Brandon Burgoon with girlfriend Brittany Palonis after his first UFO win at Pa. Motor Speedway. (Todd Battin) UFO/ULMS: Six Lead Changes Later, Burgoon & Johnson Win "F-2 Shockwave" at PPMS Series report IMPERIAL, Pa. - July 23. Davey Johnson of Imperial became the all-time UFo Race Championship feature winner and
Brandon Burgoon of McDonald, Pa. became a first-time UFo/ULMS winner at the F-2 Shockwave at Pittsburgh's Pa. Motor
Speedway Saturday. Both drivers earned $2,000 for their victories in an event that featured six lead changes.
With a pair of UFO/ULMS 25-lappers on tap Saturday at Pittsburgh's Pa. Motor Speedway, Brandon Burgoon shared top honors with veteran Davey Johnson for his first career series win. (Todd Battin) After a second caution flew for Mike Knight's flat tire, Burgoon powered into the lead from the bottom and jumped up to the cushion with Miley and Keith Barbara chasing him before two additional cautions appeared for flat tires on lap 10 for Michael Norris and lap 15 for UFo point leader Devin Friese. Burgoon continued to lead at each restart and fought off the challenges for the remaining laps, with Miley coming home in second over Hess, Devin Friese, who charged back from the tail, and Davey Johnson. Barbara experienced motor problems in turn four of the final lap and coasted across the line in eighth.
Devin Friese races past #4 John Garvin, Jr. on his way to fourth place in the first feature event at PPMS. (Todd Battin) An inversion of 10 was drawn for the second feature. Miley opted to use his uncle's 99 as a backup car, relegating him to the rear ahead of alternate drivers. With Barbara scratching from the race, the actual inversion was eight cars. This put McCellan and UFo PENNational winner Davis on the front row. Like déjà vu of the "PENNational," Davis motored into the lead as positions changed behind him, with cars racing all over the track. The first caution of the event appeared for Burgoon on lap five, and the second for a multi-car incident on lap six, but the remainder of the race would run under the green flag and would be an all-out war for the win. On the restart, Hess once again found magic on the bottom of the track and began to challenge Davis for the lead. Hess powered into the lead on lap seven, but Davis returned the favor and returned to the point on lap eight. Meanwhile, Davey Johnson was also working the bottom of the track and moved into third.
Colton Flinner won the Crate Late Model event at PPMS. (Todd
Battin)
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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.
A-Team Leaders from 1997-2011 (Click on link for complete rundown)
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