Lavender Strong in New York

Mooresville, NC (08/04/09) - Sometimes Jody Lavender may be satisfied with a 3rd place finish in the NASCAR Camping World East series but Saturday night at the New York Adirondack Speedway, he finished 3rd and was not satisfied.  He had a comfortable lead on lap 145 of the 150 lap event and a late race caution was not what he wanted to see.  Jody had taken the lead on lap 107 and appeared to be on the way to another win before a caution flag changed the complexion of the race.  On the restart, Steve Park, who has raced and won in all three of NASCAR’s top series, was able to get by and win the race.  Also, point leader Ryan Truex in the Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota, was able to get by for second place.

After the race, Jody said, “Naturally I’m disappointed that we didn’t win but most of all I’m disappointed for our team.  These guys deserved the win because of all the hard work they put into this racecar.  I think we would have won if not for that last caution.  It took about 5 laps for our car to get up to top speed and Steve was better than we were on short runs.  I did all I could to hold him off but on the double file restart, he was up beside me and he had a better car at that time.  Even with the disappointment, we were able to move up to 2nd in the points battle.  We’re 26 points behind Truex and only 100 points separate the top six drivers with three races remaining.  We have our work cut out for us and we’ll do our best to be on the top at the end.  Also, we thank our sponsors ‘Custom Race Chassis’ and ‘Jo-Jo Enterprises’ for all their help.”

The next race is on the road course at Lime Rock, CT on August 15th, then Loudon, NH on September 18th and Dover, DE on September 25th.  The last 2 races will be in conjunction with the NASCAR Sprint Series weekend.

For more information, go to www.jodylavender.com, www.eastseries.com, and www.localracing.nascar.com.
 

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