UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Roundup: Erb, Leka Among Leaders In National Points Championship Battles
Evansville, IN — AT THE TOP: Dennis Erb Jr. can smell a second consecutive UMP DIRTcar Racing national title. Jeff Leka, meanwhile, is chasing a first career national crown. Both drivers find themselves in the driver’s seat toward their goals with exactly two months left in the UMP DIRTcar Racing points season – Erb leading [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: UMP DIRTcar Modifieds Headline American Heritage 101 At Brushcreek Motorsports Complex This Weekend
Evansville, IN — MAJOR FOR MODS: A race that has become one of the biggest in the country for open-wheel Modifieds will hit the track this weekend under the UMP DIRTcar Racing banner. The American Heritage 101 at Brushcreek Motorsports Complex in Peebles, Ohio – a unique event that offers its winner the option of [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: Dennis Erb Jr. Claims Second Straight Summer Nationals Crown
Evansville, IN — HAIL TO THE CHAMP: The path Dennis Erb Jr. took this year was slightly different, but the result was the same. After one month of hardscrabble racing and living on the road, the dirt Late Model veteran from Carpentersville, Ill., clinched his second consecutive UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals points championship. “It feels [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. DIRTcar Summer Nationals, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: Brian Shirley In Title Chase As UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals Enters Final Week Of Action
Evansville, IN — DECISION TIME: When the 2008 season began, Brian Shirley never envisioned that he would be in a neck-and-neck battle for the UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals championship as the tour entered its final week. But that’s exactly the position in which Shirley finds himself – and thus he must soon make a hard [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. DIRTcar Summer Nationals, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: 2008 Summer Nationals Has Already Been One For The Record Books
Evansville, IN — HOT COMPETITION: The 2008 UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals is just approaching its halfway point, but it has already been unlike any other in the tour’s 20-year history. In fact, the opening two weeks of the grueling, month-long Super Late Model series have been one for the history books. With nine drivers making [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. DIRTcar Summer Nationals, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: Erb Begins Defense Of UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals Championship
Evansville, IN — GOING FOR TWO: Dennis Erb Jr. began last year’s UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals intensely focused on winning his first career tour championship – and he proceeded to convincingly accomplish his goal. Is the same fire to capture the title of the ‘Hell Tour’ still burning in his gut as the Summer Nationals [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. DIRTcar Summer Nationals, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update (6/6/2008)
Evansville, IN — SOUTHWEST STAR: Anthony Madrid lives over 1,550 miles from Springfield, Ill., but he’d love to make a long trip to the capital of the Land of Lincoln come January 2009. It would be a quite worthwhile excursion, of course, if the resident of Phoenix, Ariz., emerges as the 2008 UMP DIRTcar Modified [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: Super Late Model Division Heats Up With Tri-Track Challenge, Eldora’s $100,000 Dream & Summernationals; Feel-Good Mod Story At Fairbury; Unzicker Assumes Super Late Model Points Lead
Evansville, IN — HEATING UP: Memorial Day Weekend has passed and the month of June is upon us. For UMP DIRTcar Super Late Model racers, that means one thing – it’s time for some of the circuit’s biggest events of the season. Beginning this weekend with the sixth annual ‘Tri-Track Challenge’ tripleheader, the UMP DIRTcar [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: VanWormer Prepping For UMP DIRTcar Summernationals Title Bid; Hammerle & Sweeney Remain National Points Leaders
Evansville, IN — VanWormer, 33, of Pinconning , Mich. , certainly stands as the driver most likely to break through as a first-time champion of the Summernationals, the grueling test of Super Late Model men and machines that kicks off its month-long run through the Midwest on June 12 at Kentucky Lake Motor Speedway in [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: Hot Start Has Kentucky’s Randle Sweeney On Top Of National Modified Points
Evansville, IN — HIS TURN?: Randle Sweeney already knows what it feels like to lose the UMP DIRTcar Modified national points title. Maybe this year the Clifty, Ky., veteran will be able to experience the joy of winning the championship. Sweeney, 43, is certainly off and running toward his first career UMP DIRTcar national crown. [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: Veteran Mike Hammerle Moves On Top Of Super Late Model National Points Race
Evansville, IN — TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Veteran Mike Hammerle enters this weekend’s action leading the UMP DIRTcar Super Late Model national points standings, but he knows his run in the sun will probably be short-lived. So the 60-year-old grandfather from St. Charles, Mo., is going to enjoy every minute of his stint in the [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update
Evansville, IN — GETTING BETTER: Randy Korte is chomping at the bit to go racing. Unfortunately, the two-time UMP DIRTcar Super Late Model national champion can’t climb into his familiar TMCI Transportation No. 00 until his doctor says he’s ready. Sidelined since suffering a back injury in a Dirt Late Model Winternationals feature incident on [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: 2007 UMP DIRTcar Racing Promoters of Year Ready To Roll At Oakshade; Earthquake Rattles UMP DIRTcar Office
Evansville, IN — TOP OPERATORS: UMP DIRTcar Racing’s 2007 Promoters of the Year are ready to roll out another exciting season of down-home, grassroots racing. Terry and Pam Henricks, the husband-and-wife team who operate the successful Oakshade Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio, have their first UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned action of 2008 set to go this Saturday night [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, U.M.P. Modifieds
UMP DIRTcar Racing Weekly Update: American Late Model Series/Northern Allstars Season Previews; Points Season Underway
Evansville, IN — READY TO ROLL: Another season of regional touring-series Super Late Model action under the UMP DIRTcar Racing banner is getting the green flag. Two popular UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned tours – the Sunoco American Late Model Series and Northern Allstars Late Model Series – are once again offering attractive schedules, purses and points-fund payouts [...]
Category: Factory Stocks, Late Models, Limited/Pro Modifieds, Northern All Stars Late Model Series, Pro Late Models, Sport Compacts, Sportsman, Stock Cars, Sunoco American Late Model Series, U.M.P. Modifieds
