ULMS: Stone Dominant at Tri-City ULMS Stop Series report FRANKLIN, Pa. - July 1. The Northern Tier ULMS Late Model Series rolled into Tri City Speedway for the second time this year and for night two of the ULMS “Firecracker Tour”. “Big Brother” Dan Stone of Thompson, Pa. made the five hour trip pay off as he dominated the field enroute to his second ever ULMS win and his second ever Tri-City Speedway win. Stone and local legend, Wally Fox paced the 22 car field to Mark Matthews green flag and Stone quickly jumped into the lead as Bump Hedman followed Stone into second. As the first lap was completed Fox had slipped back to fourth behind Stone, Hedman and ULMS point leader Mike Knight. As David Scott left the track with motor problems, Russ King made his presence known on lap three by entering the top five. With the AMB transponder showing Stone with a average lap speed of over 101 mph, his Excavating Rocket had a four-second lead, but the first yellow came out on lap six that would eliminate Stone’s big margin as the eastern Pennsylvania star, Bud Phillips got into the back of Darrell Bossard, ending Phillips' night. Two laps later, Denton Boyer destroyed his motor and the caution returned. The lineup had Knight and Rob Blair sitting second and third behind Stone, but the restart saw Blair get out of shape at the start and chaos took over as the cars of WoO Rookie of Year candidate, John Lobb, Chris Hackett, Matt Lux and Pete Alspaugh all got together on the front stretch, ending the night for Hackett and Lux. On the restart, Russ King was on the move as he took over third from Blair, and the yellow lights came back on for Fox, who spun in turn two. Blair slowed dramatically and exited for the pits before returning for the restart. As Knight tried to shadow Stone, lap 12 saw Ron Davies charge his way to third, and Brent Rhebergen up to fourth. The three car battle for sixth had Dupont, Barton and Lobb running tight against each other behind the top five cars. After Brent Rhebergen broke on lap 13, Jason Dupont got a great restart and charged into fourth. With ten to go, Stone had checked out and Knight was comfortable in second with King all alone in third. The battle was for fourth between Hedman and Davies. With five laps remaining, Davies would get back by Hedman for fourth, but up front, Stone had lapped up to the eighth place car of Alspaugh, and as the checkers flew, Stone put seventh place finisher Dupont down a lap.
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Scott James battles #13 Barry Doss in heat race action at Florence (Ky.) Speedway, but in the $2,000-to-win feature, the only thing anyone saw was the tail end of James' #81 car. (Roy Walker)
After plenty of trash-talking via the electronic media between Jeff Matthews and Ivedent Lloyd last week, it was #21 Lloyd who got the final word as he reeled in #33 Matthews to win Friday's LM feature at Oclala, Fla.'s Bubba Raceway Park. (R.E. Wing)
Fans at Markleysburg, Pa.'s Roaring Knob Motorsports Comlex were treated to dual LM features Saturday - one a makeup from a May 5th rainout. (Above) Tim Senic challenges eventual regular feature winner Chuck Harper, while Jared Hawkins (below) claimed the makeup race. (Tommy Micheals)
Henley, Missouri's Jason Russell leads the way to Victory Lane in the ULMS Late Model feature at Lucas Oil Speedway Saturday. (Chris Bork)
Some fierce racing action at Lucas Oil speedway. (Chris Bork)
Dalton, Ga.'s Craig Reece returned to Dixie Speedway Saturday and led all the way to win the Crate LM victory. (Steve Hixson)
Ray Guss Jr. races last week's Quad City Speedway winner, Mike Murphy, Jr. This time, it was advantage Guss. (Chris Damitz)
With a strong motor back into his mount, Veteran Lamar Scoggins claimed last Friday's Crate LM victory at Boyd's Speedway. (Steve Hixson)
Veteran racer Lance Matthees navigates Spring Lake, Minnesota's Deer Creek Speedway before taking Saturday's WISSOTA Late Model checkers. (Jason Durst)
Racing hard at mid-pack, it's the dueling 55s of Cory Mahder (inside) and Greg Nippoldt at Deer Creek. (Jason Durst)
Ryan King (above and below) swept both the Ltd. Late Model and Crate Late Model features Saturday at 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. (Chad Wells)
Still riding his wave in Iowa, Mike Murphy, Jr. in early action before taking the main event win at Davenport last Friday. (Chris Damitz)
Jason Jameson ran a gauntlet to finally capture another win Friday night at Moler
Raceway Park (see main page). (Roy
Walker)
After holding back a charge from Alex Ferree, Chub Frank drove home with a Friday night win at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. (John Stivason)
Bobby Pierce, Brett Sievert, and Mike Glynn race in a tight pack in Kankakee (Ill.) Speedway's "Crosstown Cup", but (below) it was ultimately Shawn Toczek (42) here racing the high side of Mike Provenzano, who sailed to the win. (Dan Simpson)
NALMS Suspends Remaining Season
In a statement released to the racing media Monday, Northern All All Stars Late Model Series (NALMS) owners Shawn Hall and Bob Mooney relased the following statement:
To all NALMS drivers and fans,
Northern Allstars Late Model Series regrets to inform all of our drivers and fans that as of today (May 14, 2012) we will suspend all series races for the remaining 2012 season. The primary reason for the decision to discontinue the series was mainly economics. Tracks, teams and fans are having a hard time these days with the cost of living in general. With the cost of fuel, parts, tires, tickets and lodging, many people just cannot afford to travel to our shows, so we feel it's best to stop for now and try to regroup for the 2013 season.
Our series needs to be able to have at least 18 to 20 shows to cover our cost of putting on these shows and our drivers point funds. With many tracks cutting back on their special events and other tracks just choosing not to have specials at all, it's has really cut our options for race tracks down to a very few unless you are willing to travel several hours away from the Central Illinois area, and that is not cost effective for the racing teams or fans.
In closing we would like to thank all of the drivers and fans whom have supported the series over the years and we hope to be able to come back with a bigger and better season for everyone in 2013.
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