Pevely, MO (May 24, 2003) The rains came and brought the race program to an early end at I-55 Raceway. However, the U.M.P. Late Model division was able to get their entire portion of the program in. Randy Korte made his first visit of 2003 to I-55 Raceway and took a hard fought victory. Korte and Ed Dixon battled side by side for the first eight laps of the feature before Dixon caught a piece of the wall on the backstretch and flattened his right rear tire. On the restart, it was Danny Haynes and Kyle Steffens moving up to battle with Korte for the lead until on lap fourteen when Steffens jumped the cushion and found the wall in turn two, which ended his night. That allowed Brian Wolfmeier to move up and battle for the lead, however Korte proved to be too strong and went on to victory. Wolfmeier took second, Kevin Gundaker moved up from the eighteenth starting position to claim third. Danny Haynes was fourth and Dave Jumper fifth.
The U.M.P. Modifieds feature took to the track as a light rain began to fall. They were able to get to lap ten before the rain started coming down too hard, making the track too slick to continue racing. The race made it to the half way point and was called a complete race. Ray Walsh led all ten laps to take the win. Rich Whaley held off Dennis Richards for second. Bobby Bittle and Brent Thompson completed the top five.
All the other divisions feature events were cancelled and the prize money was split equally between all of those scheduled to start the feature. No points will be awarded for these classes features.
U.M.P. Late Models – 20 Entries
Heat 1:
1. 41 Shawn Granderson
2. 1D Dean Hoffman
3. 47 Danny Haynes
4. 00 Randy Korte
Heat 2:
1. 2J Dave Jumper
2. 50 Ed Dixon
3. 441 Brian Wolfmeier
4. 8 Kyle Steffens
Dash:
1. 50 Ed Dixon
2. 1D Dean Hoffman
3. 00 Randy Korte
4. 2J Dave Jumper
Feature:
1. 00 Randy Korte
2. 441 Brian Wolfmeier
3. 11 Kevin Gundaker
4. 47 Danny Haynes
5. 2J Dave Jumper
6. 112 Tim Ratajczyk
7. 50 Ed Dixon
8. 67 Mark Oller
9. 3D Jim Durbin
10. 9B Chuck Baird
11. 46 Paul Belken, Jr.
12. 28 Don Klein
13. 11Z Brian Collins
14. 41 Shawn Granderson
15. 70 Rich Lawson
16. 21 Justin Anderson
17. 23 Brian Garner
18. 8 Kyle Steffens
19. 1D Dean Hoffman
DNS. 44 Dean Motsinger
U.M.P. Modifieds – 40 Entries
Heat 1:
1. 59 Rich Whaley
2. 18 Brent Thompson
3. 89 Bobby Bittle
4. 10 Curt Rhodes
Heat 2:
1. 24 Mike Crader
2. 56 Kevin Epperson
3. Z34 Steve Zelch, Jr.
4. 51 John Hoffman
Heat 3:
1. 21 Dennis Richards
2. 3R Leon Rakers
3. 45M Eric Mabery
4. 00Z Steve Picou
Heat 4:
1. 1W Ray Walsh
2. 99 Brian Wolfmeier
3. 16K Kenny Kennedy
4. 23 Dylan Sharp
Dash:
1. 59 Rich Whaley
2. 1W Ray Walsh
3. 21 Dennis Richards
4. 99 Brian Wolfmeier
Semi #1:
1. 166 Brian Worley
2. 71 Jay Hughes
3. 22X Clint Eckenrodt
4. 6 Ray Wagner
5. 41S Stu Springer
6. X1 Dave Sandage
7. 3L Bill Larue
8. 35 Paul King
9. 8X Kyle Steffens
DNS. 68 Andy Anderson
Semi #2:
1. 16 Rusty Griffaw
2. 12 Tom Ratajczyk
3. 15 Doug Blair
4. 41H Larry Hull
5. C4 Chris Soutiea
6. 32 Eldrid Winebaugh
7. 95B Jim Beishir
8. 82 Glen Miller
9. 58 Gene Hoffman
10. 7M Kevin Moffitt
Feature:
1. 1W Ray Walsh
2. 59 Rich Whaley
3. 21 Dennis Richards
4. 89 Bobby Bittle
5. 18 Brent Thompson
6. 45M Eric Mabery
7. 24 Mike Crader
8. 16 Rusty Griffaw
9. 56 Kevin Epperson
10. 3R Leon Rakers
11. 00Z Steve Picou
12. 12 Tom Ratajczyk
13. 166 Brian Worley
14. 16K Kenny Kennedy
15. 51 John Hoffman
16. 9 Doug Wood
17. 10 Curt Rhodes
18. 70 Josh Russell
19. 23 Dylan Sharp
20. 71 Jay Hughes
21. 22X Clint Eckenrodt
22. Z34 Steve Zelch, Jr.
23. 99 Brian Wolfmeier
24. 8 Kirk Murphy
AARA Sportsman – 26 Entries
Heat 1:
1. 10 Todd McGraw
2. 50 Eric Rudd
3. 86 Doug Kim
4. 75 Ron Imm, Jr.
Heat 2:
1. 98 David Bardin
2. 87 Gary Haynes
3. 24 Paul Bauman
4. 36 Bob Schmidt
Heat 3:
1. 00 Scott Stuppy
2. 3P Bob Prince
3. 8 Ed Lowry
4. 28 Tom Smallwood
Dash:
1. 10 Todd McGraw
2. 98 David Bardin
3. 00 Scott Stuppy
4. 24 Paul Bauman
Feature: RAINED OUT
AARA Wannabeez – 16 Entries
Heat 1:
1. 57 Don Hoffman
2. 21H Dave Heinrichs
3. 77 Ron Inman
4. 10H Homer Mooney
Heat 2:
1. 21Z Jeff Zohner
2. 6 Joe Gruhala
3. 99 John Hoffman
4. 3 Keith Schroeder
Feature: RAINED OUT
RAMS – 18 Entries
Heat 1:
1. 5 David Wofford, Jr.
2. 6 Rich Ruch
3. 14 Keith Buckley
Heat 2:
1. 52 Marty Boyer
2. 59M Mike Meyer
3. 13 Rusty Voyles
4. 8 Shannon Burch
Feature: RAINED OUT
