7/8/2025
RUSH Late Model Series
FLYNN'S TIRE/GUNTER'S HONEY TOUR HEADS TO BRADFORD ON SUNDAY FOR RICHEST HOVIS RUSH LATE MODEL EVENT IN TRACK'S HISTORY WITH $4000 ON THE LINE
FLYNN'S TIRE/GUNTER'S HONEY TOUR HEADS TO BRADFORD ON SUNDAY FOR RICHEST HOVIS RUSH LATE MODEL EVENT IN TRACK'S HISTORY WITH $4000 ON THE LINE
By Mike Leone
July 8, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Bradford, PA)...After a two-race Independence Day holiday weekend in West Virginia, the Hovis Auto & Truck Supply RUSH Late Model Flynn's Tire/Gunter's Honey Touring Series will return to action this Sunday night (July 13) at Bradford Speedway. Race #7 of the weather-plagued season will be the first and only appearance of the season at the 1/4-mile bullring. Warmups will get underway at 5:30 p.m. followed by qualifying and racing.
Bradford Speedway is in its first year of ownership by Rick and Mary Isadore. The RUSH Late Models and RUSH Pro Mods are part of the weekly program in 2025 at Bradford. Jacob Wilber and Austin Allen have scored City Chevrolet Weekly Series wins thus far at Bradford with Wilber’s being the first of his career, while Allen’s was his first at Bradford.
Bradford has hosted just three Flynn’s Tire/Gunter’s Honey Touring Series events all-time with three former champions from the Empire State victorious. Bryce Davis won the first ever event at the track in 2017 under the promotion of Norm Asel. During Dennis Cummings’ five-year stint as a promoter, the Tour appeared in 2022 and 2023 with John Waters and Jeremy Wondering victorious. Will there be a fourth different winner in four events on Sunday!? All three of the prior events paid $3,000 to-win with Sunday’s paying a track high $4,000 to-win!
“Bradford’s unique configuration and size always poses a challenge to racers and really equalizes the competition even more so,” stated RUSH Director Vicki Emig. “We have to thank the Isadores for sanctioning weekly racing under RUSH for both the Late Models and Pro Mods. We’re also thrilled they decided to host a Touring Series event in their first year.”
Wonderling is fresh off a big weekend in West Virginia where he finished second to Tyler County Speedway standout Kyle Thomas on Thursday then followed it up winning the very first Tour race at Ohio Valley Speedway on Friday for his first victory of the season. Wonderling has jumped out to a 33-point advantage in his search for an unprecedented fifth title, which would be worth a personal best $20,000.
The 2021 Flynn’s Tire/Gunter’s Honey Touring Series Champion, Kyle Hardy, has rebounded from a slow start to the season and has climbed to second in points. Second year RUSH racer Ben Easler is coming off a career best weekend with finishes of fifth and fourth to jump into a tie for third in points with new 3C Graphix Rookie-of-the-Year points leader Zack Carley. Second year Tour racer, Austin Allen, is fifth just one-point from a tie in third. RoY candidate Demetrios Drellos is just one-point behind Allen in sixth. Another second year Tour racer, Daryl Charlier, is a close seventh as Jason Knowles, Bud Watson, and Mike Wonderling complete the top 10. While just two points separate third through sixth in points, second through eighth are separated by only 15!
Max Blair is the only repeat winner after six events this season as he swept the Stateline-Eriez weekend in May. Charlier won the Tri-City Raceway Park Memorial Day eve event. Mason Zeigler won the biggest race of his career in the $20,000 “Bill Emig Memorial” presented by Sunoco Race Fuels at Lernerville Speedway on June 21. Thomas and Wonderling won the most recent events in the Mountaineer State.
Bradford's race is a Platinum Event designation- the second and final one scheduled in 2025. Platinum Events allow Tour members the opportunity to use them to replace their worst Tour finish or give Tour members that have or will miss a Tour show the opportunity to use the event(s) as a replacement Marquee Event.
The D&V Jewelers Non-Qualifier on Sunday will have an increased purse at $350 to-win due to a 20-car feature starting field (plus provisionals). Tour racers Brad Mesler and Ryan Hare are tied for the points lead in the D&V Jewelers “Wheelman” Bonus Event Challenge Series.
$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 in Tour points and another four $50 random draws for all other competitors.
The podium finishers will each receive a three-pack of Heritage Wine Cellars premier products. Precise Racing Products will award a $50 gift card for the "Pedal Down" Hard Charger that passes the most cars in the feature. Ontime Body & Graphic's "Spoiler Alert" will award a spoiler kit to the seventh place finisher. The first feature non-qualifier will receive a $50 certificate from Holley Performance brands each night. There will also be five BOGO Landrum Performance Springs certificates given away through drawings. Forty lucky fans each night will receive a bottle of Dusted Steak Seasoning.
Feature Payoff: 1. $4,000 2. $2,000 3. $1,000 4. $800 5. $700 6. $600 7. $550 8. $500 9. $475 10. $450 11. $425 12. $400 13. $375 14. $360 15. $350 16. $340 17. $330 18. $320 19. $310 20. $300 (21-22. $300 provisionals, if necessary)
D&V Jewelers Non-Qualifier Payoff: 1. $350 2. $325 3. $310 4. $300 5. $250 6. $225 7. $200 8. $175 9. $160 10-24. $150. Tow $125
The event will also count towards the RUSH City Chevrolet National Weekly Series, the City Chevrolet "Track Pack" and Russ King Racing "Futures Cup" for those eligible racers.
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. The AMB/MyLaps transponders will be used; rentals will be available each night for $25. The driver radio channel will be 454.000.
The pits will open at noon with pit passes going on sale at 3 p.m. RUSH registration will open by 3 p.m. with the drivers meeting at 5. Warmups will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by qualifying and racing.
Bradford Speedway is located at 330 Summit Road, Bradford, PA 16701. For more information, call 814-331-2770 and check out their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572111860665
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, Gunter's Honey, MSD Performance, Holley Performance Products, FK Rod Ends, Billy's Garage, Joseph J. Oliva Attorney at Law, Schoenfeld Headers, Jones Racing Products, Landrum Performance Springs, Russ King Racing, 3C Graphix, Dave Poske's Performance Parts, Velocita-USA, Wieland Metal Services, Frankland Racing Supply, Seal-Tite Paving & Excavating, Dusted Steak Seasoning, Ontime Body & Graphic, D&V Jewelers, AERO Race Wheels, Heritage Wine Cellars, Precise Racing Products, Racing Electronics, Design Creations, and Competition Crate Parts.
E-mail can be sent to the RUSH Racing Series at info@rushracingseries.com 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.
Article Credit: Mike Leone
