JEREMY PILKERTON WINS
HIS 1ST HOVIS RUSH LATE MODEL FEATURE OF 2023 AT POTOMAC; CHAD HOMAN MAKES
HISTORY WINNING THE 1ST EVER RUSH LATE MODEL RACE AT GLEN RIDGE
By Marcie Barlow
August 18, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Pulaski, PA)...Hovis
Auto & Truck Supply RUSH Racing Series presented by Born2Run Lubricants racers
and fans had to dodge the rain drops last Friday and Saturday before the weekend
ended on a dry note on Sunday.
Jeremy Pilkerton overcame a challenging 2023 season to capture his first RUSH
Late Model main event of the season, while Breyton Santee, Dave DuBois and Alan
Chapman added to their 2023 win tallies scoring victories in RUSH Late Model
City Chevrolet Weekly Series action.
Chad Homan added his name to the record books as the winner of the first RUSH
Late Model main event held at the Glen Ridge Motorsports Park.
RUSH Pro Mod competitors Zain Harvey and Dennis
Lunger, Jr. also captured wins this weekend, while Lane Reinwald did the same in
the RUSH Stock Cars.
The Hovis Auto and Truck Supply RUSH Late Model Flynn’s Tire Touring Series
returned to Woodhull Raceway on Tuesday, August 8 for the first time in nine
years with an excellent field of 34 competitors despite threatening weather.
Jeremy Wonderling, who grew up just 30 minutes from the speedway, led the
entire distance of the 30-lap event and held off the challenges of Bryce Davis
to score his eighth Flynn’s Tire Tour Series win of the season, which was worth
$4,350. Davis held on for the second
spot with veteran Joe Martin claiming third.
Track regular Austin Allen, who started sixth, recorded his first career
Series top five finish with Austin Hauser in fifth.
Jeremy Pilkerton scored a well-deserved victory at Potomac Speedway Friday night
ending what had been to this point a rather frustrating season.
Pilkerton beat Ed Pope to the first turn and went on to lead the entire
distance of the 20-lap main event to pick up his first RUSH Late Model win of
2023. Pope came home in second with
rookie teenager Jarrett Evans finishing a career best third.
Megan Mann and Scooter Tippett rounded out the top five.
Dave DuBois claimed his first RUSH Late Model win season at Freedom Motorsports
Park on Friday to bring his RUSH divisional win total to three at three
different speedways! Kurt Stebbins
was second in his Freedom season debut. Chad
Homan, Mike Wonderling and Brad Mesler completed the top five.
Alan Chapman added victory number six to his 2023 win total at Skyline
Motorsports Park on Friday. New
Hampshire's Carl Eldridge made his first ever
visit and was second over Todd Chapman.
North Carolina invader Troy Brady was third as Brad Smith completed the
top five.
The RUSH Late Model division will be a weekly division at the Glen Ridge
Motorsports Park in 2024 and on Sunday evening the division made an appearance
at the speedway to give the fans a preview.
Veteran Chad Homan scored the $1,000 City Chevrolet Weekly Series victory
and his name will go into the record books as the first ever
RUSH Late Model winner.
Big-Block Modified start Demetrios Drellos scored his career best RUSH
finish in second. Zack Carley
made the four-hour tow from Freedom, NY and was third.
Former Fulton Speedway regular, Sean
Beardsley, was fourth in his first RUSH start of 2023.
Rob Pitcher made his RUSH debut and was fifth.
Sunday at Eriez Speedway fifth place starter Breyton Santee ran down leader
David Parker and slid by him in turn four in the closing laps to score his
fourth victory of the season at the Erie, PA oval.
It was Santee's fifth overall win of 2023 as he sits second in the City
Chevrolet National Weekly Series points.
Santee has finished on the podium for seven straight races at Eriez!
A disappointed Parker finished second with Matt Sipes, Khole Wanzer and
David Pangrazio following. Eriez has
had at least 20 cars for all eight of their shows this season.
Brad Mesler tallied his third RUSH Late Model victory of the season Sunday
evening at Bradford Speedway. After
Jeremy Wonderling won in his first four starts at Bradford this year, Mesler has
put a stop to his win streak at the last two events.
Mesler also leads the $1,000 to-win City Chevrolet "Track Pack" points at
Bradford. Austin Hauser and Jake Wilber
recorded their best finishes of the season in third and fourth.
Jacob Tubbs was fifth.
Hovis Auto and Truck Supply RUSH Pro Mod competition Friday night at Freedom
Motorsports Park saw Zain Harvey collect the victory, which was his first of the
season, and third overall as he sits second in points.
Weekly Series points leader, Steve Dixon, was second as Bill Holmes, Josh
Wilcox and Tyler Oakes followed.
On Sunday evening at Bradford Speedway veteran Dennis Lunger, Jr. made his first
visit of the season a profitable one as scored his fifth overall in RUSH action
as the defending and six-time champion makes a last season push towards a
seventh straight title. Al Brewer
came home in second with Critter Hemphill, Damian Bidwell and Oakes.
In RUSH Stock Car action Lane Reinwald visited victory lane at Eriez for the
third time this season and fourth overall Sunday evening.
Cody Rickard was second.
Kaden Michael was third as he continues to lead the $2,000 to-win Weekly Series
Championship in addition to the "Futures Cup".
William Baker, Jr. was fourth over Alex Bush.
Hovis Auto and Truck Supply RUSH Late Model action was rained out at Raceway 7,
Genesee, Marion Center, Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway, Tyler County,
and Woodhull. In addition, Late
Model competitors at Delaware International, Georgetown, Stateline and
Winchester Speedways were off.
Hovis Auto and Truck Supply RUSH Sportsman Modified and Sprint Car action that
was scheduled at Sharon Speedway on Saturday evening was also rained out.
This weekend’s RUSH Late Model action includes a special $1,000 event at The
Hill Speedway on Friday as well as weekly action at Skyline Raceway Motorsports
Park. Saturday evening’s RUSH Late
Model action will take place at Genesee Speedway, Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania
Motor Speedway, Stateline Speedway, Tyler County Speedway, Winchester Speedway
and Woodhull Raceway for $2,000 to-win.
Sunday evening RUSH Late Model action is scheduled at Eriez Speedway.
The RUSH Pro Mod teams will be in action at Stateline Speedway on Saturday for
their rescheduled "Manufacturers Night" presented by MSD Performance.
More than $15,000 in products will be distributed to the teams that
evening.
The Hovis Auto and Truck Supply Sportsman Modified drivers will be in action
both Friday and Saturday as the Wedge Motorsports "Route 7 Rumble" Series is
scheduled for Raceway 7 (Friday) and Sharon Speedway (Saturday).
The RUSH Sprint Cars will also be in action Saturday at Sharon Speedway.
As we continue to work our way through the month of August there is still plenty
of RUSH Racing Series action on tap so be sure to visit a speedway near you this
weekend and “Feel the RUSH!”
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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