Gresham Has Multiple Goals Set For World Crown 300
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Griffin, GA (November 10, 2009) – Max Gresham will be racing to achieve both his professional and personal goals when he straps in for the 26th-Annual World Crown 300 at Gresham Motorsports Park this Sunday.
“This year’s World Crown 300 is going to be an interesting experience for us,” said Gresham. “We’ll be racing on an all-new track, one that is owned by my grandfather. It’s my name on the racetrack too, so you know I want to do well. We want to do that at every race, but given the circumstances, this is one event that we are extremely focused on. That’s the way we approach every race. I don’t think there is any extra pressure. It’s the World Crown 300 – just trying to win that race is enough to keep our team digging hard.”
Gresham has had an impressive 2010 season. The 16-year-old high school Junior student at Woodward Academy in College Park, GA won a pair of American Speed Association Southeast Asphalt Tour events early in the year and then followed it up with four solid showings in the Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR Camping World Series East division. Gresham ran third at Iowa Speedway and notched an outside pole and eighth-place run at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to highlight the Gibbs’ association.
Last week, Gresham qualified fourth in his second-ever Super Late Model event – the CRA North/South 125 Shootout at Concord (NC) Motorsports Park. He eventually finished 14th after losing power steering in his No. 7-11 Gresham Motorsports entry halfway through the race.
Now, Gresham will face one of his biggest challenges of the season in the World Crown 300 this weekend.
“We had a really good car last year,” said Gresham, who finished ninth in the 2009 WC 300 classic. “We were allowed eight tires for the race and we tried a different pit strategy. We saved a set of right-side tires for the end of the race and the cautions didn’t fall the way we wanted them to, so we never got to use them. That kind of hurt us, but we still had one of the fastest cars at the end of the race and that gives us a lot of confidence coming into this year’s World Crown 300.”
As for this year’s race, Gresham has his sights set high.
“Of course, winning the World Crown 300 would be extremely special,” said Gresham. “Knowing all the time and effort that everyone – my grandfather, dad, and the staff of the speedway – have put into that place to turn it into something special would make winning there even sweeter. It would be really sweet for my team too. It would be great to win the first-ever race at Gresham Motorsports Park for a lot of reasons.”
The 26th-Annual World Crown 300 at Gresham Motorsports Park will take the green flag Friday, November 13, with the first-ever appearance of the INEX/600 Racing Legends, Bandoleros and Thunder Cars taking to the freshly minted GMP quarter- and half-mile ovals.
Saturday’s action will feature racing in four divisions – Iceman Late Models, Mini-Stocks, Renegades and Trucks – as well as Late Model Monolith Companies Pole Award qualifying to see who will lead the field to the start of Sunday’s World Crown 300.
Sunday’s race will roll off at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.
For information about sponsorship/partnering with Max Gresham and Gresham Motorsports, please contact Tony Gresham at tgresham@greshaminc.com.