NED GLEASON MEMORIAL and FREEDOM DAZE HIGHLIGHT $7500 WEEKEND FOR ULMS LATE MODELS
June 28, 2010
The Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Model Series will kick off a busy month of July on the Thursday July 1st with a $4500 to win 35 lap event at McKean County Raceway. Then on Saturday, July 3rd the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models will make their only visit of the year to the Cattaraugus County Fair Grounds in Little Valley, NY for the annual Freedom Daze event that will see the winner go home with $3000 to win, 30 lap event on the paperclip half mile oval.
Boom Briggs will be leading the ULMS Late Model contingent to MCR as the series point leader going into the event. He will have to contend with Matt Lux and Bob Close, who are tied for the track point lead will be looking for the win. Close is a three time series defending champion and looking for his first win of the year. Other drivers expected on hand will be “The Captain” Jason Dupont of Cyclone along with Brent Rhebergen, Greg Oakes, Dick Barton, Gregg Satterlee, Dennis Lunger, Jeff Hoffman, Mike Knight, Dave Hess Jr, Dereck Frank, Chad Valone, David Scott along with Tennessee driver, Tony Morris, who is the current point leader on the Southern Regional Racing Series (SRRS) and eastern New York driver, Jon Rohacevich and many others will be going after the $4500 prize. The purse has increased to $4500 to win, $600 for tenth and $350 start by great donations from fans and businesses. The winner of the Ned Gleason Memorial will be a guaranteed starter for Saturday’s $3000 ULMS “Freedom Daze” event at Little Valley Speedway.
“This is a race we have talked about doing for some time” stated MCR promoter Ken Leet “For years Ned was a figure at MCR with his sons Tom and Terry and their #11 Limited Late and now most of you know that Tom is Mr. MCR. No one works harder at promoting MCR than Tom and no one works as hard at the race track as Tom. In addition, Ned’s daughter Shirley Putt has been a great asset to the Speedway and works the main ticket booth, Terry is always assisting his brother and Terry’s son Terry Jr (grandson of Ned) makes countless laps in the water truck and packer and works the lineup shoot.”
Race time is 7PM at McKean County Raceway on Thursday evening, with ULMS Late Models driver meeting at 6:30PM. Adult grandstand admission is $12, with Sr Citizens price is $10. Youth ages 11-15 are $5.00 while any child under the age of 11 will be admitted free. The Family pack is still $25! Pit admission is $30 while the ULMS Late Models will be subjected to a $20 entry fee per ULMS Rules.
Two days later the Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Model Series will head to New York state for the Freedom Daze events at Little Valley Speedway on the Cattaraugus County Fairgrounds. David Scott and Ron Davies are currently the top point cars at LVS as the both have wins on the 2010 season at Little Valley. Scott has two wins so far on the 2010 ULMS tour. Davies suffered a hand injury at his garage over the past week and it is unclear if the yellow #71D will be competing.
Past ULMS winners at Little Valley have been (Mike Wonderling, Ron Davies (01,03,08), Dick Barton, David Scott, Ed Carley and Bump Hedman have all graced victory lane at Little Valley during the ULMS sanctioned events. Davies has won all three ULMS sanctioned Freedom Daze events, last year’s Freedom Daze event was washed out by mother nature.
Gates open at 3:00, with racing at 7:00. Adult admission for this show is $15 for adults, with those under twelve admitted free. (Rain date for the racing show is July 5th) Free camping with hookups is available right on the grounds.
After the 4th of July weekend events, the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models will then head to Raceway 7 on Friday, July 9th for the 40th Anniversary event that will pay $2000 to win and then head to Stateline Speedway the next day for the $5000 to win Roberts Trucking sponsored event. Reminder to all racers the Stateline show only will be American Racer Tire event.
United Late Model Series is supported by: Northern Tier Inc., Close Racing Supply, Keizer Aluminum Wheels, Genesis Shocks, Hoosier Tire – Mid Atlantic, Lias Tire – American Racer, Billsdirtlatemodels.com, Racewaymagazine.com, Cousins Designs
RICH MICHAEL RETURNS TO MCR TO CAPTURE UEMS EMOD EVENT
June 20, 2010
Rich Michael Jr. picked up his first Emod win at McKean County Raceway since 2006 in the Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series event. John Woodward Jr. and Butch Southwell were the front row starters for the 25 lap event. Woodward would lead the opening lap only to see the caution lights come on for Dennis Asel for smacking the front stretch wall. Woodward would lead the second lap but the hottest Emod driver in the northeast, Rich Michael jumped into the lead on lap 3. With five laps in the books, Brent Rhebergan now was second with Woodward third followed by Bob Close subbing for Vic Vena and Southwell was back to fifth. Rich Gardner would move into the fifth spot on lap seven. With ten laps in the books, Michael was still in control as Close was now back in second, but a heated contest was going on for sixth between Mike Knight, Dan Davies, Kyle Bedell, Al Brewer and Randy Hall. The yellow would come out on lap eleven for Kyle Bedell and Hall in turn three and four. Michael was still your leader with Closes, Rhebergen, Southwell, and Gardner rounding out the top five.
Michael jetted away on the restart from Close and Rhebergen. The car on the move was Dan Davies who went to the top of the track and was looking like his dad, rim riding himself into the top five. Carl McKinney was another car that was now on the move as the thirteenth place starter now found himself in seventh on lap fourteen. The yellow lights came back out with four remaining. This would give Close another shot at Michael on the single file restart, but it was Michael again getting a good start, but the #01 of Close stuck with the Michael and challenged him in each corner and pulling beside Michael’s a few times in the remaining laps to bring the fans to their feet as the duo charged into turn one on the last lap, Rhebergen would sweep to the outside and try to make it a three car battle for the finish, but Michael’s held off Close to take his first MCR win since 2006 and his third KWS UEMS win of the year. Close subbing for Vena came home an impressive second, with Rhebergen, Southwell and Carl McKinney edging Davies for fifth. Rich Gardner, edged Brewer by a few inches for seventh with Mike Knight and Bryan Douglass finishing tenth from his sixteenth starting spot.
The win was the third win of the year for Michael on the UEMS circuit and has added to his win total for the year to eleven wins and is preparing for another three nights of action as he will be at Eriez Speedway on Sunday night then head to Wayne County Speedway and Hilltop Speedway on Monday and Tuesday.
The United Emod Series will return to action on Sunday July 18 at Tri City Speedway for a $1500 to win event and then head to Stateline Speedway on July 31 for the UEMS $5000 to win EMOD INVASION which will also feature a $1000 to win Non Qualifier event as well.
KINZUA WATER SERVICE UEMS EMODS
RICH MICHAEL, Vic Vena, Brent Rhebergen, Butch Southwell, Carl McKinney, Dan Davies, Rich Gardner, Al Brewer, Mike Knight, Bryan Douglass, Kyle Bedell, Kari Gasser, Randy Hall, Mike Eschrich, Darren Tarabori, Tim Walden, Jaben Hill, Nathan Hill, Tim Peterson, Dave Atkinson, John Woodward and Dennis Asel Jr.
JUSTIN CARLSON CAPTURES UEMS EMODS AT S. ARCADE SPEEDWAY
June 19, 2010
Sherman, New York’s, Justin Carlson made the trip to Mike Lauterborn’s, South Arcade Speedway in Delevan, NY driving the Tom Hagberg owned “High Voltage” #27H and made the trip pay off by winning the Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series event and going home $1000 richer.
South Arcade Speedway’s point leader, John Woodward Jr and Carlson led the field onto the speedway for the 25 lap affair. Woodward would get the jump on Carlson at the start and lead lap one as sixth place starting, TJ Downs quickly went from sixth to third. Carlson would take over the lead on lap two of the event and see his lead disappear on lap four for Kyle Bedell who spun in turn three.
On the restart, UEMS point leader, Randy Hall made a slicing move in turn two to take second over from Woodward as he slid back to fourth behind Downs. Hall was trying to apply pressure on Carlson, but the battle was behind as Kari Gasser was battling with Woodward for fourth and farther back in the field Darren Tarabori, Al Brewer and Mike Eschrich were putting on a battle. With ten laps in the books, it was still Carlson having a comfortable lead over Hall. Downs was still in third having a stellar run with Woodward and “Mrs. UEMS” Kari Gasser in fifth. The yellow lights would flash on lap twelve for Woodward allowing Gasser to move up to fourth with Vic Vena now in fifth. The caution would come back out one lap later for Greg Johnson who was sitting in turn one sideways, due to apparent contact with another car. Carlson again controlled the start and pulled away from Hall. With ten to go it was still Carlson in Hagberg’s machine leading Hall, Downs, Gasser and Vena. With five laps remaining the top five were still the same but the battle between Eschrich, Tarabori, Brewer and Carl McKinney was really heating up for seventh as the foursome race three and four wide at times fighting for spots. The caution lights came on again for Eschrich spinning and resulting in five other cars stopping or spinning to avoid the incident. This ended a possible top five finish for the Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania racer.
The restart allowed Hall to restart on Carlson’s bumper and Kari Gasser was now third as TJ Downs left the track with a broken radiator. Hall charged after Carlson on the start and pulled beside him in turn 3, but Justin would use the high side momentum to his advantage to pull away again and out of no where on the final lap, Hall would see Kari Gasser pull up beside him to grab second. Hall would prevail to hold onto that spot as the checkers fell for Justin Carlson as he won his first ever Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series event over Hall, Gasser who made her first ever appearance at S. Arcade Speedway. Nathan Hill was the winner last week at S. Arcade came home fourth with Vena in fifth. Veteran, Al Brewer came home fifth feeling lots of pain from a shoulder injury that may prematurely put a stop to some weekly racing, Carl McKinney was seventh with Jaben Hill eight, George Ritter and Tom Norland rounded out the top ten.
RESULTS:
JUSTIN CARLSON, Randy Hall, Kari Gasser, Nathan Hill, Vic Vena, Al Brewer, Carl McKinney, Jaben Hill, George Ritter, Tom Norland, Mike Eschrich, John Woodward, Greg Johnson, TJ Downs, Darren Tarabori, Carl Ballinger and Kyle Bedell
Kinzua Water Service UEMS Heat #1
Nathan Hill, Justin Carlson, Tarabori, Johnson, Brewer, Jaben Hill
Close Racing Supply – Lias Tire Heat #2
Kari Gasser, TJ Downs, Carl Ballinger, Tom Norland, George Ritter
Hoosier Tier Mid Atlantice Heat #3
Randy Hall, John Woodward, Vic Vena, Carl McKinney, Mike Eschrich, Kyle Bedell
Hoosier Tire Award: Justin Carlson
AmericanRacer Tire: Randy Hall
Genesis Shocks: Kari Gasser
CRS Hard Charger: Jaben Hill
Aero Wheels: Tarabori and Ballinger
UEMS DOUBLE HEADER AT S. ARCADE AND MCKEAN CO THIS WEEKEND
June 15, 2010
The Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series will be back in action this weekend with a pair of $1000 to win events at Mike Lauterborn’s, South Arcade Speedway in Delevan, New York and at McKean County Raceway in E. Smethport, PA. A quality field of open Emods should be on hand for both events as the points races are starting to heat up before the series takes a five week layoff.
Friday night, the ULMS Racing Series will kick off the weekend at South Arcade Speedway for their first ever visit to the Delevan, NY oval on Friday, June 18. Mike Lauterborn of Rochester, NY has resurrected the former Freedom Raceway/Arcade Int. Raceway oval by purchasing the speedway grounds last fall. The Emods have put on some exciting racing at S. Arcade Speedway this year four different winners in their first five weekly events. Franklinville, New York’s and defending track champion, John Woodward Jr., will lead the S. Arcade contingent against the UEMS stars of defending two time series champion, Randy Hall of Olean, Ischua’s, Rich Michael Jr., who is having a stellar season so far and may be the hottest emod racer in the region. Brent Rhebergen of Clymer, NY along with Cranberry Twp., PA driver, Carl McKinney will be making his first ever visit to the 1/3 mile oval along with “Mrs. UEMS” Kari Gasser out of Vienna, Ohio, who no doubtfully will have the ladies cheering for her as the only female in the field. Other UEMS stars on hand will be Mike Eschrich who has been tuning up the past few events at S. Arcade with a pair of top three finishes. Ashville, New York’s, Greg Johnson, Little Valley’s, Kyle Bedell, Vic Vena of Olean has a win at S. Arcade are all expected to be on hand along with the other SAS stars of TJ Downs of Elba, NY, veteran, Al Brewer, last week’s winner, Nathan Hill, Darren Tarabori, Carl Ballinger and George Ritter Jr will all be on hand.
The following night the ULMS Racing Series will head to their home track, McKean County Raceway for their second event of the year at MCR. This will be another $1000 to win event. Ron Davies won the first UEMS event of the year at MCR subbing for his son Dan. Randy Hall is the current track point leader in the Emod division but he will have his work cut out for him with the other MCR stars of Brewer, Travis Asel, Tim Peterson, Butch Southwell along with the UEMS stars that he faces each and every UEMS event. Rhebergen, Michael, McKinney, Gasser, Johnson, Vena, Tarabori, Eschrich, Bedell will all be looking to top Hall. Both events at South Arcade and McKean Co Raceway will be 25 laps in length.
Pit gates open at 5PM at South Arcade Speedway with the UEMS driver meeting at 6:30PM. Racing will start at 7PM sharp! Adult grandstand admission will be $15.00, Sr. Citizen will be $13 and children (age 5-15) will be admitted at $5.00. Pit passes will be $25. Saturday at McKean County Raceway, the pits will open at 4:30PM with driver meeting at 6:30PM and racing at 7PM. Grandstand admission will be $10 for ages 16 and older and youths will be charged $5 (ages 5-11). Pit passes will be $30.00. UEMS racers are reminded RACEIVERS are mandatory with the UEMS Emod Series along with racing at SAS and MCR.
For your complete information on the Kinzua Water Service United Emod Series, check the website out at www.unitedlatemodelseries.com and follow all the news of South Arcade Speedway and McKean Co. Raceway at www.southarcadespeedway.com and www.mckeancountyraceway.com
