NEW YORK'S GLEN RIDGE MOTORSPORTS PARK TO HOST 1ST EVER HOVIS RUSH LATE MODEL
EVENT ON AUGUST 13 WITH CITY CHEVROLET WEEKLY SERIES RACING IN 2024
By Mike Leone
July 27, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
(Fultonville, NY)...The Hovis Auto & Truck Supply RUSH Racing Series
presented by Born2Run Lubricants is pleased to announce that Glen Ridge
Motorsports Park will host their first ever RUSH-sanctioned event on Sunday,
August 13. The event will be a RUSH
Late Model City Chevrolet Weekly Series special paying $1,000 to-win.
Additionally, the 1/4-mile eastern New York dirt track has already jumped
on board as a Hovis RUSH Late Model City Chevrolet Weekly Series track for 2024!
The August 13 program presented by
Yurkewecz Auto Crushers and
Northeast Paving & Sealcoat and will
offer City Chevrolet National Weekly Series points and the following payoff will
be utilized: 1. $1,000 2. $600
3. $500 4. $400
5. $300 6. $275
7. $250 8. $225
9-10. $210 11. $200
12. $190 13. $180
14. $170 15. $160
16. $150 17-24. $125.
"Glen Ridge Motorsports Park has been very interested
in the RUSH Late Models," expressed Glen Ridge Officials Jay Fitzgerald and
Alicia Hughes. "We appreciate their
technical rules package and respect what the RUSH Racing Series has built
throughout the years. We're always
looking for affordable ways to get racers into cars to do what they love.
This opportunity will give racers interested in a Late Model type car a
chance to compete in a Nationally-recognized series."
"Recently we have noticed a uptick of interest for
Late Models in our region, but there are no tracks close to our area that runs
this class," added Fitzgerald and Hughes. "Once
we started looking into all of our options we thought RUSH would be a great
sanction for a Late Model-type division.
It's a class where people can save money while at the same time gain
notoriety and be able to be part of their
valuable championship programs. This
will be a huge change in the racing world in upstate New York and we look
forward to growing the division into the future."
"This will be a completely new area to grow the RUSH
brand and Late Model racing in general," acknowledged RUSH Director Vicki Emig.
"With Brock Pinkerous and Demetrios Drellos getting involved in RUSH Late
Model racing this season it opened some eyes in the eastern New York area and we
can't thank them enough for getting the ball rolling.
The event on August 13 will be a great opportunity to get the RUSH Late
Models in front of a new audience."
"I have continuously had people approach me over the
past few years at the Northeast Racing Products Show in Syracuse, New York about
bringing RUSH Late Model racing to eastern and upstate New York but the timing
wasn't right," continued Emig.
"Having Glen Ridge management make an early announcement that they will be
adding us to their schedule in 2024 and committed to the division is great as it
will give interested racers plenty of time to gear up for next season.
I really believe this will open the door for more RUSH Late Model
sanctioned speedways and events in eastern and upstate New York."
RUSH member racers will be able to participate at Glen Ridge on a weekly basis
in 2024 and be eligible for all of the programs including the City Chevrolet
National Weekly Series Championship, City Chevrolet "Track Pack Bonus" program,
and the “Futures Cup” for those eligible racers. While membership is not
mandatory to compete in any RUSH-sanctioned event, membership also includes a
$100,000 excess participant accident policy, which is over and above drivers’
health insurance and speedways’ participant accident policy.
The City Chevrolet "Track Pack Bonus" is offered to all RUSH weekly-sanctioned
speedways, and once again in 2024 will award $2,500 that each track's top six
member racers will share. The 2024
RUSH member champion at Glen Ridge will earn $1,000 with $500 for second, $400
for third, $300 for fourth, $200 for fifth, and $100 for sixth.
Glen Ridge will join Freedom Motorsports Park, Genesee Speedway, Skyline Raceway
Motorsports Park, Stateline Speedway, and Woodhull Raceway as RUSH Late Model
Weekly-Sanctioned tracks in New York.
Also, it was recently announced that Ransomville Speedway in western New
York will host a RUSH Late Model City Chevrolet Weekly Series special on
September 15 for the first time in two years, and McKean County Raceway near the
Pennsylvania/New York border will reopen for eight events this season with
racing on a more steady basis in 2024.
Glen Ridge Motorsports Park opened in 2004 and is a 1/4-mile dirt track nestled
on the hill in the town of Glen at 213 Marys Lane, Fultonville, NY 12072.
Glen Ridge operates from May through mid-September with weekly Sunday
night racing headlined by the DIRTcar 358 Modifieds.
Glen Ridge is streamed live by The Cushion.
For more information, check out the website at
www.glenridge2019.com,
like them on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/theglenridgemp.
The RUSH Racing Series is brought to you by Hovis Auto & Truck Supply together
with Born2Run Lubricants along with the support of Hoosier Tire, Rick Hendrick
City Chevrolet, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels, Insinger Performance,
Flynn's Tire, Sunbelt Rentals, MSD Performance, Holley Performance Products, FK
Rod Ends, Schoenfeld Headers, Jones Racing Products, TBM Brakes, Bilstein
Shocks, Performance Bodies & Parts, Racing Electronics, Wieland Metal Services,
Frankland Racing Supply, Landrum Performance Spring, Ontime Body & Graphic,
Sherwood Wheels, Precise Racing Products, Velocita-USA, Wedge Motorsports, 3C
Graphix, D&V Jewelers, CrateInsider.com, and Terry Bowser Excavating.
E-mail can be sent to the RUSH Racing Series at [email protected] and
snail mail to 4368 Route 422, Pulaski, PA 16143. Office phone is 724-964-9300.
The RUSH Late Model website is www.rushlatemodels.com. Like our Facebook page
at www.facebook.com/rushlatemodels and follow us on Twitter @RUSHLM.
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