Sep 26, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
Youth Movement On The Monster Mile – Moffitt wins at Dover; Truex wraps up 2nd straight K&N East title
DOVER, Del. — It was a pair of teenagers who conquered the “Monster Mile” like veterans Friday.
Eighteen-year-old Brett Moffitt picked up his second straight win at Dover International Speedway in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season finale Friday in the Sunoco 150. Ryan Truex, 18, clinched his second-consecutive championship simply by taking the green-flag and capped off his title run with a third-place finish.
Moffitt took advantage of a mechanical issue that sidelined his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Max Gresham on the first of two green-white-checkered attempts to inherit the lead, and then drove away from Corey LaJoie, 18, on the final restart to pick up his second win of the season and fourth of his career.
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Sep 26, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
Shaw Posts Top-10 At Dover; Concludes Season With Sixth Place Finish In Points
Dover, DE (September 25, 2010): DJ Shaw recovered from a late-race spin to finish the Sunoco 150 at Dover International Speedway in tenth. Shaw led 13 laps of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season finale and was a solid contender in the top-five after an early race pit strategy paid big dividends. The finish was enough to move the 20-year-old driver from ninth to sixth in the points.
“Finishing sixth is a success for us. We wanted a top-five in the points and we would have been pretty close to it if I had not gotten spun out,” said Shaw. “But overall, it’s a good end to the season.”
Shaw acclimated himself with the famed Monster Mile in the two practice sessions on Thursday afternoon and put himself in the list of top-15 fastest drivers despite never having run the track before. In qualifying, Shaw posted a lap of 24.383 seconds (147.644 mph) behind the wheel of his No. 60 Precision JLM Ford and earned a 17th place starting position.
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Sep 21, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
Eddie MacDonald and the Grimm Racing Team competed in three of the five
feature races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and their effort was rewarded
with a sixth place finish in the K&N Pro Series East and a fifth place run
in the ACT Invitational. The “experiment” in running a “spec” engine in the
Camping World Truck Series ended with a wrecked truck and scored in 30th
place.
The K&N Pro Series East race kicked off a busy weekend for the team with
MacDonald posting the fifth fastest speed in the practice and followed it up
with a fourth place run in qualifying. The Rowley, Mass driver maintained
the position early in the race then slipped back to ninth on lap 45 as the
car became tight. MacDonald restarted in second place on lap 51 after the
leaders pitted and held on to the spot until the caution on lap 74.
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Sep 18, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
In a race plagued with late race cautions, it was Ryan Truex behind the wheel of his No. 00 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota who raced his way to the checkered flag in the New Hampshire 125 sweeping both series races at “The Magic Mile.”
Truex lost the lead with 15 laps to go but when the No. 38 of Allen Tardiff and No. 07 of Corey LaJoie got into each other he took the lead and found his way to victory lane for the second straight time this season.
“I think we definitely had the best car here today, and the best car won,” said Truex. “I really do have to give all the credit to my guys. They’re at the shop everyday working on both the East and Nationwide rides.”
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Sep 13, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
Eddie MacDonald and the Grimm Racing Team will have their hands full this
weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway as they will participate in three of
the scheduled five events at “The Magic Mile.” MacDonald will take the green
flag in the K&N Pro Series East” New Hampshire 125 on Friday, then compete
in the Craftsman Truck Series and the American-Canadian Tour Invitational
races scheduled for Saturday.
The team has been preparing for the weekend for some time and MacDonald
realizes the pressure saying, “This is something we have planned on since
the beginning of the season but we have been out straight preparing both
cars and the truck. I can honestly say that all the preparation is worth it
because we feel really good about our chances, at least in the East and ACT
races. We decided to race our truck, we bought two Roush trucks earlier this
year, and it’s really an experiment, so our goal is to qualify for the race
and hope for a good finish. We are definitely excited to be in three events.
We will be dragging afterward but it should be a lot of fun.”
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Aug 26, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
With only three races remaining in the K & N Pro Series East schedule, Eddie
MacDonald is prepared for a solid finish to move into the top five in the
championship point’s race in the American Fence Association 150 presented by
Mayfield Ice Creamier at Gresham Motorsports Park on Saturday, August 28th.
The team currently sits in sixth place as they have come on strong in the
last three races.
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