A QUARTET OF $1,000 WINNERS KICK-OFF ELDORA’S UMP DIRTcar NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Barber, Bowersock, Gilpin and Ruhlman Prevail Over 116 Cars from Ten States and Canada
ROSSBURG, OH (October 3) – On a typical race night, about one-third of the field gets to compete in the headlining feature event. That certainly wasn’t the case Thursday night in Eldora Speedway’s opening leg of the UMP DIRTcar National Championships, as 96 of the 116 competing Modifieds advanced to not one, but four headliners. Capturing $1,000 pay days were Bryan Barber, Jerry Bowersock, Devin Gilpin and Brian Ruhlman.
The route to those four main events entailed eight preliminary heat races and four B-Features and that will be the same map to be used Friday night in leg number two of the three-day event.
A driver’s best finish over the two nights will then be used to line-up Saturday’s ‘alphabet soup’ of feature events; with the best 20 locked into one of the 32-starting positions. The balance will come from the preceding features, along with four ‘point provisional’ positions.
That bodes well for Barber, Bowersock, Gilpin and Ruhlman who pretty much locked themselves in Thursday. The balance of the field that represented ten states and Canada will get shot number two on Friday. Joining the Modifieds Saturday will be the UMP DIRTcar Late Models as both feature events that night reward the winner with $5,000.
Barber kicked off the night with a strong run that was made a little more difficult in the closing laps. He had built up a comfortable margin over Ray Bollinger and Aaron Orr that was eliminated two laps from the finish as a spinning car collected both of them and relegated them to the pit area. That moved up Chad Kinder and Jacob Hawkins into second and third, and when the checkered flag flew that was how they crossed the line.
Bowersock used his knowledge of Eldora and his multiple championships to ride him to a strong win over Andy Sprague and Jimmy Payne, while Gilpin’s thrilling victory came at the expense of Dean Hoffman and Matt Mevert.
Closing out the night was Ruhlman in a daring last-lap pass over Matt Westfall, with a rapidly closing Kent Robinson right there in third.
Complete event information, time schedules and ticket purchase opportunities for the Friday and Saturday legs of the National Championships may be found on www.EldoraSpeedway.com.
UMP DIRTcar National Champsionships
Night #1 ft. DIRTcar Modifieds
October 3, 2013
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 1
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 1 77B Ray Bollinger
2 2 3L Jeff Leka
3 9 22S Chad Kinder
4 5 75H Jacob Hawkins
5 4 8S Kyle Strickler
6 3 35H Bart Hartman
7 10 14 Brian Lynn
8 6 87S David Shain
9 7 69 Jim Farris Sr.
10 14 21D Danny Schwartz
11 12 4 Aaron Raby
12 13 19C Andrew Corbin
13 11 36H Eugene Hoekstra
14 15 51 Cody Timmerman
15 8 166 Jimmy Westerfield
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 2
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 1 10BB Bryan Barber
2 2 111 Curt Spalding
3 3 K9 Will Krup
4 4 188 Aaron Orr
5 5 11R Ed Roley
6 15 23J Jon Henry
7 6 10L Nathon Loney
8 7 05W Dave Wietholder
9 9 20D Jeff Daniels
10 14 92 Lynn Johns
11 12 28S Scott MacKenzie
12 11 B97 Marvin Burton
13 10 14T Mario Toniolo
14 8 25 Bub Patrick
15 13 39 Kevin Gummere
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 3
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 1 82 Jacob Poel
2 7 1AS Andy Sprague
3 3 5XB Jerry Bowersock
4 2 20KW Kody Weisner
5 8 68 Steve Dixon
6 6 45 Nick Stroupe
7 4 D1 Lance Dehm
8 9 26D Mike Dirksen
9 10 55M Justin Matson
10 11 8C Corey Bevard
11 15 3C Louis Clements
12 5 29 Mark Kowarsch
13 13 36D Darryl Hoekstra
14 12 55 Clayton Smith
15 14 21H Mike Hohlbein
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 4
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 3 K1 Jimmy Payne
2 2 21S Stephen Schnapf
3 8 55S Zach Schroeder
4 6 OJ Bryce Jewell
5 9 2S Travis Stemler
6 10 7A Doug Adkins
7 7 5 Jonathan Taylor
8 1 5H Jess Hartman
9 12 1 Steve Billenstein
10 4 36L Jamie Lomax
11 14 47S Eddie Shaner
12 11 X Eric Shepherd
13 15 64 Nick Katterhenry
14 5 60 Dan Ebert
15 13 83S Kasey Schrock
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 5
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 4 1G Devin Gilpin
2 2 1D Dean Hoffman
3 1 11 Rob Williams
4 3 77 Joey Kramer
5 6 21A Nick Allen
6 7 47 Collin Thirlby
7 9 00N Dwight Niehoff
8 12 5N Tyler Nicely
9 8 130 Chad Osterhoff
10 10 92W Joel Watson
11 14 5X Tim Richardson
12 11 4B Darryl Banks
13 13 24M Zeke McKenzie
14 5 5 David Smith
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 6
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 2 7B Jeff Babcock
2 4 22M Matt Mevert
3 3 2NH Nick Hoffman
4 1 12C Jeff Curl
5 6 16 Rusty Griffaw
6 5 1SW Scott Williams
7 11 79K Nick Kurtz
8 8 4T Andrew Terrill
9 7 28R Chad Rosenbeck
10 9 84 Tyler Deibert
11 14 14E Gary Eicher
12 10 52 John Phlipot, Jr
13 12 3GW Dylan Woodling
14 13 20 Josh Morton
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 7
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 4 49 Brian Ruhlman
2 11 17W Tanner Wilson
3 2 36 Brandon Vaughan
4 10 7 Evan Taylor
5 5 65 Todd Sherman
6 6 43KM Kevin Miller
7 3 0A Derrick Austin
8 8 21TD Tim Dalman
9 9 35S David Stremme
10 7 26S Jared Spalding
11 12 21T Tom Treon
12 13 4J David Treon, Jr
13 14 7C Charles Crego
14 1 1 Joel Ortberg
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – HEAT 8
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 2 36W Kenny Wallace
2 1 10Y Trent Young
3 4 85R Kent Robinson
4 3 54 Matt Westfall
5 7 115 Jacoby Hines
6 8 87 David Mielke
7 6 15H Jeff Hamby
8 11 18 Ryan Sutter
9 9 09D Joel Dick
10 5 00JB John Brooks
11 10 91 Adam Thrush
12 13 75 Gary Turpin
13 12 47B Joe Brosseau
14 14 19 Chad Bauer
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – B-FEATURE 1
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 1 21D Danny Schwartz
2 5 19C Andrew Corbin
3 3 4 Aaron Raby
4 8 14T Mario Toniolo
5 2 92 Lynn Johns
6 6 B97 Marvin Burton
7 11 166 Jimmy Westerfield
8 4 28S Scott MacKenzie
9 9 51 Cody Timmerman
10 10 25 Bub Patrick
11 7 36H Eugene Hoekstra
12 12 39 Kevin Gummere
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – B-FEATURE 2
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 2 36L Jamie Lomax
2 3 3C Louis Clements
3 1 8C Corey Bevard
4 5 29 Mark Kowarsch
5 4 47S Eddie Shaner
6 6 X Eric Shepherd
7 9 55 Clayton Smith
8 7 36D Darryl Hoekstra
9 8 64 Nick Katterhenry
10 12 83S Kasey Schrock
11 10 60 Dan Ebert
12 11 21H Mike Hohlbein
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – B-FEATURE 3
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 1 92W Joel Watson
2 4 14E Gary Eicher
3 2 84 Tyler Deibert
4 3 5X Tim Richardson
5 8 3GW Dylan Woodling
6 6 52 John Phlipot, Jr
7 9 5 David Smith
8 7 24M Zeke McKenzie
9 5 4B Darryl Banks
10 10 20 Josh Morton
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – B-FEATURE 4
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 2 00JB John Brooks
2 4 91 Adam Thrush
3 5 4J David Treon, Jr
4 1 26S Jared Spalding
5 6 75 Gary Turpin
6 3 21T Tom Treon
7 9 1 Joel Ortberg
8 8 47B Joe Brosseau
9 7 7C Charles Crego
10 10 19 Chad Bauer
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – A FEATURE 1
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 1 10BB Bryan Barber
2 8 22S Chad Kinder
3 7 75H Jacob Hawkins
4 9 8S Kyle Strickler
5 11 35H Bart Hartman
6 6 111 Curt Spalding
7 19 21D Danny Schwartz
8 13 14 Brian Lynn
9 10 11R Ed Roley
10 5 3L Jeff Leka
11 14 10L Nathon Loney
12 12 23J Jon Henry
13 17 69 Jim Farris Sr.
14 16 05W Dave Wietholder
15 15 87S David Shain
16 21 4 Aaron Raby
17 22 14T Mario Toniolo
18 18 20D Jeff Daniels
19 24 B97 Marvin Burton
20 23 92 Lynn Johns
21 2 77B Ray Bollinger
22 3 188 Aaron Orr
23 20 19C Andrew Corbin
24 4 K9 Will Krup
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – A FEATURE 2
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 3 5XB Jerry Bowersock
2 7 1AS Andy Sprague
3 1 K1 Jimmy Payne
4 5 82 Jacob Poel
5 10 2S Travis Stemler
6 11 45 Nick Stroupe
7 8 20KW Kody Weisner
8 2 OJ Bryce Jewell
9 19 36L Jamie Lomax
10 12 7A Doug Adkins
11 4 55S Zach Schroeder
12 9 68 Steve Dixon
13 14 5 Jonathan Taylor
14 16 5H Jess Hartman
15 13 D1 Lance Dehm
16 22 29 Mark Kowarsch
17 18 1 Steve Billenstein
18 17 55M Justin Matson
19 24 X Eric Shepherd
20 21 8C Corey Bevard
21 20 3C Louis Clements
22 23 47S Eddie Shaner
23 6 21S Stephen Schnapf
24 15 26D Mike Dirksen
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – A FEATURE 3
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 3 1G Devin Gilpin
2 1 1D Dean Hoffman
3 4 22M Matt Mevert
4 2 12C Jeff Curl
5 7 7B Jeff Babcock
6 6 2NH Nick Hoffman
7 10 16 Rusty Griffaw
8 11 47 Collin Thirlby
9 12 1SW Scott Williams
10 8 11 Rob Williams
11 9 21A Nick Allen
12 15 5N Tyler Nicely
13 18 28R Chad Rosenbeck
14 20 14E Gary Eicher
15 5 77 Joey Kramer
16 16 4T Andrew Terrill
17 17 130 Chad Osterhoff
18 14 79K Nick Kurtz
19 19 92W Joel Watson
20 21 84 Tyler Deibert
21 22 5X Tim Richardson
22 24 52 John Phlipot, Jr
23 23 3GW Dylan Woodling
24 13 00N Dwight Niehoff
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED – A FEATURE 4
Finish Start Car No Driver
1 2 49 Brian Ruhlman
2 1 54 Matt Westfall
3 5 85R Kent Robinson
4 8 10Y Trent Young
5 4 36W Kenny Wallace
6 6 7 Evan Taylor
7 7 17W Tanner Wilson
8 3 36 Brandon Vaughan
9 14 15H Jeff Hamby
10 16 18 Ryan Sutter
11 9 65 Todd Sherman
12 12 87 David Mielke
13 19 00JB John Brooks
14 11 43KM Kevin Miller
15 22 26S Jared Spalding
16 15 21TD Tim Dalman
17 23 75 Gary Turpin
18 20 91 Adam Thrush
19 24 21T Tom Treon
20 21 4J David Treon, Jr
21 13 0A Derrick Austin
22 17 35S David Stremme
23 18 09D Joel Dick
24 10 115 Jacoby Hines