ROARING KNOB RETURNS TO SWEENEY RUSH
LATE MODEL WEEKLY SERIES AS STRONG GROWTH AND MOMENTUM CONTINUES
By Mike Leone
February 3, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
(Pulaski, PA)...After a
one-year hiatus, Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex has elected to return as a
Sweeney Chevrolet Buick GMC RUSH Dirt Late Model Weekly Series track for the
upcoming 2017 season. The 3/8-mile
Markleysburg, Pa. scenic facility is located just minutes from West Virginia and
Maryland in southwestern Pennsylvania and will give racers in this region the
ability to compete for RUSH Championship programs.
With Roaring Knob now sanctioning its Late Model division with RUSH, Pro
Stock member racers running the GM 604 or 602 crate engine will now have the
ability to race at Roaring Knob and accumulate points.
"We're pleased
that Rick Jones has made the decision to have Roaring Knob return to RUSH,"
stated Series Director Vicki Emig.
"It means a lot to hear that the drivers were certainly in favor of RUSH.
There are numerous Crate Late Model racers in that area that once again
will have an opportunity to participate in our championship programs; the
addition of Roaring Knob continues to put more and more racers on the same rules
package, which in the end is beneficial to all concerned."
RUSH Late Model member
racers will be able to participate at Roaring Knob on a weekly basis and be
eligible for all of the programs including the Sweeney Weekly Series
Championship, the Pace Performance “Summer Chase”, along with the Bilstein
Bandits and the “Futures Cup” for those eligible racers. Member racers
will battle for the "Track Pack Bonus" with $300 going to the driver that
accumulates the most RUSH points at Roaring Knob, $200 for second, $150 for
third, $100 for fourth, and $50 for fifth. Contingency prizes will then be
posted for those racers in sixth through eighth in the RUSH member points at
Roaring Knob. While membership is not mandatory to compete in any
RUSH-sanctioned event, membership also include a $100,000 excess participant
accident policy, which is over and above drivers’ health insurance and
speedways’ participant accident policy.
Drivers will have a
four-race burn-off to use 2016 legal Roaring Knob tires before required to be on
the Hoosier CUSA 25 or 55. There
will be a two-race burn-off to use 2016 legal Roaring Knob fuel before required
to be on the Sunoco 110 or RUSH 91 pump gas.
A list of tire, fuel, and authorized engine rebuilders is on the RUSH
Late Model website at www.rushlatemodels.com along with the rules.
Roaring Knob
Motorsports Complex is a 3/8-mile clay oval located near Markleysburg, Pa. just
off of scenic Route 40 at 380 Fearer Road (look for the road sign) just seven
miles east of Nemacolin Woodlands on the right, one mile west of Yough Lake on
the left. Check out the website at
www.roaringknob.com or call 410-857-3821 (office) or 724-329-0306 on race day.
RUSH Late Model 2016 marketing
partners include Sweeney Chevrolet Buick GMC, Pace Performance, Hoosier Tire,
Bilstein Shocks, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels, Insinger Performance, MSD
Performance, Maxima Racing Oil, Jones Racing Products, Alternative Power
Sources, Precise Racing Products, ARbodies, TBM Brakes, K&N Filters, Lincoln
Electric, FK Rod Ends, Velocita-USA, Classic Ink USA, Rocket Chassis, Bobby Lake
Motorsports High Gear Speed Shop, CrateInsider.com, B.R.A.K.E.S., RockAuto.com,
and Valley Fashions.
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 and fax is
724-964-0604. The RUSH Racing Series website is www.rushracingseries.com. Like
our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rushlatemodels and follow us on Twitter
@RUSHLM.
###