While his 2009 stats don't appear on paper to be to as good as his 2008 performance, with two poles and three wins were enough to keep him out in front of the points battle until the final race of the season earning him another track championship. Add to the two poles and three wins his 12 podium(top three) finishes and 13 top five's this season and you can see he was a model of consistency on his march toward the title.

With a bright future ahead that will include atleast a partial schedule in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2010, Monteith feels like he was able to put an exclamation point on his Late Model Stock Car career with the second straight Lonesome Pine Raceway track title.

"Everyone in racing knows that winning a championship is tough, no matter where you race and for us to be able to do it two years in a row is something special," said Monteith. "We didn't get as many wins this season as we would have liked to, but the competition stepped up their game, but despite that we were able to come away with the championship."

Monteith knows that it takes many different pieces and parts to make a team work at this or any level of racing and a mid-season crew chief change could have derailed his team, but it actually worked to his advantage.

"We had kind of got off our game a little and we decided to make a crew chief change. That's when we brought in Kirby Gobble and he really turned our program around and got us headed back in the right direction."

For Monteith that meant that his two championships were won with two different crew chief's and he feels that makes what the team accomplished this season even more special. For Gobble, who is most known as one of the top Mini Stock racers in the region, stepping up to be Monteith's crew chief was a huge task, but he came in and handled the job like a seasoned pro.

Now Monteith has his sights set on one final Late Model Stock Car race for this season, which may prove to be his last ever as he prepares to take on the UARA-STARS drivers for the third time this season. The UARA-STARS Late Model Stock Car series will end it's 2009 campaign at Kingsport Speedway located about 15-minutes from Monteith's race shop and a hometown race has the young driver ready to go.

"The UARA-STARS have some of the toughest competition anywhere with Matt McCall, Jamey Caudill, Kyle Grissom and others running in it full time, but with this being the first race of any kind on Kingsport in over seven years I think we've got just as good a chance as anyone. I've ran there before and of the guys on the tour coming in here for the first time I think that gives us a little home field advantage and I hope we can use that to our advantage."

Monteith recently tested at the 3/8 mile concrete facility along with several of the UARA-STARS regulars and feels he was just as good if not better than the other guys that was there, but knows it comes down to qualifying.

"We tested really good and I think we had one of the best cars there, but you know when those UARA guys come in and get ready to qualify they can really lay down a fast lap. So if we don't get a good lap in qualifying it could put us in a hole we can't get out of, because the field is so tight in these races," explained Monteith.

Come Saturday, November 7th, Monteith is hoping he can have a good showing on a track right in his backyard against some of the best in the business and after the way his team has performed over the last two seasons, there's little doubt that he can be a strong contender.

Monteith is supported by Graceway Pharmaceuticals, Amsoil, SPEK Gauges, Clark's Automotive Race Engines, Griffin Radiators, Five Star Stock Car Bodies, TAB Performance, WD Performance Technology, Sherwin Williams Auto Finishes and Pistone LTO Chassis.

For more information on Nate Monteith check out his new website at www.NateMonteith.com