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Message started by LMR on 09/01/10 at 3:53am

Title: ULMA Has a New Point Leader Heading into the Final Five Races
Post by LMR on 09/01/10 at 3:53am

Sam Stoecklin
ULMA Media Relations
August 31, 2010

ULMA Has a New Point Leader Heading into the Final Five Races of the Season

Only five possible points-earning nights remain during the quest for the 2010 ULMA Championship and heading into this weekend, the association has a new leader as Vance Wilson takes over the top position from Jason Bodenhamer, who had held the lead for the past month. Wilson recorded his association-leading tenth victory in a make-up feature event at Callaway Raceway in Fulton, Missouri last Friday night and took the lead in the process even though he did not compete in the regularly scheduled night’s main event. Meanwhile, Bodenhamer picked up a fifth-place run for the weekend and failed to improve any of his fifteen best finishes of the year. Currently, Wilson has twelve first-place point finishes (2 from double point nights), one second, and two thirds counting as his fifteen best. Bodenhamer has eight first-place point finishes (1 from a double point’s night) and seven second-place finishes counting toward his fifteen best.

It is likely Wilson will compete at both Callaway Raceway and Lucas Oil Speedway; this Saturday is the final points-earning night at Lucas Oil Speedway as the track’s regular season comes to a close. This weekend Bodenhamer is expected to race only at his home track of Central Missouri Speedway (CMS). The following weekend, only Callaway Raceway on Friday and CMS on Saturday, will be competing as the season ends at CMS on September 11th. Bodenhamer has experienced some mechanical woes recently in his Derek Nevels’ owned familiar #88; however, a fellow racer has stepped in to help Bodenhamer the last couple of weeks with John Farmer loaning Bodenhamer the use of his car. Bodenhamer won the championship in 2008 and is trying to become the first two-time ULMA champion. Had Wilson joined the association at the beginning of the season he would have the maximum points possible with well over fifteen recorded victories.

Exciting News for our Drivers, Teams, Officials, and Fans! The United Late Model Association is proud to announce that we have created a wide ranging group of corporate partnerships to provide great values for all of us. These partnerships give us special offers in product categories that include, Travel Deals, Performance Parts, Top Retailers, Consumer Electronics, and more. Our new relationship in the Performance Parts arena with Aftermarket Gateway (one of the largest wholesale performance parts distributors in the United States) is especially exciting because we are going to be able to purchase performance parts at wholesale prices! We know this will be a great opportunity for you to reduce your costs and better manage your racing budgets. These great offers are now available through links on our homepage at www.ulmaracing.com. Or just click on the following link: United Late Model Association Deals. These offers are available all year long, not just when we’re going racing, and can be used for racing or for personal use. Make sure you visit the site regularly because we don’t want you to miss our featured “Deal of the Week”!

As mentioned earlier, Wilson claimed his tenth win of the year last weekend in the make-up event at Callaway Raceway but did not start the scheduled weekly feature for the night. Ten of fourteen drivers on hand were ULMA member drivers. Trace Westling came away with a third-place run in the make-up event with Zeke Langley, Cliff Powell, Jeff Schlup, James Stafford, and Ashley Lancaster also coming away with recorded top ten finishes. For the weekly feature event, Schlup claimed his third win of the year over Bob Test who finished a strong second. Westling, Powell, Cox, Langley, and Stafford again recorded top ten finishes among the nine ULMA members of fifteen drivers on hand. Two more weekends of ULMA points-earning races are scheduled at Callaway including this Friday, September 3 and one final time on Friday, September 10. Be sure to log onto the track’s official website at www.callawayraceways.com.

Every year it seems that one driver is finally able to shake the bad luck and close out the year with a series of strong finishes and that is just what Jon Binning has done over the last three weeks as the Warrensburg driver claimed his third straight, and fourth overall victory of the season at CMS. A stellar field of drivers was on hand including Bodenhamer, Wilson, Tommy Cordray, Brett Wood, Steve Clancy, Kevin Coyne, Bob Test, Shawn Rayfield, and Bob King. But it didn’t matter to Binning as he smoked all of them for his convincing win. Test again came away with another second-place run for the weekend as he was the only driver able to keep pace with the winner until lapped traffic became an issue. Wood finished a strong third, with Cordray, who had not been to the track in a couple of years, finished a stellar fourth with Bodenhamer fifth. There were 15 member drivers present among the 18 drivers on hand. Two more weeks of points-earning finishes are possible at CMS beginning this Saturday, September 4th and continuing on CMS championship night, and final ULMA points-earning night of the year on Saturday, September 11th where the title could very well likely be decided at the conclusion of the late model feature. Visit CMS online at www.centralmissourispeedway.net for complete information.

Lucas Oil Speedway will wrap up its regular championship season this Saturday night, August 4th with one more chance for ULMA points to be earned at the track. Congratulations are in order for Tommy Cordray of Browning, Missouri for repeating as the tracks late model champion. Cordray, along with Brothers Harlen and Andy Kennedy, Wilson, Jeremy Kelley, leading ULMA Rookie of the Year Chris Cox, and long-time ULMA competitor Danny Lorton are expected to compete one final time this weekend at the speedway. For complete details visit the track’s official website at www.lucasoilspeedway.com.

For complete standings and the remaining race schedule visit our official website by logging onto www.ulmaracing.com. The ULMA points fund benefits by booking your lodging needs through the official ULMA website, savings await everyone using the link on the website by choosing from several quality hotel chains. To join the association’s email group, send request to unitedlatemodelassociation@hotmail.com.

Official 2010 sponsors and affiliated business partners are greatly appreciated. This year’s team includes official sponsor Imhoff Construction. Contingency Sponsors: Fast Shafts, Rod End Supply, Racingjunk.com, TCI® Automotive, Kenny Johnson’s Race Replicas. Affiliate Sponsor: Photographics by Shelly Payne. ULMA 2010 Business Partners: NeedSponsorship.com, MySmokinRide.com, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Homes for Our Troops. If you would like to join the team, contact us at your convenience at unitedlatemodelassociation@hotmail.com or www.ulmaracing.com.

POS CAR # NAME POINTS Starts
1st B1 Vance Wilson 1490 18
2nd 88B Jason Bodenhamer 1486 20
3rd 1 Bob Test 1474 36
4th 65 Jon Binning 1432 24
5th 12c Steve Clancy 1396 20
6th 7 Brett Wood 1384 24
7th 21 Jeff Schlup 1360 15
8th 7W Trace Westling 1352 21
9th 1T Chris Cox (R) 1338 28
10th 5 Tommy Cordray 1328 14
11th 27 Danny Lorton 1284 21
12th 22 Kevin Coyne 1258 21
13th 98 James Stafford 1250 28
14th 28 Brian Pipes 1214 15
15th 23Z Ezekiel Langley (R) 1194 21
16th 25 Robbie Wright 1188 17
17th 16 Ashlee Lancaster (R) 1180 15
18th 18R Shawn Rayfield 1171 15
19th 68 John Pipes 1166 15
20th 55K Andy Kennedy 1136 13