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MacDonald Named 2009 Busch Sport Scene
Driver of the Year |
Eddie MacDonald participated in
the 11th Annual Busch Sport Scene Ride for Charity on
February 6th, just one week after earning a top ten
finish in the NASCAR Toyota All Star Showdown in
Irwindale, California. Eddie made the trek to Rangeley,
ME to support the annual charity event that has raised
over $100,000 in the past eleven years.
The event has also become the occasion to announce the
Busch Sport Scene annual awards. Busch Sport Scene
publisher George Campbell announced the magazine's
Driver of the Year and Fans Favorite award winners for
the 2009 season. Eddie was honored as the winner of both
awards this year, becoming one of the few to have ever
won both awards in one year.
The Driver of the Year award is chosen by the Busch
Sport Scene staff members. Staff members are asked to
nominate their top three choices for the award, in order
of first to third. The first place driver receives three
points, the second place driver earns two points while
the third place person gets a single point. The driver
with the most points is named the Busch Sport Scene
Driver of the Year.
Eddie had one of the most amazing years on the
racetrack, by any driver from the northeast in recent
memory. As a full time competitor on the NASCAR Camping
World Series in 2009, Eddie finished runner-up for the
series championship, falling just 34 points behind
series champion Ryan Truex, who drives for the Michael
Waltrip Racing team. Eddie notched ten top tens and a
pair of pole awards in his best career season in the
CWS.
Eddie also won the 2009 Track Championship at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway. Driving the No. 71 NEMO/Grimm
Construction Chevrolet, Eddie finished sixth in the
Heluva Good! 125 in June and won the second Heluva Good!
125 in September, which led to his second consecutive
NHMS Track Championship.
Making Eddie's 2009 season even more remarkable is the
other races he ran outside of the NASCAR Camping World
Series. Eddie also raced a NASCAR modified car at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway and a super late model in the
Pro All Stars Series. But his most impressive
performances of the 2009 season came in a late model
stock car.
Eddie won the prestigious TD Banknorth 250 at Oxford
Plains Speedway with his late model in July. He then
followed that up with an amazing win in the American
Canadian Tour's Inaugural ACT Invitational at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway in September - on the same
weekend as he won the NASCAR CWSE Race at NHMS!
Eddie was presented the Driver of the Year package that
featured a $1000 gift Certificate from Bo Built Race Car
Bodies. bo Built has sponsored the award for several
years now. Bo & Sally Galloway of Bo Built Race Car
Bodies provide the best bodies for many of the premiere
race teams in the region. Based out of Weare, NH, some
of Bo Built's winning clients include 2008 NASCAR
Camping World Series Champion Matt Kobyluck and Two-Time
New Hampshire Motor Speedway Champion Eddie MacDonald.
Bo supplies stock car bodies for four of the top ten
finishing teams in the 2010 Toyota All Star Showdown,
including the winning team, Fadden Racing!
Get-Etched again provided the winners plaque, a
beautiful granite etched plaque honoring the annual
award winner. They also included a gift certificate for
Get Etched products.
Previous Driver of the Year winners include Brad
Leighton, Andy Santerre, Mike Olsen, Joey Logano and
last year's winner, Matt Kobyluck.
"I'm especially happy to have Eddie win the Annual Busch
Sport Scene Driver of the Year award," Busch Sport Scene
publisher George Campbell said. "Eddie is such a
talented driver and had an incredible year, he really
earned this award, he had one of the most memorable
seasons of a New Englander in recent history."
Brian Hoar was named runner up this year after his great
year, which he capped off by winning his sixth American
Canadian Tour Championship. His first win of the 2009
season, and 24th of his ACT career, came when the ACT
Tour made it's return to Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in
Scarborough, Maine last July. He followed that race up
with another win, this time at Waterford Speedbowl in
Connecticut.
After presenting MacDonald with the Driver of the Year
award, next up was the Busch Sport Scene Fans Favorite
Driver award. This award is voted on by the readers of
Busch Sport Scene and the popular motorsports website,
neracing.com The readers are asked to send in the name
of their favorite driver through the month of December.
They are asked to name the driver they most like to
watch and follow when they attend races.
"We received a long list of drivers names this year,"
Campbell said. "Each week received a variety of names.
But as the names added up, one drivers name kept coming
in with strong consistancy. It seemed as though for
every new drivers name we received, we received another
vote for Eddie MacDonald. by the time voting closed,
Eddie had nearly a 2 to 1 landslide win this year." |
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