(Pulaski, PA)...Once
again dry weather prevailed over the Independence Day week that
stretched throughout the weekend allowing all of the Sweeney Chevrolet
Buick GMC RUSH Racing Series powered by Pace Performance speedways to
complete their races. Some new winners made their way to victory lane,
while drivers like Max Blair, Chad Homan, Charlie Sandercock, John
Waters, and Darrell Bossard continued their winning ways in the Late
Model ranks.
It all started back on Tuesday
on the eve of Independence Day as Weedsport Speedway hosted their first
ever RUSH Late Model Touring Series event. John Waters picked up the
$2,000 win- his first of the season over Jason Parkhurst and Charlie
Sandercock. The race will be televised on MAVTV on August 23 at 7 and 10 p.m.
Thanks to presenting sponsor Sunoco Race Fuels distributed by Insinger
Performance, segment sponsors Alternative Power Sources, Close Racing
Supply, and CrateInsider.com, in-car camera sponsor Pace Performance,
speed short wall camera sponsor Three Rivers Karting, and drone sponsor
Dirt Late Model Magazine for making the broadcast possible.
In other Tuesday
night action, Jamie Sutphin scored his second win of the 2018 campaign
at Potomac Speedway in Southern Maryland. Sutphin ran a perfect 25 lap
race to take the win over Ben Bowie in his season debut, Darren Alvey,
Ronnie Martin Jr. and Matt Glanden. Potomac returns to its regular Friday night action this week.
Dog Hollow Speedway joined in on the Tuesday
racing as Dave Airgood Jr. picked up his first RUSH win traveling down
to the Strongstown, Pa oval from West Middlesex, Pa. It was Airgood's
second overall win of the season as he also won at Raceway 7. Collin
Burke was a career best second as Mike Duritsky, Mike Laughard and Troy
Shields completed the top five. The RUSH Late Models return to action at
Dog Hollow this Saturday night.
Completing the Independence Day Eve action was McKean County
Raceway was Max Blair made his second start of the season at the East
Smethport, Pa. oval and remained perfect scoring the victory. Damian
Bidwell was second for the second time in the past three races. Brad
Mesler recorded his fifth podium finish in six starts this season at
McKean. Paul Grigsby was fourth for the fourth time in the past five
races. Joe Watson was a season best fifth. McKean was off this past Saturday night but returns to action this Saturday night.
LaFargeville, New York's Can-Am Speedway played host to their
second RUSH Late Model Weekly Series event of the season last Friday
night. Charlie Sandercock took the 20-lap feature win over Bret Belden,
Chris Fleming, Kyle Sopaz and Dale Caswell. It was Sandercock's second
$700 Can-Am win this season. Two more RUSH Late Model races remain on
Can-Am's schedule. One on July 27th and one on September 7th.
Friday
night, Darrell Bossard picked up the win at Raceway 7 to bolster his
point lead in the RUSH Late Model division at the Conneaut, Ohio
speedway. Bossard took his second straight win and fourth in six races
over Matt Latta, Kyle Zimmerman, Breyton Santee and Dave Airgood.
Another five division racing program is scheduled for this Friday night at Raceway 7.
At Outlaw Speedway on Friday
night, Chad Homan scored his third straight win and fourth of the
season at the Dundee, NY oval in RUSH Weekly racing action. Brian
Knowles, Jamie Freeman and Zach Weich rounded out the field. Outlaw is
off this Friday night, but will resume on July 20 with the rescheduled "Gary Montgomery Memorial" $2,000 to-win Sweeney Tour race.
The RUSH Pro Stocks are always the last race of the night at
Sarver, Pennsylvania's Lernerville Speedway. And very often it is the
best race of the night. Friday
night was one of those nights as Tyler Dietz and multi-time champion
Corey McPherson dueled it out for the final several laps of the RUSH Pro
Stock feature. In the end, it was Dietz pulling out the win, holding
off McPherson, who charged back through the field after an early race
spin. Joey Zambotti, Mark Sanders and Ryan Moyer rounded out the top
five. Lernerville continues the second half of their season this Friday night.
The RUSH family of racetracks kept rolling through the weekend, and on Saturday
it was a RUSH doubleheader at Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway
in Suburban Pittsburgh. In a highly emotional win, Chelsie Kriegisch
picked up her first career PPMS win and her first since her mother's
passing. Kriegisch took the lead on a late race pass of Brian Schaffer
and went on to hold off the class of the RUSH Sportsman Modified
division, including Chas Wolbert, Kole Holden and Rocky Kugel. The
victory was Chelsie's second of her career in RUSH and joined her sister
Jessica as PPMS winners.
The RUSH Late Models were in action as well on Saturday
at PPMS and another first-time winner was in victory lane. Colby
Beighey picked up his first career win, holding off past champions John
Mollick and Justin Lamb. Ron Hall and Josh Stoica were fourth and fifth.
The RUSH Late Models and Sportsman Mods return to PPMS this Saturday night as a companion races to the Super Late Models in the Red Miley Rumble.
Saturday
night at Winchester Speedway in Virginia, Logan Roberson collected his
third win of the season in the 20-lap RUSH Late Model feature topping a
big field of 27 cars! Roberson shot to the lead from his front row
starting spot and held off challenges from point leader Mike Franklin.
"With the track the way it was here tonight,
I knew I had to get to the front first." Roberson stated. "I knew Mike
was back there and it was a lot of fun racing as hard as we did." Jakob
Piper, Tanner Kerr and Transtan Stoner trailed at the finish. The RUSH
Late Models return to Winchester on Saturday July 21st.
Saturday
night at Fulton Speedway, point leader Kevan Cook took hold of the lead
in the 20- lap RUSH Late Model feature event on lap six, passing pole
sitter Jason Occhino. A yellow on the 17th lap would bunch up the field
and give a few other drivers a shot at Cook, but he went basically
unchallenged for the final three laps for his third win of the season.
Jason Parkhurst, Bret Belden, Chris Fleming and Dale Caswell came home
second through fifth. Racing continues this Saturday at Fulton.
Saturday
at Delaware International Speedway it was Matt Hill putting on a show
stealing the lead away from rookie Chace Biron on the 12th circuit of
the 15-lap feature event for the RUSH Late Models. Hill put on a high
side clinic passing for the lead and holding off Biron, Sparky White,
Billy Thompson, and Joe Warren for his first DIS win of the season. The
RUSH Late Models will be back in action at Delaware this Saturday along with a special appearance by the URC Sprints.
Max Blair picked up the win at Busti, New York's Stateline Speedway on Saturday
night. Fighting off a good cast of 25 skilled competitors and a number
of restarts, Blair went on to victory over Darrell Bossard, Andy Boozel,
Kyle Murray, and Jeremy "Mr Excitement" Wonderling. It was just the
second RUSH Late Model event of the season at Stateline and Blair is a
perfect two-for-two.
In the RUSH Pro Mods, Dennis Lunger Jr. bested Jason Covey, Chad
Carlson, Scott Gurdak and Matt Harvey. Like Blair, Lunger remains
perfect as the defending Sweeney Weekly Series Champion has scored all
three wins. Stateline resumes racing this Saturday for the RUSH Late Models.
In RUSH Asphalt Series racing action at Jennerstown Speedway, Barry
Awtey picked up his fourth win of the season in RUSH Asphalt Late Model
action. Awtey was followed across the line by Mike Himminger, Joe
Maruca, Teddy Gibala and Zane Farrell. In the Modifieds Adam Kostelnik
scored his first win of the season over Gary Scott, Matt Smith, Anthony
Aiello and Mike Carlson. Finally, in the asphalt Street Stock division,
Jeremy Shaffer took the checkers over Angie Kimberly, Josh Coughenour,
Lauren Butler and Zack Torodo. This Saturday at Jennerstown, it's a very special night with all divisions in competition for Bill Awtey Tribute Night.
Sunday
night north of the border in Port Colborne, Ontario, Chad Homan used a
lap 13 restart to grab the lead from Rob Pietz and hold on for the win
at Humberstone Speedway. Homan's third checkered flag of the season
came over Jeff Dayman, Sam Pennacchio, Rob Pietz and Tim Gillespie.
Homan has yet to finish worse than second in the five Sweeney Weekly
Series events this season at the track. Racing action gets underway
again this Sunday at Humberstone with "Autograph and Super Hero Night!"
After completing just one show in May and one in June, the RUSH
Late Models were able to get back-to-back events at Eriez Speedway in to
open the month of July. Jason Genco was able to end Max Blair's
three-race win streak as he picked up his first win of the season. Kyle
Zimmerman was third. Andy Boozel was fourth in his season debut as Scott
Gurdak completed the top five. The RUSH Late Models return this Sunday
looking to complete their third straight event.
Bradford Speedway celebrated Christmas in July, and it was Jeff
Hoffman getting his first checkered flag of the season in the RUSH Late
Model division. Hoffman came across the line ahead of Andy Michael,
Kyle Murray, Brad Mesler and Ward Schell. In RUSH Pro Mod action, Dennis
Lunger picked up his second win in three tries with Chad Carlson,
Jeremy Wonderling, William Deming and Richard Hemphill making up the top
five. Racing action returns to Bradford with a Five Star program this
Sunday.
Also on Sunday,
Skyline Raceway Park in Cortland, NY held their first ever
RUSH-sanctioned event. After winning $2,000 in the first ever
RUSH-sanctioned event the Tuesday
before at Weedsport, John Waters earned $1,000 for the Skyline victory
at another new NY venue. Fulton Saturday night winner, Kevan Cook, was
2nd. Brian Knowles, Chris Fleming, and Aaron Jacobs completed the top
five. A second $1,000 to-win Sweeney Weekly Series event will be held on
Sunday, August 26.
Genesee Speedway was off this past weekend, but will have the RUSH Late Models back in action on Saturday
night. Sharon Speedway had the "Lou Blaney Memorial" last Saturday for
the All Star Sprints and Big-Block Modifieds. They are off this weekend
due to the Trumbull County Fair, but will return to action on July 21 with the RUSH Sportsman Modifieds.
The RUSH Sprint Cars had last weekend off. They will be at Tri-City
Raceway Park this Sunday for a $500 to-win event in their second and
final appearance and will be with the RUSH Sportsman Modifieds in a $600
to-win Bicknell Touring Series event. The RUSH Sprints will then be at
Lernerville on Wednesday for the third "Wednesday Night Lightning" event.
RUSH Late Model marketing partners include Sweeney Chevrolet
Buick GMC, Pace Performance, Hoosier Tire, Bilstein Shocks, Sunoco Race
Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels, Insinger Performance, MSD Performance, Holley
Performance Products, Earl's Performance Plumbing, Quick Fuel
Technology, FK Rod Ends, Schoenfeld Headers, Jones Racing Products,
Racing Electronics, Dirt Defender, Dynamic Drivelines, Wrisco
Industries, Frankland Racing Supply, Alternative Power Sources, Precise
Racing Products, TBM Brakes, K&N Filters, Lincoln Electric, Pancho's
Racing Products, Velocita-USA, Classic Ink USA, Landrum Performance
Spring, Schwartzmiller Ground Maintenance, Close Racing Supply,
CrateInsider.com, RockAuto.com, and Valley Fashions.
RUSH Sportsman Modified marketing partners include Sweeney
Chevrolet Buick GMC, Pace Performance, Hoosier Tire, Bicknell Racing
Products, Bilstein Shocks, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels,
Insinger Performance, MSD Performance, Holley Performance Products,
Earl's Performance Plumbing, Quick Fuel Technology, FK Rod Ends,
Sherwood Racing Wheels, Schoenfeld Headers, Jones Racing Products,
Racing Electronics, Dirt Defender, Dynamic Drivelines, Wrisco
Industries, Frankland Racing Supply, Alternative Power Sources, Precise
Racing Products, TBM Brakes, K&N Filters, Lincoln Electric,
Velocita-USA, Classic Ink USA, Schwartzmiller Ground Maintenance,
CrateInsider.com, RockAuto.com, Valley Fashions, Dirt Late Model
Magazine, and Three Rivers Karting.
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