Modifieds share card in points event on quarter-mile
By Steve Birmingham
Granite CIty, IL -- The United Midwest Promoters (UMP) Summer Nationals are in the midst of their annual month-long speed festival and fans will get a special treat when the UMP Super Late Models shred Tri-City Speedway's flat half-mile on Sunday, July 11.
Local Late Model drivers like Washington, Missouri's Ed Dixon and St. Charles' Kevin Gundaker are no strangers to the UMP battles, and both are expected to take on current UMP Summer Nationals points leader Don O'Neal, Shannon Babb, Brian Birkhofer, Rick Eckert, Steve Francis, Terry English, Rodney Melvin, Greg Johnson, Dennis Erb, Randy Korte, Kevin Weaver and Steve Sheppard, Jr., for 40 laps of dirt spewing insanity and a $10,000 winner's check.
Also part of the July 11 Summer Nationals card at Tri-City are the open-wheeled UMP Modifieds in a $1,000 to win, UMP points event on Tri-City's tight, high-banked quarter-mile dirt. Expected to make the field are St.Louis natives Ray Walsh, Jeff LeBaube, Illinoisans John Seets, Bobby Bittle, Bobby Martintoni, Scott Weber and Donnie Wren.
General Admission tickets are $24 with pit gates open at 3 p.m., spectator gates at 5 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m. Tri-City Speedway is located one-half mile south of I-270 on Illinois Route 203 (Nameoki Road), just 10 minutes north of downtown St. Louis.
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By Steve Birmingham
Granite CIty, IL -- The United Midwest Promoters (UMP) Summer Nationals are in the midst of their annual month-long speed festival and fans will get a special treat when the UMP Super Late Models shred Tri-City Speedway's flat half-mile on Sunday, July 11.
Local Late Model drivers like Washington, Missouri's Ed Dixon and St. Charles' Kevin Gundaker are no strangers to the UMP battles, and both are expected to take on current UMP Summer Nationals points leader Don O'Neal, Shannon Babb, Brian Birkhofer, Rick Eckert, Steve Francis, Terry English, Rodney Melvin, Greg Johnson, Dennis Erb, Randy Korte, Kevin Weaver and Steve Sheppard, Jr., for 40 laps of dirt spewing insanity and a $10,000 winner's check.
Also part of the July 11 Summer Nationals card at Tri-City are the open-wheeled UMP Modifieds in a $1,000 to win, UMP points event on Tri-City's tight, high-banked quarter-mile dirt. Expected to make the field are St.Louis natives Ray Walsh, Jeff LeBaube, Illinoisans John Seets, Bobby Bittle, Bobby Martintoni, Scott Weber and Donnie Wren.
General Admission tickets are $24 with pit gates open at 3 p.m., spectator gates at 5 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m. Tri-City Speedway is located one-half mile south of I-270 on Illinois Route 203 (Nameoki Road), just 10 minutes north of downtown St. Louis.
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