{"id":5312,"date":"2011-05-23T21:07:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T02:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-05-23T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T02:07:29","slug":"cody-hodgson-hodgson-finishes-12th-large-field-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cody-hodgson-hodgson-finishes-12th-large-field-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"CODY HODGSON: Hodgson Finishes 12th In Large Field At Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cody Hodgson: NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
\nIowa Speedway Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEWTON, Iowa \u2013 Cody Hodgson of Escalon, Calif., finished 12th in NASCAR K&N Pro Series Pork ‘Be Inspired’ 175 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, on Saturday, May 21. Hodgson finished eighth among K&N Pro Serie East teams in the event and ran as high as fourth in the second half of the combination K&N Pro Series East and K&N Pro Series West teams. Hodgson qualified the Dave Davis Motorsports entry 12th out of 58 cars to give the team its best-ever qualifying effort in the event. With his finish, Hodgson moved unofficially to fourth in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings.
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\nWHO: Cody Hodgson, Escalon, Calif.
\nTEAM: Dave Davis Motorsports No. 03 Ocala Gran Prix Dodge<\/p>\n

WHAT: NASCAR K&N Pro Series Pork ‘Be Inspired’ 175
\nWHERE: Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa (.875-mile oval)
\nSTARTED: 12th
\nFINISHED: 12th<\/p>\n

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
\nLAST RACE: April 28, Blue Ox 100, Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, Va. (15th-place)
\nNEXT RACE: June 4, Bowman Gray 150, Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, N.C. (.25-mile oval)<\/p>\n

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CODY, HOW WAS YOUR RACE?<\/p>\n

We were really good in practice and qualifying. We were good in the race, too, but during the first (green flag) stint, the shifter came loose. The yellow flag came out, I was going down through the gears and the shifter was floppping all over the place. I had to do every start in third gear until about Lap 40.<\/p>\n

One one of the restarts, I got hit from behind and spun sideways because I couldn’t get going \u2013 so we came in (and pitted) and took fuel and fixed the shifter.<\/p>\n

I was fast all night, up until we put two tires on to get track position. I kind of lost the balance of the car, but the car was way, way loose for the first 10 laps. I gradually picked some off, but we just were not good as some of the cars ahead of us that had four tires.<\/p>\n

ALL IN ALL, IT WASN’T A BAD NIGHT FOR THE TEAM.<\/p>\n

We’re confident. It was my first time at Iowa, and I think we did really well. We were fifth in practice and gained two-tenths (of a second) in qualifying. Yeah, I wanted to finish in the Top-10, but 12th out of the almost 60 cars that were there is still pretty good.<\/p>\n

Right out of the box from the get-go, the car was right up to speed. The guys did an awesome job setting up the car for the weekend. It was just a matter of me getting up to speed on such a big track.<\/p>\n

HOW WAS RACING AT IOWA SPEEDWAY FOR YOU?<\/p>\n

I got up to speed right away, but to feel really comfortable \u2013 100 perent \u2013 it probably took me 15 minutes or so in practice. It probably takes me a little longer than some of the other guys that have been doing this for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cody Hodgson: NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Iowa Speedway Race Report NEWTON, Iowa \u2013 Cody Hodgson of Escalon, Calif., finished 12th in NASCAR K&N Pro Series Pork ‘Be Inspired’ 175 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, on Saturday, May 21. Hodgson finished eighth among K&N Pro Serie East teams in the event and ran as […]<\/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],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-nascar-kn-pro-series","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}