By: Zach Garman & Chris Zuver

Crews and fans packed the area of Thunder Mountain Speedway for the 11th annual Connor Bobik memorial featuring the 410 Sprints, BRP Big Block Modifieds, and the Zimmer Service Center ULMS Late Models.

The ULMS Super Late Modes for the 40 lap 11th Annual Connor Bobik memorial. Mike Norris and Jon Lee made up the front row coming to the green. Norris jumped out to the early lead with Lee and Blair battling for second. Blair would move into second as Alex Ferree, Chub Frank, and Chris Hackett battled for fourth. A caution would come out for Clay Ruffo sitting in turn four stacking the field up for its first restart of the night. On the restart, Frank moved into third over Ferree as Hackett and Lee battled for fifth. Matt Lux would begin to slow in turn three bringing out the yellow. On the restart, Mike Wonderling, Jeremy Ohl, and Del Rougeux got together in turn two as Ohl rolled on his side. Everyone was okay as the red flag was lifted. On the restart, Norris and Blair put on a fight for the lead before Blair moved up in front of Norris for the lead. Wyatt Scott moved into fourth over Michael Lake as Chub Frank battled with the top two. Norris would regain the lead from Blair with five to go as Chub Frank took away second from Blair coming out of turn one. Norris would go on to collect the feature event and be the 11th different winner of the Connor Bobik Memorial.

Norris was followed by 2) Chub Frank 1* 3) Max Blair 111V 4) Wyatt Scott X3 5) Michael Lake 27 6) Jon Lee 5L 7) Jared Miley 10 8: Dave Blazavich 18B 9) Alex Ferree 1C 10) Chris Hackett 33 11) Pancho Lawler 93 12) John Wayne Weaver W3 13) DeShawn Gingerich 0 14) Levi Yetter 9 15) Del Rougeux 28D 16) Doug Eck 20 17) Joe Malobicky Jr 34 18) Mike Wonderling 18 19) Jeremy Ohl 5J 20) Matt Lux 111L 21) Denny Fenton 55 22) Dylan Yoder 24 23) Danny Snyder 4S 24) Gale Huey 11H 25) Clay Ruffo 14R 26) Bob Dorman 19. Max Blair was fastest qualifier at 15.480

Saturday the ULMS Late Model Series made its first visit to Marion Center Raceway since 2015 and just like that evening, Max Blair would pick up the win. Blair would pick off early race leader and Integra Shock Fast time and Jay’s Auto Wrecking Scramble winner, Matt Lux and roar to another ULMS win and pad his 2021 ULMS North Region and ULMS National point lead. The win was Blair’s 38th career series win.

Matt Lux took the immediate lead over Joe Petyak and Blair. Blair would grab second on lap two as lap three clicked off the board Lux already had a 1.6 second lead over Blair when Gary Lyle brought the caution lights out. After a pair of restarts the caution came out again on lap five for Levi Yetter with Lux leading over Blair, Jared Miley, Ken Schaltenbrand and Petyak. A few more cautions on restarts set single file starts on lap 7 with Lux still leading the way over Blair until lap 10 caution for Andy Burns and Lyle. ON the restart Blair would take the lead from Lux one lap later with Schaltenbrand now in third and Miley in fourh. At the halfway mark it was Blair Lux, Schaltenbrand, Miley and Petyak. Blair started to pull away from Lux as the big battle was for sixth between Chris Hackett and Jon Lee. As Blair entered lap traffic, Lux began to close in to set up a late race challenge but only to see Blair get pass the lap cars and race his way to the $3000 prize money. Lux came home second, his best ULMS finish in over twelve years followed by Miley, Schaltenbrand, Petyak and Hackett outdueled Lee for the side by side battle they had for over 15 laps.

Results from 7/24/2021
Jim Townsend Memorial
ULMS Super Lates
1. Max Blair (111)
2. Matt Lux (111L)
3. Jared Miley (10)
4. Ken Schaltenbrand (29)
5. Joe Petyak (44P)
6. Chris Hackett (33)
7. Jon Lee (5L)
8. Michael Lake (27)
9. Danny Snyder (4S)
10. Rod Phillips (1S)
11. Deshawn Gingerich (0)
12. John Weaver (3W)
13. Jayme Beck (92)
14. Tommy Beck (91)
15. Gary Lyle (10)
16. Brent Bingaman (13)
17. Joe Martin (11H)
18. Andy Burns (76)
19. Dave Blazavich (18B)
20. Alex Ferree (1C)
21. Mike Wonderling (18)
22. Jeremy Ohl (5J)
23. Levi Yetter (9)
24. Pancho Lawler (93)

Sunday, the Zimmer Service Center ULMS Late Model Series made its second and final visit to the all new Bloomsburg Fair Speedway. The new facility saw a decent field of cars on hand for the 30 lap main event that saw the tracks opener winner, Max Blair back in victory lane again.

Jeff Rine set the Integra Shocks fast time of the night and won the Jay’s Auto Wrecking Scramble to earn the pole position for the nights main event. Rine would take the immediate lead over Blair as the duo quickly established themselves as the two cars to bet. For the first twelve laps Blair hung with Rine as the two rode the cushion around the 1/3 mile oval until Pancho Lawler brought the yellow out in turn 4.

The restart saw a mad scramble again with Rine over Blair, with Danny Snyder and Rick Eckert battling for third and Dylan Yoder quickly found his way to sixth. AT the halfway point it was still Rine over Blair by a few car lengths, followed by Shaun Jones, Eckert and now Yoder and Snyder battling for fifth. Yoder would finally grab fifth from Snyder on lap 22 when the yellow lights came out for the race leader, Jeff Rine who blew a right rear tire and grabbed the turn two wall handing the lead over to Blair.

The restart saw Eckert to second setting up a possible late race challenge to Blair as Yoder and Jones battled for third and Jim Bernheisel and Snyder now battling for fifth. The lights came on again with three to go setting up a three lap dash and nobody could touch Blair as he swept the ULMS events at Bloomsburg in 2021 over Eckert, Dylan Yoder, Shaun Jones and Danny Snyder rounding out the top five.

FINISH
MAX BLAIR, Rick Eckert, Dylan Yoder,Shaun Jones, Danny Snyder, Jim Bernheisel, Andrew Yoder, Jim Yoder, Deshawn Gingerich, Dave Stamm, Pancho Lawler, Luke HOffner, Jeff Rine, Dan Stone (DNS), Shaun Layton (DNS)