{"id":1573,"date":"2009-09-18T21:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-09-18T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T02:48:59","slug":"macdonald-back-in-victory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/macdonald-back-in-victory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Back In Victory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MacDonald Back In Victory Lane<br \/>\nThird win in last four races at Loudon<\/strong><br \/>\nJason Cunningham, NASCAR<br \/>\nSeptember 18, 2009 &#8211; 6:25pm<\/p>\n<p>LOUDON, N.H. \u2013 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>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 \u2013 who finished third \u2013 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>MacDonald Back In Victory Lane Third win in last four races at Loudon Jason Cunningham, NASCAR September 18, 2009 &#8211; 6:25pm LOUDON, N.H. \u2013 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. [&hellip;]<\/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":[45,4456,126,112,16],"tags":[15775,15769],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-nascar-kn-pro-series","category-new-england","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","tag-nascar","tag-nhms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}