All Roads Lead To West Virginia To Kick Off ULMS 2023 Season
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The 2023 Jay’s Automotive United Late Model Series will kick off six weeks later than originally planned in the hills of West Virginia. Friday May 5 at Ohio Valley Speedway and Saturday May 6 at Tyler County Speedway for a pair of $5000 to win events that will see the ULMS Late Models start the season Topless!
On Friday night the series makes its first ever trip to Ohio Valley Speedway in Washington, West Virginia. The track owned and operated by former UEMS modified standout, Rich Michael Jr will kick off the 2023 season ironically. The 50 lap event will see the ULMS Jay’s Auto Wrecking Elite contracted teams of Millmont, PA driver Dave Stamm along with other Pennsylvania drivers, Dylan Cecce, Logan Zarin, Daryl Charlier, Del Rougeux, RJ Dallape, Jon Lee, Braeden Dillinger along with West Virginia’s Ryan Montgomery and Virginia’s Tyler Emory all on hand. All Elite drivers except Dave Stamm and Jon Lee have registered for the Chew on This Jerky Rookie of Year championship also.
The Ohio Valley Speedway faithful stars of Tyler Carpenter, Tyler Evans, Harold Redman Jr., Ronnie Mayle along with other regional stars from Ohio and West Virginia region will be on hand. Joining the Jays Automotive ULMS Late Models will be the UMP modifieds, sportsmods, SCDRA 4 cylinders and mini wedges.
Gates open at 4pm with mini wedge action beginning at 6pm and hot lap beginning at 7pm followed by LIndemuth Laser Etching Qualifying beginning afterwards. The overall fast time will receive an additional $100 from Roger and Kari Senakievich in memory of Kari’s father Ken Leet Sr. ULMS registration will open at 4pm along with ULMS tech at 430pm. ULMS registration will end at 6:30pm with driver meeting immediately at 6:40PM at the ULMS command center.
On Saturday, May 6 the Jay’s Automotive ULMS Late Model Series will head to Middlebourne, West Virginia to “The Bullring” of Tyler County Speedway for the 29th annual Topless 50 that will also pay $5000 to the winner. Past ULMS winners at “The Bullring” have been Tim Dohm, Mike Benedum, Max Blair and Jacob Hawkins in 2019. The ten Jay’s Auto Wrecking Elite teams will be doing battle Topless with the Tyler County stars of Tyler Evans who won the tracks opening night event over ULMS Elite driver Braeden Dillinger who has a super late model win at Tyler County last year. Other local hot shoes such as Daniel Hill, Brian Baumberger, Steve Weigle and Kyle Thomas will be hard to beat. You can never count out regional stars such Michael Lake, Matt Cosner, Benedum and others for giving the Bullring a shot for the $5k!
Joining the Jay’s Automotive ULMS Late Models at Tyler County will be the DirtCar UMP Modifieds, Edge Hotmods, Sportsmods, SCDRA 4 cylinders, Mini Wedges and RUSH Late Models. Gates open at 4pm with ULMS tech beginning at 4:15PM. ULMS Registration opens at 4:15PM and closes at 6:10pm with driver meeting at 6:15pm and hotlaps beginning at 6:45pm followed by Lindemuth Laser Etching Qualifying for the 2nd oldest Topless Late Model event In the country.
ULMS Racing Series procedures will be in place for both events, which include hot laps followed by Lindemuth Laser Etching Qualifying, 8 lap minimum qualifying heat events, consolation events and 50 lap main event. Time Trials per ULMS rules will be the following: 3 heats will be straight up; 4 heats will result in A&B group qualifying. ULMS will redraw for the feature with the top 2 heat finishers redrawing after their heats. The ULMS Late Model Series tire rule is Hoosier 1300 or American Racer 44 or harder on all 4 corners and the new Hoosier NLMT compounds 2, 3 and 4. Also new for 2023 is after the 3rd caution the restarts will be single file and all cautions with less than 5 laps in the feature will be single file. ULMS will still utilize the Delaware restart procedures leading up to the fourth caution to initial the single fire restarts. Also beginning this year when the second place car chooses his lane under the Delaware restart, all other positions will follow as suit (2nd place chooses outside 3rd in 4th out, 5th in and so on).
All late model teams must present their cars along with safety equipment (helmet and Hans device) at pre-race safety and car inspection. Once your car has been inspected you will not need to present your safety equipment again, unless you enter a different car during the weekend. Both Ohio Valley Speedway and Tyler County Speedway utilizes the yellow Westhold transponders for scoring and timing. Limited transponder rentals are available at both facilities and ULMS will have some for rental also. Raceivers are mandatory and frequency for both tracks are 454.000. ULMS will be using the universal body rule for 2023 including the droop rule where the droop will be check once the Left Rear tire leaves the ground. This is the same as World of Outlaws and Lucas Oil series.
Entry Fee for both events are $75.
The 2023 United Late Model Series is proudly supported by Jay’s Automotive, Close Racing Supply, Lindemuth Laser Etching, Chew on this Jerky, Jay’s Auto Wrecking, The Cushion, Precise Racing, Hoosier Tire Mid Atlantic, Lias Tire, American Racer Tire, , Insinger Performance, VP Race Fuels, Carpy’s Custom Screen Printing, DirtDefender, Keizer Wheels, Genesis Shocks, Keyser Manufacturing, Integra Shocks, Cousins Designs, Garage Crawl, Mary Norgrove Notary Public, Hot Shoe RaceWear, and MACH Auto.
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