The Jay’s Automotive United Late Model Series (ULMS) will be in action during Labor Day weekend with a pair of events on the schedule. The annual Labor Day 55 at the Bedford Fairground Speedway will pay $12,055 to win and the 20th annual Butch Renninger Memorial will pay $7333 to win at Port Royal Speedway on September 1st and 2nd.

Friday night at Bedford Speedway, Joe Padula welcomes back the ULMS Late Model Series for the fifth year in a row for the Labor Day 55. Past four ULMS Labor Day 55 winners have been Rick Eckert in 2019, Mason Zeigler in 2020, Michael Norris found victory lane last year in 2021 and last year Matt Cosner surprised everyone after a late race caution to pick up his Labor Day 55 and second ULMS win of his career.. Each of the past 4 Labor Day 55 events have supplied over 35 and another quality field of cars are expected to be on hand.

ULMS will be led by current series point leader, Tyler Emory, who will be joined by Ryan Montgomery. The Virginia and West Viriginia drivers are in a very tight point chase heading down the stretch, so every lap counts. Dylan Cecce sits third in points with Logan Zarin and Dave Stamm rounding out the top five in points for the Jays Auto Wrecking ULMS Elite teams. Others expected to be on hand are track regulars, Jeff Rine, Chuck Clise, Nathan Lasalle, Tim Smith. Regional stars, such as Norris, Alex Ferree, Cosner, Dan Stone, Gregg Satterlee, Eckert, Ziegler and former four time series champion and all time wins leader, Max Blair who currently is leading the Lucas Oil Late Model Series rookie of year chase. Those drivers and many others will be on hand for the big paying event that pays $1150 for tenth and $700 to start Friday night.

“We are very excited to be back at Bedford for the annual Labor Day 55 event and sanction their second biggest late model event of the year at the track, stated ULMS Series owner, Chris Zuver.”

Friday Night, gates open at 5:00pm with warmups at 7:00 and Lindemuth Laser Etching Qualifying at 7:30PM.. The Labor Day 55 Purse $12,000, 4800, 3000, 2500, 2000, 1500, 1400, 1300 , 1200, 1150, 1100, 1000, 900, 875, 850, 825, 800 775, 750, 725, 700 (20th – 25th).

Saturday at Port Royal Speedway will see the 20th annual Butch Renninger Memorial paying $7,333 to win for the 33 lap event in honor and memory of the legendary Butch Renninger, who sits fourth on the all-time winners list in the Super Late model division with 41 career victories and three track championships to his name. Renninger also served diligently on the board of the speedway for decades and oversaw track preparation and concessions during that time.

The Renninger family has put up extra money for the event every year and this year is no different.
Each qualifying heat event will pay $133 to the winner courtesy of Minium Napa Auto Parts, along with $133 Hard Luck Award courtesy of Gullwing Aviation LLC and $333 will be awarded in the overall fast time in the ULMS Lindemuth Laser Etching Qualifying courtesy of Barrons Racing Engines. Addicted2dirt PR and Media Management will give $333 to the hard charger of the event. Each Consolation winner will receive $50 courtesy of Snyder’s Radiator Shop.

This will be the sixth year that the Jays Automotive ULMS Late Model Series kicks off the 169th annual Juanita County Fair at Port Royal Speedway with the Butch Renninger Memorial with past winners, Tyler, Bare, Max Blair, Mason Zeigler, and Gregg Satterlee winning the last two Renninger Memorials. ULMS averages a healthy car count in the low and mid 40s in its history of the series and this event is expected to see another healthy and quality field of entries.

Joining the ULMS top Elite cars of Emory, Montgomer, Cecce, Zarin, Stamm along with Braeden Dillinger they will be joined by Port Royal’s top cars which includes defending track champion Colton Flinner, Gary Stuhler, Jeff Rine, Chad Myers, Dylan Yoder, Eckert, Satterlee, Nick Dickson, Mike Lupfer, Trevor Feathers, Austin Berry and many others. Satterlee has won the last six ULMS events at Port Royal Speedway dating back to 2021.

ULMS Racing Series procedures will be in place for both events, which include Lindemuth Laser Etching Qualifying, 8 lap minimum qualifying heat events, consolation events and 41 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. ULMS will redraw for the feature with the top 2 heat finishers redrawing after their heats. The ULMS Late Model Series tire rule is Left Front – Open RF / LR / RR Hoosier NLMT 2, 3 or 4 LM 20 30 or 40. American Racer 44 / 48 Pro2 53/56 Crate Late Models can run crate tires but RR must be under the ULMS tire rule Siping and grooving is allowed.

Also new for 2023 is after the 3rd caution the restarts will be single file and all cautions with less than 5 laps in the feature will be single file. ULMS will still utilize the Delaware restart procedures leading up to the fourth caution to initial the single fire restarts. Also beginning this year when the second place car chooses his lane under the Delaware restart, all other positions will follow as suit (2nd place chooses outside 3rd in 4th out, 5th in and so on).

All late model teams that have not competed with ULMS in 2023 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. Both tracks use the MYLAPS transponder for scoring and timing. Raceivers are mandatory and frequency will be 454.000. ULMS will be using the universal body rule for 2023 including the droop rule where the droop will be check once the Left Rear tire leaves the ground. This is the same as World of Outlaws and Lucas Oil series. Entry Fee for each event is $75 per event.

The 2023 United Late Model Series is proudly supported by Jay’s Automotive, Close Racing Supply, Lindemuth Laser Etching, Chew on this Jerky, Jay’s Auto Wrecking, The Cushion, Precise Racing, Hoosier Tire Mid Atlantic, Lias Tire, American Racer Tire, , Insinger Performance, VP Race Fuels, Carpy’s Custom Screen Printing, DirtDefender, Neff Landscaping, Keizer Wheels, Genesis Shocks, Keyser Manufacturing, Integra Shocks, Cousins Designs, Garage Crawl, Mary Norgrove Notary Public, Hot Shoe RaceWear, and MACH Auto.