Better Late For MacDonald

GWC Pass Nets Bristol Win For Mass. Driver 

Eddie MacDonald celebrates in Victory Lane Saturday following the PittLite 125 after he scored his seventh career NASCAR K&N Pro Series East win at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Veteran Eddie MacDonald showed a little late-race mastery Saturday afternoon and brought home the winning trophy from Bristol Motor Speedway.

The 33-year-old driver from Rowley, Mass., took the lead on a green-white-checkered finish at the PittLite 125 and held off Gray Gaulding and Ben Rhodes to win the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race at “The Last Great Colosseum."

It's MacDonald's first win since September of 2009 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway snapping a 53-race winless streak and the seventh of his career.

“We had a really great car today right from the drop of the green,” said the driver of the No. 71 Grimm Construction/National Multiple Sclerosis Society Chevrolet. “It was a little tight at the beginning, but at the end it was perfect. I started pushing a little bit with 15 or 20 (laps) to go and got up there which gave me the thought that on another restart we might be able to win this thing.”