Saturday September 11th, 2010 Busti, NY: Mike Knight
led from the green to win the Saturday Edition of the Roberts Trucking ULMS
Super Late Model 40 lap race. It was Knight’s backup car that won on Friday
night with Robbie Blair at the wheel. Blair finished in third with Dave Hess Jr.
the runner-up.
Brent
Rhebergen won the UEMS E-Mod event. Dave Hess Jr. seemed to have the race under
control until late race mechanical problems sent him to the pits.
Rain stopped the racing events during the second lap
of the Crate Late Model feature.
Threatening rain forced management to bring the Super Late Models onto to
the speedway for their main event even before all of the other classes had
finished qualifying. Thirty-one Super Lates were lead on to the speedway by Mike
Knight and Dave Hess Jr.. Chad Ruhlman and Doug Eck were in row two with Dick
Barton and Bump Hedman in row three. Knight was the first by the starter to lead
lap one with Hess trailing by five car lengths. Ruhlman was third then Barton
and Eck and John Lobb were side by side for fifth. Eck slowed with five laps
complete causing the first yellow and sending Eck to the pits. Knight and Hess
remained the front two after the restart and Barton took third away from
Ruhlman. Chad Valone moved into the top five passing Lobb for fifth just before
the yellow flew for Ward Schell spun in turn two. Valone bested Barton on the
restart for the fourth spot, Ruhlman was third and Knight continued to lead
followed by Hess. Last nights winner Robbie Blair was the next mover taking
fourth from Valone just before the half way mark. The leaders were in heavy lap
traffic as Ruhlman fell to Blair. With ten laps remaining Knight led Hess by ten
car lengths and Blair was a distant third, Ruhlman fourth and Barton fifth. Hess
closed with Knight and looked faster with eight laps remaining. Debris on the
front stretch caused caution three with just four laps remaining changed the
makeup of the race for Knight, both Hess and Blair could close and heavy lap
traffic would not be a factor for the final laps. Knight was able to get a four
car length lead on the restart and still maintained it with two to go. Knight
held on as Hess finished with a smoking race car just a car length ahead of
Blair.
Brent Rhebergen was on the pole and led the first lap
of the UEMS E-Mod feature. Have Hess Jr. , last nights winner, was second.
Rhebergen and Hess ran door to door for several laps until Hess took the lead on
lap seven and the rest of the field trailed by half a straight away. The first
yellow did not appear until eight laps were complete as Vic Vena had spun
between turns three and four. Vena pulled into the pits during the yellow. Hess,
Rhebergen, John Boyd, Kari Gasser and Chet Sheets were the restart leaders. Ron
Seeley spun on the next circuit for caution number two. After the restart Hess
pulled away from the field, Rhebergen led Boyd y ten car lengths and Gasser was
fifteen behind Boyd. Hess began lapping cars with nine laps remaining with a one
quarter lap lead. Debris on the backstretch and a slowing Butch Southwell
brought out caution three with seven laps to go. Disaster befell the leader on
the restart as he took the green and pulled into the pits. Rhebergen was back on
top with Gasser second and Scott Gurdak third. A slow car caused the next
caution with four remaining, then on the restart several cars at the back of the
field tangled. Rain began as the green flew for the restart. Rhebergen
controlled the restart and Gasser was all alone in second. Rhebergen took the
double checkers for his first win of the season.
Jason Genco and Robbie Blair led twenty four Crate
Late Models to Mark Matthews green flag. Genco was the first back to the line.
But lap two saw a multi-car incident between turns one and two. Damien Bidwell,
Kevin Decker, Matt Cobb, Robert Dorman and Jamie Brown were involved. While the
safety crews were untangling the race cars the rain picked up ending the nights
racing events.
Super Late Model
Heat 1:
Bump
Hedman Sugar Grove PA, Chad Ruhlman, Chad Valone Warren PA, Robbie Blair, Chad
Silleman South Dayton NY
Heat 2:
John
Lobb Frewsburg NY, Dick Barton Ashville NY, David Scott Garland PA, Boom Briggs
Bear Lake PA, Pete Alspaugh Russell PA
Heat 3:
Dave
Hess Jr. Waterford PA, Mike Knight Ripley NY, Chris Hackett Corry PA, Darrell
Bossard Centerville PA, Darren Peters Fort Erie ON
Heat 4:
Doug
Eck Corry PA, Jason Morell North East PA, Andy Kania Waterford PA, Andy Boozel
Clymer NY, Greg Oakes Franklinville NY
Feature: Mike Knight Ripley NY, Dave Hess Jr.
Waterford PA, Robbie Blair Centerville PA, Dick Barton Ashville NY,, Chad
Ruhlman, Bump Hedman Sugar Grove PA, Chris Hackett Corry PA, John Lobb Frewsburg
NY, Chad Valone Warren PA, Andy Boozel Clymer NY, Jason Morell North East PA,
Andy Kania Waterford PA, Greg Oakes Franklinville NY, Boom Briggs Bear Lake PA,
Darrell Bossard Centerville PA, John Volpe Lakewood NY, Pete Alspaugh Russell
PA, Scott Gurdak Bear Lake PA, Nathan Short Panama NY, Chad Silleman South
Dayton NY, Chad Ramsey, Chuck Parker Sinclairville NY, Darren Peters Fort Erie
ON, Bruce Hordusky Erie PA, Denny Fenton Clearfield PA, Ward Schell, Wendell
Pinckney Albion PA, Dereck Frank Jamestown NY, Doug Eck Corry PA
E-Mod
Heat 1:
John
Boyd Waterford PA, Dave Hess Jr. Waterford PA, Scott Gurdak Bear Lake PA, Vic
Vena Shinglehouse PA, Mike Eschrich Mt. Jewett PA
Heat 2:
Randy
Hall Olean NY, Jaben Hill Cattaraugus NY, Alex Froman Ashville NY, Carl McKinney
Mars PA, Chris Couchenour Ashville NY
Heat 3:
Brent
Rhebergen Clymer NY, Chet Sheets Warren PA, Brian Douglas Painsville OH, Nathan
Hill East Otto NY, Dan Davies Warren PA
Heat 4:
Butch
Southwell Warren PA, Kari Gasser Girard OH, David Shagla Sugar Grove PA, Ron
Seeley Youngsville PA, Dustin Eckman Erie PA
Consolation 1:
Joel
Watson Conneaut OH, Justin Carlson Sherman NY, Mike Eschrich Mt. Jewett PA, Greg
Johnson Busti NY, Leonard Enos Russell PA, Steve Huling Kennedy NY, Chris
Couchenour Ashville NY, Ben Asel Kane PA
Consolation 2:
Dan
Davies Warren PA, Mike Munsee, Dustin Eckman Erie PA, Cale Crocker Pittsfield
PA, Richard Michael Jr. Ischua NY, Brian Fardink Sherman NY, Chuck Frye Ashville
NY, Tom Pierce Ripley NY, Anthony Marotto Ashville NY
Feature: Brent Rhebergen Clymer NY, Kari Gasser
Girard OH, Joel Watson Conneaut OH, Scott Gurdak Bear Lake PA, Randy Hall Olean
NY, Alex Froman Ashville NY, Greg Johnson Busti NY, Chet Sheets Warren PA,
Richard Michael Jr. Ischua NY, Mike Munsee
Spectator
Heat 1:
Brandon
Groters Bear Lake PA, Brandon Pierce Sinclairville NY, Travis Darling Jamestown
NY, James Britt Dunkirk NY, Kyle Weilacher Lakewood NY
Heat 2:
Sam
Courson Cassadaga NY, Nathan Earle Garland PA, Aron Dascomb Clymer NY, Kevin
Hill Gowanda NY, Matt Sampson Warren PA
Crate Late Model
Heat 1:
Ed
Carley, Kyle Zimmerman Albion PA, John Lacki Sinclairville NY, Bill Cunningham
Jefferson OH, Damien Bidwell Eldred PA
Heat 2:
Rob
Blair Centerville PA, Steve Dixon Smethport PA, Jamie Brown Jamestown NY, Robert
Dorman Stockton NY, Bob Vogt Jr W. Springfield PA
Heat 3:
Jason
Genco Jamestown NY, John Volpe Lakewood NY, Tim Schram Scio NY, Matt Cobb
Bradford PA, Marshall Shunk Smethport PA