General Information
Pits Gates: 4:00 p.m.
Grandstands: 5:00 p.m.
Racing: 7:30 p.m.

Adults $5.00
Kids (11 & Under) FREE
Skybox $15.00
All Access Skybox & Pit Pass $30.00
Pit Pass $25.00

Lucas Oil Late Models: #71 Don Oneal
Modifieds: #M40 Scott May
Street Stocks: #96m Mike McKinney
Hornets: #K1 Allen Provenzano

La Salle, IL – Sheffield racer Rich Bell took his UMP Late Model on a wild run topside to capture the feature race victory Saturday night at La Salle Speedway.

UMP Late Model’s:
Steve Dimmick charged hard to score the fastest timed lap out of the twenty two cars with a time of 13.033. Next he won the first heat event over Mike Glynn, Bell, Bill Rezutek and Jon Small. Bret Sievert took the second heat win in front of Mike Provenzano, Gary Schalmo, Charlie Hess and Roger Rebholz. Scott Schmitt wheeled his way to victory in the final heat beating out Mike Spatola, Jason Jaggers, Mike Fryer and Keith Piano.

With the heat contests behind them, the starting grid for the main event was set after a redraw by they top two in each heat. Dimmick and Glynn were on the front row over Schmitt and Provenzano. After the parade lap, a brief side by side run from the front row ensued. Dimmick moved his ride to the high side and started to outrun the field. By the fifth lap, Glynn and Schmitt were putting on a show for the second place running spot. Two laps later as Spatola was trying to enter the infield he found himself in the path of Bell who climbed over his ride’s nose. The contact didn’t slow Bell as he had his sights on nothing but a win no matter what was in his path.

In the tenth circuit, Provenzano looped his machine which brought the field back to a nose to tail restart. Three laps later a three wide battle between Glynn, Sievert, and Bell for second ensued while Dimmick pulled into a sizeable lead. Two laps after that Bell took over second and continued his wild journey on the highside to catch the leader. Dimmick was the fastest car on the track for the early laps. During Lap 15, Sievert hit the infield tires buried between turns one and two. Two laps later, the nose of his ride bent under into the track causing a whole in the oil pan and a trip pitside on the hook. After the restart, Bell was heavy on the throttle and made contact with the leader which caused him to drop back a couple spots. Dimmick was able to charge back up to the front.

The pace was incredibly quick as Bell led the field. With only four laps to go, a caution for Schmitt and Hess stopped the pace after a lap twenty one restart. No one went to the tail for the restart. At the end of the twenty five lap main Bell was returning to victory lane ahead of Dimmick, Jason Jaggers, Schmitt, Hess, Glynn, Jon Small, Piano, Jeff Small, Doug Zartler, David McAdams, and Matthew McAdams, Joe Jelinek, and Provenzano.

UMP Open Wheel Modified’s:
Jamie Lomax qualified fastest with a time of 14.412. He won his heat race in front of Jason Pershy, Dale Lueth, Vince Cooper, and Matt Gremminger. Travis Kohler took the second heat while Donovan Lodge, Kyle Neels, Mike Mennel, and Nathan Balensiefen crossed the line after him. Milo Veloz won the final heat ahead of AJ May, Scott May, Chris Amstead, and Charlie Harmon.

Lodge rolled onto the pole of the feature grid next to Pershy. Lodge took charge right away but second row starter, Veloz took it away after the second lap and remained uncontested until the end. Lodge trailed the leader until disappearing from the track after the ninth lap.
Veloz collected the win ahead of Kohler, and Scott May. Eighth place starter Lueth traveled up to a fourth place finish in front of Balensiefen, AJ May, Jamie Balensiefen, Mennel, Amstead, Gremminger, Hughes, Harmon, Barry Sauder, and Don Cole.

UMP Street Stock’s:
Mike McKinney’s last visit to La Salle ended on a hook but Saturday’s outing was far better for the young gun. McKinney won his heat race over Tony Provenzano, Mike Hughes, John Farris, and Kevin Lenzen. The second heat winner Jake Miller took the checkers ahead of Roger Rickels, Keith Lucas, Nick Sell, and Randy Lucas.

McKinney charged from the front row outside to take the lead of their feature event over his seventeen competitors. The entire fifteen laps was the McKinney show as he was unstoppable lap after lap as Rickels gave chase until the final lap when he fell off the pace and dropped back a few spots.

With McKinney capturing the win Provenzano ended runner up to Farris, Rickels, Lenzen, Near, Hughes, Sell, Steve Schemlein, and Randy Lucas.

UMP 4 Cylinder Hornet’s:
Jon Provenzano beat his brother Allen in the first heat race with JR Brown in third, Phil Burdette fourth and Jerry Legner fifth.

The Provenzano winning streak ended after both Jon and Allen each left the action. Brown won the main event in grand style over Burdette, Josh Larson, Legner, Don Slover, Nolan Kaufman, Erick Miller and Rich Miller.

Next Saturday night, the Lucas Oil Late Models will top the venue with a $10,000 payday to the winner. The Modifieds, Street Stocks, and Hornets will be competing as well. Pit gates open at 1:00pm, Grandstand at 3:00pm, Racing at 7:30pm. Adults $25.00, Kids 6-11 $5.00, Skybox Seat $30.00, Pit Pass $35.00, Pit Pass & Skybox Seat $45.00.

La Salle Speedway Results 05/05/12

UMP Late Models: 22 Cars
Qualifying: Steve Dimmick 13.033
Heat 1: Steve Dimmick, Mike Glynn, Rich Bell, Bill Rezutek, Jon Small
Heat 2: Bret Sievert, Mike Provenzano, Gary Schalmo, Charlie Hess, Roger Rebholz
Heat 3: Scott Schmitt, Mike Spatola, Jason Jaggers, Mike Fryer, Keith Piano
Feature: Rich Bell, Steve Dimmick Jason Jaggers, Scot Schmitt, Charlie Hess, Mike Glynn, John Small, Keit Piano, Jeff Small, Doug Zartler, David McAdams, Matthew McAdams, Joe Jelinek, Mike Provenzano, Bret Sievert, Bill Rezutek, Roger Rebholz, Mike Spatola, Gary Schalmo, Mike Fryer, Cameron Guidi

UMP Modifieds: 21 Cars
Qualifying: Jamie Lomax 14.412
Heat 1: Jamie Lomax, Jason Pershy, Dale Lueth, Vince Cooper, Matt Gremminger
Heat 2: Travis Kohler, Donovan Lodge, Kyle Neels, Mike Meenel, Nathan Balensiefen
Heat 3: Milo Veloz, AJ May, Scott May, Chris Amstead, Charlie Harmon
Feature: Milo Veloz, Travis Kohler, Scott May, Dale Lueth, Nathan Balensiefen, AJ May, Jamie Balensiefen, Mike Mennel, Chris Amstead, Matt Gremminger, Kevin Hughes, Charlie Harmon, Barry Sauder, Don Cole, Ken Fischer, Scott Hauge, Jason Pershy, Austin Hewitt, Jamie Lomax, Donovan Lodge, Kyle Neels

UMP Street Stocks: 20 Cars
Heat 1: Mike McKinney, Tony Provenzano, Mike Hughes, John Farris, Kevin Lenzen
Heat 2: Jake Miller, Roger Rickels, Keith Lucas, Nick Sell, Randy Lucas
Feature: Mike McKinney, Tony Provenzano, John Farris, Roger Rickels, Kevin Lenzen, Aaron Near, Mike Hughes, Nick Sell, Steve Schemlein, Randy Lucas, Ben Gallentine, Justin Hamm, Jake Miller, Curtis Radtke, Hugo Lindner, Jim Prokup, Matt Heinrichs, Keith Lucas

UMP 4 Cylinder Hornets: 12 Cars
Heat 1: Jon Provenzano, Allen Provenzano, JR Brown, Phil Burdette, Jerry Legner
Feature: JR Brown, Phil Burdette, Josh Larson, Jerry Legner, Don Slover, Nolan Kaufman, Erick Miller, Rich Miller, Jon Provenzano, Allen Provenzano, Nathan Proctor

UMP 4 Cylinder Hornets: 13 Cars
Heat 1: Rick Zifko, Allen Provenzano, Peter Hayes, Crystal Provenzano Broyles, Tyler Benson
Feature: Allen Provenzano, Jon Provenzano, Tyler Benson, Jerry Legner, Rick Zifko, Peter Hayes, Zac Bollinger, Luke Gash, Crystal Provenzano Broyles, Dull, Aaron Sutton, Brandon Mallery, Erick Miller

La Salle, IL – Thirty two UMP Late Model teams stormed the Illinois Valley area for La Salle Speedway’s opening day on Saturday night. The Thaw Brawl proved to not be a challenge for Dennis Erb Jr. who claimed the Easter weekend title.

UMP Late Models:
Bret Sievert scored the fastest lap overall with a time of 13.272. Four heat race line ups were determined based on the group qualifying results. Sievert and Jason Feger took their spots on the front row of the first heat contest. Sievert took charge early with Feger making his way up to his driver door by the fourth lap but he faded back a few car lengths quickly. Sievert pulled into a comfortable lead leaving Feger and Ryan Unzicker to battle for second. Sievert took the checkers with Unzicker beating Feger to the line for the second place finish and Jay Morris earned the final transfer spot.

Erb was uncontested from start to finish beating Brian Shirley, Shawn Toczek, and Rich Bell in the second heat. Frank Heckenast Jr. won the third heat from the front row outside over fourth place starter Brian Birkhofer, Steve Dimmick and Russ Scheffler. Brandon Sheppard held off a strong run by Tyler Reddick to capture the final heat victory. Kevin Weaver and Shannon Babb finished behind them.

Gary Schalmo and Scott Bull each won the B-Main’s.

Sheppard and Sievert topped the grid on the lead row in front of Heckenast and Erb. Unzicker and Shirley were behind them in row three. When the green flag dropped, Sievert was in command with Sheppard lower on the track. During the sixth circuit, Erb was working on passing Sheppard and eyeing the leader. Two laps later, he effortlessly took charge of the pack.

Erb generated a great deal of real estate and outdistanced the competition by Lap 11. Sievert was holding his own in the runner up position while Heckenast and Sheppard duked it out for third.

At the half way point of the race, Erb was leading by nearly half a track. His only challenge was lapped traffic that seemed to stall his smooth operation. With seven laps remaining, seventh place starter Birkhofer moved to the outside of Heckenast for the second place running position. Two laps later, Erb appeared to be a sitting duck as Birkhofer was able to reel him in a bit closing the gap.

Erb’s ride looked seamless from the first lap to the fortieth en route to his $5,000 payday. The former La Salle champion earned the Thaw Brawl title with complete ease. He was dead on with car set up and tires for the drier than normal conditions of the high banks. Birkhofer claimed an impressive second over Babb, Unzicker, Sievert and Shirley.

UMP Open Wheel Modified’s:
Forty six contenders in the Open Wheel Modified class offered up stiff competition for the twenty five lap main special paying $1,000 to the winner.

Former regular at La Salle, Ray Bollinger earned the pole next to Dave Porth with Jamie Lomax and Donovan Lodge in the second row. Porth shot off to a quick lead with Bollinger close behind him. Bollinger worked hard to take control but Porth seemed to have his car dialed in exactly where he wanted it. The running order stayed the same much of the race as Bollinger couldn’t gain momentum enough to challenge the leader. A couple late race restarts opened the door for him to give Porth a better run for his money but the leader had the stronger machine. At the finish line, it was Porth winning over Bollinger, Lomax, Lodge, Jacob Poel, Milo Veloz, Weisser, Gary Cook, Kevin Hastings, Phil Line and Scooter May.

UMP Street Stock’s:
Mike McKinney swept the Street Stock class taking home both the heat and feature victories. The car count on opening night was a little low for the class with only eleven drivers in attendance. McKinney won over Jake Miller, Mike Hughes, Joe Brown, Nick Sell, Matt Ramer, Matt Hennchs, and Wayne Orrick.

UMP 4 Cylinder Hornet’s:
Michael Gosselt claimed the top honors for the 4 Cylinder division beating out Peter Hayes, Jake Greensly, Shane Kelly, Bryce Garnhart, Jerry Legner, Tom Happ, Freddy Thatcher, Don Slover, and Josh Miller.

Next Week:
April 14th – Weekly Super Show for all divisions

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