East Smethport, PA
May 17, 2013


The father and son duo of Rob and Max Blair of Centerville, PA made McKean County Raceway history as becoming the first ever father and son duo to win on the same night in their respective divisions. Rob won the 25 lap super late model feature while Max won his third consecutive MCR feature of the year in the RUSH Crate Late Models.

The RUSH Crate Late Models was the first event of the evening and the fans saw Adam Sixt and Max Blair on the front row based on their passing points they received from their heat race events. Blair used the high groove right off the start to take the lead over Sixt with Justin Tatlow following. Max immediately showed his power and why he is the reigning national champion.

Sixt was busy keeping Tatlow, Garrett Mott and Chad Ruhlman behind him. Ruhlman would make is move on Mott on lap six, while Max was already putting the first driver a lap down on lap 7. While Max was busy putting cars a lap down, Chad Ruhlman found the right spot for his #4s Rayburn chassis. Ruhlman charged from fourth to second by the halfway point of the event only to have three lap cars between him and Blair.

Blair would continue to put the back markers a lap down and keep Ruhlman from catching him in the 20 lap non caution event and winning his third win of the year at MCR and less than a week after winning $5000 in West Virginia and a tune up for Thursday night’s RUSH Touring Series event at McKean. Ruhlman was second followed by Tatlow, Sixt and Garrett Mott coming home with a season high fifth.

The Super Late Models were led by the point leader Ron Davies and Rob Blair for their 25 lap event. Blair just like his son used the outside lane at the start to lead Davies for lap one. The first and only yellow came out on lap three for John Lacki.

On the restart Boom Briggs would get around Davies with Bob Close and John Volpe following Davies in fourth and fifth. Jason Dupont made his presence known on by lap by putting Volpe back into sixth. Dupont would continue to move to the front as on lap nine he put Close back to fifth in the field.

Blair was still leading at the halfway point over Briggs who seemed to start closing in on the black #Won11 Rocket Chassis. With less than ten laps to go, Dick Barton was now applying the pressure to Close for fifth. Barton would take the spot over Close on lap 18 and Close would lose another spot on lap 21 to Volpe as the #04 machine was backing up.

Blair kept the #99B of Briggs three car lengths behind him the entire distance to make MCR history by winning his feature on the same night as his son. Briggs was second followed by point leader Davies, DuPont and Barton rounding out the top five.

FEATURE RESULTS:

SUPER LATE MODEL
Rob Blair
Boom Briggs
Ron Davies
Jason Dupont
Dick Barton
John Volpe
Bob Close
Rich Gardner
Brent Rhebegen
John Lacki
Greg Oakes
Matt Lux
Jon Rohacevich
Jim Mason
Doug Eck (DNS)

RUSH CRATE LATE MODELS
Max Blair
Chad Ruhlman
Justin Tatlow
Adam Sixt
Garrett Mott
Joe Martin
Ward Schell
Bob Dorman
Bob Kish
Zack Carley
Ed Carley
Damien Bidwell
Jon Lichy
Critter Hemphill
Cody Mason
John Haggerty
Bruno Mowery
Dave Norton Jr
Bill Mesler
Doug Ricotta
Dereck Frank
Chad Silleman