by Jay | Aug 31, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Shaw Rallies To Ninth Place Finish At Gresham Motorsports Park
Jefferson, Ga. (August 30, 2010): DJ Shaw had to face a lot of hurdles at Gresham Motorsports Park Saturday night. He wrecked in practice, had a battery problem that further limited practice time, and then struggled with a tire problem throughout the second half of the American Fence Association 150. Despite being three laps down at one point, the 20-year-old Rookie-of-the-Year candidate was able to rally in the last five laps of the race and bring home a ninth place finish in his No. 60 Precision JLM Chevrolet.
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by Jay | Aug 31, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England
Kobyluck Charges To 5th Place Finish In Backup Car
Jefferson, Ga. (August 30, 2010): Matt Kobyluck posted a top-five finish in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East debut at Gresham Motorsports Park this past weekend, and catapulted the Mohegan Sun Casino race team into sixth place in the points with only two races remaining in the season. Kobyluck began the weekend with a wrecked car after a flat tire sent him into the turn three wall during practice and forced the team to go to a backup car.
“This finish feels like a win,” admitted Kobyluck. “Considering the circumstances, yeah, I’m happy. We destroyed our primary car in the last five minutes of practice, pulled out our backup car and started dead last only to finish fifth – I can’t find much complaining in that.” (more…)
by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | Lee USA, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire
DJ Shaw Derailed From Potential Podium Finish At Lee
Lee, N.H. (July 31, 2010): DJ Shaw was well on his way to a top-three finish at Lee USA Speedway in Friday night’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series East 125. But a spin on lap 89 took the 20-year-old driver out of contention and the JLM Precision race team had to settle with a 12th place finish.
“I got wrecked,” said a dejected Shaw. “We probably had the second place car. It was a bad day for me. I hadn’t even started going yet. I felt like I could have passed Eddie (MacDonald) at any time on a long run, and if Ryan (Truex) had been patient he probably would have won that race.”
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | Lee USA, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire
Kobyluck Rallies To Seventh Place Finish At Lee
Lee, N.H. (July 31, 2010): Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun Casino race team had their work cut out for them in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East 125 at Lee USA Speedway Friday night. After bottoming out in qualifying, the team knew they were going have to pit early and come up through from the back of the pack. Despite more than a handful of wrecks, Kobyluck was able to stay out of trouble and take home an impressive seventh place finish without a scratch on the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet.
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by Jay | Jul 6, 2010 | Connecticut, Lime Rock Park, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England
Pit Strategy Goes Awry For Fadden Racing’s Jonathan Smith At LRP
Lakeville, Conn. (July 5, 2010): A mid-race pit strategy foiled a top-10 run for Fadden Racing’s Jonathan Smith in the NASCAR K&N 100 at Lime Rock Park Saturday afternoon, and relegated the No. 61 BaBoom! Energy Spray/Riondo Wine/Athlete’s of America Chevrolet to a 13th place finish after a solid performance race long.
“We were hoping to do a fuel mileage race and not pit, but it didn’t turn out like we thought. There were a lot of green flag laps. We came in to pit and right after that there was a six or seven lap caution period.”
Smith proved he was going to be a force to reckon with from the onset of the weekend. He was fast in practice and backed it up with a qualifying effort of 94.947 mph to earn a 12th place position on the starting grid.
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by Jay | Jul 4, 2010 | Connecticut, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England
Ranger Makes It Two-For-Two – Second K&N Pro Series Road Course Win Of 2010
LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Picking up where he left off at Infineon Raceway two weeks ago, Andrew Ranger returned to Victory Lane on a road course, this time in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race at Lime Rock Park.
Race leader Cole Whitt ran off the course after contact with Ranger on Lap 52 of the 66-circuit event. Ranger assumed the lead and gradually drove away, beating Whitt to the checkered flag by 5.899 seconds.
Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Max Gresham and Brett Moffitt finished third and fourth, respectively. Points leader Ryan Truex finished fifth. He led eight laps before sliding off the course and through the dirt in Turn 1 on a Lap 45 restart and lost 11 spots. He worked his way back through the field but ran out of time as the race didn’t have another yellow flag.
Darrell Wallace Jr. was sixth, followed by Eddie MacDonald, Jeff Anton, Miguel Paludo and Sergio Pena.
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