The 2022 season for the Zimmer Service Center United Late Model Series is less than two weeks away for its 22nd season of racing competition that will see a 26 event schedule in place for the dirt late model series. The season kicks off with a huge 3-day weekend in central Pennsylvania, where the legendary Williams Grove Speedway will host the ULMS Late Models for the third time ever on Friday March 18th followed by two events at Port Royal Speedway on Saturday and Sunday March 19th and 20th, with each event paying $3,500 to win.
Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, PA will host the 2022 season opener for the ULMS Late Models on Friday, March 18th. 2019 saw Rick Eckert capture one of his two 2019 ULMS wins by holding off a very fast Jason Covert, 2020 was lost due to Covid and last year, four time series champion Max Blair took home the win. Joining the ULMS Late Models will be the 410 sprint cars.
The series will then head north to Port Royal Speedway and visit the Speed Palace for two consecutive days of action. Saturday March 19th will see the ULMS Late Model Series go 30 laps for $3,500 to the winner. This will be the twelfth ULMS event held at Port Royal with Jason Covert winning the two spring ULMS openers in 2018 and 2019 along with single wins by Tyler Bare, Michael Norris, Mason Zeigler and Max Blair winning events at Port Royal the past four years. Gregg Satterlee has won the last 4 ULMS events at Port Royal Speedway. Past ULMS events have generated car counts of normally 40 plus cars on hand for competition. Joining the ULMS Late Models on the Saturday portion will be the 410 sprint cars and the Limited Late Models.
Sunday, March 20th will be the final day of the 3-day Central Pennsylvania Kickoff Weekend and the 2nd day of action at Port Royal Speedway. The final event of the three day weekend will see the ULMS Late Models and they will be joined by the Short Track Super Series Big Block Modifieds.
The Zimmer Service Center United Late Model Series are expecting a very good field of cars for the all three days of action with former series champion Jared Miley being joined by 2021 Chew on This Jerky Rookie of Year champion, Deshawn Gingerich, Satterlee, Kyle Lee, Jeff Rine, Michael Norris, Jason Covert, Colton Flinner, Gary Stuhler, Trevor Feathers, Logan Zarin, Dan Stone, Dylan Yoder, Rick Eckert, Mason Zeigler, Ryan Montgomery, Kyle Knapp along with Chew on This Jerky Rookie of Year candidate Nathan Brady and many others.
ULMS Racing Series procedures will be in place for all 3 events, which include Integra Shocks hot lap qualifying, 8 lap minimum qualifying heat events, consolation events and 30 lap main event. Time Trials per ULMS rules will be the following: 3 heats will be straight up; 4 heats will result in A&B group qualifying. New for 2021, the series will return to the redraw format with the top 2 qualifiers (4 heats or less) will redraw in the Jay’s Auto Wrecking Redraw that will see someone get awarded the $100 Jay’s Auto Wrecking Unlucky Dog award for redrawing the worst pill. The ULMS Late Model Series tire rule is Hoosier 1300 or American Racer 44 or harder on all 4 corners and teams must present their 4 tires at pre tech to be marked and those four tires must be used in qualifying, heats and consolation events. Race teams can change one tire for the feature at Williams Grove and Port Royal Speedway number of tires allowed to be changed for feature will be announced at a later date leading up to race weekend. Also new for 2022 is the leader or pole sitter will start the event anywhere inside the starting box. Also new for 2022 is back to back cautions without completing a lap except for the opening lap will result in single file restarts and there must be five completed laps before returning to Delaware restart procedures.
All late model teams must present their cars along with safety equipment (helmet and Hans device) at pre-race safety and car inspection. Once your car has been inspected you will not need to present your safety equipment again, unless you enter a different car during the weekend. Williams Grove Speedway and Port Royal Speedway utilizes the AMB/MyLaps transponders for scoring and timing. Limited transponder rentals are available at both facilities. Raceivers are mandatory and frequency for both tracks are 454.000. ULMS will be using the new universal body rule for 2022 including the droop rule.
Gates open Friday night at Williams Grove at 5:30pm. ULMS tech opens at 5:30pm and closes at 6:30pm. No cars will be allowed on the track before completing tech. ULMS Driver meeting will be at 6:30pm at the ULMS Command Center, then ULMS hot laps qualifying at approximately 7pm. The nights activities will be streamed by Dirtvision for those who are not able to attend.
Saturday gates open at 1:00pm at Port Royal Speedway. ULMS tech opens at 1:00pm and closes at 2:30pm. Driver Meeting will be at 2:30pm, hot laps beginning at 3:00pm, which will include ULMS hot lap qualifying and qualifying heat races beginning at 4:00pm.
The Sunday, March 20th program at Port Royal Speedway will see the gates opening at 11:00am, which is also start of ULMS pre-race tech, which closes same time as the driver meeting at 12:30pm. Hot Laps begin at 1:00pm which will include ULMS hot lap time trial qualifying, and heat races beginning at 2:00pm. ULMS Entry Fee will be $50 per event during the weekend. If you are not able to attend, both Port Royal Speedway events will streamed by FloRacing per track streaming contract.
Purses for all three events will be as follows: $3,500, $1700 $1200 $1000 $800 $750 $700 $650 $625 $600 $500 $400 $350 (13th -24th)
United Late Model Series is proudly supported by Zimmer’s Service Center, Jay’s Auto Wrecking , Close Racing Supply, Precise Racing, Hoosier Tire Mid Atlantic, Lias Tire, American Racer Tire, Chew on this Jerky, Insinger Performance, VP Race Fuels, DirtDefender, Genesis Shocks, Keyser Manufacturing, Integra Shocks, Cousins Designs, Mary Norgrove Notary Public, Jays Automotive, Phantom Signs & Graphics, Accelo Race Wear, Hot Shoe RaceWear, and MACH Auto