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GRIFFIN, GA (August 5, 2009) – On the surface, Saturday’s Anderson 100 American Speed Association Southeast Asphalt Tour event at Anderson (SC) Speedway might look like any other race on a 3/8-mile oval. According to Max Gresham, however, it’s the little things that make Anderson different from the rest of the speedways on the circuit.

“A lot of the tracks we race on in the ASA Southeast Series are similar, but you have to approach each one differently,” said Gresham. “Each one has their little quirks – Anderson will certainly have its share of them. When you figure out with those little things are, that’s when you find the real speed at that track. If you try to run every track the same way, you never find that real speed.”

Gresham and his Gresham Motorsports No. 7-11 Late Model have had plenty of speed in ASA competition this season winning two of the seven division events contested. Recently, however, that speed has been negated by a string of bad luck that has dropped him from first to third in the championship standings – 48 points out of the top spot.

“I need to do well in this race,” said Gresham of Saturday’s Anderson 100-lap headliner. “We’ve struggled in the last couple of ASA races with a wreck at Cordele and then another crash in the most recent event at Montgomery. We finished fourth at Lanier between those two races, but we need to pull out another win or a top finish to get us back on track.”

To do that, Gresham will have to master the tight Anderson oval – a place where he has never competed in a full-bodied Late Model Stock Car.

“I’ve run a couple of Legends races at Anderson, but I have never raced a Late Model there,” said Gresham. “It’s a pretty tough little track. It’s got some decent banking to it and it wears tires pretty well. It’s going to be another one of those races where you are going to have to conserve what you have in the early part of the event so you have something left to race with at the end.”

Despite his recent sub-par ASA finishes, Gresham – a 16-year-old student who will begin his Junior year at Woodward Academy in College Park, GA in a couple of weeks – is confident he and his team can rebound down the stretch and contend for the ASA division title.

“I still think we have a great chance of winning the ASA Southeast championship,” Gresham stated. “I know we have a great shot of winning every time we go to the racetrack thanks to the efforts of my crew chief Gene Roberts and the rest of the guys on this Gresham Motorsports team. My dad told me one time ‘why go to the race track if you don’t think you can win?’ We’ve already proven we can win this season and we think we can again. Now we just have to go out and try to do it again this weekend at Anderson.”

Gresham will take the green flag in the Anderson 100 at Anderson Speedway Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

To learn more about Max Gresham and Gresham Motorsports, please log on to www.greshammotorsports.com.

- Gresham Motorsports Press Release