Eddie MacDonald

Eddie MacDonald

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Sponsor	Grimm Construction
Manufacturer	Chevrolet
Owner	Rob Grimm
Crewchief	Rollie LaChance
Birthdate	July 7, 1980
Hometown	Rowley, Mass.
Occupation	Construction

Career Highlights

Finished as the championship runner-up in 2009
Three of his six career victories have come at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Statistics

Year	Rank	Races	Wins	Poles	Top 5s	Top 10s
2001	19	20	0	0	0	1
2002	15	19	1	0	2	4
2003	8	17	0	0	4	11
2004	11	13	0	0	2	5
2005	9	13	1	0	1	7
2006	21	8	0	0	1	2
2007	21	8	1	0	2	3
2008	7	13	2	0	6	6
2009	2	11	1	2	4	10
2010	5	10	0	0	2	7
2011	7	12	0	0	3	7
2012	6	14	0	0	1	12
2013	5	4	0	0	1	3
TOTALS		162	6	2	29	78

WINS: 6 – Beech Ridge (9/7/02), Thompson (10/30/05), Stafford (6/8/07) New Hampshire (6/27/08), New Hampshire (9/13/08), New Hampshire (9/18/09)
POLES: 2 – Adirondack (8/1/09), New Hampshire (9/18/09)

Year-by-year K&N Pro Series East Recap

2012: Ranked in the top 10 in points for the fifth year in a row ... Tied for the series lead with 12 top-10 finishes across the 14-race season, a career-high ... Best finish of the year was fifth at Greenville in March. 2011: Ranked seventh in the season standings with seven top-10 finishes across the 12-race campaign ... Best finish was third in the East-West combination race at Iowa Speedway. 2010: Finished fifth in the season standings with seven top 10s in 10 outings … Best finish of the year was fourth at Lee and in the finale at Dover. 2009: Finished as the championship runner-up on the strength of a win and 10 top 10s … Earned the pole and won the race at New Hampshire in September … Earned first pole of his career at Adirondack. 2008: Came home a career-high seventh in the points chase with two wins and six top fives … Both wins came at New Hampshire. 2007: Finished 21st in points, making eight starts. 2006: Registered two top 10s in seven starts. 2005: Ended up-and-down season with dominant victory at Thompson to finish ninth in points. 2004: Full-time switch to Ford equipment saw slip to 11th in points race. 2003: Teamed up with former Bryan Wall crew chief Chris Raymond … Scored 11 top-10s and finished a then-career-best eighth in points. 2002: Sophomore season was highlighted by Beech Ridge victory … Finished 15th in points. 2001: Ran full season with crew chief Mark Durgin as rookie … Finished 19th in standings.

Noteworthy

Family owns and operates Lee (N.H.) USA Speedway, where MacDonald started racing and made his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series East start … Made NASCAR Nationwide Series debut at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2007 and made NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at New Hampshire in 2010 … Won the prestigious Oxford 250 Late Model race and the inaugural ACT Invitational at New Hampshire in 2009 … Repeated Oxford 250 win in 2010 … Earned second ACT Invite title at New Hampshire in 2011.