Competition Staff

Andy Santerre

Newly appointed Director of Competition, K&N Pro Series for Revolution Racing and the Drive for Diversity program, Andy Santerre is the one of the most recognizable and reputable names in NASCAR.

Santerre, a Cherryfield, Maine native, began his racing career behind the wheel. He was successful – becoming the first NASCAR K&N Pro Series driver to win four-consecutive championships (2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005). Santerre also earned a series-leading four Most Popular Driver awards (1994, 2002, 2003 and 2005) and two Sportsmanship awards (2003 and 2004). He earned Rookie of the Year awards in both the NASCAR K&N Pro Series (1993) and the NASCAR Nationwide Series (1998). Santerre has 25-career wins and has won in every major series he has competed in, including the highly-competitive NASCAR Nationwide Series.

Santerre hung up his helmet in 2005 to become a pioneer in the driver development movement. He started his own NASCAR K&N Pro Series team in 2006 and has spent the past four seasons building the reputation for consistently fast racecars, quality equipment, spotting talent and innovation within the racing industry. Drivers Santerre has helped develop include current RCR driver, Sean Caisse; DEI driver, Jeffrey Earnhardt; RCR Driver, Austin Dillon; former NASCAR National Champion, Peyton Sellers; and most recently, Brett Moffitt, who, under Santerre’s tutelage, became the youngest driver in series history to win a race and a pole.

Santerre is taking his extensive knowledge, experience and talent to his new position as Director of Competition, K&N Pro Series at Revolution Racing in 2010.

Blair Addis

Blair Addis, a native of Greenville, S.C., has joined Revolution Racing as Director of Competition, Late Model Stock, overseeing the organization’s six NASCAR Whelen All-American Series late model teams.

Addis has been involved in racing since he was five years-old, having grown up just miles from the historic Greenville Pickens Speedway. Addis started his career racing motorcycles before transitioning to stock cars, when he took ownership of a street stock team.

Addis couldn’t sit on the sidelines long and soon began competing in the Charger division at Greenville Pickens Speedway for his own team, Addis Motorsports. He moved up to Street Stocks and then to Late Models, winning rookie of the year honors.

In 2005, Addis took home the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series track championship at Greenville Pickens Speedway. The following season he ventured into the NASCAR Camping World Series East and the UARA Late Model Series before stepping out from behind the wheel to focus on team ownership and driver development.

Addis has competed as a driver at numerous tracks throughout the Southeast, including Greenville Pickens, South Boston Speedway, Hickory Motor Speedway, Martinsville Speedway and Caraway Speedway, among others. He has fielded cars in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series for drivers such as Michael Cherry, Michelle Theriault, Toby Porter and Marty Lindley.

Addis now lives in Mooresville, N.C., with his wife, Deborah, and their two daughters, Jessica and Hannah.

Phil Horton

Phil Horton is currently the pit crew coach for the Drive for Diversity Crew Member Development program presented by Sprint, as well as the strength and conditioning coach for Revolution Racing. Horton got his start in NASCAR as a personal trainer for former driver Ernie Irvin. Horton’s clientele soon broadened to include pit crew athletes, as well as eight other NASCAR drivers and 12 race teams over the span of seven years.

Over the years, Horton has developed his own coaching philosophy for the pit crew athletes who service the race cars and has enjoyed tremendous success as a pit crew coach and athletic trainer in the industry.

Horton, an accomplished high school athlete, graduated from North Carolina A&T State University in 1983 with a degree in Health and Physical Education/Sports Medicine and continued academic studies in the graduate program at Michigan State University. During his time at Michigan State, he was also employed as a Grad Assistant Football Athletic Trainer. In 1985, Horton was hired at Florida A&M University as its first certified Head Athletic Trainer.

In 1990, Horton continued his career as the Head Football Athletic Trainer at Memphis State University, today known as University of Memphis. With a growing desire to pursue a career in professional athletics, he left Memphis to become the Assistant Athletic Trainer and Strength Coach with the NBA Milwaukee Bucks from 1991 to 1996.

Shortly after leaving the Bucks, Horton returned to North Carolina and his private athletic training practice and began his work in NASCAR.