Max Blair picked up the home state victory
The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series came to Max Blair’s home state this weekend for the 17th annual running of the Firecracker 100 presented by Big River Steel and the driver of the No. 111 car took advantage by scoring his first series victory at Lernerville Speedway, The win came in a Friday night preliminary to Saturday night’s $50,000-to-win main event.
The Rocket Chassis driver from Centerville, Pennsylvania earned $5,000 for his efforts on the track located in Sarver, Pennsylvania in a race aired live by FloRacing.com.
A total of 48 cars were signed in for competition
Qualifying Results: 1. Michael Norris(16.417), 2. Daulton Wilson, 3. Max Blair, 4. Devin Moran, 5. Mason Zeigler, 6. Tyler Bruening, 7. Cody Overton, 8. Ryan Montgomery, 9. Garrett Alberson, 10. Levi Yetter
Heat Race Results:
Heat 1 Finish- 1. Devin Moran, 2. Michael Norris, 3. Cody Overton, 4. Levi Yetter, 5. John Garvin Jr., 6. Joshua Powell, 7. Ron Hall, 8. Dan Angelicchio
Heat 2 Finish- 1. Daulton Wilson, 2. Logan Zarin, 3. Mason Zeigler, 4. Cory Sines, 5. Breyton Santee, 6. Ryan Montgomery, 7. Chris Schneider, 8. Kevin Smith
Heat 3 Finish- 1. Max Blair, 2. Tyler Bruening, 3. Tim McCreadie, 4. Boom Briggs, 5. Garrett Alberson, 6. Colton Flinner, 7. Braeden Dillinger, 8. Chuckie Lepsch, 9. Todd Bachman
Feature Re-cap: Moran took the lead from the start of what would prove to be a 25-lap caution plagued affair with Wilson, Blair, Norris and Bruening trailing. Moran and Wilson exchanged multiple sliders over the first couple of laps before Moran emerged with the race lead.
Top-5 running Norris spun while trying to make a move for third place to bring out an early yellow flag. That miscue sent the Lernerville regular to the tail of the field from which he would rally.
Blair moved to second by passing Wilson on a lap 3 restart which opened the door for Bruening to also get by the No. 18D machine.
Following a lap 7 caution, Zeigler would take fourth from Wilson. However, Wilson would fight back and regain the position three laps later. McCreadie followed, entering the top-5 with his own pass of Zeigler.
Wilson closed in and then moved around Bruening for third. But it was up ahead where the pivotal move of the race occurred when Blair wrested the lead away from Moran on lap 20. Wilson moved around Moran for the runner-up spot on lap 23.
But in the end it was Blair who sailed under the checkered flag to record his first series win.
Feature Results: 1. Max Blair, 2. Daulton Wilson, 3. Devin Moran, 4. Michael Norris, 5. Tyler Bruening, 6. Tim McCreadie, 7. Colton Flinner, 8. Garrett Alberson, 9. Ryan Montgomery, 10. Logan Zarin, 11. Brayton Santee, 12. Cody Overton, 13. Boom Briggs, 14. Braeden Dillinger. 15. Levi Yetter, 16. Cory Sines, 17. Dan Angelicchio, 18. Chris Schneider, 19. Mason Zeigler, 20. Kevin Smith, 21. Chuckie Lepsch, 22. John Garvin Jr., 23. Joshua Powell, 24. Ron Hall
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