East Smethport, PA
August 30, 2013

Friday night capped off the regular season of action at the NDRL McKean County Raceway in E. Smethport PA.  All six division champions were crowned at the end of the night.   Rob Blair was crowned the 2013 super late model champion, as his son Max Blair won the RUSH Crate Late Model championship.

Heading into the final night of points, Rob Blair of Centerville, PA held a twenty point lead over Team Blair Teammate Jason Dupont.   Blair had ripped off six wins with majority of them coming in the month of July where he went undefeated at every event he entered in the northeast region.  

The super late model feature saw Brent Rhebergen and past champion, Dick Barton on the front row.   Barton shot into the lead over Rhebergen with and Rob Blair in third.   Blair would take second on lap two from Brent but Rheberegen would grab second back on lap five with Blair coming back on lap seven. 

Blair would try to track down Barton but he needed to look in his rear view mirror as Boom Briggs was flying around the top of the track charging from his 11th starting spot to third by lap 11.  Briggs would surprise Blair to grab second on la 12 and it was only matter of time for Barton to fall to Briggs. 

A yellow for Chris Hackett made it easier for Briggs on lap 13 as lap 14 saw Briggs sweep around Barton for the lead.  Barton’s night ended on lap 16 with a undisclosed engine problem.   Blair now had a chance at Boom with last weeks winner David Scott now third. 

Briggs was able to charge to front and Blair gave everything he had but it was Boom Briggs picking up his first win of the year over the track champion Blair, Scott, Jason Dupont and Brent Rhebergen rounding out the top five.

Although he came up a car length short of another victory, with his 2nd place finish, Rob Blair was crowned the 2013 McKean County Raceway Super Late Model Champion!

Heading onto the final night of points, Max Blair had the 2013 RUSH Late Model track championship secured, mostly due to his seven wins on the season.   Blair’s MCR championship adds to an already impressive resume of championships including being a 2012 national champion. 

The RUSH Crate Late Models saw champion, Max Blair and the “ole Hot Shoe” of Ed Carley on the front row.  Max got the initial jump on Carley only to see the yellow lights come on for Joe Buccola and Cody Mason.  Lap two saw another yellow for Mason, Adam Sixt, Bill Mesler and Critter Hemphill with the cars of Jeremy Wonderling, Garrett Mott and Dereck Frank all going to the pits.  

The 20 lap even saw eight yellows which kept the field tight most of the race.  Carley and Doug Ricotta swapped second until lap eleven when Carley took over the spot for good with Chad Ruhlman following.  Carley and Ruhlman would battle for second just a few car lengths from Blair with Ricotta and Zach Carley fifth. 

Ruhlman took second from Carley on lap 15 and the chase was on for Max.  The other car on the move was Adam Sixt who was now fifth from his early race incident  Ruhlman would make a last lap charge on Blair but ended up short at the line with Ed Carley third over his son Zach and Sixt in fifth. 

RESULTS:
Super Late Models:
BOOM BRIGGS, Rob Blair, David Scott, Jason Dupont, Brent Rhebergen, Chris Hackett, Darrell Bossard, Bob Dorman, Tom Kronenwetter, Dick Barton, Chuck Parker, Greg Oakes, Michael Oakes, Denny Fenton, Dutch Davies, Lou Jacoby Jr., Doug Eck, Rich Gardner

RUSH CRATES:
MAX BLAIR, Chad Ruhlman, Ed Carley, Zack Carley, Adam Sixt, Doug Ricotta, Damien Bidwell, Jason Genco, Dustin Waters Justin Smith, Craig Dean, Paul Grigsby, Jason Knowles Dave Shagla Jr., Ward Schell, Critter Hemphill, Garrett Mott, Steve Mowery, Bob Kish, Jeremy Wonderling, Bill Mesler, John Haggerty,  Cody Martin, Dereck Frank, Garrett Stephen, Joe Buccola