Adirondack
International Speedway
Beaver
Falls, NY
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The Edge Hotel 150
presented by
Casella Waste Systems
August 1st, 2009 |
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MACDONALD FINISHES TENTH AT ADIRONDACK |
Eddie
MacDonald scored his first ever Camping World Series
East pole for the Edge Hotel 150 at Adirondack
International Speedway with a time of 16.739 sec.
(107.533mph). The Grimm Construction Chevy led the field
with 101 laps but the handling went away late in the
race causing MacDonald to slide back to tenth.
“ It was so great to win the Coors Light Pole Award. We
have been on the outside pole a number of times but this
was my first in the Camping World East. I really thought
we had a good chance to win this thing but the right
front tire was just used up at the end. When I turned it
in the corner, it just wanted to go straight.”
When the green flag waved, MacDonald was able to
establish a four-car length lead was not seriously
challenged according to the driver, “I didn’t have
anybody pushing me but we started off tighter than we
should have been and that started using up the right
front tire. I was just riding around out there. When we
got to a hundred laps I thought we could run the last
fifty the same way but it gave out at the end. It would
have been nice to win it from the pole but it just
didn’t happen.”
Matt Kobyluck’s #40 took the lead from MacDonald on lap
51 but the #71 was able to re-take the top spot eleven
laps later. By lap 96, MacDonald and Jody Lavender were
pulling away from the field with the #88 taking first on
lap 112 with MacDonald saying, “At that point we were
really starting to slide in the turns. Later on when I
started racing the #00 for second it felt like I was on
ice. At that point I just started going backwards. It’s
one of those things that happen. We were hoping for the
win so it was disappointing to end up tenth.”
The team will now prepare for the road course race at
Lime Rock Park on August 15 and MacDonald feels
confident the team can improve from third in the points
with a solid run saying, “We had a pretty good car but
the engine let go but we had a decent run in the back-up
car. Hopefully we will definitely have a much better run
this year and try to improve our position in the
points.” |
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OFFICIAL RUNDOWN:
1. PARK, 2. TRUEX, 3. LAVENDER, 4. HERNANDEZ, 5.
KOBYLUCK, 6. TARDIFF, 7. DILLON, 8. MOFFITT, 9. SALEMI,
10.
MACDONALD,
11. DELANEY, 12. SMITH, 13. CLOCE, 14. DUFF, 15.
HOLEHOUSE, 16. GRESHAM, 17. KURZEJEWSKI, 18. ARTHUR, 19.
BOULEY, 20. KENNEDY, 21. PECK |
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QUALIFYING: MacDonald Collects First
Series Career Pole Award
Championship hunt heats up
by
Jason Christley, NASCAR - August 1, 2009 - 4:30pm
BEAVER FALLS, N.Y. – In
the middle of the championship hunt, Eddie MacDonald put
himself in perfect position at the start of The Edge
Hotel 150 presented Casella Waste Systems.
MacDonald, making his 118th career
start, earned his first Coors Light Pole Award.
MacDonald was the first driver out in qualifying and put
down a lap of 16.739 seconds around the half-mile
asphalt oval.
MacDonald enters the
event nine points behind rookie Ryan Truex in the points
standings with four races remaining. Truex will start
10th.
Rookie Brett Moffitt
qualified second at 16.806 seconds (107.105 mph). Matt
Kobyluck, who has won at Adirondack three times
including last year, qualified third at 16.823
(106.996). Ryan Duff and Dustin Delaney rounded out the
top five.
Alex Kennedy, who was fastest in
practice, qualified sixth.
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