HOVIS RUSH LATE MODEL FLYNN'S TIRE/GUNTER'S HONEY TOURING SERIES HEADS TO THE MID-ATLANTIC SATURDAY NIGHT AT WINCHESTER FOR $5,000 TO-WIN

By Mike Leone

 

September 15, 2026               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

(Winchester, VA)...After a weekend off, the Hovis Auto & Truck Supply RUSH Dirt Late Models Flynn's Tire/Gunter's Honey Touring Series will return to action in a big way this Saturday night (September 19) at Winchester Speedway in Winchester, Virginia.  Race #11 of the of the 2026 season will pay $5,000 to-win; there have been 9 different winners in 10 events thus far!  Schneider Trucks Hot Laps will begin at 6 p.m. followed by FK Rod Ends Qualifying with racing to follow.

 

Mother Nature claimed the first scheduled Flynn’s Tire/Gunter’s Honey Tour event at Winchester this season back on April 25 as it marked the third straight year that the spring event was rained out.  The Tour has made nine appearances over the years at Winchester's high-banked red clay oval with six different winners.  Logan Roberson, the 2022 Tour Champion, leads the way with three victories.  Kyle Hardy, the 2021 Tour Champion, is the only other repeat winner as he claimed the most recent visit on September 6, 2025.  Other winners include Rick Singleton, Walker Arthur, Allen Brannon, and Charlie Sandercock, who scored the upset victory in 2023.  The Canadian Sandercock is the only non-Virginia resident to win a Tour event at Winchester!  

 

The event will also count towards RUSH Colussy Chevrolet National Weekly Series, Winchester’s Track Pack and Russ King Racing "Futures Cup" points for those eligible racers.  Winchester has completed more RUSH Weekly Series events than any other RUSH-sanctioned track in 2026 at 17.  Devin Brannon has won 10 of those including seven of the last nine, which has him atop the Colussy Chevrolet National Weekly Series standings and the $1,000 to-win Track Pack!  Hardy and Davin Kasier, the 2023 Russ King Racing Futures Cup Champion, each have a pair of victories, while single victories have been captured by Jacob Burdette, Roberson, and Jacob Whitt. 

 

“We’re looking forward to Winchester on Saturday night,” expressed RUSH Director Vicki Emig.  “Winchester has a strong base of weekly competitors and throw in some other Mid-Atlantic racers taking on our Tour standouts and it should be a tremendous race in the battle for $5,000!  Track owner Greg Gunter has been a huge supporter of RUSH as 2026 marks his 13th straight season hosting the RUSH Late Models weekly at his track.  Gunter's Honey is in their third year as a co-presenting sponsor of the Tour and Greg has also owned and sponsored RUSH Late Model cars over the years."

 

Five-time Flynn’s Tire/Gunter’s Honey Touring Series Champion, Jeremy Wonderling, who is the only repeat winner this season, leads the Tour into Winchester.  Wonderling’s point lead in the battle for the $20,000 title has shrunk to 14 over Demetrios Drellos, who has beaten Wonderling in five of the last six events including his first career Tour win at Stateline.  Drellos is the only driver that has finished in the top 10 in all 10 events this season!

 

Thanks to eight straight top 10 finishes, Christian Schneider leads Kurt Stebbins by 15 in the battle for third in points as well as the $3,000 to-win 3C Graphix Rookie-of-the-Year standings.  Daryl Charlier is just four points behind Stebbins in fifth.  Austin Allen, who is fresh off his first career Tour win at the last event at Tri-City, is up to sixth in points as Ben Easler, Jason Knowles, Ashton Briggs, and Cody Dawson complete the top 10. 

 

Schneider Trucks will present the "Hottest of the Hot" with $50 going to the driver that turns the fastest lap in hot laps.  $100 "Shock the Clock" Qualifying and $25 to-win heat races will be presented by FK Rod Ends.  The Sunoco Dash will set the beginning rows of the feature lineup and will award the winner a $100 Sunoco fuel gift card.  The "Fill'er up with Sunoco Bucks" program co-presented by Bazell Race Fuels will include an additional $400 of Sunoco fuel card giveaways; two $100 random draws for drivers in the top 15 of Tour points and another four $50 random draws for all other competitors each night.

 

Hoosier Tire Western PA/Big Daddy's Speed Center will award a $100 gift card for the "Pedal Down" Hard Charger that passes the most cars in the feature.  Close Racing Supply will award a $100 gift card for the driver chosen as the "Tough Break of the Night".  Ontime Body & Graphic's "Spoiler Alert" will award a spoiler kit to the 11th place finisher.  There will also be five BOGO Landrum Performance Springs certificates given away through drawings.  The first feature non-qualifier will receive a $50 certificate from Holley Performance brands each night.  Henry's Headers & Exhaust will award a $500 off certificate towards the purchase of custom 604 Crate Late Model headers to a Touring member driver that has competed in 75% or more of the completed events.   

 

Feature Payoff: 1. $5,000  2. $2,500  3. $1,250  4. $1,000  5. $800  6. $700  7. $650  8. $600  9. $550  10. $500  11. $475  12. $450  13. $425  14. $400  15. $390  16. $380  17. $370  18. $360  19. $355  20-24. $350 (25-26. $350).

 

Real Merchant Services DMV Non-Qualifier Payoff: 1. $200  2. $190  3. $185  4. $180  5. $175  6. $170  7. $165  8. $160  9. $155  10-24. $150.  Tow $125

 

You do not have to be a member of RUSH to compete only to receive Weekly and/or Tour points.  The entry fee is $100.  AMB/MyLaps transponders will be used; Westhold transponders will NOT work.  Units are available to rent for $25 and at no charge to Winchester regulars.  Driver radio channel is 454.000. 

 

Pit gate, registration, and pre-race tech will open at 3 p.m.  Driver’s meeting will be at 5:30 p.m.   Warmups will get underway at 6 p.m. followed by qualifying and racing.  

 

Winchester Speedway is a high-banked 3/8-mile dirt track located just off Route 50 at 950 Airport Road, Winchester, VA 22604.  The track, which is owned by Greg Gunter, first opened in 1936 under the name of Airport Speedway.  For more information, check out their website at www.winchestervaspeedway.com or call 301-481-8855.  You can like their Facebook at www.facebook.com/wincvaspeedway.

  

The RUSH Racing Series is brought to you by Hovis Auto & Truck Supply together with Born2Run Lubricants along with the support of Hoosier Tire, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels, Insinger Performance, Colussy Chevrolet Flynn's Tire, Gunter's Honey, Rustler Sales & Service, MSD Performance, Holley Performance Products, FK Rod Ends, Capital Contracting Service, Joseph J. Oliva Attorney at Law, Schoenfeld Headers, Jones Racing Products, Landrum Performance Springs, Russ King Racing, 3C Graphix, Velocita-USA, Wieland Metal Services, Real Merchant Services DMV, IllusionCoats Powder Coating, Hoosier Tire Western Pennsylvania/Big Daddy's Speed Center, Close Racing Supply, Keyser Manufacturing/Integra Racing Shocks, Seal-Tite Paving & Excavating, MotoRad, Schneider Trucks, Ontime Body & Graphic, Henry's Headers & Exhaust Systems, D&V Jewelers, AERO Race Wheels, Racing Electronics, Design Creations, and Competition Crate Parts.

 

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 X (formerly known as Twitter) @RUSHLM.

 

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