan Yockey 69
#11S Robert Stice 64
#16X Andy Gregg 58
#4J Andy Ferris 58
#55 Peter Murphy 57
#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
#78 Mark Barroso 39
#3g Greg Porte 38
#22 Jeff Fiscus 31
#33 Daniel Hood 29
#64 Darren Slater 23
#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

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