GRIFFIN, Ga. -- Max Gresham has had more than his share of detours during the 2009 racing season.

“It seems like I can’t go anywhere without raining for a test or a race getting canceled for about two months now,” said Gresham. “We can’t catch a break. I haven’t raced since September at New Hampshire. I sure hope I remember how to do it this weekend at Concord.”

Gresham will wheel the No. 7-11 Gresham Motorsports Park/World Crown 300 sponsored entry in the North-South Shootout this weekend at Concord Motorsports Park in Concord, NC. Gresham, a 16-year-old high school Junior student at Woodward Academy in College Park, GA, got his first taste of the unique Concord half-mile tri-oval layout at a recent test.

“My first reaction was ‘wow, this is one messed up track.’” said Gresham. “But then I got to running on it and we were pretty fast. It didn’t take long and I started to like it a lot. It’s definitely different, especially around that bootleg on the back. I was able to run wide open through there, so that’s a pretty fun, but fast, part of the racetrack.”

For all intents and purposes, this weekend’s Shootout at Concord will be Gresham’s first true Super Late Model start. The young driving star completed less than a lap in his Super Late Model debut at Pensacola. FL last month, swept out of the race in a multi-car crash. Since then, wet weather and event cancelations have kept Gresham – who
banked two American Speed Association Southeast Asphalt Tour wins and three Top-10 finishes and an outside pole in four NASCAR Camping World Series East starts driving for Joe Gibbs Racing earlier this season - on the sidelines.

“This is going to be a fun place to race,” said Gresham of Concord. “There are some bumps coming out of Turn 1 as you haul off toward the bootleg on the back. They can upset the car real bad and you can’t get back into the gas the way you want to. It’s also a good place to get run over if you aren’t careful. We had our car flying through there during the test, so I’m not too worried about that.

“We got knocked out real early in out only other attempt at a Super Late Model race this season,” Gresham continued. “I’m pretty eager to see how this is going to turn out for us this weekend at Concord. It will be good to get back in a racecar again.”

The North/South Shootout is set for November 6-8 at Concord Motorsports Park. For more information, please log on to www.concordmotorsportspark.com or www.northsouthshootout.com.

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

For information about sponsorship/partnering with Max Gresham and Gresham Motorsports, please contact Tony Gresham at tgresham@greshaminc.com.