Gresham Rebounds To New Hampshire Win

Max Gresham picked up the win and lengthened his points lead in the K&N Pro Series East event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Friday. Photo by Geoff Burke/Getty Images for NASCAR

Max Gresham overcame an early pit-road miscue to win the New England 125 Friday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

It is the second win of the season and fourth career victory for Gresham, the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East points leader.

The Griffin, GA, driver won the 21-Means-21 Pole Award presented by Coors Light in Thursday’s qualifying and led most of the early laps in Friday’s race.

However, while most of the lead cars pitted on Lap 48, miscommunication between Gresham, his crew chief and spotter caused the Joe Gibbs Racing development driver to stay out a lap longer.

“My crew chief, Bryant Frazier, and I were talking on the radio and we never gave my spotter Curtis Markham a chance to tell me pit road was open,” said Gresham. “We just missed it. It was a little thing that we thought would hurt us in the long run, but we fought our way back. We drove our race and got back to the front. This Toyota Camry that Joe Gibbs Racing gave me was awesome.”

The miscue meant Gresham restarted 21st after the cycle of pit stops and he had to work his way through the field.

Gresham took the lead from runner-up Brett Moffitt on Lap 112 and pulled away over the closing laps.

“It’s awesome to come from the back and win is very cool,” said Gresham. “Most people would want to get back to the front as soon as they could, but we just slowed down and ran our pace. We tried to get a car a lap, keep the tires under the car and keep the fenders clean. We knew if we could do that, we’d have something for them at the end. We were able to do that and it definitely paid off for us in the end.”

Corey LaJoie finished third, followed by fellow rookie Brandon Gdovic and Benny Gordon.

Alex Bowman, Daniel Suarez, Sergio Pena, Eddie MacDonald and Chase Elliott rounded out the top 10.

Gresham led a race-high 53 laps. Championship contenders Matt DiBenedetto (27th) and Darrell Wallace Jr. (30th) allowed Gresham to push his points lead to 94 over Moffitt, who moved to second. DiBenedetto dropped to third in points, 125 behind, and Wallace is fourth, 139 back. Sergio Pena rounds out the top five.

The New England 125 will be broadcast on SPEED on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. ET

The NASCAR K&N Pro Series East will return to the track on Saturday, July 23 for the Jegs 150 at Columbus (Ohio) Motor Speedway.

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