A little home cooking for McDonald’s driver Bobby Hamilton left the Tennessee native in seventh place in the NASCAR Busch Series Point’s race. For the second time this 2007 season, the Busch Series came to Bobby’s home track, The Nashville Superspeedway for a 300 mile race. When the checkered flag waved across the field, Hamilton had moved forward to seventh in the point’s race with a 13th place finish.
A long green flag run allowed Hamilton to move inside the top-five before the first pit stop of the day. Unfortunately, the team had trouble changing the front tires and dropped to 15th following the pit stop. For the remainder of the race, crew chief Chris Wright was forced to make pit stop decision to regain the lost positions. Wright tried two tire pit stops and was successful in placing Hamilton back inside the top five.
Next Saturday night, Hamilton will return to Kentucky Speedway where he will go for his second win at the 1.5 mile track.
In one quick motion, the hopes of Bobby Hamilton went down the drain at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Early in the 200 lap race, the driver of the McDonald’s Ford was forced to pit under green flag conditions for a tire issue. The untimely pit stop costs Hamilton two laps to the leaders and placed the Tennessee native in a bad position he would never recover from. The trouble led him to a 33rd place finish and a drop of 5 positions in the Busch Series Point’s Championship. Four of the five drivers to pass in the point’s race were full-time Nextel Cup drivers.
“We will put this entire weekend in the rearview mirror and head to Dover next weekend,” Hamilton said. “I have come close to winning on the Monster Mile before, and hope we can put the McDonald’s Ford up front on Saturday afternoon.”
The Busch Series will take the green flag in Saturday afternoon at 3:00pm on ESPN.
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