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SEPTEMBER = END OF SEASON SPECIALS FOR ULMS
RACING SERIES It is hard to believe, but the 2011 racing season is starting to wind down in the northeast and the ULMS Racing Series tunes up the band for the September end of season specials, beginning on Labor Day weekend at Stateline Speedway for the United Emod Series (UEMS). The United Emod Series was suppose to be at Tri City Speedway during the Labor Day weekend, but after the track closed abruptly, Stateline Speedway in Bust, New York picked up the UEMS Emods for their fourth visit to 1/3 mile oval with a $1000 to win event to close out the track’s 55th Anniversary season on Saturday, September 3rd. UEMS will be led by point leader, Joel Watson of Conneaut, OH, while three time defending series champion, Randy Hall now sits in second in the UEMS points. Watson has a 46 point lead over Hall (311-265) while Dan Davies sits in third in points with 235. The point chase behind Davies is real tight with Bud Watson seven points behind (228) and Kyle Bedell sitting in fifth one point (227) behind Watson and Justin Carlson with 226 points while Jack Young sits seventh in the tight point chase with 222 points, just 13 points out of third! The Stateline faithful of Greg Johnson, Rich Michael, Scott Gurdak, Alex Froman, Ron Seeley will all be fending off the challenges of the UEMS tour drivers along with Dave Hess Jr. who has won four UEMS wins this year and seems to win everything at Stateline! Racing starts at 7PM with $12 adult admission and $25 pit fee. The ULMS Racing Series will be off for a week and then head to Pittsburgh PA Motor Speedway for the 22nd annual Tri Star Pittsburgher on September 15-17th. Both the UEMS Emods and the Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Models will be in competition at the “Monster!” Thursday, September 15th will be open practice for all competitors, while the action starts on Friday, September 16 with the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models in competition with the UFo Late Models in the 33 lap $2000 to win I-Monster. The UEMS Emods will compete in their qualifying heat events on Friday evening. Keith Barbara won the I-Monster in 2010. This event will be a ULMS point event. On Saturday, September 17 the 22nd annual Tri Star Pittsburgher will be on tap for the Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Models and the UFo Late Models with a 66 lap $7000 to win event. Davey Johnson won the 2010 edition of the Tri Star Pittsburgher and has won the past two joint ULMS/UFo sanctioned events at PPMS in 2011 including most recently the Red Miley Rumble. Thirty-two cars will start the 66 lap event with 32nd place getting $400. The UEMS Emods will be running their 28 lap $1200 to win portion of the Tri Star Pittsburgher on Saturday evening. Thirty-two cars will start the event with $200 just to start the event and all non qualifiers will receive $100 in tow. Combined two day adult grandstand tickets are $45 with single day Friday ticket being $20 and Saturday ticket price for adult grandstands being $30. Single day pit passes are $38 with two-day pit passes going for $70. The ULMS Racing Series ends the month of September at their “home” track in E. Smethport, Pennsylvania on September 22-24th. The 6th Annual MCR Fall Classic at McKean County Raceway. The Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models will be featured with the $13,000 to win Priority Care RaceFAN 50 to conclude the three day event. The action kicks off on Thursday, September 22nd with open practice for all classes and the annual ULMS Late Model King of the Hill featuring a $1500 to win, six lap finale. Dave Hess Jr. won the KOH in 2010. On Friday, September 23rd, the Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Models will compete in the Dave Lundgren Memorial. The payout is still being determined but it will pay a minimum of $3000 to win and the ULMS Late Models will time trial for their qualifying heat positions. Former two time ULMS champion, Dick Barton captured this event last year. The United Emod Series will also be in action with a 25 lap $1000 to win event and they will pill draw for their event. On Saturday, September 24th, the Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models will be gunning for the $13,000 prize money in the 6th annual Priority Care RaceFAN 50. There has been five different winners, will there be a sixth or will Chub Frank, Rob Blair, Boom Briggs, Russ King or Brady Smith become the first two time winner? A quality field of entries is expected to be on hand from race teams all over Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, West Virginia and elsewhere. Time Trials again will set up the qualifying heat events for the Priority Care RaceFAN 50. The United Emod Series will be running another 25 lap event but this one will pay $1500 to win. With this being the next to last UEMS event on the 2011 schedule, the point races will be really heating up in the top ten. Randy Hall has won two of the past three Emod events at MCR, while Joel Watson captured the last UEMS event at MCR. Those two will be the odds on favorites, but do not count out Davies, Carlson, Asel, Michael, Bedell, Brewer, Southwell and many others. ULMS and UEMS race teams are reminded that MCR will be using the Raceiver Transponder (the yellow transponder) for the Fall Classic weekend. A outside contractor will be renting the transponders and the rental will be $20 for the weekend. If you have a red hardwired transponder, it will not work with the yellow Raceiver transponder system. Also the one-way Raceiver communication will also be used in all ULMS and UEMS events in September. For more information on any of these events, please visit, www.stateline-speedway.com, www.ppms.com, www.mckeancountyraceway.com or www.unitedlatemodelseries.com. ULMS Racing can be followed on Twitter and Facebook. |
