Ramirez Nips
Phillips in USMTS Sizzler at Lakeside
KANSAS CITY, Kan.
(Oct. 28) —
It was the next-to-last race of the
season for the Summit USMTS National Championship
presented by RacinDirt on Friday, and one of the best of
the year as Dereck Ramirez reeled in Terry Phillips to
top the 8th Annual USMTS Kansas City Sizzler at the
Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
Twenty-five racers started the 40-lap main
event that went the distance without a caution flag.
Ramirez led the opening lap and then crossed the finish
line about 13 minutes later to take the $10,000 winner’s
share of the prize money.
In between, every lap was a hold-your-breath battle
for the ages as Ramirez, Phillips and Tyler Wolff put on
a show for the fans as the swapped the lead and danced
inside and outside of heavy lapped traffic for most of
the race.
Wolff was looking for his first USMTS
victory at the Lakeside Speedway where he has had mush
success in USRA Modified action during the track’s
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series shows on Friday nights.
While Ramirez led the first five laps after
disposing of polesitter Jason McGehee, Wolff raced
wheel-to-wheel with the defending USMTS National
Champion before finally taking control on lap 6.
Meanwhile, Phillips was flying through the field and
bringing Jacob Bleess with him as they tucked in behind
the lead duo while they searched for openings between
the back-markers ahead of them.
Looking like he
hit the nitrous bottle in his familiar red No. 75
machine, Phillips screamed down the backstretch and
raced by both Wolff and Ramirez to take over the top
spot just shy of the halfway point of the race.
Phillips seemed poised to score his fifth USMTS victory
at the historic 4/10-mile dirt oval as he pulled away to
put nearly three seconds between himself and Ramirez.
But Ramirez, who has become recognized as one of the
best long-game racers with the tour, slowly reeled in
Phillips. He made up a heap of ground with two laps to
go and then streaked underneath Phillips with the white
flag waving above them.
They raced side by side
down the backstretch and Ramirez took the checkered flag
a half-second ahead of Phillips to score his sixth win
of the 2022 campaign and 25th of his USMTS career.
“I don’t think there’s any conserving on a racetrack
like that. That’s pretty demanding,” Ramirez said of the
non-stop 40-lapper. “I’m 36. I feel like I’m 85. I can’t
breathe very well… I just got him in lapped traffic
there. I don’t think I would have had a chance if he
hadn’t got in there. When he got back by me I said, ‘You
know what, I’m going to drive this thing wide open and
if it doesn’t turn I guess I’ll knock the wall down.’
Everything worked out.
“He kind of got out there
on me. I wasn’t going to tear my stuff up and then I
kind of started coming back to him when I hit that
bottom pretty good and I thought we might as well just
try her and I moved up to the middle and there was a lot
of moisture there I didn’t know and it just worked out.”
For Phillips, his racecar was visibly becoming
harder to handle and he had no answer for Ramirez while
settling for the runner-up paycheck for a second
straight night.
“It just got super tight at the
end,” said Phillips, who snuck by Ramirez the night
before to steal second place in the late stages of the
main event. “I looked at the quarter panel here and it
was shoved in. I’m sure it was blistering hot and then
it probably quit.
“I didn’t know what was going
on. The car was awesome and then all of a sudden it got
super tight. I still thought I was okay and he (Ramirez)
kind of surprised me there a little bit so good for him
and we’ll go to the next one.”
In just his second
night in a new chassis, Bleess held on to finish third
while Wolff bested Hughes for fourth. Darron Fuqua,
19th-starting Tanner Mullens, Dan Ebert, Dustin Sorensen
and Rodney Sanders, who remains the winningest USMTS
driver here with five career wins, rounded out the top
10.
Sorensen, who clinched the points title the
previous night at the Tri-State Speedway, came from 23rd
on the starting grid after needing to use a provisional
for the first time this year. The FK Rod Ends Hard
Charger Award went to Mullens.
Saturday in Park City: The 3rd Annual
USMTS Modified Spooktacular at the 81 Speedway in Park
City, Kan., wraps up the season on Saturday with the
crowning of the 2022 USMTS National Champion after the
checkered flag waves.
The USMTS feature winner
will pocket no less than $10,030.
Past USMTS
winners include Rodney Sanders, who has a series-best
six triumphs here and Ryan Gustin is a three-time
winner. Jason Hughes, Jake O'Neil, Jeremy Payne and
Terry Phillips have two trophies. Stormy Scott, Cade
Dillard, Jon Mitchell, Johnny Scott, Zack VanderBeek,
Jacob Bleess and Cole Traugott have enjoyed one trip to
victory lane.
Trick-or-treating for the kids will
happen from 2-3 p.m. with a free Halloween Walk through
the pits. Racers and encouraged to brings treats for the
kids and maybe a surprise or two.
After the pits
are cleared, they will reopen and the grandstand gates
will swing open at 3:30. Hot laps begin at 5:15 and
racing gets underway at 6.
BSB Manufacturing USRA
B-Mods are also on the card at the 3/8-mile semi-banked
dirt oval located at 7700 N Broadway, Park City, KS
67219—just north of Wichita on I-135 to exit 16, then
0.7 mile west on 77th St. to N. Broadway.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Modified
Touring Series
Summit USMTS National Championship
presented by RacinDirt
8th Annual USMTS Kansas City
Sizzler
Lakeside Speedway, Kansas City, Kan.
Friday, October 28, 2022
Showing
finishing position, starting position in parentheses,
car number, driver and hometown. Heat race lineups are
determined via group qualifying. The top 12 in heat race
passing points advance to the Summit Racing Equipment
“A” Main.
SIMPSON PERFORMANCE
PRODUCTS HEAT RACE #1 (8 laps):
1. (2) 5*
Jason McGehee, Wichita, Kan.
2. (1) 12 Jason Hughes,
Watts, Okla.
3. (3) 38T Dylan Thornton, Santa Maria,
Calif.
4. (4) 60 Dan Ebert, Lake Shore, Minn.
5.
(8) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy, Texas
6. (6) 19 Dustin
Sorensen, Rochester, Minn.
7. (7) 02 Tanner Mullens,
Wichita, Kan.
8. (5) 45 Chase Holland, Saucier, Miss.
FAST SHAFTS HEAT RACE #2 (8 laps):
1. (4) 75 Terry Phillips, Springfield, Mo.
2. (2) 68
Kerry Davis, Parkville, Mo.
3. (1) 10C Cayden Carter,
Oskaloosa, Iowa
4. (3) 11JR Randal Schiffelbein Jr.,
Berryton, Kan.
5. (5) 00S Chris Spalding, Montgomery
City, Mo.
6. (8) 37J Ronnie Burkhardt, Topeka, Kan.
7. (7) 247 Jarret Dotson, Baxter Springs, Kan.
8. (6)
33Z Zack VanderBeek, New Sharon, Iowa
EDELBROCK HEAT RACE #3 (8 laps):
1. (1) 87
Darron Fuqua, Mayetta, Kan.
2. (3) 4W Tyler Wolff,
Fayetteville, Ark.
3. (2) 58X Gary Christian, Broken
Bow, Okla.
4. (8) 69 Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn.
5. (5) 4 Jeremy Nelson, Alexandria, Minn.
6. (4) 44S
Shane DeVolder, Pacifica, Calif.
7. (6) 65X Carlos
Ahumada Jr., El Paso, Texas
8. (7) 8C Chris Clark,
Jackson, Wyo.
MSD PERFORMANCE HEAT RACE
#4 (8 laps):
1. (1) 21 Jacob Bleess,
Chatfield, Minn.
2. (2) 4R Dereck Ramirez, Woodward,
Okla.
3. (3) 12J Jason Ingalls, Longview, Texas
4.
(7) 21K Kyle Brown, Madrid, Iowa
5. (4) 30 Dalton
Kirk, Edgerton, Kan.
6. (6) 9 Mark Schafman,
Edwardsville, Kan.
7. (5) 2G Brandon Givens, Wichita,
Kan.
REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #1
(10 laps, top 5 advance):
1. (2) 60 Dan
Ebert, Lake Shore, Minn.
2. (1) 10C Cayden Carter,
Oskaloosa, Iowa
3. (3) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy,
Texas
4. (7) 02 Tanner Mullens, Wichita, Kan.
5.
(8) 65X Carlos Ahumada Jr., El Paso, Texas
6. (9) 45
Chase Holland, Saucier, Miss.
7. (4) 00S Chris
Spalding, Montgomery City, Mo.
8. (5) 37J Ronnie
Burkhardt, Topeka, Kan.
9. (10) 8C Chris Clark,
Jackson, Wyo.
10. (6) 19 Dustin Sorensen, Rochester,
Minn.
REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #2 (10
laps, top 5 advance):
1. (1) 21K Kyle Brown,
Madrid, Iowa
2. (2) 11JR Randal Schiffelbein Jr.,
Berryton, Kan.
3. (3) 30 Dalton Kirk, Edgerton, Kan.
4. (4) 4 Jeremy Nelson, Alexandria, Minn.
5. (8) 2G
Brandon Givens, Wichita, Kan.
6. (6) 9 Mark Schafman,
Edwardsville, Kan.
7. (5) 44S Shane DeVolder,
Pacifica, Calif.
8. (9) 33Z Zack VanderBeek, New
Sharon, Iowa
9. (7) 247 Jarret Dotson, Baxter
Springs, Kan.
SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT “A”
MAIN (40 laps):
1. (2) 4R Dereck Ramirez,
Woodward, Okla.
2. (8) 75 Terry Phillips,
Springfield, Mo.
3. (3) 21 Jacob Bleess, Chatfield,
Minn.
4. (5) 4W Tyler Wolff, Fayetteville, Ark.
5.
(6) 12 Jason Hughes, Watts, Okla.
6. (4) 87 Darron
Fuqua, Mayetta, Kan.
7. (19) 02 Tanner Mullens,
Wichita, Kan.
8. (13) 60 Dan Ebert, Lake Shore, Minn.
9. (23) 19 Dustin Sorensen, Rochester, Minn.
10. (17)
20 Rodney Sanders, Happy, Texas
11. (10) 38T Dylan
Thornton, Santa Maria, Calif.
12. (20) 4 Jeremy
Nelson, Alexandria, Minn.
13. (14) 21K Kyle Brown,
Madrid, Iowa
14. (16) 11JR Randal Schiffelbein Jr.,
Berryton, Kan.
15. (24) 33Z Zack VanderBeek, New
Sharon, Iowa
16. (12) 58X Gary Christian, Broken Bow,
Okla.
17. (1) 5* Jason McGehee, Wichita, Kan.
18.
(18) 30 Dalton Kirk, Edgerton, Kan.
19. (15) 10C
Cayden Carter, Oskaloosa, Iowa
20. (7) 68 Kerry
Davis, Parkville, Mo.
21. (9) 69 Lucas Schott,
Chatfield, Minn.
22. (21) 65X Carlos Ahumada Jr., El
Paso, Texas
23. (25) 44S Shane DeVolder, Pacifica,
Calif.
24. (11) 12J Jason Ingalls, Longview, Texas
25. (22) 2G Brandon Givens, Wichita, Kan.
Lap Leaders: Ramirez 1-5, Wolff 6-17,
Phillips 18-38, Ramirez 39-40.
Total Laps
Led: Phillips 21, Wolff 12, Ramirez 7.
Margin of Victory: 0.518 second.
Time of Race: 13 minutes, 12.801
seconds (no cautions).
Provisional Starters:
Sorensen, VanderBeek.
Emergency Provisional:
DeVolder.
FK Rod Ends Hard Charger:
Mullens (started 19th, finished 7th).
Entries: 31.
Next Race:
Saturday, Oct. 29, 81 Speedway, Park City, Kan.
Summit USMTS National Championship Points:
Sorensen 3084, Mullens 2967, Phillips 2918, Ramirez
2889, Sanders 2833, VanderBeek 2741, Ebert 2625, Hughes
2594, Fuqua 2520, Bleess 2445.
Grant Junghans
USMTS Rookie of the Year Points: Carter 2433,
Brown 2167, DeVolder 2149, Thornton 2053, Colton Horner
1685.
Miller Welders USMTS Manufacturers
Championship Points: MBCustoms 307, Mullens
262, Hughes 243, VanderBuilt 221, GRT 212.
Compstar/JE Pistons USMTS Engine Builder of the Year
Points: Cornett 264, Action 228, Stoen 227,
Durham 197, Mullens 192.
Contingency
Awards:
American Racer – Wolff.
Beyea
Custom Headers – Wolff.
BigDeal Car Care – Ramirez.
Bryke Racing – VanderBeek.
BSB Manufacturing –
Schott.
Champ Pans – Hughes.
Deatherage Opticians
– Schiffelbein.
Edelbrock – Fuqua.
Fast Shafts –
Phillips.
FK Rod Ends – Mullens.
Hooker Harness –
Nelson.
Integra Racing Shocks & Springs – Carter.
Keyser Manufacturing – Sanders.
KS Engineering –
Thornton.
KSE Racing Products – Sorensen.
Mel
Hambelton Racing – Phillips.
Midwest Wrap Co. –
Ahumada.
MSD Performance – Bleess.
Penske Racing
Shocks – Brown.
PEM Racing Gears & Drivetrain –
Davis.
Performance Bodies- McGehee.
QA1 – Fuqua.
RacerWebsite.com – Nelson.
Simpson Performance
Products – McGehee.
Summit Racing Equipment –
McGehee, Nelson, Schiffelbein, Sorensen.
Super Clean
– Ramirez.
Swift Springs – Kirk, Ramirez,
Schiffelbein.
Sybesma Graphics – McGehee.
Tire
Demon – Sorensen.
VP Racing Fuels – Ramirez.
Wehrs
Machine & Racing Products – Schafman.
Wilwood Disc
Brakes – Phillips.
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USMTS OFFICIAL SPONSORS: American
Racer Racing Tires, Beyea
Headers, Chevrolet
Performance, Compstar, Fast
Shafts, FK
Rod Ends, Intercomp, K1
RaceGear by Ryan Bowers Motorsports, KS
Engineering, KSE
Racing Products, Malvern
Bank, Mesilla
Valley Transportation, MSD
Performance, Nitroquest
Media, PEM
Racing Gears & Drivetrain, RacinDirt, Summit
Racing Equipment, Super
Clean, VP
Racing Fuels, Wrisco
Industries.
USMTS PARTICIPATING
SPONSORS: ARMI
Contractors, Boubin
Tire & Automotive, Brodix
Cylinder Heads, DAY
Motorsports, Hacienda
Mechanical, Mel
Hambelton Racing, Midwest
Wrap Co., Miller
Welders, PBM
Performance Products, Rancho
Milagro Racing, RHRSwag.com, S&S
Fishing & Rental, Salty's
BBQ & Catering, YouDirt.com.
USMTS CONTINGENCY SPONSORS: AFCO
Racing Products, Allstar
Performance, BigDeal
Car Care, Bryke
Racing, BSB
Manufacturing, Champ
Pans, Deatherage
Opticians, Edelbrock, Hooker
Harness, Integra
Racing Shocks and Springs, JE
Pistons, Keyser
Manufacturing, Penske
Racing Shocks, Performance
Bodies & Parts, QA1, RacerWebsite.com, Real
Racing Wheels, Simpson
Performance Products, Swift
Springs, Sybesma
Graphics, Tire
Demon, Wehrs
Machine & Racing Products, Wilwood
Racing.
USMTS RACETRACKS:
81 Speedway,
Belleville High Banks,
Casino Speedway,
Cedar Lake Speedway,
Chateau Speedway,
Dallas County Speedway,
Deer Creek Speedway,
Fayette County Speedway,
Humboldt Speedway,
I-70 Speedway,
Lakeside Speedway,
Lucas Oil Speedway,
Mason City Motor Speedway,
Mississippi Thunder Speedway,
Ogilvie Raceway,
Red Dirt Raceway,
Rocket Raceway Park,
Tri-State Speedway,
Winneshiek Raceway.
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Contact Info:
Jeff Nun
Chief Communications Officer
United States Modified Touring Series, Inc. (USMTS)
1715 W 2nd St, PO Box 905
Webster City, IA 50595
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