Sheppard crushes field to earn Late Model Honors; Porth, Funk, Sullivan and Club all Scott Triumphs

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September 18, 2009 - (Kankakee, IL) With nearly no local football competing with Kankakee County Speedway this week, and a beautiful night for racing, a large crowd of eager race fans were treated to an exciting night of multi-groove racing, with more and more new faces arriving to compete each week now that the UMP points season is winding down.

Steve Sheppard Jr. of New Berlin, IL, started on the pole of the 25-lap UMP Late Model feature, and though he had the dominant car in the end, he did have his hands full throughout with the likes of track champion and current point leader Mike Provenzano of Aurora, Scott Schmitt of Tonica, Ryan Unzicker of El Paso, and Ted Loomis of Kingston. All but Loomis were eliminated for one reason or another, who chased Sheppard to the stripe followed by Macon Speedway track champion and newcomer Kyle Logue, John Provenzano, and an old favorite in Al Atkinson of Milwaukee, WI. Schmitt's car slammed the water barrels in turn two midway through the event sending water high into the air and severely damaging the right side of Schmitts machine. Despite the hard impact, he was not injured and drove off under his own power.

"The Milwaukee Madman" Atkinson would claim hard charger honors with his run to the fifth position after starting 16th. It has been several years since we've seen Atkinson running down here at Kankakee, primarily due to running his trailer sales business and turning his focus to his 16-year-old daughter Courtney's karting career. Courtney is slated to race next weekend in New Jersey, but Al has vowed to return for the October 11th Fall Harvest Stock Car Festival for one last shot at glory before formally hanging up his helmet and will stepping out from behind the wheel on that night.

In what can only be described as perhaps the greatest modified duel, maybe of all time at Kankakee, Gardner's Dave Porth and last week's feature winner, Jason Hastings of Kankakee, put on an exhibition like no other as the duo raced door to door for eighteen of the twenty laps, swapping the lead nearly half of those laps, sometimes several times a lap. With Hastings committed to the high side, Porth was forced to hustle around the hub. Common ground for the 56-year-old Porth, and in the closing laps Porth was able to gain the edge to win by several lengths. Dave Baldwin, Travis Kohler, and Chad Osterhoff rounded out the top five.
Porth came into the night trailing the noticeably absent Gary Cook Jr. by just one point, but with the victory now holds a commanding 74 points, and merely needs to just show up next week to claim his second track championship. The triumph also marked Porth's 23rd of his illustrious career, placing him in a tie for 21st on the all-time wins list with Rick Thomas.

Joel Funk finally returned to victory lane for the first time since the season opener back on May 22nd, but nipping at his heels in the end was the aforementioned Thomas, who all but put the clamps down on his own track championship. Heading into the night with a 47 point cushion, Thomas extended his lead to 62 points over Darrin Kohler, who finished fifth in the feature behind Kevin Lenzen and Jay Hamilton.

Tim Sullivan Jr. is another driver who hadn't found victory lane since the season opener, but from the pole position was able to hold back point leader Mike Kingma long enough to earn the win. Nick Montalta, Chris Arihood, and Adam Williams rounded out the top five. With the runner-up finish, Kingma all but insured himself of a track title with an insurmountable 40 point lead heading into the final night of points next week. As long as Kingma makes it to the track and makes the feature grid, the title almost undoubtedly is his.

The Hornet division welcomed a season high 25 cars to the track, and all 25 of them started the special $250-to-win 25-lap feature. After a wild series of events, it was Cody Clubb yet again claiming victory over Nick Clubb, Axle Wicker, Jerry Legner, and Michael Andis, who started at the tail of the grid.

Although the championship point battles appear to have been resolved, their in still plenty of fighting going on amongst the top ten in each division. Race fans are reminded to join us next week as Court Street Ford presents Championship Points Night with the popular $20 per carload night (or $10 per individual). There will be plenty of prizes given away throughout the night provided by Court Street Ford and Kankakee County Speedway. Sorry - No Passes or Coupons accepted.

Also, any UMP Pro Crate Late Model drivers are encouraged to attend the next two nights at KCS with an bonus of $100 extra given to the highest finishing crate car, $50 extra for the second highest, and $25 extra to the third highest finishing crate car.


September 19, 2009 - Kankakee, IL - SMALL SPONSORS NEEDED FOR YEAR END FALL HARVEST STOCK CAR FESTIVAL...THIS COULD BE YOU!!!

Sponsors are needed to help celebrate the successful season of racing at Kankakee County Speedway when the Fall Harvest Stock Car Festival is conducted Sunday, October 11th. We are in search of primarily the small sponsorship dollars, anywhere from $100 - $200 tops. Think of what a great opportunity this is to gain exposure and advertise your business, or a car you already sponsor, in supporting what will become a major event on each year's racing schedule. At the present time, we are already up to a $2,009 to win UMP Late Model 35-lap feature event, and are trying to push that amount to a $3,009 to win event. Whatever that amount gets to, the UMP modifieds will compete for half that amount. Special payouts are also in the works for UMP Street Stocks, UMP Pro Crates, UMP Sportsmen, I-Mods, and Hornets. Keep watching the website for complete details of this big event. If would like to become a sponsor, please contact Tom Smith, Brian Bertsch, or Paul Bayne at the track or via phone.

Summary of Results

UMP Late Models (29 cars)

Fast Time -74 Russ Scheffler -13.925

Heat 1 (top 4 transfer)

1. 15S Ri. Scheffler
2. 7 J. Provenzano
3. 99JR Morris
4. 10H Hilleary
5. 24M Miller
6. 05 Schalmo
7. 1 Moon
8. 1W Walden
9. 24J Quill
10. 45 Busch
11. 23M Madison

Heat 2 (top 4 transfer)

1. 21 Logue
2. 21B Bell
3. 99SR Heckenast
4. 29 Atkinson
5. 92 Potts
6. 14 Thompson
7. 77 Pastva
8. 11L LeGrand
9. 24S Sondgeroth
10. 11 Dimmick - no start

Heat 3 (fast heat)

1. 23 Loomis
2. Z Harlan
3. M27 M. Provenzano
4. 10x Schmitt
5. 5S S. Sheppard
6. 24 Unzicker
7. 74 Ru. Scheffler
8. B5 B. Sheppard

Consi (top 4 transfer)

1. 1W Donny Walden
2. 92 Dick Potts
3. 77 Steve Pastva
4. 45 Zack Busch
5. 24M Jeff Miller
6. 14 Glen Thompson
7. 1 Jim Moon
8. 05 Gary Schalmo
9. 11L Larry LeGrand
10. 24J John Quill
11. 24S Justin Sondgeroth
12. 11 Steve Dimmick - no start
13. 23M Kyle Madison - no start

Feature (25-laps)

1. 5S Steve Sheppard (1)
2. 23 Ted Loomis (5)
3. 21 Kyle Logue (8)
4. 7 John Provenzano (11)
5. 29 Al Atkinson (14)
6. 99JR Jay Morris (13)
7. 21B Rich Bell (10)
8. 99SR Frank Heckenast Sr. (12)
9. 1W Donny Walden(17)
10. 45 Zack Busch (18)
11. 92 Dick Potts (16)
12. 24M Jeff Miller (20)
13. 24 Ryan Unzicker (6)
14. 77 Steve Pastva (19)
15. M27 Mike Provenzano (3)
16. 10x Scott Schmitt (2)
17. 15S Rick Scheffler (9)
18. 74 Russ Scheffler (7)
19. Z Joe Harlan (4)
20. 10H Don Hilleary (15)


FastLane Web DeZigns Hard Charger Award - Al Atkinson
* added to grid because Brandon Sheppard could not start

UMP Modifieds (30 cars)

Heat 1 (top 5 transfer)

1. 70 Cooper
2. 0 Kohler
3. 6B Baldwin
4. 66 Line
5. 36 K. Hastings
6. 40R Reynolds
7. 20 Dixon
8. 31 Bell
9. 74 DeYoung
10. 5o Todd

Heat 2 (top 5 transfer)

1. 35 J. Hastings
2. 25P Porth
3. G4 Aimone
4. 69 Farris
5. 00R Roland
6. 48X Allison
7. 4M Marden
8. 21 ?
9. 5J Johnson
10. 21A Allen

Heat 3 (top 5 transfer)

1. 7K Myszkiewicz
2. 14 Knippenburg
3. 130 Osterhoff
4. 10 Scripter
5. 28M Marshall
6. 06 Kortge
7. 48 Pockrus
8. 7 Klopp
9. 69R Rork
10. L0 McQueen

Consi (top 5 transfer)

1. 20 AJ Dixon
2. 40R Tim Reynolds
3. 21A Nick Allen
4. 4M Mike Marden
5. 31 Tom Bell
6. 48 Adam Pockrus
7. 21 ?
8. 5J Jeremy Johnson
9. 48X Kurt Allison
10. 74 Dan DeYoung
11. 06 Ryan Kortge
12. 7 Jason Klopp
13. 69R Dan Rork
14. 5o Mike Todd
15. L0 McQueen

Feature (20-laps)

1. 25P Dave Porth(1)
2. 35 Jason Hastings(4)
3. 6B Dave Baldwin(7)
4. 0 Travis Kohler(2)
5. 130 Chad Osterhoff(9)
6. 36 Kevin Hastings(13)
7. 69 Jim Farris(11)
8. 00R Tony Roland(14)
9. 70 Vince Cooper(5)
10. 10 Shawn Scripter(12)
11. 14 Tom Knippeenburg(6)
12. 40R Tim Reynolds(17)
13. 31 Tom Bell(20)
14. 21A Nick Allen(18)
15. 28M Frank Marshall(15)
16. 20 AJ Dixon(16)
17. G4 George Aimone(8)
18. 4M Mike Marden(19)
19. 66 Phil Line(10)
20. 7K Kevin Myszkiewicz(3)

FastLane Web DeZigns Hard Charger Award - Kevin Hastings

UMP Street Stocks (29 cars)

Heat 1 (top 5 transfer)

1. 16 Turner
2. J01 Hillman
3. 55 Wicker
4. 96 Malone
5. 68 Thompson
6. 23 Hemp
7. 3 Legner
8. 420R Woodruff
9. 33G Gaus
10. 27 Legner

Heat 2 (top 5 transfer)

1. 44 Lenzen
2. 1W Wirtz
3. 6 Hamilton
4. 23T Thomas
5. 15G Gaus
6. 50 Boudreau
7. 44D Billingsley
8. 70X Bushey
9. 21 Kohler
10. 36 Keen

Heat 3 (top 5 transfer)

1. 43 Hubert
2. 23JR Funk
3. 99 Payton
4. 10R Lahey
5. D10 Leonard
6. 22 Clubb
7. V7 Glassford
8. 70H Huffman
9. V17 McCarty

Consi (top 5 transfer)

1. 50 Eric Boudreau
2. 44D Dave Billingsley
3. 21 Darrin Kohler
4. 70H Wayne Huffman
5. 22 Nick Clubb
6. 27 Eric Legner
7. V7 Scott Glassford
8. 420R Richard Woodruff
9. 23 Tony Hemp
10. 33G Katie Gaus
11. 36 Brian Keen
12. 3 Tom Legner
13. V17 Don McCarty--NS

Feature (15-laps)

1. 23JR Joel Funk(6)
2. 23T Rick Thomas(11)
3. 44 Kevin Lenzen(4)
4. 6 Jay Hamilton(8)
5. 21 Darrin Kohler(18)
6. 10R Ed Lahey(12)
7. 99 Nate Payton(9)
8. 15G Eric Gaus(14)
9. J01 Joe Hillman(2)
10. 43 Dustin Hubert(3)
11. 44D Dave Billingsley(17)
12. 55 Billy Wicker (7)
13. 1W Brian Wirtz (1)
14. 96 Joe Malone (10)
15. D10 Dan Leonard (15)
16. 70H Wayne Huffman (19)
17. 50 Eric Bourdeau (16)
18. 68 J Thompson (13)
19. 22 Nick Clubb (20)
20. 16 Robert Turner (5)

FastLane Web DeZigns Hard Charger Award - Darrin Kohler


I- Mods (15 cars)

Heat 1

1. 14 Williams
2. 1 Arihood
3. 77 Kingma
4. M80 Montalta
5. 38 Sullivan Jr.
6. 77S Stone
7. 89 Gynn
8. 21C Carlson
9. 98 Heckenast
10. 88 Martin

FEATURE (15-laps)

1. 38 Tim Sullivan Jr. (1)
2. 77 Mike Kingma (3)
3. M80 Nick Montalta (2)
4. 1 Chris Arihood (4)
5. 14 Adam Williams (5)
6. 71C Kenny Carlson (8)
7. 77S Don Stone (6)
8. 89 Richard Gynn (7)
9. 88 Neil Martin (10)
10. 98 Mike Heckenast (9)

FastLane web DeZigns Hard Charger Award - Kenny Carlson


Hornets (25 cars)

Heat 1 (all transfer)

1. 118 Wicker
2. 22 Line
3. 98 Legner
4. 93 Lagestee
5. 86 Clubb
6. 28 Kemp
7. 11B Boring
8. 55 Carlson
9. 20S Schiradelly
10. 5 Glaudrone
11. 31H Tholen Jr.
12. 73 Bushey
13. 44 Brooks

Heat 2 (all transfer)

1. 23 Clubb
2. 08 Werkmeister
3. 42JR Sumner
4. 66 Mudro
5. 11E Ellison
6. 9 Schmink
7. 25 McCarty
8. W12 ???
9. C2 Stowe
10. 91W Ward
11. 37H Hesson
12. 7 Andis

FEATURE (25-laps)

1. 23 Cody Clubb (16)
2. 86 Nick Clubb (8)
3. 118 Axle Wicker (5)
4. 98 Jerry Legner (1)
5. 7 Michael Andis (23)
6. W12 ??? (15)
7. 42JR Jessica Sumner (2)
8. 25 Matt McCarty (13)
9. 28 Jason Kemp (10)
10. 22 Allen Line (3)
11. C2 Cody Stowe (17)
12. 20S Ken Schiradelly (18)
13. 55 Kyle Carlson (14)
14. 31H Moe Tholan Jr. (21)
15. 66 Shannon Mudro (7)
16. 91W Logan Ward (19)
17. 11B Nick Boring (12)
18. 73 Eric Bushey (22)
19. 9 Chris Schmink (11)
20. 08 DJ Werkmeister (4)
21. 11E Jimmy Ellison (9)
22. 93 Ryan Lagestee (6)
23. 5 Justin Glaudrone (20)
24. 37H John Hesson - no start
25. 44 Ryan Brooks - no start

FastLane Web DeZigns Hard Charger Award - Michael Andis
 




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