SLOWRIDE SPEEDS TO ULMS NANCY BLY MEMORIAL WIN AT MCR
E. Smethport PA

(Chris Zuver)

David "Slowride" Scott in Victory Lane	Randy Hall taking the checkered Flag @ MCR

McKean County Raceway hosted their first THURSDAY NIGHT THUNDER program and it featured the first super dirt late model event of season. The United Late Model Series rolled into MCR for the first time since last falls FALL CLASSIC and the crowd was greeted by clear blue skies and thirty-one of the finest dirt late models in Northeast on Southeastern Transmissions of Olean, NY night.

The ULMS late models rolled onto the facility for the 30 lap $2000 to win Nancy Bly Memorial. Ward Schell was sitting on the point due to his JB Distributing / Coors Light Redraw. Schell had Jeff Hoffman sitting on the outside of him as the duo took ULMS starter, Tony Van Pelts initial green flag and led the thundering herd of 24 ULMS super late models into turn one. This is where the thundering herd started scrambling as Schell looped his #61s in front of the entire field. A massive five-car pile up resulted with Todd Andrews finding his car sitting on top of the #61 machine. Boom Briggs, Luke Hoffner, Dave Hess was also involved. Everyone was done for the evening except for Hoffner who came back on the track several laps down.

Once the line up reset by the track officials as the entire inside row except for David Scott, who started third was lost due to the first lap mishap. Jeff Hoffman now was your point leader and David Scott was on the outside of row one. Hoffman and Scott roared down the front stretch on the start. Scott got ahead of Hoffman as they raced down the backstretch and as lap one was completed it was Scott, Hoffman and Bob Close in third. Close would move into second with a inside move in turn 3 on Hoffman on lap three and would set chase for Slowride. Lap seven saw the #33 of Chris Hackett go pit side as he was in the top ten. A yellow came out on lap eight for debris in turn 4 and this would allow a double file restart. Scott chose the outside lane over Close and they took off, but Scott would get himself ahead of Close as they came out of turn 2. Kirk Bradley would take third from Hoffman on lap nine as Chad Valone and Dick Barton were waging battle for fifth. As lap ten clicked off the board, Barton had disposed of Valone for fifth and on the very next lap the black #28B Bolt Place Ford was in third. Bradley would reclaim third from Barton on lap thirteen as the two were waging a great battle

Boom Briggs, Luke Hoffner, Ward Schell. Todd Andrews and Dave Hess (photo by Jay Pees)

behind the leaders. As the halfway point crossed it was still Scott over Close and Bradley was now closing in on the top two. Lap seventeen saw the last yellow for Rick Isadore who was tagged in the rear as he was in a tight four car battle for seventh. Isadore would put his car into pits same for Brent Rhebergan. Scott took off on the single file restart and would just leave the field in his wake. Slowride wasn't in a Slowride machine. The battle now was for third between Bradley and Barton as the duo had been running a great race all night long and at the checkers it was David Scott picking up his second win of the year on the ULMS tour and his fifth all-time ULMS win. Close, the 2006 ULMS champion was second and the King Dick Barton made the outside pass on Kirk Bradley in turn four to steal third from the 5B of Bradley. Chad Valone came home fifth.
 

The Wimpy's Place Super Stocks saw the ageless one, Ron Baker on the point with defending track champion, Randy Hall sitting next to him. Baker, would take the initial lead over Hall and was having a great run keeping Hall behind him. Rich Thornton was sitting third chasing the top two. As the halfway point reached it was still Baker leading the field and Hall was now receiving pressure from Rich Michael. Michael would get by Hall for second on lap thirteen and had his eyes set on Baker for the lead. Lap sixteen would see Michael get around Baker to take over the top spot and now Hall was looking to get by the ageless veteran of Ron Baker and finally did as the yellow would come out with two to go setting up a mad two lap dash for the win. Michael took off and Hall was right there looking for the win, but Michael would grab win number two for the year over Hall and Dan Cobb who got by Baker on the final lap to grab third, Baker was fourth and Rich Thornton was fifth.

Rich Michaels picks up another win in the Super Stock Class (Jay Pees Photo)

The Emods were the second highlight of the evenings program as the makeup Fuzzy Mader Memorial was held with a $1,000.00 going to the winner. Ed Carley was on the front row making a rare appearance at MCR and Dave Hess brought his Emod along with his ULMS late model as well. The duo shot down the homestretch on the opening lap, but it was fourth place starter and perennial Emod star, Randy Hall going around both drivers and leading lap number one over Hess and Hall. As lap five clicked off it was Hall, Hess, Carley, outsider, Mike Samuelson and Tim Peterson your top five. John Woodward Jr. would crack the top five on lap eight from his seventh place starting spot. As the halfway mark of the event went by, the top five were still Hall, Hess, Carley, Samuelson and Woodward. Lap nineteen would see yellow come out for point leader Vic Vena and Jeremy Ensell. Lap twenty would see another yellow for Dennis Lunger and the cars of Kyle Bedell, Dave Lyon and Travis Asel going pitside for the evening. Hall got a good jump on the restart and Nathan Short would grab fourth from Samuelson as the field got the twp to go signal, Samuelson would grab fourth back from Short. Hall would sped across the double checkers and take home the $1000 first place prize money and the Fuzzy Mader Memorial over Hess, Carley, Samuelson and Nathan Short.
 

The NE Micro Mini Stocks rounded out the Southeastern Transmission Thursday Night Thunder program. Tyler Carlin and Dave Lowe Sr. lead the seventeen car field to the initial green. Carlin got the speed and the lead over Lowe. The point leaders, Steve Mowery and Dave Burdick were working their way up thru the field Mowery was already fifth on the second lap after starting ninth. His luck ran out as the field took lap three when he lost his right front tire, bringing out the yellow. Carlin again took over the lead but the new challenge was Brad Ullman, who making his first start of the year, as he would
take over the lead on lap six as he was charging from the eleventh starting spot. Lowe would take over second on lap eight as his son would be sitting fourth ahead of Ben Rothermel. At the finish it was Ullman winning by a huge margin over Tyler Carlin, Dave Lowe Sr, Dave Lowe Jr. and Ben Rothermel.

MCR will be back in action next Saturday night as the Maynard's Electric FASTRAK Northeast Regional Series come into MCR. A full field of FASTRAK late models are expected from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio as they will be vying for the $1500 to win prize money. The NE Micro Mini Stocks will be running a special $250 to win event. All this along with the Wimpy's Place Super Stocks, Emods and Jerge's Street Stocks on Larry's Sport Center Presents "Harley Night".

RESULTS:

ULMS NANCY BLY MEMORIAL:
David Scott, Bob Close, Dick Barton, Kirk Bradley, Chad Valone, Jeff Hoffman, John Lobb, Miles Stitzinger, Randy Lobb, Darrell Bossard, Mike Knight, Bob McMillen, Brent Rhebergan, Chris Farrell, Rick Isadore, Ed Connor, Al Brewer, Chris Hacket, Rick Briggs, Ward Schell, Todd Andrews, Dave Hess, Luke Hoffner and Greg Oakes

DNQ: Russ Hefti, George Labarbara, Doug Ricotta, Bump Hedman, Paul Briggs, Ryan Scott, Pete Alspaugh

Heat Winners: Oakes, Bradley, Andrews, Barton
B-Mains: Brewer, J. Lobb


JERGES Street Stocks:
Andy Michael, Lance Palmer, Chris Austin, Derrick Francis, Brett Smith, Rich Hemphill, Kelly Green, Matt Palmer, Bruno Mowery, Jason Schoonmaker, John Williams, Joe Layfield, Allan Neamon, Ken Shelley, Leon Gardner, Joe Boylan, Charles Silleman, Darren Morgan, John Miller, Jeff Hellwig, Justin Tatlow, Joe White, Josh Keith, Brad Bigley, Richard Kemp, Chris Conkley, Butch Williams and Damon Lewis.

NE Micro Mini Stocks:
Brad Ullman, Tyler Carlin, Dave Lowe Sr., Dave Lowe Jr., Ben Rothermel, Richard Kline, Dave Burdick , Justin Yohe, Chris Denson, Donald Yard, Amanda Close, Chris Parr, Herm Burrows, Steve Mowery, Norm Varner, Jeff Buhl.

EMODS Fuzzy Mader Memorial:
Randy Hall, Dave Hess, Ed Carley, Mike Samuelson, Nathan Short, John Woodward, Greg Johnson, Ryan Bright, Tim Peterson, Bob Connor, Rich Michael, Darren Tarabori, Quincy Turner, Kyle Scott, Kyle Bedell, Dana Wellington, Dave Lyon, Chad Silleman, Tom Hagberg, Travis Asel, Dennis Lunger, Vic Vena, Damon Lewis, Carl McKinney, Justin Carlson, Jeremy Ensell

WIMPYS PLACE Super Stocks:
Rich Michael, Randy Hall, Dan Cobb, Jeff Chesebro, Ron Baker, Rich Thornton, Steve Dixon, Jr. Peters, John Lichy, Dean Layfield, Bruce Miller,  Bryce Davis, Dan Dunham, GeorgeRitter, Todd Hansen