May 24, 2015
Little Valley, NY

LITTLE VALLEY, NY- In a rare appearance in a Super Late Model this season, Max Blair, from Centerville, PA, scored a dominating win in his first start at Little Valley Speedway.

Blair, whose father, Robbie, is a many year veteran in Super Late Models, with numerous wins, started eighth in the 18 car field for the 25 lap feature, but was on the move early, claiming third by lap five, while former track champion Jason Dupont took the early lead from the outside pole, with Dutch Davies in second. Davies battled with Dupont until he claimed the lead on lap eight. Two cautions saw the top three still in that order before Blair muscled into second on lap 12.

A caution shortly thereafter put Blair on the rear bumper of Davies for the restart, from where he wrested the lead from Davies, going wide in turn four. From there, he drove out to a commanding lead over the latter half of the race to take the $3,000 winner's check. Davies settled for second, with Dupont, Mike Knight, and Greg Oakes, who soldiered up from thirteenth, rounding out the top five.

Blair commented, “I really enjoy racing here. I like this place. This place was a lot of fun to race on tonight. I really enjoyed myself. This was only my third time racing this car. The weather hasn't been on our side for it. I can't wait to come back.” On the race itself and catching Davies from far back, he added, “At the beginning I was real good on the bottom. I think I was going to run those guys down. After that yellow, I don't know what happened. I couldn't hit the bottom any more. I knew I wasn't going to win if I didn't change something, so we moved up and found something up there and got her done, I guess.”

Super Late Models: (25 laps) – 1. Max Blair, 2. Dutch Davies, 3. Jason Dupont, 4. Mike Knight, 5. Greg Oakes, 6. Chad Valone, 7. John Lobb, 8. Paul Briggs, 9. Kirk Bradley, 10. John Lacki, 11. Michael Oakes, 12. Terry Porter, 13. Nathan Hill, 14. Tim Stice, 15. Kyle Bedell, 16. Andrew Eastman, 17. Bump Hedman, and Brent Rhebergen. Heat winners were Knight, Valone, and Blair.