{"id":13126,"date":"2014-05-20T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T23:06:07","slug":"eddie-macdonald-crashes-iowa-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2014\/05\/eddie-macdonald-crashes-iowa-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie MacDonald Crashes at Iowa Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Dick Casey<\/p>\n

Eddie MacDonald and the Grimm Racing Team\u2019s optimism for another strong finish at Iowa Speedway crumbled with a hard hit to the outside wall in NASCAR\u2019s K&N Pro Series combination race Saturday night with the East and West teams meeting for the first of two events on the seven-eighth\u2019s mile oval. After finishing in the runner-up position in the Pork Be Inspired 150 second event at Iowa last season, Eddie Mac returned for the Casey\u2019s General Store 150 with a brand new car with hopes of equaling or bettering last year\u2019s finish.
\nUnfortunately for Eddie Mac, the right front tire blew on lap 57 as the Rowley, Ma. veteran driver attempted an outside pass for the tenth position sending him hard into the outside wall between turns one and two ending his night with a 35th place finish saying, \u201cThat was a tough hit. It really tore up the front of the car and it probably needs a new front clip. We worked hard getting this new car ready for the race and it felt good. We didn\u2019t have time to test so practice was the first time on any track. The crew worked hard to get the car ready and even though we didn\u2019t qualify well, we thought the car would be okay for the race and it was. The car was running great, the handling was good, and only a little loose in practice so we believed we had a good set-up for the race. It was very similar to the set-up we had last year here when we finished second. \u201d<\/p>\n


\nWhen the green flag waved the Grimm Construction\/Multiple Sclerosis Chevy began marching to the front with
\nEddie Mac saying, \u201cWe were really happy with the performance of the car and I don\u2019t know what happened in
\nqualifying (24th) but as soon as we took the green I was able to pick up about seven positions (by lap 25). I
\ndecided to take it easy for a while and just ride. Rollie and I thought we could make a push to about the eighth
\nspot before the halfway break at 75 laps but we never got that far. About five laps before the tire blew, I was
\nable to take some more spots and I think I was 11th and on the outside of Kenzie (Rustin) making the pass for
\ntenth going into turn one and I went straight up into the wall.\u201d
\nThe crash was reminiscent of a similar crash while running first at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last year in
\nthe September K&N race while leading. A right front tire blew at that time sending another new car into the
\nturn one wall with the driver saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know what it is with new cars and flat right front tires but it is
\nfrustrating. I know at Loudon we ran over something but we don\u2019t know for sure what caused this tire to blow
\nwithout any warning. We did not have an issue with camber or anything in practice, so we can\u2019t say what
\ncaused the problem. All I know is, it wrecked a beautiful new car that Rob Grimm paid for and a lot of people
\nworked hard to put together. All that work for nothing! It hurts.\u201d
\nThe K&N Pro Series East returns to Bowman Gray Stadium this season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dick Casey Eddie MacDonald and the Grimm Racing Team\u2019s optimism for another strong finish at Iowa Speedway crumbled with a hard hit to the outside wall in NASCAR\u2019s K&N Pro Series combination race Saturday night with the East and West teams meeting for the first of two events on the seven-eighth\u2019s mile oval. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[727],"class_list":["post-13126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar-kn-pro-series","category-latest-touring-news","tag-eddie-macdonald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}