RON DAVIES RIMRIDES TO UEMS SEASON FINALE AT MCR FALL CLASSIC
October 4, 2009
Ron Davies became the second driver to win main events in both the ULMS Late Models and UEMS Emod series on Saturday night at McKean County Raceway. The Warren PA veteran driving his son’s #71D Emod charged from his eighth place starting spot to rim ride his way past his late model counterparts, Brent Rhebergen and Dave Hess Jr to capture his first ever Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series event.
Mike Knight and Dave Hess Jr. were the front row starters for the 25 lap season finale for the Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series. Hess who won last Friday night at MCR took the initial lead over Knight as series champion, Randy Hall and Rhebergen were third and fourth. Rhebergen would take third from Hall on lap three and two laps later, Davies would move the UEMS champion back to fifth. Hess would build a comfortable lead over Rhebergen as Knight, Davies and Hall challenged each other for third. At the halfway point it was Hess, Rherbegen, Knight holding off Davies and Hall still in fifth. Rich Gardner, Al Brewer, Greg Johnson, Tim Peterson and Justin Tatlow rounded out the top ten.
Davies would take third from Knight finally on lap fifteen as the leaders entered lap traffic and Davies decided to go to his roots. He went to the top side while the cars of Hess and Rhebergen tuck behind the lap cars, “Rimrider” went around the top two cars to take the lead on lap seventeen. Lap twenty three would see the first and only yellow of the event for the cars of Justin Tatlow and Travis Asel. On the restart, Davies pulled away from Hess, Rhebergen and company to pick up his first ever Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series win. Hess was second followed by Rhebergen, 2009 champion, Randy Hall, Mike Knight rounded out the top five. The next five were Knight’s teammate, Rich Gardner, Tim Peterson, Brewer, Johnson and Dave Atkinson.
RESULTS:
RON DAVIES, Dave Hess, Brent Rhebergen, Randy Hall, Mike Knight, Rich Gardner, Tim Peterson, Al Brewer, Greg Johnson, Dave Atkinson, Tom Hagberg, John Woodward, Nathan Hill, Mike Eschrich, Jason Genco, Butch Southwell, Tim Walden, Justin Tatlow, Kyle Bedell, Ron Seeley, Mark Gilbert, Tim Engles, Kari Gasser, Travis Asel
Heat winners:
Randy Hall, Rich Gardner, Mike Knight, Brent Rhebergen
Consolation Winners
Mark Gilbert, John Woodward
RUSS KING WINS MCR FALL CLASSIC ULMS PRIORITY CARE RACEFAN 50
October 4, 2009
Young, Russ King of Bristolville, Ohio captured his very first dirt late model win of his career and it was the season finale of McKean County Raceway’s 25th Anniversary Season. King the current World of Outlaw Rookie of Year driver captured the $12,000 Priority Care RaceFAN 50. It was his first late model win in the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Model Series as well.
Thirty-seven late model entries from four states were on hand for the Northern Tier Inc ULMS season finale. Local favorite, Jason Dupont of Cyclone set fast time in the Weber Hydraulic Time Trials with a time of 14.44 seconds around the 3/8 mile fairground oval in E. Smethport, PA.
The fifty lap, 4th annual Priority Care RaceFAN 50 rolled onto the facility as the fans were treated with a four wide salute with the 2009 Stateline Speedway champion, Chad Valone and 2009 World of Outlaw Late Model Series current Rookie of Year point leader, Russ King sat on the front row of the 24 car field. King would shoot out to the lead on the start with Valone, former track and series champion Dick Barton in third. The first yellow would come out on the next lap as seventh place running Dupont would get completely sideways in turn three and the field would bunch up and Gregg Satterlee would spin to a stop avoiding the melee to bring out the yellow. King would refire the field and as lap three was being completed, fourth place runner, Big Brother, Dan Stone would spin in turn four and this would stack field up again and the cars of Scott Lebarron, Ron Davies, Darrell Bossard and Greg Satterlee all being involved with Bossard, Lebarron retiring.
The field would reset and King would choose the inside lane on the double file restart only to see Valone blast into the lead with his Valone Ford Dealership #2V Rocket Chassis. King would stay with Valone as Barton and twelfth place starting Mike Knight was up to fourth and Brent Rhebergen was in fifth with five laps down. Lap eight would see the third yellow of the event, this time for Chris Hackett who spun in turn three. Valone would choose the outside lane on the restart powered back to the front as King and Barton waged war for second, while Knight, Rhebergen, Dave Hess and Denny Fenton were all battling for the fifth position. Lap 15 would click off the board and Valone had opened up a comfortable lead over King as he was still feeling pressure from Barton, who was in one of his final events driving the Ron Nielson Bolt Place #28 machine. Lap 18 would see the next yellow flag and this time it was for Gregg Satterlee. Satterlee would retire from the event. Valone would again lead on the restart as Rhebergen would get around Knight for fourth Bump Hedman would now come into play as he was up to sixth after starting twenty-second. At the halfway point it was Valone powering away from the field with King, Barton, Rhebergen, Knight, Hess, Hedman, Dillon Yoder, Jeff Hoffman and Jim Yoder rounding out the top ten. Lap 30 would see disaster for the leader. A left rear tire went flat while Valone was rounding turn four resulting in the leader to spin out in front of his competitors to bring out the yellow.
King would now inherit the lead as now it was the King and “King” show of Russ King and “King Richard” Dick Barton on the rear bumper of the young Ohio driver. Russ would get a good start on Barton but the Bolt Place #28B driver of Barton stayed with King as the wiley veteran was waiting patiently for an opportunity. Mike Knight would go to the top side of turn three and four to grab third from Rhebergen on lap 33 and lap thirty eight would see Bump Hedman now in fifth ahead of Hess. Lap thirty nine would see the final yellow of the event for series point leader Bob Close who came to a stop in turn four and at the same time, third place running Mike Knight would stop right behind Close. King still had Barton on his bumper with Rhebergen, Hedman, who had started in 22nd position and Dave Hess Jr. was now back in fifth. King would refire the field and would charge down into turn one with Barton in tow. That would be as close as Barton and the black #28 machine would get to King for the next eleven laps as Russ King would cross the stripe under John Powell’s double checkers to capture his first ever dirt late model feature win! Barton came home second in his next to last event driving for car owner Ron Nielson for nearly twenty years. Brent Rhebergen was third but still fell twenty-five points short in the championship battle over Close. Bump Hedman charged to fourth place finish over Dave Hess. The rest of the top ten was Dillon Yoder in his first ever appearance at MCR was sixth over Greg Oakes, Dutch Davies, Jeff Hoffman and Chad Valone came back from his flat tire for a very disappointing tenth.
RESULTS:
Priority Care RaceFAN 50
RUSS KING (Bristolville, OH), Dick Barton, Brent Rhebergen, Bump Hedman, Dave Hess, Dillon Yoder, Greg Oakes, Dutch Davies, Jeff Hoffman, Chad Valone, Chris Hackett, Alan Sagi, John Lobb, Denny Fenton, Jim Yoder, Mike Knight, Bob Close, Jason Dupont, Gregg Satterlee, Ron Davies, John Mollick, Dan Stone, Scott Lebarron, Darrell Bossard.
Heat Winners:
Russ King, Chad Valone, Ron Davies, Denny Fenton
Bmain Consolation Winners: John Mollick and John Lobb
Fast Time: Jason Dupont (1FastTime: Jason Dupont (14.44 seconds)
KWS adds money to UEMS Emod season finale at MCR
October 3, 2009
Kinzua Water Service of Bradford, PA has added a extra $200 to the car that passes the most cars tomorrow night during the 25 lap United Emod Series finale at McKean County Raceway during the tracks 25th anniversary season finale. This will be an extra $200 on top of the drivers paying position. ULMS Racing Series can not thank Kinzua Water Service enough for the support they have shown this year since coming on board in mid May with the UEMS series. We look forward to working with KWS again in 2010.
See everyone at MCR on Saturday, October 3rd with the ULMS Racing Series twin bill featuring the ULMS Late Models running for $12,000 to win and the KWS UEMS Emods finishing out their season with a $1000 to win show.
MCR PREPARES FOR ROUND TWO OF FALL CLASSIC
October 2, 2009
Well the 25th anniversary season grows a little longer for McKean County Raceway in East Smethport. With last Saturday’s washout of the 4th Annual Priority Care RaceFAN 50 for the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models, forcing the officials of MCR to move the 4th Annual MCR Fall Classic back a week to this Saturday, October 3rd.
Last week, two of the three nights were able to get events in. Mike Knight of Ripley, New York and Rick “Boom” Briggs of Bear Lake, PA were the top winners in the United Late Model Series events. Knight won the $1000 ULMS King of Hill Challenge on Thursday night over national dirt late model star, Chub Frank. Boom Briggs won the $2000 Fall Classic Preliminary event of Friday night with a last lap pass of Dan Stone. Briggs won over $15,000 last year including the Fall Classic sweep.
Fifty different dirt late model teams were registered last weekend with the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models with racers from Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio on hand. Knight is expected to be return along with Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills, PA and current World of Outlaw Rookie of Year contender, Russ King of Bristolville, Ohio. They will be joined by current ULMS point leader, Bob Close of Eldred, Brent Rhebergen, Dave Hess Jr, Jason Dupont, Chad Valone, Greg Oakes, Dick Barton and many other dirt late model racers from throughout the area will all battle for the $12,000 prize money.
The Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series will host their final point event of the year and Olean New York driver, Randy Hall seems to be heading for his second straight UEMS point title. Hall has four wins on the year with the series and is coming off an impressive series win at Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. The #10 machine of Hall has sixteen wins all together but event with that many wins, he still has to hold off the challenges of Brent Rhebergen, of Clymer, Greg Johnson of Ashville, Russ Dunn of Fenelton, Dave Hess Jr of Waterford, PA, who won last Friday nights UEMS event at MCR. Hess has three straight second place finishes until last week’s win. Another driver fans can see in the front is late model driver, Al Brewer, who has picked up five wins this season and just recently came back from his devastating crash in late July. Mike Knight and Rich Gardner are also expected on hand in the Clinger Race Cars that they are normally seen racing. Last Friday night, thirty-nine entries were on hand and this Saturday night a larger field is expected as this will be the only Emod event in the state of Pennsylvania and New York region.
The FASTRAK Late Models will also be on the card for a $750 to win prize. John Lacki of Sinclairville showed the regional racers last Friday night why he was the track champion by defeating a quality field of racers. He no doubt will be looking to pick up another win but will have to look over his shoulder as John Haggerty of Olean, Derek Frank, Jim Frank, Tim Schram, Ron Baker, Bob Kish and others will be looking to grab the final win of the tracks 25th anniversary season.
The most competitive class at MCR for the past few years has been the street stock division. Last Friday night, Adam Sixt picked up the win. Point champion, Andy Michael, Rich Wojotowicz, Justin Baxter, Chris Austin, Rich Hemphill, Adam Ashcroft, Jason Dobson, and Jeff Hellwig will all be in the battle for a win. Five points separated the top four point cars of Michael, Wojotowicz, Baxter and Hemphill. That there tells the story of how competitive this division is. This may be the race to watch!
Gates open at 2PM on Saturday with the races starting at 5pm. The Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Models will have single car group time trials to determine the qualifying heat positions for the Priority Care RaceFAN 50. Grandstand admission tickets are as follow: Adults (16-61) $20; Sr Citizen (62+) $18; Youth (11-15) $10; Children under age of 11 are admitted Free. Pit Passes for Saturday are $35. Fans who bought passes for last Saturday’s event are reminded to bring your rain checks.
For more information, log onto the tracks website at www.mckeancountyraceway.com
