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ULMS Media
EAST SMETHPORT, Penn. (May 6) - Matt Lux of Franklin, Pennsylvania returned to McKean County Raceway for the conclusion of the 30 lap Jim Duffy Memorial that was paying $2000 to win and a guaranteed starting spot for the season ending, Priority Care RaceFAN 50.
Fifteen of the original seventeen Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models returned for the remaining 27 laps with defending three-time ULMS champion Bob Close and Jeff Hoffman leading the field to John Powell's green flag. Close would get sides ways in turn two resulting in cars checking up and Greg Oakes sweeping by but at the line it was Hoffman still your leader as the yellow lights came out for Paul Grigsby who collected the front stretch wall ending his night real early. During the yellow, Close went pit side with a left rear flat tire. The restart, Oakes took his Pioneer Propane, Rocket Chassis charged into the lead over Hoffman. With five laps in, Matt Lux was now up to second from his sixth place starting position with Boom Briggs in third and Jason Dupont who restarted ninth was now in fourth and charging to the front, as Hoffman slid back to fifth.
Dupont took third on lap six from Briggs with an inside turn two move. Oakes was pulling away from Lux and was looking good at possibly his first ULMS win. Briggs and Gregg Satterlee would move around Dupont on lap ten as the Northern Tier Inc #No7 would go to the infield with a broken axle ending the "Captain's" night. Oakes was still in command till lap fourteen when the "Franklinville Flyer" pulled up lame out of turn two handing the lead over to Matt Lux. Oakes later diagnosed the problem as a broken rocker arm ending his bid at winning his first ever ULMS win. With the halfway flags being displayed, Matt Lux was now the new leader with Briggs back up to second and Satterlee now in third followed by Dennis Lunger and Close who was back up to fifth. Close would move into fourth on lap seventeen as Hoffman would go back to fifth and his run would end on lap eighteen with a right front broken spindle on the Hoffman Coach Co. #32 Rocket. Satterlee and Briggs would catch the slower car of Wally Fox and the three car battle for the lead seemed to be in the making but Lux would get around Fox and leave Satterlee and Briggs behind. Lap twenty-four would see Briggs go pit side unexpectedly with an overheated motor handing third place to Close. The final few laps would see Satterlee work high and low on Lux, but he would fall a car length short at capturing his second consecutive Jim Duffy Memorial. Following Lux and Satterlee was Close, Dennis Lunger and Brent Rhebergen rounding out the top five.
The Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Models will be in action next Saturday night at Pittsburgh PA Motor Speedway in a co-sanctioned event with the UFO Late Model Series in a pair of Twin 22 lap events paying $3000 total to win. ULMS will return to McKean Co. Raceway on Thursday, May 27 for the 5th annual Dave Lundgren Memorial.
Northern Tier Inc. ULMS Late Models (Jim Duffy Memorial)
1. Matt Lux, 2. Gregg Satterlee, 3. Bob Close, 4. Dennis Lunger, 5. Brent Rhebergen, Wally Fox, Boom Briggs, Jeff Hoffman, Dereck Frank, Greg Oakes, Jason Dupont, David Scott, Denny Fenton, Harry Miller and Paul Grigsby
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