Brock Bam Bam Pinkerous of Ellenville, New York, stands next to his No. 55 car after winning the RUSH Crate Late Model division race at Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y. on Saturday night.Submitted photo
BUSTI The New Stateline Speedway opened its 67th year of operations to a packed house and 167 competitors on a beautiful Saturday night.
One of the drivers in the RUSH Crate Late Model division was Brock Pinkerous of Ellenville, New York, who held of Josh Ferry of Cochranton, Pennsylvania for the feature win.
By the way, Pinkerous is 13 years old, making him the youngest racer in the history of the track to win a feature event.
Dirt-track racing historian Randy Anderson was more than impressed.
When I first heard this kid was racing (last year) at 12, I was a skeptic, the Jamestown resident said Sunday night. I wondered, Does this kid have the skill? Does this kid have the maturity? Does this kid have what it takes to handle a race car? He wasnt in the Super Lates, but hes in the next car down. Hes playing Triple-A baseball.
Judging from Andersons reaction and how he described the reaction of the large crowd, Pinkerous, known as Bam Bam, hit a figurative home run on the Kortwright Road oval.
This skeptic was convinced, Anderson continued. This kid has talent.
Starting on the pole in his heat race, Pinkerous led all eight laps and was, according to Anderson, actually driving away at the end, which was impressive all to itself.
When he drew the feature, he drew third, Anderson continued. When they dropped the green flag and they all charged into Turn 1, he dove to the bottom and got under the two guys ahead of him and had the lead leaving Turn 2. He led all 20 laps, drove a flawless race and didnt make a mistake at all. Color me convinced.
The fans certainly were.
Upon the completion of the race, Pinkerous, who was making his first appearance at Stateline, got out of his car and onto its roof.
He kind of reminded me of Hulk Hogan, Anderson said. He was posing, waving the flag. He put on a show. People were going crazy. I dont even know how he got into the car without a step stool.
Pinkerous wasnt the only headliner Saturday night.
Wily veteran David Scott claimed victory in the UMP Modifieds after a six-year hiatus; Chris Whyte showed the way in the Sharp Mini Late Models; Dennis Lunger picked up where he left off in 2022 by cashing in on the RUSH Pro Mod feature; Local favorite Ryan Scott muscled his way to his first win of 2023, in the highly competitive Super Late Model division; Gary Fisher made his winning move just before time was called in the Pro Stock main; and John Mease brought home a hard-fought victory in the Challenger ranks.
The RUSH Touring Late Models and the annual Bill Law Memorial, which will pay $3,000 to the winner, will headline racing this Saturday.
RUSH CRATE LATE MODELS
Heat 1: 1) Brock Pinkerous 2) Matt Sipes 3) Ward Shell 4) Jake Peterson 5) Draven Kuzminski 6) Hunter Proctor 7) Rick Karash 8) Rory Houser 9) Khole Wanzer
Heat 2: 1) Randy Hall 2) David Parker 3) Breyton Santee 4) Scott Gurdak 5) Logan Jaquay 6) DJ Krug 7) Mason Jaquay 8) Steve Houser 9) Shawn Little
Heat 3: 1) Jason Genco 2) Billy Henry 3) Chub Frank 4) Andy Boozel 5) Zack Carley 6) Jimmy Johnson 7) Don Watson 8) Ian Travis 9) Charley Houser
Heat 4: 1) Josh Ferry 2) Jeff Hoffman 3) Shane Crotty 4) Andy Michael 5) Gary Youngs 6) Ashton Briggs 7) Steve Blodgett 8) Ray Houser
Consi: (Top 4 Transfer) 1) Krug 2) Wanzer 3) Proctor 4) M. Jaquay
Feature: 1) Pinkerous 2) Ferry 3) Genco 4) Parker 5) Hoffman 6) Schell 7) Henry 8) Hall 9) Frank 10) Boozel 11) Gurdak 12) L. Jaquay 13) Wanzer 14) Carley 15) Michael 16) Peterson 17) Youngs 18) Krug 19) Kuzminski 20) Sipes 21) M. Jaquay 22) Proctor 23) Crotty 24) Santee
Lap Leaders: Pinkerous (1-20)
UMP MODIFIEDS
Heat 1: 1) Michael McGee 2) David Scott 3) Mason Lobb 4) Butch Southwell 5) Dan Sasso 6) Dalton Bradley 7) Emily Stoyer 8) James Irwin
Heat 2: 1) Dave Hess Jr. 2) Jason Brightman 3) Zach Johnson 4) Dave Lanphere 5) Chris Deponceau 6) Bud Watson 7) Tim Rockwell
Heat 3: 1) Tim Peterson 2) Steve Rex 3) Matt Kosinski 4) Troy Johnson 5) Kyle Schreckengost 6) Tom Kosinski 7) Bryon Johnson
Heat 4: 1) Joel Watson 2) Greg Johnson 3) Dennis Lunger 4) Andrew Beatman 5) Thomas Cupp 6) James Wilburn 7) Kyle Adkins
Consi: (Top 4 Transfer) 1) Rockwell 2) B. Johnson 3) Cupp 4) Irwin
Feature: 1) Scott 2) J. Watson 3) Rex 4) Z. Johnson 5) Hess Jr. 6) G, Johnson 7) T. Johnson 8) Brightman 9) Kosinski 10) Peterson 11) Sasso 12) Southwell 13) B. Watson 14) Lobb 15) Schreckengost 16) Beatman 17) Wilburn 18) Irwin 19) Lanphere 20) B. Johnson 21) Lunger 22) Cupp 23) Rockwell 24) McGee
Lap Leaders: Scott (1-20)
SHARP MINI LATE MODELS
Heat: 1) Chris Whyte 2) Oakley Terrill 3) Treyton Whyte 4) Terry Mealy 5) Morgan Curry 6) Ryan Card 7) Jesse Isadore 8) Kyle Coons
Feature: 1) C. Whyte 2) T. Whyte 3) Isadore 4) Carly 5) Terrill 6) Card 7) Mealy 8) Coons
Lap Leaders: C. Whyte (1-15)
RUSH PRO MODS
Heat 1: 1) Al Brewer 2) Vaughn Nystrom 3) Tyler Sutton 4) Derek Peterson 5) Brian Mohawk 6) Cameron Sherwood 7) Ryan Sanders
Heat 2: 1) Chad Carlson 2) Tyler Oakes 3) Dennis Lunger 4) Jarrod Silvis 5) Nick Arnold 6) Cody Rickard
Heat 3: 1) Josh Wilcox 2) Chad Ramsey 3) Steve Dixon 4) Garrett Miller 5) Ian Degolier 6) Don May Jr.
Feature: 1) Lunger 2) Dixon 3) Carlson 4) Brewer 5) Wilcox 6) Ramsey 7) Oakes 8) Sutton 9) Degolier 10) Miller 11) Rickard 12) Arnold 13) Nystrom 14) Mohawk 15) Peterson 16) Silvis 17) May Jr. 18) Sherwood 19) Sanders
Lap Leaders: Wilcox (1) , Ramsey (2) , Wilcox (3-14) , Lunger (15-20)
SUPER LATE MODELS
Heat 1: 1) Dutch Davies 2) Jason Genco 3) Bob Dorman 4) Chub Frank 5) John Volpe 6) Chevy Scott 7) Anthony Marotto
Heat 2: 1) Darrell Bossard 2) Ryan Scott 3) Jake Finnerty 4) Kyle Bedell 5) Khole Wanzer 6) Kevin Smith 7) Nicholas Eck
Heat 3: 1) Greg Oakes 2) Dave Hess Jr. 3) Bump Headman 4) Wyatt Scott 5) Breyton Santee 6) Pasul Schreckengost
Feature: 1) R. Scott 2) Oakes 3) Genco 4) Davies 5) Hess Jr. 6) Dorman 7) Bossard 8) Frank 9) Santee 10) W. Scott 11) Volpe 12) Bedell 13) Finnerty 14) Hedman 15) Marotto 16) C. Scott 17) Eck 18) Schreckengost 19) Smith 20) Wanzer
Lap Leaders: Oakes (1,2) R. Scott (3-5), Oakes (6,7), R. Scott (8-25)
PRO STOCKS
Heat 1: 1) Tanner Ramsey 2) Dale Applebee 3) Tyler Dyns 4) Steve Keith 5) Brent Marotto 6) Donald Blood 7) Jason Covey 8) Dale Sheets
Heat 2: 1) William Reeves 2) Joe Stajnrajh 3) Mike Oakes 4) Jason Black 5) Douglas Eck 6) Dave Baker Jr. 7) Garret Waters 8) Cole Strickland
Heat 3: 1) Gary Fisher Jr. 2) Shane Applebee 3) John Boardman 4) Matt Sampson 5) John Cline 6) David Schauers 7) Grant Richard
Feature: 1) Fisher Jr. 2) S. Applebee 3) Eck 4) Reeves 5) Boardman 6) Ramsey 7) Dynys 8) Oakes 9) Richard 10) Schauers 11) Stajnrajh 12) Black 13) Marotto 14) Strickland 15) Sampson 16) B. Applebee 17) Waters 18) Keith 19) Baker Jr. 20) Cline 21) Blood 22) Sheets 23) Covey
Lap Leaders: Reeves(1-7) , Ramsey(8-10) , Fisher Jr.(11,12)
CHALLENGERS
Heat 1: 1) Tim Dragar 2) Curtis Rung 3) Jon Seekings 4) Rachel Butler 5) Tommy Labarbera 6) Vince Norton 7) Cassandra Goodwill 8) Colin Larson
Heat 2: 1) Andy Schumaker 2) Domingo Echevarria 3) Nicholas Reed 4) Pete Volpe 5) Nick Harvey 6) David Moller 7) Tyler Pearson 8) Kasey Markham
Heat 3: 1) Brandon Huffman 2) John Mease 3) Chris Horton 4) Cam Vanhooser 5) Brandon Marotto 6) Chelsea Haskins 7) Sean Murphy 8) Amber Silvis
Heat 4: 1) Holden Heineman 2) Rick Feely 3) Dan Bittinger 4) Andrew Smith 5) Jess Harvey 6) Jordan Richard 7) Kayla York 8) Justin Dragar 9) Todd Hanlon
Consi: 1) Moller 2) Norton 3) Pearson 4) Goodwill
Feature: 1) Mease 2) Schumaker 3) Echevarria 4) Dragar 5) Feely 6) Rung 7) Seekings 8) Horton 9) Heineman 10) Butler 11) Smith 12) Labarbera 13) Moller 14) Marotto 15) Volpe 16) Norton 17) Goodwill 18) Huffman 19) N. Harvey 20) J. Harvey 21) Reed 22) Pearson 23) Bittinger 24) Vanhooser
Lap Leaders: Dragar (1-9), Mease (10-12)
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