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Randy Korte, Matt Mevert, Eric Hogenmiller, Danny Ems & Vincent Shehorn take victories at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55!

Randy Korte Matt Mevert Eric Hogenmiller Danny Ems Vincent Shehorn CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM FEDERATED AUTO PARTS RACEWAY AT I-55! By Jimmy DearingPevely, MO (May 12th, 2012) - A solid field of 116 race cars filled the pit area at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55. This was the fifth night of competition in 2012 for the UMP DIRTcar Super Late Model division and Randy Korte became the fifth different winner. Outside front row starter Jeff Herzog took the lead at the drop of the green flag and used the high side to pace the early laps until Dewayne Kiefer found a fast line around the bottom and overtook Herzog. Kiefer was strong and opened up nearly a full straight away lead as the main event went the first sixteen laps without a caution. During that long green flag run, a massive battle ensued behind Kiefer as Scott Weber, Jason McBride, Randy Korte, Brent Kreke and Herzog battled fiercly for position. When the caution finally flew on lap sixteen, Weber had the second spot while Korte was running third. On the restart, Korte was use the middle to high side to work his way past Weber and Kiefer to quickly take the lead. Korte would pull away in the closing laps to pick up the victory. Kiefer would hold off Weber for a second while McBride would settle for fourth behind Weber. Ken Schrader would round out the top five. Another spectacular field of UMP DIRTcar Modifieds were on hand and they did not disappoint as they provide two and three wide racing throughout the field. Dean Hoffman got the early lead from his front row outside starting spot over pole sitter Matt Mevert. Brent Mullins would wrestle the second spot from Mevert as well in the early laps. Howver, Mevert would find a fast line and move back by Mullins and then proceed to dispose of Hoffman and get the lead. Mevert would go on to victory. Mark Miner would work his way up from his seventh place starting spot and finish second. Hoffman would settle for third with Mullins taking fourth. Rusty Griffaw would slip past several cars in the closing laps to round out the top five. Eric Hogenmiller would start front row pole in the UMP DIRTcar/AARA Sportsman main event and proceed lead all fifteen laps to get his first ever feature win. Hogenmiller's win wouldn't come easy as he was pressure for all fifteen laps by Jeff LeBaube and Troy Medley. But LeBaube and Medley's side by side battle for the second spot for most of the race would keep them from getting too close to Hogenmiller. LeBaube would finish second with Medley third. Danny Ems would get fourth and Chuck Adams fifth. Brad Paquet, Chris Soutiea, Trey Harris and Troy Naeger had a crazy battle going for the sixth spot. They raced three and four wide for most of the fifteen laps. Paquet would get the best of them to finish sixth while Soutiea was seventh, Harris eighth and Naeger ninth. Gary Haynes rounded out the top ten. There may of only been nine UMP DIRTcar/AARA Pure Stocks signed in to compete, but their feature proved to be one of the best ones of the night. Marc McClintock lead every lap except for the last lap. McClintock paced the field while Danny Ems and Stephen Fohne raced side by side for the second spot. Ems would finally get ahead of Fohne with just four laps remaining and took aim at working on McClintock. As McClintock ran the low side, Ems would work a smooth and steady line around the top, slowly creeping up on McClintock. He would finally pull along side McClintock two laps to go and then move into the lead on the final lap. The win kept Ems perfect streak going as he has won all five feature events so far in the 2012. Vincent Shehorn made a rare visit to Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 in the UMP DIRTcar/AARA Pro 4 Stock division. Shehorn and Jacob Rexing would have an intense battle for the win as they swapped the lead a couple of times on the final lap. While Shehorn lead on the final lap, Rexing would dive under him and a lapped car going into turn three. Rexing would get the lead but couldn't hold his line around the bottom as he got into the corner too fast. That allowed Shehorn to dive back under Rexing as they went through turn four and pick up the win. Andrew Wibbenmeyer would finish third while Scott Wickliffe took fourth and Mark Crady fifth. UMP DIRTcar Late Models - 25 EntriesHeat 1: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 88 Scott Weber 8 0 14.328 14.071 1 2 0 Dewayne Kiefer 8 -2.383 14.452 14.225 3 3 77 Jason McBride 8 -4.439 15.149 13.942 2 4 33m Tim Manville 8 -5.186 14.424 14.424 8 5 1 Jim Moon 8 -5.495 14.794 14.645 7 6 11d Brian Diveley 8 -7.542 15.322 14.636 3 7 50 Ed Dixon 8 -7.549 15.587 14.6 6 8 23R Paul Roider 8 -8.623 15.115 14.801 6 Heat 2: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 9 Ken Schrader 8 0 14.607 14.068 3 2 0 Randy Korte 8 -0.496 14.686 14.13 4 3 2 Dave Jumper 8 -3.492 14.883 14.594 2 4 78 Mark Miner 8 -4.508 15.033 14.673 4 5 95a Andrew Johns 8 -6.038 15.057 14.818 7 6 95 Jeff Johns 8 -6.773 15.457 14.908 4 7  7z Matt Zimmerly 8 -9.706 17.127 15.172 4 8 26 Randy Estes 1 -7 15.59 15.59 1 Heat 3: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 11 Jeff Herzog 8 0 14.846 14.418 3 2 13 Brent Kreke 8 -1.225 14.906 14.654 7 3 89 Bobby Bittle 8 -1.944 15.335 14.886 6 4 86 Jason Crump 8 -2.206 15.095 14.903 5 5  1hr Ron McQuerry 8 -3.883 15.196 15.119 4 6 87 Ken Rumble 8 -4.089 15.141 14.995 7 7 16h Mike Hammerle 8 -6.072 15.306 15.199 3 8  5a Paul Schrempf 8 -8.499 15.433 15.433 8 Feature: Place Start No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 6 0 Randy Korte 25 0 15.178 14.728 18 2 3 0 Dewayne Kiefer 25 -2.066 15.791 14.701 3 3 5 88 Scott Weber 25 -3.122 15.475 14.888 2 4 8 77 Jason McBride 25 -4.126 15.605 14.814 4 5 4 9 Ken Schrader 25 -5.955 15.7 15.273 17 6 1 13 Brent Kreke 25 -6.492 15.583 15.268 6 7 2 11 Jeff Herzog 25 -6.51 15.582 15.007 2 8 7 89 Bobby Bittle 25 -7.272 15.452 15.283 4 9 14 1 Jim Moon 25 -7.465 15.661 15.073 7 10 13 95a Andrew Johns 25 -8.95 15.745 15.163 11 11 9 2 Dave Jumper 25 -9.815 15.822 15.15 6 12 17 95 Jeff Johns 25 -11.184 15.979 15.536 16 13 10 78 Mark Miner 25 -11.498 16.16 15.388 9 14 12 86 Jason Crump 25 -13.638 16.036 15.299 11 15 21 16h Mike Hammerle 24 -1 16.383 15.718 10 16 24  5a Paul Schrempf 24 -1 16.443 15.758 8 17 25 97 Brian Heizer 23 -2 16.574 16.091 20 18 20  7z Matt Zimmerly 23 -2 16.579 15.552 10 19 11 33m Tim Manville 16 -9 15.955 15.347 11 20 15  1hr Ron McQuerry 16 -9 15.68 15.222 5 21 16 11d Brian Diveley 16 -9 15.53 15.53 16 22 18 87 Ken Rumble 15 -10 16.028 15.843 11 23 22 23R Paul Roider 15 -10 16.783 16.01 5 24 19 50 Ed Dixon 1 -24 16.687 16.687 1 25 23 26 Ken Estes 0 -25 --- --- --- UMP DIRTcar Modifieds - 33 EntriesHeat 1: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 7 Mark Miner 8 0 14.778 14.225 4 2  1ad Aaron Draege 8 -0.907 15.171 14.589 1 3 1 Tim Hancock 8 -0.916 14.962 14.501 4 4 16 Rusty Griffaw 8 -1.51 15.151 14.71 6 5 4uw Bobby Regot 8 -2.407 15.741 15.267 6 6 6 Rick Weekly 8 -2.651 15.622 15.217 3 7 12s Mike Stuckey 8 -3.195 15.769 15.3 7 8 17 Brad Thurston 8 -3.418 15.345 14.349 4 9 62k Leo Kiefer 8 -3.573 15.69 15.492 7 Heat 2: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 24 Paul Bauman 8 0 16.251 14.71 2 2 41m Brent Mullins 8 -1.587 15.284 14.801 2 3 31 Ricky Horton 8 -1.692 15.4 15.053 2 4 808 Kelby SImmons 8 -2.986 15.378 15.211 7 5 69 Mark Hunter 8 -12.469 16.288 15.63 6 6  3L Bill Larue 7 -1 16.521 15.715 2 7  1a Dillon Hamm 7 -1 16.903 16.484 3 8  1z Zack Hoffman 4 -4 13.847 10.422 1 Heat 3: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 21d Dennis Richards 8 0 14.801 14.718 3 2  1d Dean Hoffman 8 -2.737 15.138 14.892 4 3 70 Josh Russell 8 -3.711 15.197 14.945 5 4 98 Joey Walsh 8 -5.705 15.679 15.44 7 5 12r Tyler Ratajczyk 8 -6.563 15.618 15.533 2 6 56 Jake Draege 8 -6.635 15.584 15.428 2 7 24j Jacob Steinkoenig 8 -11.267 16.452 15.854 7 8 66 Darron Forrest 0 -9 --- --- --- Heat 4: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 22 Matt Mevert 8 0 14.934 14.829 5 2 51 Timmy Hill 8 -0.254 15.274 15.017 7 3 10jyd Jim Black 8 -1.824 15.833 15.4 7 4 88 Joe Puricelli 8 -2.059 15.421 15.233 7 5 18d Matt Dickermann 8 -3.468 15.998 15.725 4 6 8b Brendan Bittle 8 -4.826 15.943 15.883 1 7 21 Tom Rorabacher 8 -5.044 16.52 15.865 2 8 28k Dave Katheriner 3 -5 16.689 16.689 3 Semi: Place No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 12r Tyler Ratajczyk 10 0 15.984 15.801 1 2 18d Matt Dickermann 10 -2.759 16.805 15.982 1 3 6 Rick Weekly 10 -3.931 16.31 16.055 1 4 8b Brendan Bittle 10 -4.551 16.412 16.021 2 5 17 Brad Thurston 10 -4.991 16.723 15.537 4 6  3L Bill Larue 10 -5.888 16.775 16.145 2 7 12s Mike Stuckey 10 -6.277 16.291 16.068 5 8 56 Jake Draege 10 -7.151 21.342 15.686 4 9 24j Jacob Steinkoenig 10 -7.495 16.853 16.251 3 10 62k Leo Kiefer 10 -7.925 17.024 16.228 3 11 21 Tom Rorabacher 10 -8.7 17.07 16.369 1 12  1a Dillon Hamm 9 -1 17.397 16.792 4 13  1z Zack Hoffman 1 -9 16.315 16.315 1 14 66 Darron Forrest 0 -10 --- --- --- 15 28k Dave Katheriner 0 -10 --- --- --- Feature: Place Start No. Name Laps Lag Last Time Fast Time Fast Lap 1 1 22 <

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