Peter Murphy Classic this Saturday at the Thunderbowl with Trey Marcham!!

Saturday, July 25th
2nd Annual Peter Murphy Classic
West Coast Sprint Car Series
Thunderbowl Raceway
Tulare, CA

We will have Trey Marcham in Tulare for another West Coast 360 race! Marcham, currently 5th overall in championship points, is leading the 2015 West Coast Sprint Car Series ‘Rookie of the Year’ chase with a comfortable lead. Trey has 7 top ten finishes and took 5th his last WCSC race in Hanford on June 27th. Trey will be running the Berry Pack / King Racing Products / Pacific Coast Maintenance / Sun Valley Ag Transport #73.

$4000 to win, $2000 for second with awards for long haul, hard charger and $1400 disbursed for the Trophy Dash! Also on the ticket for the Classic will be KWS 410’s and Western RaceSaver Sprints.

We will provide highlights and race updates throughout the evening.

@JFM_Racing | @TreyMarcham32

Trey Marcham in Tulare this Saturday for WCSC Series Race!!

May 16, 2015
USAC West Coast Sprint Car Series
Chris & Brian Faria Memorial
Thunderbowl Raceway
Tulare, CA

In 2 days we will be back at the Thunderbowl with Oklahoma City, Oklahoma’s Trey Marcham. In the chase for WCSC Rookie of the Year, Marcham leads by a good margin over other newcomers to the series including Tristan Guardino, Shannon McQueen, Colton Slack and Ryan Timmons. 23 year old Trey is currently running 5^th overall in series Championship points and has scored a heat race win, 4 top 10’s finishes still early in the season. Trey claimed 5^th in his last West Coast race in Santa Maria.

Front gates open at 4:00pm, qualifying will begin at 6:00pm and racing is scheduled for 7:00pm.

We are looking for a strong showing with the Marcham wheeling the King Racing Products / Berry Pack / Pacific Coast Maintenance Service JFM #73. Come to the track and follow us for all the highlights and updates throughout the race.

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Trey Marcham and Shane Golobic in Tulare this weekend!

JFM will have Shane Golobic in our first WoO race and Trey Marcham running the WCSC Series this Friday and Saturday at the Thunderbowl!!

March 13^th and 14^th, 2015
World of Outlaws / King of the West Sprints (Outlaws and KWS Combined)
West Coast 360 Sprint Cars
Thunderbowl Raceway
Tulare, CA

This weekend we will embark on a new era for Josh Ford Motorsports. We will compete in the World of Outlaws Series in Tulare with Shane Golobic. Golobic will pilot the Winged 410 Sprint #73. Shane is a skillful and accomplished Outlaw driver with polished experience. 23 year old Golobic finished 3^rd in the WoO 2011 Gold Cup, track champion at several tracks and the 2014 Short Track Nationals Rookie of the Year and 2014 Civil War Champion. 65 races in 2014, Golobic had 6 wins, 7 fast times, 20 top 3’s and 42 top 10’s!

Trey Marcham out of New Castle, OK will be wheeling the King Racing Products / Berry Pack / A & A Precision CNC Machine 360 #73 in the West Coast Sprint Car Series races both Friday and Saturday. Trey has taken it up another level in 2014 with a bevy of accolades to his credit taking 3 wins and 9 top ten finishes. In the Tulsa Shootout completing just a week ago right here on January 3^rd, Trey scored two Golden Drillers winning both Non-Wing Stock and Non-Wing Outlaw to kick off 2015!!

Jimmy May and the JFM Team are ready for this weekend.

Event Schedule

Front gates open at 4:00pm on both nights.
Racing scheduled for 7:00pm on both Friday and Saturday.

Come to the track and see JFM’s first winged race! Follow the race here for all the updates and play by play during the heats and features.

Thunderbowl Raceway
215 E Martin Luther King Jr. Ave
Tulare, CA 93274
559-688-0909
Track Website

@JFM_Racing | @TreyMarcham32 | @shanegolobic

29th Annual ‘Cotton Classic’ on tap for JFM with Trey Marcham running a 360 at the Thunderbowl!

Tomorrow night we will have the talents of Trey Marcham piloting the King Racing Products / Berry Pack / A&A Precision CNC Machine Sprint #73… for the first time. Marcham has had a great year running midgets and we are excited to put him behind the wheel of a 360!

The non-point 29^th Cotton Classic was originally scheduled to be at Kings in Hanford, so this will now be the fifth of 2014 and last WCSC Series race in Tulare.

October 11, 2014

USAC West Coast Sprint Car Series
Thunderbowl | Tulare, CA
29th Annual Cotton Classic

--Schedule--

Spectator Gates open at 4pm
Hot Laps will begin at 5pm
Time Trials to run at 6pm
Racing to start at 7pm

Josh Ford Motorsports appreciates greatly all our fans, friends and sponsors!

--Our Sponsors--

King Racing Products

Berry Pack

A&A Precision CNC Machine

Pacific Coast Maintenance Service

Cam2 / Blue Blood Racing Oils

Fontana Racing Engines

Lee Power Steering

We should be able to provide some good coverage of the night’s racing on social or come to the track in Tulare or both!

@jfm_racing | @treymarcham32

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Trey Marcham will be running his first West Coast Sprint Car Series race this Saturday in Tulare!

October 11, 2014
West Coast Sprint Car
Thunderbowl | Tulare, CA
29th Annual Cotton Classic

Marcham, coming out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is known for winning the Western Midget 2013 Rookie of The Year and currently 2^nd in the Western Midget Dirt and Western Midget overall points for 2014. This Saturday in Tulare, Trey will hop into a 360 Sprint and wheel the King Racing Products / Berry Pack 360 JFM #73!

Marcham’s first WCSC Series race will be in Tulare at the ‘Lightning Fast 1/3 Mile Clay Oval’ at the Thunderbowl Raceway. The raceway is at the Tulare Fairgrounds on Bardsley & K Street. The front gate will open at 4pm with racing expected to get underway around 7. Reserved grandstand seats for the Cotton Classic on Saturday will cost $25 with general admission bleacher tickets $20. The front gate will open at 4pm with racing expected to get underway around 7pm.

Also on the ‘Cotton Classic’ dance card will be King of the West 410 Sprint Cars, Legends of Kerney Bowl and Super Modifieds.

Come to the track and follow us on as the race is underway!

@jfm_racing | @treymarcham32 

Josh Ford Motorsports has the leaders for the WCSC and Midgets wheeling for us in Tulare!

Markus Niemela and Trey Marcham at the Thunderbowl this Saturday!!

May 31, 2014

Thunderbowl Raceway, Tulare, CA
HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGETS
USAC WEST COAST SPRINTS

Niemela will bring his 39 point lead in the West Coast Sprint Car Series to continue his pursuit of the title. Niemela and 2014 have worked together to put together some great races and results. Coming off a 3^rd just 2 weeks back right here and placing in the top 4 the last 4 races running, Markus will be looking for the win and to widen the gap in the points race. Niemela will be in the Spike #73 Sprint.

Marcham out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma leads the Western Midget Dirt Series, second in the Western Midgets and is coming off a WIN in his last race early this month on May 3^rd at Bakersfield Speedway! 2014 obviously has been good for Trey as well. Marcham will be piloting a King Racing Products / Berry Pack / A & A Precision CNC Machine Midget TCR #73.

The ‘Lightning Fast’ 1/3 mile clay oval Thunderbowl Raceway is at the Tulare County Fairgrounds.

We’ll be updating throughout the race as always.

@jfm_racing | @treymarcham32 | @markusniemela

It’s hard to win upside down. 17 Flips tonight including Mitchell as he was leading the Feature.

Non-Winged Trophy Cup – October 17th, 2013 – Thunderbowl Raceway – Tulare, CA

Matt was one of the lucky ones not taken to the hospital. First it was Araki getting tagged by Nikko, flipping in hot laps, then Bernal flipping in time trials and then Niemela involved in a crash with Foresburg. JFM sincerely wishes all the best and a quick recovery for everyone involved in an incident tonight.

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After killing it with Fast Time of the evening, Mitchell started 6^th and went on to take 2^nd in his heat race. The format of the race events changed mid-stride, changing the dynamics. In the 20 lap red flag littered Main 1; Matt started 11^th and spun out on lap 2. This put him starting in the back where he gained some ground and again spinning out, again starting in the back. Mitchell pushed his way back up to finish 9^th.

Now in the Feature race, Mitchell driving the A&A Precision CNC Machine / King Racing Products / Berry Pack / CAM2 Blue Blood Racing Oils / JFM #73 started 14^th. Mitchell came charging in immediately in the 40 Lap finale, positioning himself in 5^th by lap 6 where yet another of the seemingly continuous waving red flags stopped the non-winged sprints cold. On green, he powered his way to 3^rd by lap 8, another flag. Matt took control in the 10^th lap, out in front leading… when fate took him and the JFM #73 where literally half the field had departed, wheels up.

Full and official results of this treacherous race will be posted tomorrow here and on Josh Ford Motorsports and the JFM Blog.

Tomorrow night we will be right here again at the Thunderbowl for the Southwest Contractors ‘20^th Annual Trophy Cup – Winged Sprints’. This will be a first for JFM and we are excited to get out there and not flip so much!!

Stands Open at 3PM | Qualifying at 4:15PM | Racing to Start at 5:30PM | Trophy Cup 2013

JFM racing with and without WINGS in the ‘2013 Trophy Cup’ at the Thunderbowl in Tulare, CA

2013 Trophy Cup

October 17 – October 19, 2013

2^nd ANNUAL Non-Winged Trophy Cup

20^th ANNUAL Trophy Cup

For the first time ever, JFM will strap a wing to the #73 car for the Friday and Saturday ‘Winged’ portion of the weekend’s ‘Trophy Cup’ at the Thunderbowl.

Last year, Josh Ford Motorsports came into the Thunderbowl for the first ever ‘Non Winged Trophy Cup’ riding high on a cloud of success through the 2012 racing season. We were running some incredible talent and Jimmy May, winner of the ‘2012 Mechanic of the Year’, Mikey Evans and the JFM team consistently put solid and lightning fast cars on the track to compete with the best the west has to offer!

Almost There!

Drivers like Ryan Bernal, Kyle Larson, Shane Golobic, Kory Cruseman and Ronnie Gardner kept JFM on the podium all year long! In 2012, first non-winged Trophy Cup at the Thunderbowl, Ryan Bernal guided the Josh Ford Motorsports A&A Precision CNC Machine / King Racing Products / Berry Pack #73 to WIN it all!! Bernal qualified 1^st, won his heat race, claimed 2^{nd (10th)} in the 30 lap Feature and 2^{nd (20th)} in the 50 lap Feature. This gave Bernal and JFM the WIN for the ‘Non-Winged’ Sprints!

This year our winning aspirations have not waned in the slightest. JFM will run with the accomplished and skilled Matt Mitchell for the ‘Non-Winged’ October 17^th and ‘Winged’ October 18^th and 19^th running of the ‘Trophy Cup’!

As of 9-30-13 there are 39 ‘Non-Winged’ and over 90 ‘Winged’ cars registered for the 2013 Trophy Cup. This is a very talented field, some of the most prolific drivers and race teams in the nation. This is an incredibly lucrative event with over $150,000 in Total Payout. Who wouldn't want to be a part of this fantastic and exciting 3 day extravaganza?

Thunderbowl Raceway | Trophy Cup 2013 | Event Schedule

Winged Format | Non-Winged Format

Winged Payoff | Non-Winged Payoff

Follow everything on JoshFordMotorsports.com !

Weekend Wrap Up - West Coat Sprint Cars - Hanford 9-20-13 - Tulare 9-21-13 - Matt Mitchell

The racing gods did not shine down on JFM this weekend in Hanford or Tulare. Matt Mitchell was doing his thing as always, Jimmy May had the #73 fast, just was not in the stars for us...

USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR - KINGS SPEEDWAY - HANFORD, CA - 9-20-13

Coming into tonight’s running of the 6^th Annual ‘Jim Turner Memorial’ everything was looking about as good as it could. Jimmy May had the JFM King Racing Products A&A Precision CNC Machine Berry Pack #73 dialed in and fast. We had the talented Matt Mitchell running for us and he did not disappoint. Mitchell was third quick tonight with a time of 15.807 that put him to start 3rd in Heat 3. Matt came up strong in his Heat race to take the WIN which put him in the 8 lap Dash starting 6th. Again coming from behind he powered his way up to claim 3rd in the Dash which gave him a starting spot on the inside of the second row.

Now the feature race Mitchell fell back a spot from the gate but held onto 4^th for a good part of the race through several Yellow Flags. By lap 20 Matt was in front of Netto holding 3^rd and coming around laps 1 and 2 they got together and it took Mitchell out and to the back on the restart. Hobbling with a low left rear that was losing air quickly, he pulled off on the 23^rd lap. This is Sprint Car racing.

Qualified: 3^rd FORD-15.807
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1^st
DASH: (6 laps) 3^rd
FEATURE: (30 laps) 16^th DNF

USAC WEST COAST SPRINT CAR – THUNDERBOWL RACEWAY - TULARE, CA - 9-21-13 – ‘HARRY TALBOT MEMORIAL’

Matt Mitchell running the JFM King Racing Products A&A Precision CNC Machine Berry Pack #73 tonight here at the Thunderbowl, again, was going along as well as we could have scripted it. Mitchell was the fastest in qualifying, came from 6^th to 3^rd in his heat race, went from 8^th to 5^th in the Dash positioning him well for the main Sprint event of the evening in Tulare.

Starting on the inside of the 3^rd row for the Feature, things were looking pretty optimistic. Then, after the 2 front runners tangled in the first turn, the race had a full restart putting Mitchell starting 3^rd! Forward now to lap 5 where Mitchell had pulled into 2^nd right behind the leader and trying to pass he got into the wall and off the track completely. All or nothing sent Matt to the back and this made getting back to front a steep uphill battle. This was lap 5, by lap 10 he had powered his way up to 12^th with another yellow. Now in lap 15 with another yellow, Mitchell had the #73 car up to 9^th. Now with the track taking on all that rubber, passing was getting tough. Another Yellow at lap 29 has Matt in 8^th and he finishes in 7^th.

Qualified: 1^st FORD-15.639
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 3^rd
DASH: (6 laps) 5^th
FEATURE: (30 laps) 7^th

NEXT RACE FOR JFM:
USAC WEST COAST SPECIAL EVENT: September 28 – Peoria, AZ – Canyon Speedway Park – “Brawl For It All” (Grudge Series)

Racing this WEEKEND! Kings Speedway & Thunderbowl Raceway | Matt Mitchell

JFM will have Matt Mitchell driving for us coming up this Friday & Saturday night for 2 events.

Friday, September 20th we will be at Kings Speedway for the USAC West Coast Sprint Cars series in Hanford, CA.

Saturday September 21st JFM will head over to the Thunderbowl in Tulare, CA for another USAC West Coast Sprint race, ‘The Harry Talbot Memorial’.

Matt Mitchell will be wheeling the JFM King Racing Products / A&A Precision CNC Machine / Berry Pack #73 both nights. Mitchell has had top 10 finishes in each of his last ten races, with 2 WINS!

USAC CRA 410 SPRINT CAR – May 25, 2013 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA – “Salute to Indy”

USAC CRA 410 SPRINT CAR – May 25, 2013

Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA – “Salute to Indy”

Ryan Bernal of Hollister, CA driving for the JFM Team raced the “Salute to Indy” at the Perris Auto Speedway running the 410’s for the second week in a row last night.  Bernal, wheeling the Josh Ford Motorsports King Racing Products/A&A Precision CNC Machine #73, was 3rd quick out of a field of 24. This put Ryan starting 6th in the 3rd Heat where he came away with a 3rd place finish.

For the 30 lap Main, starting on the outside of the second row with 22 cars, Bernal went through much of the race holding close to his starting position. Ryan flipped on the 27th lap and finished 19th.

We have elected not to participate in next Saturday’s scheduled race, the USAC WESTERN MIDGET at the Placerville Speedway in Placerville on June 1st.

NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-D.Gardner-596, 2-Faas-565, 3-Spencer-484, 4-Kaeding-472, 5-Mitchell-357, 6-C.Williams-349, 7-A.Williams-347, 8-Roa-324, 9-R.J. Johnson-300, 10-Bernal-267.

See the full write-up at www.joshfordmotorsports.com on Tuesday with video and pictures if available.

NEXT RACE for JFM, Inc.:
June 8, 2013 - USAC WC360 - Kings Speedway - Hanford, CA

NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE:
June 14, 2013 – Watsonville, CA – Ocean Speedway

Ryan Bernal and the Josh Ford Motorsports, Inc. Team in Tulare, CA Thunderbowl Raceway 5-18-13

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Ryan Bernal and the JFM Team take 2^nd at the Thunderbowl.

USAC CRA 410 SPRINT CAR – May 18 – Tulare, CA – Thunderbowl Raceway

Last Saturday night was an exciting night of racing!

Ryan piloting the Josh Ford Motorsports King Racing Products/A&A Precision CNC Machine #73 car qualified 8^th with a 15.468. Starting 3rd in the 10 lap Second Heat, Ryan came away with a 5^th place finish.

Bernal out of Hollister, CA started 10^th in the 30 lap Feature race, Ryan quickly moved up several places to 5^th or 6^th. By the 18^th lap he powered his way to the front of this talented field of racers. Bernal kept the lead until just after the last caution flag in lap 26, yielding to the eventual winner, but staying right on his heels until the end. Thrilling race!

Ryan is tied for 3^rd for total wins, 7, in the International Winners of Sprint and Midget Races!

NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE:
May 25, 2013 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA – “Salute to Indy”

 

NEXT RACE for JFM, Inc.:
May 25, 2013 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA – “Salute to Indy”