Budds Creek, MD- For the third consecutive week a new face graced victory lane at the Potomac speedway as Mechanicsville Md.’s Matt Quade collected his career first late model feature win in last Friday night’s 25-lap event.

Roland Mann and Jeff Pilkerton brought the field to the initial green flag. Mann got the jump at the start as he would take the early race lead. Mann appeared to have the car to beat as he lead effortlessly for the first 18-laps of the race. However, a flat tire would sideline his effort on lap-19. Jeff Pilkerton would then inherit the race lead and looked like he would win his first Potomac late model main since 1999.

As Pilkerton lead, fifth-starting Dale Hollidge reached second by the twenty-first circuit. As the duo raced side by side, they would tangle on the final lap, sending both cars to the rear of the field. Matt Quade was in the right place at the right time as he was the new leader and would hold off a furious, last lap challenge by defending track champion David Williams, to score the win.

“This is a dream come true.” The third year pilot stated. “It’s taken us a while to finally get here and I cant thank all my sponsors and my crew for sticking with me.” Having defending champ David Williams on his bumper for the final re-start made Quade a little nervous. “Yeah I knew he was back there.” Quade stated. “The track got one lane and I knew if I stayed on the bottom he’d have a hard time passing on the top.” Bobby Beard collected third, PJ Hatcher was fourth and Ed Pope would complete the top-five. Heats went to Mann and Pilkerton.

In the 16-lap street stock feature it was Pasadena Md.’s Kurt Zimmerman scoring his first win of the season. Zimmerman, who started fourth, took the lead from Eric Johnson on lap-five and would then have to repel the advances of defending track champion Kyle Nelson to post his 13th career Potomac feature win. Johnson would hang on to third, Ricky Edmonds was fourth and John Sellner would fill the front five. Heats went to Zimmerman and Ben Bowie.

In other action Tony Garber made it two wins out of three races in the 20-lap modified feature, Defending hobby stock champion Josh Dotson scored his first feature win of the season in the divisions 15-lap event and Richard Gwizdale annexed the 15-lap four-cylinder feature.