HUGE WEEK COMING
UP FOR PACE RUSH SPRINT CARS; TUESDAY AT SHARON WITH THE ALL STARS FOLLOWED BY
THE RICHEST WEEKEND IN HISTORY AT MCKEAN & BRADFORD JUNE 19-20 FOR A PAIR OF
$1000 TO-WIN, $175 TO-START EVENTS
By Mike Leone
June 11,
2021 FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
(Pulaski, PA)...The
Pace Performance RUSH Sprint Car Series together with Sweeney Chevrolet Buick
GMC is gearing up for a huge week of competition.
The RUSH Sprints will be at Sharon Speedway on Tuesday (June 15) with the
FloRacing All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Cars followed by a pair of $1,000
to-win, $175 to-start Equipment Rental Options Weekly Series specials on
back-to-back nights just 15 miles apart in McKean County, Pennsylvania with
Saturday night (June 19) at McKean County Raceway and Sunday evening at Bradford
Speedway.
Tuesday will mark the third appearance of the season by the Pace RUSH Sprint
Cars at Sharon Speedway where they are presented by Terry Bowser Excavating.
Tuesday will be another Sprint Car doubleheader at Sharon as Ohio
Speedweek for the All Stars makes a stop at the Hartford, Ohio oval.
The event will also be broadcast live on FloRacing following tremendous
exposure on DIRTVision on May 22 with the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Sprint
Cars.
Sixty-one-year-old Rod George won the May 22 show at Sharon, while 17-year-old Nolan Groves won his first career race last Saturday night doing it from the 12th starting spot over the record 23-car field! There have been eight different RUSH Sprint Car winners in 11 races run all-time at Sharon as Chad Ruhlman is the only driver with multiple victories at four.
After not operating each of the past two seasons, McKean is under new management
in 2021 led by Close Racing Supply owner Joel Smith and former promoter Ken
Leet. MCR has completed one show
this season on May 27 and is running a specials-only slate of events that
includes the RUSH Late Models and RUSH Pro Mods.
Bradford meanwhile had an excellent first season under Dennis Cummings
despite the pandemic and has completed two events thus far in 2021.
Bradford features the RUSH Late Models and RUSH Pro Mods weekly.
During the inaugural 2018 season for the RUSH Sprint Cars, Chad Ruhlman won both
shows at Bradford and the one and only race ever held at McKean.
The RUSH Sprints then made one appearance at Bradford in 2019, which was
won by Bradley Blackshear for his first career Series win.
"This will be a tremendous week for our Series," stated RUSH Director Vicki
Emig. "To be in front of big crowd
at Sharon with the All Stars and have national coverage on Flo is great exposure
for our racers and RUSH. Then to
have two $1000 to-win races just 15 miles apart on successive nights is awesome.
McKean has done some reconfiguration to their 1/3-mile track to make the
racing better, while our past shows at Bradford on the 1/4-mile bullring were
very exciting."
The RUSH Sprints have competed six times this year around the circuit with five different winners. The only repeat winner is Gale Ruth, Jr. The father-son duo of Chad Ruhlman and Kevin Ruhlman have also been victorious. The battle of the $5,000 to-win Equipment Rental Options Weekly Series Championship is very tight as just nine points separate the top five racers! Groves is the current point lead by four over two-time champion Chad Ruhlman. George and Ruth are tied for third just one-point behind Ruhlman. Blaze Myers is having a consistent start to his first full season of RUSH Sprint racing as he sits fifth. Brian Cressley leads the "Futures Cup" points.
McKean & Bradford Payoff:
1. $1,000
2. $500 3. $350
4. $275 5. $250
6. $240 7. $230
8. $225 9. $220
10. $215 11. $210
12. $205 13. $200
14. $195 15. $190
16. $185 17. $180
18-24. $175.
Tow/Non-Qualifier $75.
Sharon Speedway is owned by the
Blaney, Weller, and Kirila Families and is a 3/8-mile dirt track located on
Custer-Orangeville Road in Hartford, Ohio near the intersection of Routes 7 &
305. For more information, check out the website at www.sharonspeedway.com or
call 330-772-5481. Become a fan of Sharon Speedway on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/sharonspeedway and follow us on
Twitter @sharonspdwy.
McKean County Raceway is a
1/3-mile dirt track located at the McKean County Fairgrounds in East Smethport,
Pa. at the intersections of Route 6 and 46. For more information on McKean
County Family Raceway, check out their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/McKeanCountyRacewayMCR.
Follow them on Twitter @McKeanCoRaceway.
Bradford Speedway is a 1/4-mile
dirt track located at 330 Summit Road, Bradford, PA 16701. For more information,
check out their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Bradford-Speedway-109610073932081.
RUSH Racing Series is brought to you by Pace Performance together with Sweeney
Chevrolet Buick GMC along with the support of Hoosier Tire, Bilstein Shocks,
Sunoco Race Fuels, Bazell Race Fuels, Insinger Performance, MSD Performance,
Holley Performance Products, Hovis Auto & Truck Supply, Born2Run Lubricants,
Flynn's Tire & Auto Service, 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, Zarin Truck & Automotive, Sherwood Wheels, Alternative Power Sources,
Precise Racing Products, Stop-Fyre, Lincoln Electric, Velocita-USA, Waterstone
Mortgage Hermitage, CrateInsider.com, and Wedge Motorsports.
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 Sprint Car Series website is
www.rushsprintcars.com. Like our Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/rushprintcars and follow us on Twitter
@RUSHSprints.
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