HOVIS RUSH LATE
MODEL FLYNN'S TIRE TOUR SET FOR WEEKEND DOUBLEHEADER WITH $3000 TO-WIN EVENTS
SATURDAY AT STATELINE FOR "BILL LAW MEMORIAL" & SUNDAY AT ERIEZ
By Mike Leone
May 10,
2023 FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
(Pulaski, PA)...Nearly one
month since completing the "Battle of the Bay" Speedweek presented by 3C
Graphix, the Hovis Auto & Truck Supply RUSH Late Model Series presented by
Born2Run Lubricants will return to action this weekend for a Flynn's Tire
Touring Series doubleheader. Race #5 will be at Stateline Speedway in
Busti, NY on Saturday night (May 13) with warmups at 6:45 p.m. followed 50 miles
west for race #6 on Sunday night (May 14) at Eriez Speedway in Erie, Pa. with
warmups at 6:15 p.m. Both races will
pay $3,000 to-win.
The "Bill Law Memorial" returns to Stateline for the sixth time on Saturday
night. In
2011, Law was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer and passed away in July
2012.
Law's involvement in racing began in the late 1970s as he loved having muscle
cars and going to the drag strip in his high school days. Even though he never
actually raced, he stood behind racing 100%. In the early 1980s, Law and Leon
Szweda put an asphalt car together and raced at New York's Holland Speedway.
Law's taste for racing moved to the dirt tracks in the mid 1980s as he helped
Tom Taber for several years. He met a lot of great people that he became very
good friends with; one was Bob "The Bird" Baldwin. The Law Family traveled with
him and his family racing from Pennsylvania to West Virginia to Maryland.
As
Bill's son Jon was getting older, they got involved in Go-Kart racing as the
family would travel all over New York and Pennsylvania. Bill was still involved
in auto racing as they would race Go-Karts during the day and sell parts and
fuel at night at the races. As Jon got older, Bill bought him an IMCA
Modified. A few seasons later, Jon and Bill bought a Limited Late Model.
That lasted a couple years until Jon was starting his own family and got away
from the racing scene.
Law was the first person to have a Crate Late Model in the region when the class
debuted in 2007 in the Northeast.
Law had several drivers over the years behind the wheel of his #14 including
Baldwin, Ward Schell, Rich
Gardner, Jon Law, Curt VanPelt, David Scott, and Kyle Scott.
Bill's grandson, Kyle Murray, is in his seventh year of RUSH Late Model
racing. With the Scott Family owning
Stateline, it's fitting the "Bill Law Memorial" takes place at their track as
Jean and Jim Scott's son David and grandson Kyle drove for Law.
The 2017 event was the first ever Tour event at the
Busti, NY oval in the 10-year history of Crate Late Models in the Northeast as a
big crowd watched a thriller as Jeremy Wonderling held off standout and track
dominator Max Blair for the victory.
The 2018 event was just as good as Damian Bidwell made a late race pass of Scott
Gurdak for his first Tour win in more than three years.
In 2019, Wonderling again held off Blair after withstanding a mid-race
rain delay. The COVID-19 pandemic
cancelled the 2020 event. Wonderling
was victorious for the third time in four tries topping a Stateline record
43-car field in 2021. Last year, Joe
Martin won his first career Stateline race after waiting out an hour and a half
rain delay.
Meanwhile, there have been 11
RUSH Tour events completed all-time at Eriez.
Max Blair has six victories, while his father Rob has one in a
substitution role for Max. Kyle Hardy
swept both events in 2021 in route to the championship.
Logan Roberson won the May event in 2022,
while Josh Ferry scored an upset career first Flynn's Tire Touring Series
victory in July on "Manufacturers Night" presented by MSD Performance.
Saturday will be Stateline's
second event of the season as this past Saturday night saw Brock Pinkerous top a
big field of 35 cars to become the youngest winner in the storied history of
Stateline at just 13 years of age.
It was Pinkerous' first ever start at Stateline in preparation for this Saturday
night's Tour event and marked his first career RUSH victory.
Eriez meanwhile fell victim to Mother Nature meaning Sunday will be their
2023 opener.
"This is a nice,
annual weekend for our northern RUSH Late Model teams to be able compete in two
$3,000 to-win Tour events and also for our traveling teams as the two tracks are
just 50 miles apart," stated RUSH Director Vicki Emig. "We have to thank the
Scott Family for their continued support of RUSH and the Alexander Family for
continuing Sunday night RUSH racing that the Rohrers had done so successfully
over the years. We're thankful that the Law Family has allowed us the
opportunity to continue be able to have the 'Bill Law Memorial' as a Tour event,
and we look forward to honoring Bill on Saturday night."
The "Battle of the
Bay" Speedweek events in route to the 3C Graphix title for the Flynn's Tire
Tour, while Max Blair won at Georgetown and Charlie Sandercock won the finale at
Winchester.
Following three
runner-up finishes in four races during Speedweek, Trevor Collins leads the
Flynn's Tire Tour points by 19 over Sandercock, who became the first Canadian to
ever win at feature at Winchester.
Three-time champion, Jeremy Wonderling, who has finished third in points the
last two seasons, once again finds himself third in points.
Martin, who has finished runner-up in points for three straight years, is
hoping to garner his first title as he sits fourth after four of 23 events.
Bryce Davis, the 2016 champion, is fifth.
Completing the top 10 in points are Mike Wonderling, Cody Dawson, Matt
Latta, Chad Sines, and Jason Knowles.
Each night will include $100 "Shock the Clock" Qualifying and $25 to-win heat
races presented by FK Rod Ends. The
Sunoco Dash will set the beginning rows of the 30-lap feature lineups and will
award the winner a $100 Sunoco fuel gift card.
The "Fill'er up with Sunoco Bucks" program will include an additional
$400 of Sunoco fuel card giveaways each night; two $100 random draws for drivers
in the top 15 of Tour points and another four $50 random draws for all other
competitors.
Precise Racing Products will award a $50 gift card for the "Pedal Down" Hard
Charger that passes the most cars in the feature each night. The TBM Brakes
“Tough Brake of the Night” will award three bottles of Xtreme6 Racing Brake Fluid each night.
Ontime Body & Graphic's "Spoiler Alert" will award a spoiler kit to the
fifth place finisher on the first night and the sixth place finisher on the
second night (note: if a driver has already won a spoiler this season, spoiler
will be awarded to the next position). Performance Bodies will award a
$100 gift card to the first non-qualifier each night part of the "Nosed Out"
program.
Feature Payoff Each Night:
1. $3,000 2. $1,500 3. $800 4. $650
5. $600 6. $500 7. $475 8. $450 9. $425 10. $400
11. $325 12. $300 13. $275 14. $270 15. $265 16. $260
17. $255 18-24. $250.
Non-Qualifier Payoff
Each Night: 1. $200 2. $190 3. $185 4. $180 5. $175 6. $170 7. $165 8. $160
9. $155 10-24. $150. Tow $125
For Saturday at Stateline, pit gates open at 4 p.m. (access prior). Drivers
meeting will be at 6:15 p.m. with RUSH warm-ups at 6:45. Driver
radio channel is different at Stateline as 469.500 is used.
For Sunday at Eriez, pit gates open at 3:30 p.m. (access prior). Drivers
meeting will be at 5:45 p.m. with RUSH warm-ups at 6:15. Driver radio channel
is 454.000.
Both events will also count towards the RUSH City Chevrolet National Weekly
Series Championships and "Futures Cup" for those eligible racers. In
addition, points will also be awarded for the City Chevrolet "Track Pack" that
features a $2,500 per track point fund for the top six racers in RUSH member
points at year's end with $1,000 going to the champion.
Following this weekend, the Flynn's Tire will have a tripleheader over Memorial
Day Weekend with Outlaw Speedway in Dundee, NY on Friday night (May 26) for the
"Gary Montgomery Memorial", Genesee Speedway in Batavia, NY on Saturday night
(May 27), and Bradford (PA) Speedway on Sunday night (May 28).
The 2023 Touring Series is being presented by Flynn's Tire. Drivers are
competing for the richest Chevrolet Performance Crate Engine Touring Series
championship with more than $51,000 on the line! Points will be
accumulated at each Marquee Event. Member drivers can use Platinum
Event(s) to replace worst Marquee finishes and/or up to two for missed Marquee
Events. Memberships forms are available at https://rushlatemodels.com/memberships.html or through the
Pit Pay app.
Stateline Speedway
is located nine miles southwest of Jamestown, NY, south of Busti, NY at 4150
Kortwright Rd., Jamestown, NY 14701. For more information, check out their
website at www.newstatelinespeedway.com. Like their
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/newstatelinespeedwaybustiny.
Eriez Speedway is
a 3/8-mile track located outside of Erie, Pa. in Hammett at 9821 Sampson Rd.,
Erie, PA 16509. For more information, like their page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/eriezspeedway.
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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