A good crowd turned out for a nice night of racing at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday night and it became a night to remember for 15-year-old Max Zachem of Preston.
Zachem captured the 20-lap Legends feature, the first win of his three-year racing career.
It happened the hard way as Zachem was passed by Jason Palmer on the next-to-last lap, but a caution flag saved the Norwich Free Academy junior.
"I would have settled for second, I wasn't going to drive stupid to try and catch up to him. The car did all it could do and he got ahead of me," Zachem said.
That's when Lady Luck intervened and the caution flag flew. Zachem went to the bottom of the race track, gave Palmer a little bump out of the second turn and captured the victory.
Other winners on Saturday night included Ben Bargnesi of Norwich who won for a third time this season in the Mini-Stocks.
Another Norwich driver, Tim Jordan, captured the 30-lap Late Model feature with Albert Stone III of New Haven winning the 20-lap Sportsman feature.