{"id":561,"date":"2009-06-19T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T01:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-06-19T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T01:44:42","slug":"kobyluck-looks-to-climb-points-ladder-at-nhms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/kobyluck-looks-to-climb-points-ladder-at-nhms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobyluck Looks To Climb Points Ladder At NHMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: small\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span><strong>Uncasville<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>Conn.<\/strong><strong> (<\/strong><strong>June 19,  2009<\/strong><strong>):<\/strong> NASCAR Camping  World Series East Champions are made at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. A finish  there can make or break your chances at a title. For Matt Kobyluck, driver of  the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet and defending series champion, the  Heluva Good! Summer 125 holds a lot of weight. He\u2019s currently third in the point  standings, and is hoping to move up the ladder with a strong performance at the  1.058-mile oval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m pretty confident,\u201d Kobyluck said going into the event. \u201cWe\u2019ll be  taking the same things we used last year and building on them a little bit more.  We definitely go into every race with the goal of winning, but a win here would  be tremendous. We\u2019ve always had fast cars here and we\u2019ve been getting closer and  closer to our goal of winning every time we go back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span>The 39-year-old driver posted a third place finish in this event last  year, which catapulted him to second in the point standings. The Mohegan Sun  Casino Chevrolet was out front for the first 35 laps. He led one more time  before a three-wide battle with Trevor Bayne and Eddie MacDonald relegated him  to third for a green-white-checker finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span>\u201cWe didn\u2019t take tires last year and the guys that finished ahead of us  both did. They were on fresher tires so I had nothing for them on the last  restart,\u201d reflected Kobyluck. \u201cA third place finish was a huge day for us in  terms of the championship. If you want to win the title in this series, you have  to have a good day at New  Hampshire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span>Kobyluck has more experience at the track than most regular drivers in  the series. The Heluva Good Summer 125 will mark his 26<sup>th<\/sup> start at  NHMS in the Camping World Series East with over 2500 laps raced in competition  at the Magic Mile. He\u2019s posted five top-five and eight top-10 finishes there \u2013  with two top-five\u2019s last season alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span>The Heluva Good Summer 125 is slated to take the green flag at 5 p.m. on Friday, June 26<sup>th<\/sup>. Fans can  meet up with Kobyluck at an autograph session outside the infield tunnel on  Friday at 3 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\"><span> <\/span>For more information on Matt Kobyluck or Mohegan Sun Racing visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattkobyluck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">www.mattkobyluck.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncasville, Conn. (June 19, 2009): NASCAR Camping World Series East Champions are made at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. A finish there can make or break your chances at a title. For Matt Kobyluck, driver of the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet and defending series champion, the Heluva Good! Summer 125 holds a lot of [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}