JOE MARTIN WINS $2000
"RED MILEY RUMBLE" FOR RUSH LATE MODELS AT PPMS WHILE KOLE HOLDEN CAPTURES HIS
1ST IN RUSH MODS; HARDY, HOMAN, KNOWLES & WARREN KEEP ON WINNING AROUND THE
CIRCUIT IN RUSH LATE MODELS
By Marcie Barlow
September 9, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Pulaski, PA)...The
2022 racing season is winding down, but there was plenty of Hovis Auto and Truck
Supply RUSH Racing Series presented by Born2Run Lubricants action this past
weekend. Veteran Rob Kristyak ended
a three-year winless drought at Sharon and with the Flynn's Tire Touring Series
by scoring a well-deserved victory in RUSH Sportsman Modified competition during
the "Sharon Nationals". Standouts
Joe Martin, Kyle Hardy, Chad Homan, Jason Knowles, and Joe Warren added to their
win totals in RUSH Late Model action, while Chad Ruhlman scored another
Lernerville Speedway victory in RUSH Sprint Car Equipment Rental Options Weekly
action.
Delaware International Speedway hosted a special Friday night racing card that
saw Joe Warren pick up his third RUSH Late Model victory of the season in seven
starts at the speedway as he continues to lead the $1,000 "Track Pack".
Trevor Collins was second.
Two-time winner, Derek Magee, was third. Matt
Hill, who won the last show at DIS, was fourth over David Dill, Jr.
Making his first start since the season opener back on May 14, Chad Homan
returned to The Hill Speedway for the season finale and made it two-for-two on
Friday evening. Rich McNeal came
home in second followed by Chris Fleming, track champion Mike Epler and Ricky
Loucks, who made his first ever start at The Hill.
It was Homan’s ninth overall victory in RUSH Late Model weekly action.
Jared Keeney, who was not in competition, had already clinched the $1,000
RUSH "Track Pack" Championship.
Pittsburgh’s PA Motor Speedway managed to get in both the RUSH Late Model and
RUSH Sportsman Modified events before Mother Nature postponed the remainder of
the evening’s racing action. Veteran
Joe Martin started on the pole, weathered several cautions and led the event for
the entire 30 lap distance to score his second victory of the season at the
Imperial, PA oval. Martin's $2,000
win came in the "Red Miley Rumble" and was his fifth overall of the season in
RUSH competition to move into fifth in the National Weekly Series standings.
Twelfth starter Garret Paugh came home in
second with Mike Reft, Cole Petrelle and Brandon Burgoon completing the top
five.
Jeremy Wonderling cruised to his seventh RUSH Late Model victory of the season
in just 12 starts at Genesee Speedway this season. “Mr. Excitement”
grabbed the lead from Jimmy Johnson a lap after the event’s only caution on lap
eight and cruised to his fourth straight win when invading the Batavia, New York
oval. Wonderling was able to score
his 11th overall win of 2022 by nearly four seconds over Johnson, who recorded
his third runner-up finish of the year. Chad Homan settled for third
over Bill Holmes. Doug Ricotta
rounded out the top five as he continues to lead the RUSH "Track Pack" points.
Weekly RUSH Late Model action at Winchester Speedway got off to a slow start as
a four-car accident on the backstretch slowed the action before the first lap
was completed. When the action
resumed, pole-sitter Kyle Hardy took the top spot with Daniel Brown, Jr. in
second. Cautions on laps seven and
14 saw Hardy’s straightaway lead erased both times but each time the action
resumed he was never challenged for the top spot.
Hardy went on to score his fourth win of the season at the speedway as
well as his 10th on the 2022 RUSH circuit as he remains in the hunt for the
National Weekly Series Championship.
Making his return for the first time since the April 16 Tour event, Cody Dawson,
was a season best second. Jacob
Burdette, Scott Sweeney Jr., and Jared Powell completed the top five.
Jason McGregor led the early stages of the RUSH Late Model main event at
Woodhull Raceway. Near the halfway
portion of the event several competitors got crossed up resulting in a red flag
to clear the speedway. When racing
action resumed Joe Layfield led the field until Jason Knowles took over the top
spot and cruised to the win. It was
Knowles fifth win of the season at the oval as he and his brother Brian have now
won 11 of the 17 features this year at the southern tier New York bullring.
Austin Allen came home in second with Layfield, McGregor and 2022 track
Brian Knowles following.
The Hovis RUSH Sprint Cars were added to the "Fab 4" finale at Lernerville
Speedway after the "410" Sprints were given the night off to compete at Sharon.
Veteran Chad Ruhlman led the 20-lap main event flag-to-flag to score his
second straight victory of the season at the oval, and sixth overall of the
season in Equipment Rental Options Weekly Series action.
Arnie Kent came home in second with Blaze Myers in third.
Gale Ruth, Jr. and Andy Priest completed the top five.
The RUSH Sprint event that was scheduled at Tri-City Raceway Park on
Sunday was rained out ending the season at the Franklin, Pa. half-mile oval.
The RUSH Sportsman Modified Series was in action at Sharon Speedway for the
final time of the 2022 season on Friday evening as part of the "Sharon
Nationals". Veteran Rob Kristyak
ended a winless drought of more than three years at the speedway and with the
Flynn's Tire Touring Series with a dominating performance in the 25-lap main
event. Kristyak got by Doug Rutana
on the start as he and Tony Tatgenhorst immediately distanced themselves from
the rest of the field. By lap eight,
Kristyak distanced himself from Tatgenhorst and reached lapped traffic by lap
12. The lapped traffic didn’t slow
Kristyak as he led the remainder of the event and scored the victory by 5.761
seconds over Tatgenhorst. The win
was worth $1,000 for Kristyak thanks to sponsorship from Jerry Rents LLC, who
added $600 into the purse.
Rutana came home in third for a career best finish followed by Todd English.
Cole Edwards recorded his first career Sharon top five finish.
After missing his heat race due to football, Ben Easler raced up to 11th
place in the non-stop event to capture the $1,000 Wedge Motorsports "Route 7
Rumble" Series Championship. Easler
also continues to lead the $3,500 to-win Hovis Weekly Series Championship.
On Saturday night at Pittsburgh, Kole Holden led the entire distance of the RUSH
Sportsman Modified main event to score his first win at the "Monster Half-Mile"
since July 10 of last year. Holden
became the fourth different winner in five races this year at Pittsburgh with
his third overall win of 2022. Chelsie
Kriegisch was second in her first RUSH start since blowing an engine at Expo on
July 14. Jacob Jordan, who won his first
career feature at the last PPMS event, was third over "Futures Cup" racer Lucas
Canon and 2021 RUSH Stock Car Champion Jeremy Zufall.
The RUSH Late Model Flynn's Tire Touring Series event that was scheduled for
Sunday, September 4 at Tyler County Speedway was postponed due to rain and wet
grounds. The "Cider Jug 40" event,
which will pay the winner $4,000, has been rescheduled for Thursday, September
29 before two nights at Pittsburgh for the "Bill Hendren Memorial".
Picking up RUSH Karting Series victories at Stateline Saturday afternoon were
Bexley Smith (Rookie), Jackson Himes (JR-1) and Mike Boardman (Adult).
Wins during the evening program went to Alex Daniels (Rookie), Keaton
Destre (JR-1), and Sydney Wetherbee (Adult).
RUSH racing action at Bradford Speedway on Sunday night was rained out.
RUSH competitors had the weekend off at Raceway 7, Dog Hollow, Potomac,
Skyline and Eriez.
Georgetown Speedway is hosting a special $1,000 to win Hovis Auto and Truck
Supply Weekly Series event on Friday.
This Saturday the RUSH Late Model Flynn’s Tire Touring Series will make
its first ever appearance at the Land of Legends Raceway in Canandaigua, NY.
This is a Platinum Event with the winner receiving $3,000.
Weekly RUSH Late Model action is also scheduled at Pittsburgh’s
Pennsylvania Motor Speedway and Woodhull Raceway on
Saturday evening. Bradford will have
both the RUSH Late Models and RUSH Pro Mods on Sunday evening.
The Hovis Auto and Truck Supply RUSH Sprint Car Equipment Rental Options Weekly
Series will make their first ever appearance at Marion Center Speedway on
Saturday night then head to Knox Raceway on Sunday evening for the final time of
the season. Both events will pay
$800 to win and $160 to start.
The following weekly-sanctioned tracks are either closed for the season, off
this weekend, or not running RUSH: Delaware, Dog Hollow, Eriez, Genesee, The
Hill, Potomac, Raceway 7, Skyline, Stateline, Tyler County, and Winchester.
The RUSH Racing Series is brought to you by Hovis Auto & Truck Supply together
with Born2Run Lubricants along with the support of Hoosier Tire, Bilstein
Shocks, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels, Insinger Performance, MSD
Performance, Holley Performance Products, FK Rod Ends, Schoenfeld Headers, Jones
Racing Products, TBM Brakes, Performance Bodies & Parts, Racing Electronics,
Wrisco Industries, Frankland Racing Supply, Landrum Performance Spring, Ontime
Body & Graphic, Sherwood Wheels, Alternative Power Sources, Precise Racing
Products, Lincoln Electric, Velocita-USA, Waterstone Mortgage Hermitage, Wedge
Motorsports, 3C Graphix, D&V Jewelers, DrumPreserve, CrateInsider.com,
Marthinsen & Salvitti Insurance Group 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
Racing Series website is www.rushracingseries.com. Like our Facebook page and
Twitter pages by searching for each individual RUSH Series.
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