{"id":9319,"date":"2012-01-14T04:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=9319"},"modified":"2012-01-14T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:29:10","slug":"united-promoters-late-models-ready-for-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/series\/united-promoters-late-models-ready-for-second-season\/","title":{"rendered":"United Promoters Late Models Ready for Second Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rookie Run Was Impressive, But Goals are Bigger for 2012<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Elgin Traylor, 51 Operations Manager – A few years ago, the now-defunct Sunbelt Super Late Model Series was the place for drivers to race at different venues across the state of Florida.\u00a0 One of their big venues was USA International Speedway in Lakeland, FL and raced at more facilities such as New Smyrna, Orlando, Auburndale, Ocala and more.\u00a0 In 2008 both USA International Speedway and the series ended and a major touring Super Late Model Series in Florida were no more.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2011.\u00a0 A rookie series, the Florida United Promoters Late Model Series, had a strong debut at tracks throughout Central Florida.\u00a0 A successful year of \u201cunited promoters\u201d of several facilities working to make a home for Super Late Model racing, the series is ready to make the next step.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This season, the promoters of Auburndale Speedway, Citrus County Speedway, Desoto Super Speedway, Orlando SpeedWorld and New Smyrna Speedway that make up the FUPLMS, have brought in Rick Williams to be the series director for an idea that is working in Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have come on board to help give the promoters some direction,\u201d said Williams, who was at last week\u2019s Red-Eye 100 at New Smyrna with open arms to all the Late Model teams.\u00a0 \u201cThey (the promoters) were running all these tracks and had no series director.\u00a0 I offered up my services and we are going to try and bring this thing up to the next level.\u00a0 We have our schedule together for 2012.\u00a0 We are working on some series sponsors and some contingency sponsors as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FUPLMS had the right idea of starting small last year.\u00a0 The 12-race schedule produced over 100 cars and eight different winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just want to make it a better series overall,\u201d added Williams.\u00a0 \u201cFlorida doesn\u2019t have a touring series for the Super Late Models and that\u2019s what we are trying to get to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now the series consists of Late Models with two-barrel carburetor engines.\u00a0 The 2012 season will again have 12 races at five different races tracks in Florida.\u00a0 In an effort to draw cars from the outside, Williams has been looking elsewhere to keep things even or close enough to draw cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cEngine rules are all over the place,\u201d said Williams.\u00a0 \u201cI have looked at CRA and I have looked at PASS and they both have tremendous success with their series.\u00a0 We are looking at different things and we are trying to get to that level of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once again they will have backing from Sunoco Race Fuels and Hoosier Tires.\u00a0 Rules utilizing those companies\u2019 products make the series similar to the Bright House Challenge Series at New Smyrna and the open shows run at New Smyrna and Orlando SpeedWorld.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to grow,\u201d said Williams.\u00a0 \u201cPeople are excited and are asking and calling about it.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see where we are at with our opening event on March 3rd at Desoto Super Speedway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rookie Run Was Impressive, But Goals are Bigger for 2012 Elgin Traylor, 51 Operations Manager – A few years ago, the now-defunct Sunbelt Super Late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9319\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}