{"id":1609,"date":"2009-09-18T22:49:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2009-09-18T22:49:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:49:37","slug":"macdonald-back-in-victory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/09\/macdonald-back-in-victory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Back In Victory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             <strong><span class=\"storySubhead\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-subhead\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item\">Third win in last four races at Loudon<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/strong> \t\t\t<span class=\"storyByline\">Jason Cunningham, NASCAR<br \/> \t\t\tSeptember 18, 2009 &#8211; 6:25pm<\/span> \t\t<\/p>\n<p> <strong>LOUDON, N.H. &ndash;<\/strong> Eddie MacDonald closed the gap on NASCAR Camping World Series East points leader Ryan Truex Friday night at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a win in the Heluva Good! Fall 125. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MacDonald beat Kevin Swindell to the line on a Lap 92 restart and kept the lead when Swindell faltered on a Lap 97 green-white-checker restart to win the rain-delayed and darkness-shortened race in Loudon. <\/p>\n<p>MacDonald, driver of the No. 71 NEMO\/Daymark Chevrolet from Rowley, Mass., entered Friday trailing Truex by 50 points in the season standings. By virtue of winning the race and leading a lap, MacDonald was able to gain 20 points on Truex &ndash; who finished third &ndash; with just one race remaining to decide the championship. <\/p>\n<p>MacDonald also earned a secure spot in the postseason NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, to be run Jan. 30, 2010 at the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale (Calif.). <\/p>\n<p>Brett Moffitt wound up second Friday and was followed across the line by Truex, Matt Kobyluck, and Jesus Hernandez. Kobyluck led a race-high 38 laps but lost the lead to Swindell on the Lap 82 restart. <\/p>\n<p> The rest of the top 10 finishers were Jody Lavender, Alan Tardiff, Steve Park, Max Gresham and Swindell. <\/p>\n<p>The race was originally scheduled for 125 laps, but the start was delayed by 40 minutes due to rain and the race was shortened to 99 laps by darkness. <\/p>\n<p>The finale of the 2009 season and the crowning of a champion will take place on Friday, Sept. 25 with the Sunoco 150 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third win in last four races at Loudon Jason Cunningham, NASCAR September 18, 2009 &#8211; 6:25pm LOUDON, N.H. &ndash; Eddie MacDonald closed the gap on NASCAR Camping World Series East points leader Ryan Truex Friday night at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a win in the Heluva Good! Fall 125.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar-kn-pro-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}