ANOTHER SWEENEY RUSH LATE MODEL TOURING SERIES WEEKEND DOUBLEHEADER ON TAP;
SATURDAY AT STATELINE FOR "BILL LAW MEMORIAL" FOLLOWED BY SUNDAY AT ERIEZ
By Mike Leone
July 25, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Pulaski, PA)…Fresh off a New York doubleheader last weekend, the Sweeney
Chevrolet Buick GMC RUSH Dirt Late Model Touring Series powered by Pace
Performance is set for another doubleheader weekend.
Race #12 and 13 of the 2018 season will feature the "Bill Law Memorial"
on Saturday night at Stateline Speedway in Busti, NY followed by Eriez Speedway
located just outside of Erie, Pa. on Sunday.
Both Marquee Events will pay $2,000 to-win.
The "Bill Law
Memorial" returns to Stateline for the second straight year.
The event was originally scheduled for May 19 before being rained out and
rescheduled for this 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. Today, Bill's grandson, Kyle Murray, is entering
his second year of RUSH Late Model competition, and in fact, has two wins at
Genesee Speedway in Sweeney Weekly Series competition!
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. At last year's inaugural event, Jeremy Wonderling withstood a furious
challenge by standout Max Blair to capture the first Sweeney Touring Series
event ever held at Stateline.
Meanwhile, the Sweeney Tour has
made six visits to Eriez since 2015 with the Blairs winning all six as Max has
five wins including the June 10 event and his father, Rob, one in a substitution
role at the May 2016 event.
The question is, will anyone be
able to stop Max Blair this weekend?
At Stateline, Blair has won all three of the Sweeney Weekly Series events
completed, while at Eriez, Blair has four wins in five tries with a second to
Jason Genco as his only blemish.
Blair currently leads the Sweeney Weekly Series points as well as the Pace
Performance "Summer Chase" standings.
"We have to thank the Scott Family
and Kathy Rohrer for their continued support of RUSH and allowing these
doubleheader weekends to happen," explained RUSH Director Vicki Emig.
"The May 19-20 weekend was scheduled to be a doubleheader before both
shows were rained out, and both tracks were gracious enough to reschedule with
Eriez moving to June 10 and Stateline coming in the night before Eriez's second
show. Both tracks have also helped
get our RUSH Sprint program off the ground this year plus Stateline is also
holding our third annual Manufacturers Night for the Pro Mods on Saturday
night."
There have been seven different
Sweeney Tour winners thus far in 2018 with no driver winning more than two
races. With 11 of 18 events completed,
there's a new driver atop the Sweeney Tour points standings.
For the first time in his career, Jason Genco leads the points thanks to
a win a and a runner-up last weekend.
Genco though has just a two-point lead on Jeremy Wonderling.
Stateline and Eriez are both Genco's home tracks; however, Wonderling
scored the first ever Stateline Tour race last year.
Genco has reeled off six top fives in the past seven events to grab the
lead. Wonderling though is coming
off his first win of the season in last Friday's thriller at Outlaw Speedway.
Wonderling has been consistent himself with eight straight top nine
finishes.
Two-time winner, Brady Wonderling,
is third in points and has just a two-point lead on John Waters.
Jason Knowles is fifth as he rounds out an all New York top five in
points. Canadian Adam Ferri is sixth
over another New Yorker in J.J. Mazur.
Central Pa. "Futures Cup" racer, Cory Lawler, is eighth in his rookie
Tour season, while Bill Kessler, Beamer Guzzardi, Max Blair, and Jimmy Johnson,
Jr. complete the top 12 points paying positions.
FK Rod Ends will
present the $100 "Shock the Clock" Qualifying award and $25 to each winner each
night. Precise Racing Products will award a $100 gift card for the "Pedal Down"
Hard Charger that passes the most cars in the feature. The
TBM Brakes “Tough Brake of the Night” will award three bottles of Xtreme6
Racing Brake Fluid valued at approximately $45 along with a certificate for a
discount off any TBM Brakes purchase.
RUSH Series
Officials will also determine the new Dirt Defender "Defensive Drive" to the
driver that best defended his position throughout the night, and will receive a
$40 product package. The award could go to a driver holding off another
for the final heat race or B main transfer position, a driver denying a hard
charging racer a feature win, a move to stay on the lead lap before a caution,
or any such deserving move.
Feature Payoffs: 1. $2,000
2. $1,000 3. $650 4. $550 5. $470 6. $435 7. $410
8. $370 9. $340 10. $310 11. $280 12. $270 13.
$260 14. $250 15. $240 16. $230 17. $220 18-24. $210.
Non-Qualifier Payoffs: 1. $175 2. $150 3. $140 4. $135 5. $130
6. $125 7. $120 8. $115 9. $110 10-24. $105. Tow
$100.
2018 Sweeney RUSH Late Model Touring Series points (Adjusted on
Marquee/Platinum; only Tour members receive points): 1. Jason Genco 842
2. Jeremy Wonderling 840 3. Brady Wonderling 824 4. John Waters 822 5.
Jason Knowles 756 6. Adam Ferri
752 7. J.J. Mazur 739 8. Cory
Lawler730 9. Bill Kessler 682 10. Beamer Guzzardi 539
11. Max Blair 482 12. Jimmy Johnson, Jr. 447
13. Darrell Bossard 442 14. Charlie Sandercock 431 15. Kyle Murray 411
16. Damian Bidwell 400 17. Brian Knowles 350
18. Chad Sines 334 19. Garret
Paugh 320 20. Cody Dawson 302 21. Bruce Hordusky, Jr. 299 22. Christian
Schneider 292 23. Mike Franklin 282 24. Cory Sines 234 25. Joe Watson
210 26. Paul Norman, Jr. 167 27. Tony White 162 28. Braeden Dillinger
160 29. Eric Wilson 98.
You do not have to a member of RUSH to compete.
Both the Westhold and AMB/MyLaps transponders can be used each
night. There is a $100
entry fee each night.
For Saturday at Stateline, pit gates open at 4 p.m. Drivers meeting will be at
6:15 p.m. with warm-ups at 6:45 and qualifying around 7. Pit passes are $30.
Driver radio channel is 469.500.
For Sunday at Eriez, pit gates open at 3:30 p.m. Drivers meeting will be at
5:35 p.m. with warm-ups at 6 followed by qualifying. Pit passes are
$30. Driver radio channel is 454.00
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 atwww.facebook.com/newstatelinespeedwaybustiny and follow them
on Twitter @NewStateline.
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, check out www.eriez-speedway.com. Follow them on Twitter @EriezSpeedway1 and like their page
on Facebook at www.facebook.com/eriezspeedway.
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.
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