Buffalo Peaks Hill Climb – Buena Vista, CO – August 4th and 5th

The weeks heading into the 4th round of the CHCA racing season was jammed packed for the team. We are very happy to announce our new sponsorship with Super Rupair. The team retuned the rally car at Super Rupair prior to the Buffalo Peaks hill climb. Harvey at Super Rupair is an excellent tuner and helped get the timing map dialed in for the racing gas. The car is a much more drivable and gets onto boost much sooner.

Heading into the racing weekend the team was sitting in 2nd place in the driver’s championship with the team of Nathan and Brandye Conley close behind. Saturday was practice and qualifying. In qualifying you are given points based off your qualifying placement. Randy and Erik Placed 6th with Nathan and Brandye qualifying in 4th. The only problem is Nathan did not make it to the end of the course on his third run of the day. Unfortunately the problem with Nathan’s Subaru would be terminal and he will be unable to start on race day.

Erik and Randy started Sunday morning knowing that they would have to run a sub 3:00 stage time for any hope of getting on the podium making the tire change early on Saturday was a great move for the team, the soft Michelin tires matched the sandy damp road conditions to a tee. Unfortunately for the team they were unable to get under the 2:52.30 set by the team of Mike Whitman and Aaron McConnell and had to settle for 5th place.

The team has a pretty tight hold on 2nd place but proven by the Conley’s anything can still happen in Grand Junction for the final round of the Colorado Hill Climb Association 2007 season.

Driver / Co-driver Car Number Home Town First Run Secound Run Fastest Run
Todd Moberly/Moberly 24 Pueblo West, CO 02:43.05 02:46.65 02:43.05 new record
Jason Waples/Greek 421 Pueblo West, CO 02:46.75 02:49.24 02:46.75
Mike Whitman/McConnell 73 Farmington, NM 02:52.03 03:04.11 02:52.03
Will Corry/Scherling 71 Durango, CO 02:56.09 02:54.87 02:54.87
Erik Schmidt / Randy Morris 413 Westminister, CO 03:03.55 03:04.95 03:03.55
Dave Kern/Kern 323 Centennial, CO 03:05.20 03:03.67 03:03.67
Mark Malsom/Czaplicki 449 Denver, CO 03:11.09 03:07.92 03:07.92
Mitchell Williams/Hakala 433 Denver, CO 03:08.10 03:14.01 03:08.10
Drew Goldsmith/Schmitt 427 Breckenridge, Co 03:18.71 03:15.95 03:15.95
Steve Bis/Hutchings 495 Denver, CO 04:08.48 03:19.19 03:19.19
Mike Rose/Vitera 482 Aurora, CO 03:24.12 03:27.35 03:24.12
Nathan Conley/Conley 110 Colorado Springs, CO DNS DNS DNS


Rally AWD After 4 of 5 rounds
TC Qual TC Race C/D Qual C/D Race GCI Qual GCI Race BP Qual BP Race GJ Qual GJ Race Total
Waples/Greek 17 30 20 41 20 41 19 35 223
Schmidt/Morris 14 19 18 30 18 35 14 20 168
Conley/Conley 16 25 17 20 19 30 16 0 143
Kern/Kern 13 15 15 19 17 25 13 19 136
Williams/Hakala 15 18 14 18 13 18 12 17 125
Moberly/Moberly 20 41 0 0 0 0 20 41 122
Corry/Volger 18 20 16 25 0 0 17 25 121
Rose/Vitera 11 16 13 17 14 17 10 14 112
Whitman/McConnell 0 0 19 35 0 0 18 30 102
Bis/Hutchings 12 17 0 0 15 19 11 15 89
Malsom/Czaplicki 0 0 0 0 16 20 15 18 69
Regester/Smith 19 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 54
Goldsmith/Schmitt 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 16 26

We would like to thank our other sponsors for their continued support for the team this year.
Super Rupair: http://www.superrupair.com
Arvada Rent Alls: http://www.arvadarentalls.com
Gator Graphics and Signs: Arvada, CO 303-431-7330
And Go Subaru West: Go Subaru West

Also a big thank you to everyone who helps get the car to and from each event and your blessings and encouragement for each event.

For more event info see http://www.chcaracing.com