{"id":1628,"date":"2010-03-23T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:23:55","slug":"kobyluck-headed-to-greenville-with-eye-on-top-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2010\/03\/kobyluck-headed-to-greenville-with-eye-on-top-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobyluck Headed To Greenville With Eye On Top-Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kobyluck Headed To Greenville With Eye On Top-Five<\/span> <\/p>\n

Waterford, Conn. (March 22, 2010): This weekend, Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun race team expect nothing but a top-five finish at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. A championship run almost demands it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“With the schedule as it is this year, you can not afford to have a bad week,” said the driver of the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Chevrolet on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. “We start off our season like the Cup ends their season. You have to come out strong and ready to go. It’s the beginning of our Chase.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The 2010 season takes the green flag this weekend with the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 at Greenville-Pickens Speedway – the first of a ten race schedule. Greenville is a semi-banked half-mile oval that has hosted NASCAR-sanctioned races since 1951. This weekend’s event marks the fifth appearance of the K&N Pro Series East since their debut in 2006. Kobyluck has started all five of those races with an average start of ninth place and an average finish of 13th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s a tough track to predict your finish so if you survive with a top-10 you’re doing well. Qualifying is definitely key, but you have to have a car with good forward bite. That is paramount,” Kobyluck said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In last year’s race at Greenville, Kobyluck finished eighth despite having no grip in the tires for the last 75 laps. Prior to that, Kobyluck was a contender in the top-five.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We had a really good car for the start of the race and after 25 laps in I thought we had the potential to finish in the top three,” said the 2008 Champion. “\u201cBut, about a third of the way through the rear grip just totally went away. It didn\u2019t matter what I did. I couldn\u2019t get into the corner, I couldn\u2019t get through the middle, I couldn\u2019t get off. It’s just one of those things where you have to play the cards you’re dealt.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Greenville-Pickens has not produced a repeat winner since the East Series began racing there, and Kobyluck will be aiming to add his name to that short list of victors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’d love to come out of there with a win,” Kobyluck added. “It’s a tough little track. I think the setup of the car was really good last year and we could have been a contender. We’ll just have to see how our cards play out.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team tested at the track earlier this month and were pleased with the results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We have a good baseline to work off,” said crew chief Perry Waite. “We tried a bunch of different things while we were testing and we’re happy with the setup. I’m confident we’ll have a top-five car.”\u00a0
The Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 goes green at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 27th. SPEED will broadcast the race on April 1 – check local listings for time period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information on Matt Kobyluck, the Mohegan Sun race team, or Mohegan Sun Casino, visit\u00a0www.mattkobyluck.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kobyluck Headed To Greenville With Eye On Top-Five Waterford, Conn. (March 22, 2010): This weekend, Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun race team expect nothing but a top-five finish at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. A championship run almost demands it.\u00a0 “With the schedule as it is this year, you can not afford to have a bad week,” […]<\/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-1628","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\/1628","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=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}