Zimmer’s Service Center United Late Model Series (ULMS) made its first visit of the year to Lernerville Speedway in the $3,500 to-win ‘Willie and Conda McConnell Memorial’.  The winner would also grab the lucrative automatic qualifying spot for the Firecracker 100 in late June.  Series point leader Gregg Satterlee would take the lead on lap 26 from former two time series champion Dave Hess to grab the win and Firecracker 100 qualifier.

The ‘McConnell Memorial’ for the ULMS/Precise Racing Products Late Models went green with 2021 Lernerville Speedway track champion and current series Chew on This Jerky Rookie of Year point leader Colton Flinner jumping out to the early lead over former ULMS champion and dirt late model hall of famer, Chub Frank. Flinner and Frank battled for the top spot until a caution flew on lap three for the stopped car of ninth starting Andrew Wylie in turn four. Frank gained the advantage over Flinner as the race resumed but another quick caution on lap five for the spun cars of Ron Hall and Matt Lux slowed the pace again. On the ensuing restart, Frank continued to lead with Dave Hess bypassing Flinner for the runner-up spot as Jared Miley also pounced on Flinner for the third spot. On lap 7, Hess made his move around Frank to capture the lead while eighth starting and current ULMS points leader, Gregg Satterlee made his way into the top-five and around Flinner for the fourth spot on lap 10. Satterlee looked to be on a mission and was glued to the bottom of turns one and two. By lap 13, Satterlee had caught Miley for the third spot and the two battled side-by-side until lap 19 when Satterlee finally cleared Miley for good and set his sights on Frank for second. Satterlee continued to use the bottom side momentum out of turn two to make gains and drove under Frank on lap 21 to take over the second position. With race leader Hess riding the high side, Satterlee’s line was wide open, and he took full advantage as he was able to clear Hess on lap 26 of the 30-lapper and go on to claim the $3,500 top prize as well as a guaranteed spot in the ‘Big River Steel Firecracker 100’ set for the end of June. Hess finished second followed by Frank, Miley, and Wyatt Scott in fifth.

‘I almost forgot how to get up to the Victory Lane stage here,’ Satterlee said about his limited appearances at Lernerville in recent years. ‘I definitely forgot how awesome this place is when it’s right, I hope that was a good race for all the fans, that was fun! I buried myself in the pill draw pulling the eight (starting position), but I knew we had a good car and I just needed to be patient and pick the cars off when I could.’ Satterlee continued, ‘The restarts really helped me find that bottom groove and I knew if I could get up in the infield enough, I could maintain with those guys on the top. It was kind of treacherous up there so I was hoping they would make some mistakes and bobble and take be there to take advantage when they did. Happy to get the win, we’ve had a really good car this year, it’s been a lot of fun.’

Drake Troutman set overall fast time in Integra Shocks Hot Lap Qualifying and picked up a free tire from Hoosier Tire Precise in part of the Willie & Conda McConnell Memorial contingency awards.  Dave Hess Jr would grab the lions share of the lap money amounting to over $1500 extra on top of his runner up pay.  Satterlee would also take some extra lap money for the final four laps and the $100 Jays Auto Wrecking Unlucky Dog Award for the worst redraw pill.  Satterlee’s win was his 13th career series win tying David Scott for third on the series all time wins list behind the Max and Rob Blair.

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ULMS Late Models ‘Willie & Conda McConnell Memorial’ Results:

Zimmer’s Service Center Heat 1: (Finish-Name-[Start]) 1. 48-Colton Flinner [1]; 2. 22B-Darrell Bossard [2]; 3. J4-John Garvin[7]; 4. 84-Andrew Wylie[5]; 5. 1C-Alex Ferree[3]; 6. 33K-Kyle Knapp[4]; 7. 81-Mike Miller[6] (Garvin DQ Droop)

Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic Heat 2: (Finish-Name-[Start]) 1. 22-Gregg Satterlee[1]; 2. 3RK-Daryl Charlier [3]; 3. 12B-Andy Boozel[6]; 4. 5L-Jon Lee[4]; 5. 14R-Clay Ruffo[5]; 6. 9-Levi Yetter[2]; 7. 10-Gary Lyle[7]

Lias Tire and Jay’s Auto Wrecking Heat 3: (Finish-Name-[Start]) 1. 1*-Chub Frank[2]; 2. 10M-Jared Miley [3]; 3. X3-Wyatt Scott[4]; 4. *7-Drake Troutman[1]; 5. 1Z-Logan Zarin[6]; 6. 29-Ken Schaltenbrand[5]; 7. 10S-Dave Stramm[7]; 8. 105-Levi Spinneweber[8]

Insinger Performance Heat 4: (Finish-Name-[Start]) 1. 72-Michael Norris[1]; 2. 44H-Dave Hess[2]; 3. 4S-Ryan Montgomery[3]; 4. 01H-Ron Hall[5]; 5. 91-Tommy Beck[4]; 6. 43X-Garrett Mott[6]; 7. 11-Joshua Powell[7]

Penngrade High Performance Oil B-Main: (Finish-Name-[Start]) 1. 29-Ken Schaltenbrand[3]; 2. 81-Mike Miller[1]; 3. 21-Matt Lux[9]; 4. 9-Levi Yetter[2]; 5. 10-Gary Lyle[6]; 6. 43X-Garrett Mott[11]; 7. 11-Joshua Powell[8]; 8. 105-Levi Spinneweber[10]; 9. J4-John Garvin[5]; 10. 10S-Dave Stamm[7]   (Miller DQ Droop)

‘Willie & Conda McConnell Memorial’ ULMS Feature: (Finish-Name-[Start]) 1. 22-Gregg Satterlee[8]; 2. 44H-Dave Hess[4]; 3. 1*-Chub Frank[4]; 4. 10M-Jared Miley[5]; 5. X3-Wyatt Scott[11]; 6. 48-Colton Flinner[1]; 7. 3RK-Daryl Charlier[6]; 8. 1C-Alex Ferree[12]; 9. 22B-Darrell Bossard[20]; 10. 29-Ken Schaltenbrand[20]; 11. 5L-Jon Lee[13]; 12. 91-Tommy Beck[19]; 13. 14R-Clay Ruffo[17]; 14. 10S-Dave Stamm[23]; 15. 72-Michael Norris[3]; 16. 9-Levi Yetter[22]; 17. 1Z-Logan Zarin[18]; 18. 33K-Kyle Knapp[16]; 19. *7-Drake Troutman[14]; 20. 12B-Andy Boozel[10]; 21. 01H-Ron Hall[15]; 22. 21-Matt Lux[21]; 23. J4-John Garvin[24]; 24. 84-Andrew Wylie[9]