By Jack Pugh
Next weekend the UMP Challenge of Champion series rolls into Highland Speedway and Fayette County Speedway for their first events of the tour. The Highland Speedway race will be on Saturday, May17 and the following day, at Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, IL.
So far there have been three different winners of the three races run so far. Randy Korte won at Paducah, Terry English won at Clarksville, and Shannon Babb took the green flag feature at Godfrey. These three drivers have qualified for the series ending $15,000 to win feature at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, MO.
There have been 42 drivers that made the three features so far. Only nine drivers have made it to all three features. Randy Korte, Terry English, Kevin Weaver, Billy Faust, Jeremy Williams, Brian Shirley, Eric Smith, Steve Sheppard, and Chad Zobrist have run in each of the feature races. Rylan Dagg is the only driver to make it to each show, but not qualify for a feature event yet.
There have been 65 different drivers to try to make a spot in the feature. It appears that there are regional drivers trying to just make the show in these early stages of the 20 race circuit.
The current point leader is Terry English with a win, a second and a third and he has 208 points. In second place is Randy Korte with a win, a third and a ninth place finish and he has 171 points. Third in points is Kevin Weaver, who has a second, a fourth and a thirteenth place finish and has 152 points. In fourth is Brian Shirley with a second, a sixth and a thirteenth place finish with 143 points. And in fifth place in points is Billy Faust with a fifth, a twelfth, and an eighteenth place finish and has 117 points. Steve Sheppard is tied with Faust for third and he has a fifth, a tenth and a twentieth place finish.
Next weekend hopefully will be the first weekend that the series will be able to run back to back races. The Paducah and Clarksville races were to have been run on a Friday and Saturday night on the same weekend, but Mother Nature forced the Paducah race to be postponed one week. Both the Highland and Brownstown tracks are ¼ mile tracks and have been fast. Highland runs UMP Late Models on a weekly basis, but this will be the first race for Late Models on the Brownstown track this year. Brownstown’s top class is the UMP Modifieds.
For more information go to the UMP web site at www.umpracing.com or www.highlandspeedway.com or www.fayettecountyspeedway.com. The UMP site will connect you to the other web sites by going to the Challenge button and finding the schedule. Each track that has a web site has a link to that track’s web page.
Next weekend the UMP Challenge of Champion series rolls into Highland Speedway and Fayette County Speedway for their first events of the tour. The Highland Speedway race will be on Saturday, May17 and the following day, at Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, IL.
So far there have been three different winners of the three races run so far. Randy Korte won at Paducah, Terry English won at Clarksville, and Shannon Babb took the green flag feature at Godfrey. These three drivers have qualified for the series ending $15,000 to win feature at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, MO.
There have been 42 drivers that made the three features so far. Only nine drivers have made it to all three features. Randy Korte, Terry English, Kevin Weaver, Billy Faust, Jeremy Williams, Brian Shirley, Eric Smith, Steve Sheppard, and Chad Zobrist have run in each of the feature races. Rylan Dagg is the only driver to make it to each show, but not qualify for a feature event yet.
There have been 65 different drivers to try to make a spot in the feature. It appears that there are regional drivers trying to just make the show in these early stages of the 20 race circuit.
The current point leader is Terry English with a win, a second and a third and he has 208 points. In second place is Randy Korte with a win, a third and a ninth place finish and he has 171 points. Third in points is Kevin Weaver, who has a second, a fourth and a thirteenth place finish and has 152 points. In fourth is Brian Shirley with a second, a sixth and a thirteenth place finish with 143 points. And in fifth place in points is Billy Faust with a fifth, a twelfth, and an eighteenth place finish and has 117 points. Steve Sheppard is tied with Faust for third and he has a fifth, a tenth and a twentieth place finish.
Next weekend hopefully will be the first weekend that the series will be able to run back to back races. The Paducah and Clarksville races were to have been run on a Friday and Saturday night on the same weekend, but Mother Nature forced the Paducah race to be postponed one week. Both the Highland and Brownstown tracks are ¼ mile tracks and have been fast. Highland runs UMP Late Models on a weekly basis, but this will be the first race for Late Models on the Brownstown track this year. Brownstown’s top class is the UMP Modifieds.
For more information go to the UMP web site at www.umpracing.com or www.highlandspeedway.com or www.fayettecountyspeedway.com. The UMP site will connect you to the other web sites by going to the Challenge button and finding the schedule. Each track that has a web site has a link to that track’s web page.
