Winchester, NH:  Dwight Jarvis captured his first 2005 win at Monadnock Speedway this past Saturday night with the True Value Modified Racing Series.  Alexander chances to win number eleven vanished on lap twelve after contact within a pack of cars left Alexander's number 43 limping to the pits for repairs and finishing twenty-first for the night. 
 
The True Value Modified Racing Series made their final 2005 appearance at Monadnock Speedway Saturday night to give fans one hundred laps of head to head modified racing action.  Thirty teams rolled into Monadnock Speedway to attempt to make one of twenty-two starting positions at the 1/4 mile high banked track.  Rookie Luke Royea in the 2 had the worst wreck seen this season in third and final qualifier.  Royea and Andy Seuss in the 70 made contact coming out of turn two sending Royea hard into the back stretch wall.  Fans awaited in silence as rescue trucks checked on Royea who thankfully walked away from the accident with only complaints of wrist injury.  Royea's car was destroyed and unable to be repaired to attempt the consi.  Seven other teams were sent home after not qualifying for the 100 lap feature event which included Seuss in the 70, the 11 of Les Mardanes, rookie Tom Abele in the 32, Dave Nichols in the 22, the 21 of Glen Billings and the 10 of Bucky Demers.
 
The front row for the second week in a row was made up of veteran driver Roger Raymond in the 62 and Jimmy Dolan of Bethel, CT in the 69.  Row two was filled by series founder and veteran driver Jack Bateman in the 17 and to his outside Gary Casella in the 25.  At the drop of the green Raymond was out front giving himself a three car lead over Dolan.  Dolan who had a strong car in his qualifier began to slip back and by lap six was holding down the fifth position.  Ed Dachenhausen in the 48 moved up to the second spot followed by Peter Daniels in the 76.  The first caution of the night came on lap twelve for points leader Kirk Alexander in the 43.  Alexander received front end damage after contact within a pack of cars and came to a stop at the top of turn three.  After retreating to the pits for repairs Alexander returned to the track on lap twenty-seven fifteen laps down. 
 
Roger Raymond continued to keep a lead with his orange 62 and held off second place runner Peter Daniels.  On lap twenty-seven caution was on the track for Dale Evonsion in the 35 spinning on the backstretch.  Raymond still dominating the front row kept Daniels, Casella and Bateman behind him.  Jim Boniface in the 71 brought out the third caution of the night on lap thirty two as he came spinning out of turn four.  Five laps later the caution flew again for the 48 of Ed Dachenhausen spinning in turn two.  The battle was for the second spot between Daniels and Dwight Jarvis in the 28 of Ascutney, Vermont.  Jarvis won the battle and moved his focus to challenging Raymond for the lead.  At the half way mark Raymond collected the Black Mountain Painting $100 bonus. 
 
Jarvis made his move on lap fifty-one going to the outside of Raymond.  These two veteran drivers battled side by side for six laps until lap fifty-seven when Jarvis took over the lead.  Raymond continued to have his hands full as Daniels worked him for the second spot.  Daniels over came Raymond to take the position and Raymond began to slip back in the pack with what appeared to be an ill handling car.  This became more obvious on lap seventy five when Raymond spun in turns three and four.  The final caution of the night came out for Jack Bateman's number 17 on lap 79.  Bateman spun in turns one and two with a damaged car.  Kirby Monteith in the number 8 barely made it out without damage as he stopped just short of slamming into Bateman's left side. 
 
A single file restart had Jarvis, Daniels and Casella bumper to bumper coming out of turn four for what would be the final restart of the night.  On lap eighty-three Daniels was overpowered for the second spot by Gary Casella's number 25.   Casella made ample attempts to challenge Jarvis but nothing was getting by Jarvis as he drove to his first 2005 victory.  Casella settled for second followed by Daniels, Dale Evonsion in the 35 finished fourth and Kirby Monteith in the 8 rounded out the top five.
 
Ironically Daniels with less than twenty laps to go in the race had the panhard bar that centers the rear end break and somehow became lodged into the rear end housing.  Daniels drove the last part of the race with the rear end of the car that could move side to side which showed how much skill and talent Daniels possess.   When the race was over the rear end gear oil left a major puddle in victory lane as Daniels collected his third place finish.  Race Directory Rick Chambers felt that if there 5 more laps Daniels wouldn't have made it.  Chambers said "I don't know how he ran those last 20 or so laps with the rearend like that.  He was just very lucky". 
 
With Alexander's bad luck and Daniels third place finish the two are now tied for first in the points chase.  Jarvis's victory has brought him within thirty points of the two making the last three points races a battle for the championship. 
 
Next up the True Value Modified Racing Series give fans a doubleheader weekend of racing.  On Saturday, September 3rd the series travels to White Mountains Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, NH for one hundred laps of open wheel action.  Then on Sunday, September 4th the True Value Modified Racing Series will make their only 2005 appearance in the twin state region at Canaan Fair Speedway where they share the track with PASS for a full night of racing action.  For more information on these events visit their website at www.modifiedracingseries.com.