Muskegon's Mike Garvey started 26th tonight in the Snowflake 100 at Five Flags Speedway and charged all the way to a fourth place finish. While Garvey's efforts were good, Chase Elliot the son of former NASCAR Champion Bill Elliot were better. Elliot started 31st tonight and took the lead on lap 86 and never looked back. At the tender age of 14 Elliot looks to be the next big name in racing.
Full Unofficial Allen Turner Hyundai Snowflake 100 Finishing Order :
1. Chase Elliott
2. Landon Cassill
3. Bubba Pollard
4. Mike Garvey
5. John Bolen
6. Daniel Hemric
7. Augie Grill
8. Erik Jones
9. Cale Gale
10. Andy Pugh
11. Kenzie Ruston
12. DJ Vanderley
13. Johanna Long
14. Matt Smith
15. Brandon Bendele
16. Cody Smith
17. David Odell
18. Jason Young
19. Tony Clark
20. Logan Boyett
21. Shanna Ard
22. Chuck Tuck
23. Kyle Bryant
24. Austin Kirkpatrick
25. Dwayne Buggay
26. Brandon Odom
27. Hunter Robbins
28. Kyle Benjamin
29. Dillon Oliver
30. Justin South
31. Thomas Praytor
32. Chris Davidson
33. Scott Patton
34. Tommy Rollins
35. David Jones
36. Robert Royce
Saturday, December 4, 2010
VanDoorn and Garvey Make Snowball Lineup: Barely
Both Coopersville's Johnny VanDoorn and Muskegon's Mike Garvey are in the show for the 43rd Annual Snowball Derby. Both Drivers did it the hard way. Garvey received a provisional based upon his Blizzard Series Points while VanDoorn raced his way in by finishing fourth in the Last Chance 50 lap event this evening. Vandoorn's spot was the final one to be taken. Of the 50 drivers who tried to qualify Friday night Garvey ranked 32nd and Vandoorn ranked 39th. The event starts at 3:00 PM Sunday.
43rd Annual Snowball Derby Unofficial Starting Line-up
1 83 Cale Gale Winston-Salem, NC
2 74 Ryan Lawler Colleyville, TX
3 2 John Bolen Jasper, AL
4 10 Johanna Long Pensacola, FL
5 82 Grant Enfinger Montrose, AL
6 97 Jimmy Garmon Hoschton, GA
7 82 Donnie Wilson Oklahoma City, OK
8 36 Dan Fredrickson Lakeville, MN
9 7 Landon Cassill Charlotte, NC
10 9 Chase Elliott Dawsonville, GA
11 47 Casey Roderick Lawrenceville, GA
12 51 TJ Reaid Acworth, GA
13 4 Derrick Griffin Indianpolis, IN
14 42 Dennis Prunty Knowles, WI
15 49 Josh Hamner Chelsea, AL
16 25 Ross Kenseth Spring Valley, IL
17 35 David Stremme Moorseville, NC
18 112 Augie Grill Hayden, AL
19 43 Dennis Schoenfeld Van Buren, AR
20 29 Andy Loden Stanley, AL
21 41 Chris Davidson Pearland, TX
22 72 Eddie Mercer Pensacola, FL
23 08 Bubba Pollard Senoia, GA
24 16 Korey Ruble Headland, AL
25 12 Travis Kittleson Marret Island, FL
26 21 Brandon Carlson Cantonment, FL
27 98 Mason Mingus Brentwood, TN
28 99 Casey Smith Austin, TX
29 5 David Ragan Unadilla, GA
30 18 Dave Mader III Irvington, AL
31 72 Scott Hantz Angola, IN
32 39 Ryan Sieg Tucker, GA
33 5 Jerry Artuso Sault Ste Marie, ON
34 61 Johnny VanDoorn Coopersville, MI
35 1 Mike Garvey McDonough, GA
36 67 Jeff Fultz Troutman, NC
37 2 Clay Rogers Troutman, NC
43rd Annual Snowball Derby Unofficial Starting Line-up
1 83 Cale Gale Winston-Salem, NC
2 74 Ryan Lawler Colleyville, TX
3 2 John Bolen Jasper, AL
4 10 Johanna Long Pensacola, FL
5 82 Grant Enfinger Montrose, AL
6 97 Jimmy Garmon Hoschton, GA
7 82 Donnie Wilson Oklahoma City, OK
8 36 Dan Fredrickson Lakeville, MN
9 7 Landon Cassill Charlotte, NC
10 9 Chase Elliott Dawsonville, GA
11 47 Casey Roderick Lawrenceville, GA
12 51 TJ Reaid Acworth, GA
13 4 Derrick Griffin Indianpolis, IN
14 42 Dennis Prunty Knowles, WI
15 49 Josh Hamner Chelsea, AL
16 25 Ross Kenseth Spring Valley, IL
17 35 David Stremme Moorseville, NC
18 112 Augie Grill Hayden, AL
19 43 Dennis Schoenfeld Van Buren, AR
20 29 Andy Loden Stanley, AL
21 41 Chris Davidson Pearland, TX
22 72 Eddie Mercer Pensacola, FL
23 08 Bubba Pollard Senoia, GA
24 16 Korey Ruble Headland, AL
25 12 Travis Kittleson Marret Island, FL
26 21 Brandon Carlson Cantonment, FL
27 98 Mason Mingus Brentwood, TN
28 99 Casey Smith Austin, TX
29 5 David Ragan Unadilla, GA
30 18 Dave Mader III Irvington, AL
31 72 Scott Hantz Angola, IN
32 39 Ryan Sieg Tucker, GA
33 5 Jerry Artuso Sault Ste Marie, ON
34 61 Johnny VanDoorn Coopersville, MI
35 1 Mike Garvey McDonough, GA
36 67 Jeff Fultz Troutman, NC
37 2 Clay Rogers Troutman, NC
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Schlenk’s Best-Laid Plan Results In 2010 DIRTcar UMP Late Model National Championship
Schlenk’s Best-Laid Plan Results In 2010 DIRTcar UMP Late Model National Championship
CONCORD, NC – Nov. 19, 2010 – Isn’t it great when the best-laid plan comes together?
So it was in 2010 for Rusty Schlenk, who during the off-season carefully crafted a strategy to pursue the DIRTcar UMP Late Model national title, executed it to perfection and won the prestigious $20,000 crown for the first time in his budding young career.
Schlenk, 24, of Jackson, Mich., expertly mastered the circuit’s points system, which uses drivers’ best 35 event ‘points nights’ – feature finish and car-count bonus points added together – to determine a champion. He jumped out to a big early lead in the standings and held on to the finish line, withstanding a late rally by defending national champ Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., to come out on top by a 31-point margin (2,798-2,767).
“My biggest goal at the beginning of the season was the national championship,” said Schlenk, who finished third in the 2009 DIRTcar UMP national points race. “I knew that in order to win it I’d have to stay halfway local. Instead of trying to run some big shows, we had to totally focus on running ALMS (the DIRTcar-sanctioned Sunoco American Late Model Series), Oakshade (Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio) and shows around home at tracks where we knew there would be good car counts and we knew we could run good.”
An owner-operator who carves out a living as a dirt Late Model driver despite racing on a limited budget, Schlenk smartly recognized that chasing the pot of gold at the end of the DIRTcar UMP rainbow would provide the maximum possible return on his motorsports investment. He just had to maintain a single-minded discipline throughout the season, refusing to deviate from a plan that eschewed most of the big-money events in his region in favor of gathering points at lower-profile races that better fit his program and would help push him toward a lucrative end-of-season payoff.
“UMP is the best thing for me,” asserted Schlenk, who accented his 2010 national title with a circuit-best 20 feature wins, a track championship at Oakshade and a third-place finish in the ALMS points race. “I know that as long as I stick to my gameplan and don’t stray too far from UMP (events), then at the end of the year I can probably be in the top-three (in the points standings) and I’ll have enough (points-fund) money to get me through the winter.
“I don’t know how many times this year I had to drive past a show that was paying five or six or 10-thousand to win to go somewhere else where I knew I could win and pick up points. Usually when I did do that I ended up winning so it made it O.K., but man, when you’re driving past the big show you’re saying, ‘I know I have a shot at winning that race. If I show up and everything goes my way, I could pocket 10-grand tonight.’
“I had to talk myself out of (entering big shows) quite a few times. I just kept thinking, ‘Stick to your plan, win a race, get those UMP points. That five- or 10-grand show might be good now, but it’s not gonna pay the bills at the end of the year.’ Our focus was on that big point-fund check (for winning the title) because the hard part about doing this for a living is getting through the winter when no money is coming in.”
Schlenk’s strategy drew a fair share of criticism from observers who felt he was talented enough to battle the sport’s heavyweights in major events held in his backyard, but he didn’t let the talk seduce him into taking his eye off the prize. He knew he ran the very real risk of overextending his program if he attempted to run more national-level shows.
“I know a lot of people kind of frowned on what we were doing, thought we were cherry-picking and this and that,” analyzed Schlenk. “But if you really sat down and looked at the equipment that I have and the budget that I have to race on, I really don’t consider how we raced cherry-picking.
“I had a lot of people say, ‘You have the best equipment and you need to be out there running these $10,000-to-win shows because you’re that caliber of driver.’ Well, I may be that caliber of driver, but I don’t have the funds behind me to gamble at a $10,000-to-win show. I’m doing it for a living on a limited budget, so I can’t gamble. If I go to those shows and don’t qualify I’m not making any money and I’m missing out on a chance for UMP points, so I gotta stick to what we can do.”
Schlenk gathered those DIRTcar UMP points at a furious clip during the season’s first half, building a lead of nearly 600 points in the national standings by mid-June. He needed virtually every bit of that cushion to stave off Feger, who roared from behind down the stretch after capturing the 2010 DIRTcar Summer Nationals points championship.
Feger closed within 31 points of Schlenk entering the final weekend of weekly points racing (Oct. 1-3), ramping up the pressure on Schlenk. But Feger needed an almost perfect weekend at Kankakee (Ill.) County Speedway to keep his hopes alive and couldn’t come through, allowing Schlenk to clinch the crown without the following weekend’s points-season-ending DIRTcar UMP Nationals at Eldora Speedway even factoring into the outcome.
“We knew with about six races to go that Feger had to about win everything up to the Nationals to beat us, but you know Feger – when he gets on a roll, he’s hard to stop,” said Schlenk, whose cars carried engines built by Dick Kercher of Roan, Ind. “He started getting on a roll (in late September) and I started getting a little nervous because we were struggling. We pulled off a few wins there at the end of the year with our new car, but I couldn’t put anything consistent together from night-to-night.
“The first half of the year saved me because the second half wasn’t too good,” he continued. “Luckily we had all our ducks in a row early in the season and clicked off quite a few wins. We were in the driver’s seat the first three-quarters of the year, but then we wrecked a (Rayburn) car we had been racing the whole year at I-96 (Speedway in Lake Odessa, Mich.) in mid-August and had to put a new car together to run the rest of the year.”
Schlenk never quite got his new machine running as consistently fast as his destroyed mount, but his body of work over the entire season was too superb for him to be denied. He earned the national title in a fashion that would have made late UMP founder Bob Memmer proud, not only winning weekly and ALMS events but also proving his ample skills with a pair of Summer Nationals victories over high-profile competition on July 14 at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway and July 17 at Oakshade (a $10,000 score in the annual ‘Birthday Race’).
“Those Summer Nationals wins were highlights of the year for me, no doubt – especially Kokomo,” said Schlenk, who had never before captured a Summer Nationals A-Main. “Don’t get me wrong, I loved winning the ‘Birthday Race’ at Oakshade, but I’m good at Oakshade. I grew up racing there (since he was a teenager) and I kind of expect when those guys come in to be able to run top five, top three, and maybe have a chance to win. I don’t think I was quite surprised to win that one, but when we won Kokomo – man, there were a lot of good cars there and we were kind of on neutral ground. Winning that kind of proved to me – and hopefully proved to some of the fans and competitors – that I can run with them on any given night. As long as my funds are there for tires and stuff, I can compete with them.”
After starting the 2010 season with “$4,500 in the bank to race on for the year,” Schlenk will be depositing over $20,000 into his account (he also captured the DIRTcar UMP Ohio/Pennsylvania/Canada State points title) when he accepts his accolades during the DIRTcar UMP Awards Banquet on Jan. 8, 2011, in Springfield, Ill. That’s proof positive that his plan “worked out pretty good.”
And considering two other milestones that happened to Schlenk off the track, 2010 will certainly be a year he never forgets.
“I got married (on Jan. 1), had a kid (son Carter in August) and won the national championship all in the same year,” smiled Schlenk. “I’d say it’ll be pretty hard to top that.”
Ticket order forms for the annual DIRTcar UMP ‘Night of Champions’ Awards Banquet on Jan. 8, 2011, at the Crown Plaza in Springfield, Ill., are available on-line at www.dirtcar.com or by calling the UMP office at 618-450-2072.
For more information on DIRTcar Racing visit www.dirtcar.com.
Official Final 2010 DIRTcar UMP Late Model National Points Standings (Rank/Driver/Points/Races Counted):
1. Rusty Schlenk 2798 35
2. Jason Feger 2767 35
3. Ryan Unzicker 2647 35
4. Jeep VanWormer 2542 35
5. Dennis Erb Jr. 2513 35
6. Brian Ruhlman 2496 35
7. Brian Shirley 2432 35
8. Michael Kloos 2429 35
9. Alan Vochaska 2413 35
10. Shannon Babb 2407 35
11. Jack Sullivan 2222 35
12. Jeff Walston 2220 35
13. Dillan White 2219 35
14. Rich Neiser 2183 35
15. Eric Spangler 2134 35
16. Kevin Nelson Jr. 2112 35
17. Chad Zobrist 2109 35
18. Curtis Roberts 2107 35
19. Brandon Sheppard 2103 35
20. Dona Marcoullier 2097 35
Official Final 2010 DIRTcar UMP Late Model Michigan/Wisconsin State Points (Rank/Driver/Points/Races Counted):
1. Alan Vochaska 2413 35
2. Rich Neiser 2164 35
3. Eric Spangler 2125 35
4. Kevin Nelson Jr. 2112 35
5. Adam Thrush 1821 35
6. Dave Hartman 1726 31
7. Sammy Epling 1646 28
8. Zack Olger 1627 28
9. Bill Bray 1588 31
10. Tom Sprague Jr. 1585 31
CONCORD, NC – Nov. 19, 2010 – Isn’t it great when the best-laid plan comes together?
So it was in 2010 for Rusty Schlenk, who during the off-season carefully crafted a strategy to pursue the DIRTcar UMP Late Model national title, executed it to perfection and won the prestigious $20,000 crown for the first time in his budding young career.
Schlenk, 24, of Jackson, Mich., expertly mastered the circuit’s points system, which uses drivers’ best 35 event ‘points nights’ – feature finish and car-count bonus points added together – to determine a champion. He jumped out to a big early lead in the standings and held on to the finish line, withstanding a late rally by defending national champ Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., to come out on top by a 31-point margin (2,798-2,767).
“My biggest goal at the beginning of the season was the national championship,” said Schlenk, who finished third in the 2009 DIRTcar UMP national points race. “I knew that in order to win it I’d have to stay halfway local. Instead of trying to run some big shows, we had to totally focus on running ALMS (the DIRTcar-sanctioned Sunoco American Late Model Series), Oakshade (Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio) and shows around home at tracks where we knew there would be good car counts and we knew we could run good.”
An owner-operator who carves out a living as a dirt Late Model driver despite racing on a limited budget, Schlenk smartly recognized that chasing the pot of gold at the end of the DIRTcar UMP rainbow would provide the maximum possible return on his motorsports investment. He just had to maintain a single-minded discipline throughout the season, refusing to deviate from a plan that eschewed most of the big-money events in his region in favor of gathering points at lower-profile races that better fit his program and would help push him toward a lucrative end-of-season payoff.
“UMP is the best thing for me,” asserted Schlenk, who accented his 2010 national title with a circuit-best 20 feature wins, a track championship at Oakshade and a third-place finish in the ALMS points race. “I know that as long as I stick to my gameplan and don’t stray too far from UMP (events), then at the end of the year I can probably be in the top-three (in the points standings) and I’ll have enough (points-fund) money to get me through the winter.
“I don’t know how many times this year I had to drive past a show that was paying five or six or 10-thousand to win to go somewhere else where I knew I could win and pick up points. Usually when I did do that I ended up winning so it made it O.K., but man, when you’re driving past the big show you’re saying, ‘I know I have a shot at winning that race. If I show up and everything goes my way, I could pocket 10-grand tonight.’
“I had to talk myself out of (entering big shows) quite a few times. I just kept thinking, ‘Stick to your plan, win a race, get those UMP points. That five- or 10-grand show might be good now, but it’s not gonna pay the bills at the end of the year.’ Our focus was on that big point-fund check (for winning the title) because the hard part about doing this for a living is getting through the winter when no money is coming in.”
Schlenk’s strategy drew a fair share of criticism from observers who felt he was talented enough to battle the sport’s heavyweights in major events held in his backyard, but he didn’t let the talk seduce him into taking his eye off the prize. He knew he ran the very real risk of overextending his program if he attempted to run more national-level shows.
“I know a lot of people kind of frowned on what we were doing, thought we were cherry-picking and this and that,” analyzed Schlenk. “But if you really sat down and looked at the equipment that I have and the budget that I have to race on, I really don’t consider how we raced cherry-picking.
“I had a lot of people say, ‘You have the best equipment and you need to be out there running these $10,000-to-win shows because you’re that caliber of driver.’ Well, I may be that caliber of driver, but I don’t have the funds behind me to gamble at a $10,000-to-win show. I’m doing it for a living on a limited budget, so I can’t gamble. If I go to those shows and don’t qualify I’m not making any money and I’m missing out on a chance for UMP points, so I gotta stick to what we can do.”
Schlenk gathered those DIRTcar UMP points at a furious clip during the season’s first half, building a lead of nearly 600 points in the national standings by mid-June. He needed virtually every bit of that cushion to stave off Feger, who roared from behind down the stretch after capturing the 2010 DIRTcar Summer Nationals points championship.
Feger closed within 31 points of Schlenk entering the final weekend of weekly points racing (Oct. 1-3), ramping up the pressure on Schlenk. But Feger needed an almost perfect weekend at Kankakee (Ill.) County Speedway to keep his hopes alive and couldn’t come through, allowing Schlenk to clinch the crown without the following weekend’s points-season-ending DIRTcar UMP Nationals at Eldora Speedway even factoring into the outcome.
“We knew with about six races to go that Feger had to about win everything up to the Nationals to beat us, but you know Feger – when he gets on a roll, he’s hard to stop,” said Schlenk, whose cars carried engines built by Dick Kercher of Roan, Ind. “He started getting on a roll (in late September) and I started getting a little nervous because we were struggling. We pulled off a few wins there at the end of the year with our new car, but I couldn’t put anything consistent together from night-to-night.
“The first half of the year saved me because the second half wasn’t too good,” he continued. “Luckily we had all our ducks in a row early in the season and clicked off quite a few wins. We were in the driver’s seat the first three-quarters of the year, but then we wrecked a (Rayburn) car we had been racing the whole year at I-96 (Speedway in Lake Odessa, Mich.) in mid-August and had to put a new car together to run the rest of the year.”
Schlenk never quite got his new machine running as consistently fast as his destroyed mount, but his body of work over the entire season was too superb for him to be denied. He earned the national title in a fashion that would have made late UMP founder Bob Memmer proud, not only winning weekly and ALMS events but also proving his ample skills with a pair of Summer Nationals victories over high-profile competition on July 14 at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway and July 17 at Oakshade (a $10,000 score in the annual ‘Birthday Race’).
“Those Summer Nationals wins were highlights of the year for me, no doubt – especially Kokomo,” said Schlenk, who had never before captured a Summer Nationals A-Main. “Don’t get me wrong, I loved winning the ‘Birthday Race’ at Oakshade, but I’m good at Oakshade. I grew up racing there (since he was a teenager) and I kind of expect when those guys come in to be able to run top five, top three, and maybe have a chance to win. I don’t think I was quite surprised to win that one, but when we won Kokomo – man, there were a lot of good cars there and we were kind of on neutral ground. Winning that kind of proved to me – and hopefully proved to some of the fans and competitors – that I can run with them on any given night. As long as my funds are there for tires and stuff, I can compete with them.”
After starting the 2010 season with “$4,500 in the bank to race on for the year,” Schlenk will be depositing over $20,000 into his account (he also captured the DIRTcar UMP Ohio/Pennsylvania/Canada State points title) when he accepts his accolades during the DIRTcar UMP Awards Banquet on Jan. 8, 2011, in Springfield, Ill. That’s proof positive that his plan “worked out pretty good.”
And considering two other milestones that happened to Schlenk off the track, 2010 will certainly be a year he never forgets.
“I got married (on Jan. 1), had a kid (son Carter in August) and won the national championship all in the same year,” smiled Schlenk. “I’d say it’ll be pretty hard to top that.”
Ticket order forms for the annual DIRTcar UMP ‘Night of Champions’ Awards Banquet on Jan. 8, 2011, at the Crown Plaza in Springfield, Ill., are available on-line at www.dirtcar.com or by calling the UMP office at 618-450-2072.
For more information on DIRTcar Racing visit www.dirtcar.com.
Official Final 2010 DIRTcar UMP Late Model National Points Standings (Rank/Driver/Points/Races Counted):
1. Rusty Schlenk 2798 35
2. Jason Feger 2767 35
3. Ryan Unzicker 2647 35
4. Jeep VanWormer 2542 35
5. Dennis Erb Jr. 2513 35
6. Brian Ruhlman 2496 35
7. Brian Shirley 2432 35
8. Michael Kloos 2429 35
9. Alan Vochaska 2413 35
10. Shannon Babb 2407 35
11. Jack Sullivan 2222 35
12. Jeff Walston 2220 35
13. Dillan White 2219 35
14. Rich Neiser 2183 35
15. Eric Spangler 2134 35
16. Kevin Nelson Jr. 2112 35
17. Chad Zobrist 2109 35
18. Curtis Roberts 2107 35
19. Brandon Sheppard 2103 35
20. Dona Marcoullier 2097 35
Official Final 2010 DIRTcar UMP Late Model Michigan/Wisconsin State Points (Rank/Driver/Points/Races Counted):
1. Alan Vochaska 2413 35
2. Rich Neiser 2164 35
3. Eric Spangler 2125 35
4. Kevin Nelson Jr. 2112 35
5. Adam Thrush 1821 35
6. Dave Hartman 1726 31
7. Sammy Epling 1646 28
8. Zack Olger 1627 28
9. Bill Bray 1588 31
10. Tom Sprague Jr. 1585 31
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Jeep Van Wormer Wraps Up 2010 Campaign with World Finals at Charlotte!
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November 11, 2010
Jeep Van Wormer Wraps Up 2010 Campaign with World Finals at Charlotte!
(PINCONNING, MICHIGAN) The Iron Motorsports team and driver Jeep Van Wormer concluded their 2010 racing season from November 4-6 at the state-of-the-art Dirt Track at Charlotte in Concord, North Carolina. The Lowes Foods World of Outlaws 'World Finals' took place over the weekend at the 4/10-mile speedplant and a pair of $10,000 top prizes were up for grabs. On Thursday's qualifying night, Jeep timed in fiftieth fastest in the first round of time trials, while he improved to thirty-ninth quickest in the second round.
When inclement weather invaded the Charlotte area on Friday, the 'World Finals' opener was pushed back to Saturday afternoon. Jeep ran fourth in his stacked heat race during the daytime show and later grabbed the second and final transfer spot in his B-Main. After rolling off twenty-second on the grid in the 40-lap feature event, the Pinconning, Michigan native worked his way past six racecars before landing a sixteenth place finish.
In the nightcap on Saturday evening, a huge crowd of over 14,000 spectators packed into the grandstand and a huge television audience witnessed the program live on the SPEED Channel. Jeep worked his way up to third in heat race action, which transferred him directly into the 50-lap main event. After experiencing a rocker arm issue during the preliminary event, the #55 team unloaded the back-up car prior to the A-Main. He started at the tail end of the stout field and was involved in a couple of early incidents before finishing in the twenty-second position. Full results from the 'World Finals' weekend can be located online at www.worldofoutlaws.com.
Jeep and his #55 team entered sixty-three Dirt Late Model events during the course of their 2010 campaign and amassed ten victories, thirty-one Top Five finishes, and forty Top Ten performances. On the UMP Summer Nationals trail, Jeep accumulated four wins, fifteen Top Fives, and nineteen Top Tens in the twenty-eight series races held in 2010. You can view all of his finishes this year by logging onto www.jeepvanwormer.com.
2010 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:
* 63 Total Races Entered - 10 Wins - 31 Top Fives - 40 Top Tens
* 28 Summer Nationals Races Entered - 4 Wins - 15 Top Fives - 19 Top Tens
* Finished Fourth in Final UMP Summer Nationals Point Standings
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the Vermilion County (IL) Speedway
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the I-96 (MI) Speedway
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the Fayette County (IL) Speedway
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the Quincy (IL) Raceway
* Two-Time $2,000 ALMS Series Winner at the Mt. Pleasant (MI) Speedway
* $2,000 ALMS Series Winner at the I-96 (MI) Speedway
* $2,000 ALMS Series Winner at the Eldora (OH) Speedway
* $2,000 'Player Hater 50' Winner at the Winston (MI) Speedway
* $1,200 UMP Winner at the Waynesfield (OH) Raceway Park
* Finished Second in $5,000 'UMP Fall Nationals' at the Eldora (OH) Speedway
* Finished Third in $20,000 'Black Diamond 125' at the Tyler County (WV) Speedway
* Finished Fifth in $5,000 'Spring 50' at the Florence (KY) Speedway
* Finished Seventh in $20,000 'Jackson 100' at the Brownstown (IN) Speedway
* Finished Ninth in $100,000 'Dream 100' at the Eldora (OH) Speedway
* Made Starting Field for $20,000 'Illini 100' at the Farmer City (IL) Raceway, $43,000 'World 100' at the Eldora (OH) Speedway, and the $10,000 'World Finals' at the Dirt Track at Charlotte
The Iron Motorsports team thanks the following sponsors for their continued and unwavering support: Bayline Fire Protection, Globe Technologies, Services on Site, Van Wormer Management, Rocket Chassis, Fletcher Made Horsepower, ACPT, All-Pro Cylinder Heads, Allstar Performance, Banshee Graphics, Barnes Oil Systems, Bell Racing, Beyea Headers, Brinn, Inc., Delph Communications, Duralite Wheels, Fine Line Window Tinting, Goodridge Hose & Fittings, Hoosier Racing Tire, Howe Racing Enterprises, Integra Shocks & Springs, J.C. Dubil, Joe Gibbs Driven Racing Oil, Joe's Racing Products, K-B Carburetors, KRC Power Steering, Lane Automotive, Oakley, Outerwears, Peterson Fluid Systems, Port City Racing, R2C Performance, Ringers Gloves, Scott Performance Wire, Sweet Mfg., TWM Racing, V.P. Racing Fuels, Wehrs Machine & Racing Products, Wilwood Engineering, and Wrisco.
To learn more about the Iron Motorsports team, log onto their home on the web located at www.jeepvanwormer.com.
Media Contact: Ryan Delph - Delph Communications
www.delphcommunications.com
November 11, 2010
Jeep Van Wormer Wraps Up 2010 Campaign with World Finals at Charlotte!
(PINCONNING, MICHIGAN) The Iron Motorsports team and driver Jeep Van Wormer concluded their 2010 racing season from November 4-6 at the state-of-the-art Dirt Track at Charlotte in Concord, North Carolina. The Lowes Foods World of Outlaws 'World Finals' took place over the weekend at the 4/10-mile speedplant and a pair of $10,000 top prizes were up for grabs. On Thursday's qualifying night, Jeep timed in fiftieth fastest in the first round of time trials, while he improved to thirty-ninth quickest in the second round.
When inclement weather invaded the Charlotte area on Friday, the 'World Finals' opener was pushed back to Saturday afternoon. Jeep ran fourth in his stacked heat race during the daytime show and later grabbed the second and final transfer spot in his B-Main. After rolling off twenty-second on the grid in the 40-lap feature event, the Pinconning, Michigan native worked his way past six racecars before landing a sixteenth place finish.
In the nightcap on Saturday evening, a huge crowd of over 14,000 spectators packed into the grandstand and a huge television audience witnessed the program live on the SPEED Channel. Jeep worked his way up to third in heat race action, which transferred him directly into the 50-lap main event. After experiencing a rocker arm issue during the preliminary event, the #55 team unloaded the back-up car prior to the A-Main. He started at the tail end of the stout field and was involved in a couple of early incidents before finishing in the twenty-second position. Full results from the 'World Finals' weekend can be located online at www.worldofoutlaws.com.
Jeep and his #55 team entered sixty-three Dirt Late Model events during the course of their 2010 campaign and amassed ten victories, thirty-one Top Five finishes, and forty Top Ten performances. On the UMP Summer Nationals trail, Jeep accumulated four wins, fifteen Top Fives, and nineteen Top Tens in the twenty-eight series races held in 2010. You can view all of his finishes this year by logging onto www.jeepvanwormer.com.
2010 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS:
* 63 Total Races Entered - 10 Wins - 31 Top Fives - 40 Top Tens
* 28 Summer Nationals Races Entered - 4 Wins - 15 Top Fives - 19 Top Tens
* Finished Fourth in Final UMP Summer Nationals Point Standings
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the Vermilion County (IL) Speedway
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the I-96 (MI) Speedway
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the Fayette County (IL) Speedway
* $5,000 Summer Nationals Winner at the Quincy (IL) Raceway
* Two-Time $2,000 ALMS Series Winner at the Mt. Pleasant (MI) Speedway
* $2,000 ALMS Series Winner at the I-96 (MI) Speedway
* $2,000 ALMS Series Winner at the Eldora (OH) Speedway
* $2,000 'Player Hater 50' Winner at the Winston (MI) Speedway
* $1,200 UMP Winner at the Waynesfield (OH) Raceway Park
* Finished Second in $5,000 'UMP Fall Nationals' at the Eldora (OH) Speedway
* Finished Third in $20,000 'Black Diamond 125' at the Tyler County (WV) Speedway
* Finished Fifth in $5,000 'Spring 50' at the Florence (KY) Speedway
* Finished Seventh in $20,000 'Jackson 100' at the Brownstown (IN) Speedway
* Finished Ninth in $100,000 'Dream 100' at the Eldora (OH) Speedway
* Made Starting Field for $20,000 'Illini 100' at the Farmer City (IL) Raceway, $43,000 'World 100' at the Eldora (OH) Speedway, and the $10,000 'World Finals' at the Dirt Track at Charlotte
The Iron Motorsports team thanks the following sponsors for their continued and unwavering support: Bayline Fire Protection, Globe Technologies, Services on Site, Van Wormer Management, Rocket Chassis, Fletcher Made Horsepower, ACPT, All-Pro Cylinder Heads, Allstar Performance, Banshee Graphics, Barnes Oil Systems, Bell Racing, Beyea Headers, Brinn, Inc., Delph Communications, Duralite Wheels, Fine Line Window Tinting, Goodridge Hose & Fittings, Hoosier Racing Tire, Howe Racing Enterprises, Integra Shocks & Springs, J.C. Dubil, Joe Gibbs Driven Racing Oil, Joe's Racing Products, K-B Carburetors, KRC Power Steering, Lane Automotive, Oakley, Outerwears, Peterson Fluid Systems, Port City Racing, R2C Performance, Ringers Gloves, Scott Performance Wire, Sweet Mfg., TWM Racing, V.P. Racing Fuels, Wehrs Machine & Racing Products, Wilwood Engineering, and Wrisco.
To learn more about the Iron Motorsports team, log onto their home on the web located at www.jeepvanwormer.com.
Media Contact: Ryan Delph - Delph Communications
www.delphcommunications.com
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
West Michigan Flavor entered into 43rd Annual Snowball Derby
While entries are still coming in for one of the most renowned short track events in the country, West Michigan will be well represented. The list includes former 1991 All Pro Champion and ASA standout Mike Garvey from Muskegon, multi-time ARCA Champion Tim Steele from Marne, 2009 & 2010 CRA Champion Johnny VanDoorn from Coopersville as well as part-time Nascar Nation Wide Series Andy Ponstein from Hudsonville. Don't be surprised to see one of them holding the checkered flag at the end.
43rd Annual Snowball Derby, December 5, 2010
Car No Driver Location
18 Dave Mader, III Irvington, AL
7 Landon Cassill Charlotte, NC
72 Eddie Mercer Pensacola, FL
02 Matt Smith Houston, TX
1 Mike Garvey McDonough, GA
1 Stephan McCurlely Humble, TX
10 Danny Bagwell Cordova, Al
10 Johanna Long Pensacola, FL
10 Ryan Blaney High Point, NC
10 Ryan Crane Panama City, FL
11 David Rogers Orlando, FL
112 Augie Grill Hayden, Al
12 Chuck Barnes, Jr. Louisville, KY
16 Royce Johnston -TBA #3 Florala, AL
16 Tim Steele Marne, MI
18 Bubba Pollard Senoia, GA
2 John Bolen Jasper, Al
21 Brandon Carlson Cantonment, FL
23 Jimmy Weller Hubbard, OH
25 Ross Kenseth Spring Valley, IL
28 Thomas Praytor Mobile, AL
29 Allen Karnes Sharpsburg, GA
29 Andy Loden Stanley, NC
30 Bobby Knox, Jr. Clanton, AL
31 Tyler Millwood Kingston, GA
35 David Stremme Mooresville, NC
36 Dan Fredrickson Lakeville, MN
38 Josh Hamner Chelsea, AL
39 Ryan Sieg Tucker, GA
40 Tyler Miles Pulaski, TN
41 Chris Davidson Pearland, TX
42 Dennis Prunty Knowles, WI
43 Dennis Schoenfeld Van Buren, AR
45 Dwayne Buggay Canton, GA
48 Cecil Chunn Springhill, TN
49 Stanley Smith Chelsea, AL
5 David Ragon ,
5 J.R. Norris Huntsville, AL
51 Kyle Bush Motorsports - TBA Mooresville, NC
51 Kyle Bush Motorsports - Mooresville, NC
61 Johnny VanDoorn Coopersville, MI
72 D J Vanderley Mobile, AL
72 Scott Hantz Angola, IN
74 Ryan Lawler Colleyville, TX
8 Andy Ponstein Hudsonville, MI
8 Randy Wilson -TBA#4 ,
82 Donnie Wilson Oklahoma City, OK
82 Grant Enfinger Montrose, AL
83 Cale Gale Winston Salem, NC
9 Chase Elliott Dawsonville, GA
97 Jimmy Garmon Hoschton, GA
99 Casey Smith Austin, TX
99 Wayne Niedecken, Jr. Pensacola, FL
53 TOTAL ENTRIES as of 11/16
43rd Annual Snowball Derby, December 5, 2010
Car No Driver Location
18 Dave Mader, III Irvington, AL
7 Landon Cassill Charlotte, NC
72 Eddie Mercer Pensacola, FL
02 Matt Smith Houston, TX
1 Mike Garvey McDonough, GA
1 Stephan McCurlely Humble, TX
10 Danny Bagwell Cordova, Al
10 Johanna Long Pensacola, FL
10 Ryan Blaney High Point, NC
10 Ryan Crane Panama City, FL
11 David Rogers Orlando, FL
112 Augie Grill Hayden, Al
12 Chuck Barnes, Jr. Louisville, KY
16 Royce Johnston -TBA #3 Florala, AL
16 Tim Steele Marne, MI
18 Bubba Pollard Senoia, GA
2 John Bolen Jasper, Al
21 Brandon Carlson Cantonment, FL
23 Jimmy Weller Hubbard, OH
25 Ross Kenseth Spring Valley, IL
28 Thomas Praytor Mobile, AL
29 Allen Karnes Sharpsburg, GA
29 Andy Loden Stanley, NC
30 Bobby Knox, Jr. Clanton, AL
31 Tyler Millwood Kingston, GA
35 David Stremme Mooresville, NC
36 Dan Fredrickson Lakeville, MN
38 Josh Hamner Chelsea, AL
39 Ryan Sieg Tucker, GA
40 Tyler Miles Pulaski, TN
41 Chris Davidson Pearland, TX
42 Dennis Prunty Knowles, WI
43 Dennis Schoenfeld Van Buren, AR
45 Dwayne Buggay Canton, GA
48 Cecil Chunn Springhill, TN
49 Stanley Smith Chelsea, AL
5 David Ragon ,
5 J.R. Norris Huntsville, AL
51 Kyle Bush Motorsports - TBA Mooresville, NC
51 Kyle Bush Motorsports - Mooresville, NC
61 Johnny VanDoorn Coopersville, MI
72 D J Vanderley Mobile, AL
72 Scott Hantz Angola, IN
74 Ryan Lawler Colleyville, TX
8 Andy Ponstein Hudsonville, MI
8 Randy Wilson -TBA#4 ,
82 Donnie Wilson Oklahoma City, OK
82 Grant Enfinger Montrose, AL
83 Cale Gale Winston Salem, NC
9 Chase Elliott Dawsonville, GA
97 Jimmy Garmon Hoschton, GA
99 Casey Smith Austin, TX
99 Wayne Niedecken, Jr. Pensacola, FL
53 TOTAL ENTRIES as of 11/16
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