Gresham Takes Thunder Roadster Win, ASA Southeast Tour Mongomery Clash Next
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GRIFFIN, GA (July 21, 2009) – After seeing a number of his late model stock car races get lost to wet weather recently, Max Gresham took matters into his own hands last week jumping into Thunder Roadster car and winning the division’s main event at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
“Make sure you tell everyone I won in the Thunder Roadster car last week,” said the 16-year-old Gresham in a phone interview Tuesday. “I was really frustrated not racing, so I drove our Gresham Motorsports Thunder Roadster and won. I had a blast.”
Gresham has been having fun in his American Speed Association Southeast Asphalt Tour late model this season winning two of the seven events contested and leading the series points by an 822-785 advantage over runner-up Jason Hogan.
This Saturday, Gresham hopes to add to both of those totals when he takes the green flag in the Gateway 100 ASA Southeast clash at Montgomery (AL) Motor Speedway.
“I’ve only been to Montgomery one time and that was for a test,” said Gresham of the 15-degree banked half-mile paved oval. “It has an old racing surface and it is definitely a tire killer. We are going to have to conserve our tires if we want to win the race. Montgomery is definitely one of a kind. I liked it. It was a fun track and I think it’s going to produce a lot of great racing Saturday night.”
In his last ASA outing, Gresham started 14th and finished a solid fourth at Lanier National Speedway. On Saturday, the rising Junior student at Woodward Academy in College Park, GA hopes to start a little closer to the front.
“We’ll race for the win this weekend at Montgomery if we can,” said Gresham. “Of course we want to be able to put ourselves in that position if we can, but regardless of what happens we’ll get the best finish we can. That’s what we did in the last ASA race at Lanier. Our plan changed when we qualified deep in the field and some of the guys in the points chase had problems early. Fortunately, you can come from the back at Lanier and still get a good finish. You can’t do that at a lot of other tracks. I don’t know if you can do that at Montgomery. That’s why we want to qualify up front and race for the win if we can.”
Whatever the result, Gresham is just happy to be going to the racetrack and compete again this weekend at Montgomery.
“Last year, we raced about 25 times,” said Gresham, who will also wheel a Joe Gibbs Racing entry in four NASCAR Camping World East Series events this season. “This year, because of all the rain-outs and the fact that we are running a little different schedule, we’ll be lucky to race in 15 to 20 events. It’s definitely a little frustrating to not be racing as much, but the other side of it is our Gresham Motorsports team has had more time to prepare our cars and our results this season reflect that.”
The Gateway 100 at Montgomery Motor Speedway will roll off Saturday with ASA late model practice at 1 p.m. Qualifying is set for 5:15 p.m. with the 100-lap ASA headline event at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
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