“MAD” Max Wins CAUTION FREE “Night of Fire” Race #1 at Raceway 7
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** August 10th, 2013 FASTRAK PR
(Conneaut,
Ohio) – The 10th Touring event for FASTRAK Northeast Touring Division
was the final visit of the 2013 season at the Raceway 7 located in
Conneaut, Ohio in front of a packed house. The $1,500 to win bout was a
wild intense night of racing for Night #1 of the “Night of Fire”. When
the night ended Max Blair would then go on to dominate a CAUTION FREE
event at Raceway 7. The victory seemingly is getting him closer to
contention of locking up the 2013 FASTRAK Northeast Championship.
In
VP Race for the Pole Qualifying #111 of Titusville, Pennsylvania native
and current Northeast Points Leader Max Blair got the winning night
started off by setting quick time around the 7/16th mile with an 18.550
second lap.
The Heat Races we’re very exciting and offered just an
appetizer before the main course – 25 Lap A-Main Events. Chevy
Performance Heat race #1 had #21* Billy Henry and #111 Max Blair
battling for position when on lap 3 battling for the point, contact was
made between the two sending Henry’s car like a cannon hard into the
outside barrier. The decision was made that Blair got into him forcing
him to be sent to the rear. That didn’t stop Blair though has he rallied
back to the front taking Chevy Performance Heat #1.
In
RockAuto.com Heat #2 it was a 3 car battle for the victory between #B1D
Matt Latta, #14 Dan Angelicchio and #6 Chad Wright. They bumped and
banged lap after lap fighting for the top spot. In the late going #6
Chad Wright who suffered a mechanical fire after his qualifying time got
into the left rear of #11 Robby Rohrer sending his car off the ground
on the backstretch and forcing him to back down and settle for a Top 5
in the heat. After that transpired #14 Dan Angelicchio did all he could
to rally by #B1D Matt Latta but it wasn’t enough has the Conneaut Lake,
Pennsylvania native took down RockAuto.com Heat #2.
In VP Race
Fuels Heat #3 #19 Michael Mitchell and #9 Breyton Santee made contact at
the firing line getting the field to stack up behind them collecting
#92 Joel Watson and #6p Jim Long who raced tonight for the 1st time in 2
years. Once they got straightened out Santee was hung out to dry on the
start exiting turn 3 and caused him losing the lead to #19 Michael
Mitchell which made an open book shut case put Mitchell to take the
checkers in VP Race Fuels Heat #3.
After the special driver
introductions and after the conclusion of the “Night of Fire” Fireworks
pyrotechnics spectacular for the fans the field was ready to go to work
with the 25 lap 1st race feature in this weekend’s double header weekend
“Night of Fire”.
At the drop of the Green flag it stayed that way
the entire 25 lap Feature as #111 “MAD” Max Blair was simply on FIRE
for Race #1 “Night of Fire” at Raceway 7. Blair taking down the win
pocketed his 5th FASTRAK Northeast Touring Division win of the 2013
season going CAUTION FREE the entire feature. Nobody had anything for
Blair as he cruised on to the victory and the only battle he really
faced was getting by lap traffic a time or two. The only non-caution
problems was on lap #2 when #16 Dereck Frank got into the wall in turn
one but retired to the infield as did the #6p Jim Long. The problem with
#21* Billy Henry was the only incident that likely could have caused a
yellow but he made it to the infield safely. #B1D Matt Latta and #19
Michael Mitchell we’re able to hang with each other but settled for the
Top 3. #71L Dennis Lunger and #11 Josh Holtgraver had a great little
battle between them to round out the Top 5. Max Blair’s margin of
victory was 5.560 seconds from 1st to 2nd at the finish.
Un-Official Race Results - FASTRAK Northeast Touring Division “Night of Fire” Race #1 at Raceway, 7 – Conneaut, Ohio
1st #111 Max Blair
2nd #B1D Matt Latta
3rd #19 Michael Mitchell
4th #71L Dennis Lunger
5th #11 Josh Holtgraver
6th #14 Dan Angelicchio
7th #6 Chad Wright
8th #z17 Kyle Zimmerman
9th #42 Dav Airgood Jr.
10th #11 Bobby Rohrer
11th #9 Breyton Santee
12th #135 Jamie Brown
13th #92 Joel Watson
14th #32 Mark Tatalovic
15th #01w Kohle Wanzer
16th #21* Billy Henry
17th #6p Jim Long
18th #16 Dereck Frank
19th #77 Joel Prosser
We
would like to thank Dan McDonald and the entire race staff at the
Raceway 7 for having the FASTRAK Northeast Touring Division at the
7/16th mile for three times this year and putting on some spectacular
racing. Don’t forget they run the Evergreen Lake Park Weekly Late Models
under the FASTRAK Racing Series sanctioning banner the remainder of
their 2013 race season.
With that we’ll pack up everything and
make the trip one hour from Conneaut, Ohio to the 3/8th mile Mercer
Raceway Park in “The Keystone State”. The Mercer, Pennsylvania facility
will also host their final FASTRAK Northeast Touring Division visit in
2013 for the final night to close out the “Night of Fire” double header
weekend paying $1,500 to win.
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FASTRAK Companies International would like
to thank all of its marketing partners for their great and continuing
support. Those 2013 FASTRAK Northeast sponsors include: Hoosier Race
Tires, VP Racing Fuels, Chevrolet Performance Parts, Race-1, TNT Race
Cars, High Velocity Heads and RockAuto.com to our line-up of product
sponsors. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the Premier Pro
Late Model Series in the Country please contact Stan Lester at the
FASTRAK Corporate Office at (678) 935-7304 or Brian Haynes at (706)
340-4781.
