Irwindale, CA., Apr. 24 – First-time victories are emotional for racers and fans alike, but are even more spectacular when the driver climbing out of the car is a fresh faced 17 year old that doesn’t look like he shaves yet and his young 24 year old teammate just took the points lead!

The Las Vegas-based Vision Airlines Super Late Model team enjoyed that feeling twice on April 24^th when the pair of young Las Vegas drivers – Justin Johnson, 24, and Dusty Davis, 17 swept both 40 lap features during the NASCAR Whelen All-American Racing Series at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.

Both drivers scored their initial feature wins in convincing fashion, aided by Competition Director Rip Michels and Crew Chiefs Chuck and Sonny Wahl.  Johnson finished second in the main event two weeks ago to tie his Irwindale career best. He told the media, “My car was tight in the first 40 so we loosened it up a bit between races, but we went too far. We planned to race for the 2010 track championship, but we didn’t think we would win this early and take the points lead so early.” Johnson now leads the Pepsi Super Late Model points by 16 over Randel King and Ryan Reed.  When Davis was asked about the win and his car in the second 40 lapper, Dusty said, “It was perfect, I could put the car wherever I wanted, top middle or bottom.  It was exactly what you hope for at the end of the night”. Davis ranks fifth, just 20 points in back of his teammate.

Johnson started fourth and got the lead on lap three, then he and Davis logged a one-two sweep in the first main event. Davis cut through the field from his sixth starting positon and won the second 40 lap feature going away and Johnson earned third place. Davis also set the fastest lap in the first of two afternoon practice sessions and was second fastest in the second practice session, but due to a dice roll and a 6 position inversion, started sixth in both feature races.

So why did the Vision team enjoy such success this week at Irwindale? Team owner Steve Acor hired driver Rip Michels, of San Fernando, CA., to work as Competition Director and set-up the Vision cars for Toyota Speedway at Irwindale racing. He spent the last two weeks in Las Vegas working to improve the team. Michels is the all-time Irwindale main event winner with 61 features. The team practiced during Friday’s open-practice and had two Super Late Model practice sessions to get comfortable with Rip’s changes to the No. 94 and 98 cars. The two winners credited Michels for getting their cars dialed in.  Johnson topped his prior best of second place while Davis beat his prior best point finish—fifth. Davis also finished ninth in the SLM 40-car, 66-lap main event during the Toyota All-Star Showdown in January.