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2009/2010 Re-cap |
Monday August
23,
2010
Season 2009/2010 saw
a great team result for both Shane and Nathan Macdonald in what
was a stellar season. Evidence of the siblings rivalry and
results came from the "Totally Speedway Magazine" 2009/2010
Modified Production Driver rankings, where for the past season
Shane was ranked 4th and Nathan 5th. Shane's solid performances
in the Australian Title and winning the 2010 Australian Open
helped his ranking, while Nathan's podium finishes in the
Queensland and Tasmanian titles pushed him up to #5. |
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Brothers bring home success
in State Title |
Tuesday April 27,
2010
Shane Macdonald set out to defend his QLD Title at Gympie's
Mothar mountain Speedway on Sunday night the 25th of April after
the first night of racing on Saturday was washed out with the
rain Mother Nature brought down. With the whole program now
being run in one night, it was going to be fairly hectic with a
grueling five heats and a 40 lap final. |
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Podium placings continue
for Macdonald |
Friday April 16,
2010
Saturday Night saw
Macdonald Racing head off to Maryborough for the final round of
the Exide Batteries Nambour Queensland Modified Production
Series in which Shane and Nathan were in positions 8th
and 10th respectively. Both Brothers were hoping for
a good night to climb the point’s ladder. |
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Lucky break for Nathan at
Easter Classic |
Friday April 16,
2010
Easter Sunday the 4th of April saw the running of the Easter
Classic for Modified Productions at Charlton Raceway. Starting from third
on the grid for heat one, Nathan struggled in the heavy track to go forward,
after sitting in fifth Nathan moved past brother Shane to finish
4th after he was suffering an engine misfire. |
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Runner-up for Nathan at
Tasmanian State Title |
Monday March 22,
2010
Nathan Macdonald made up for the disappointing finish in last
weeks Australian Title to bring his VZ Commodore home in 2nd
place in the Tasmanian State Title held at Hobart Speedway
Tasmania on the weekend (20th March). With a second and
third placing in his heats, Shane Macdonald qualified his VS
Commodore out of position 5.
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Australian Title results,
Latrobe, Tasmania |
Monday March 15,
2010
Coming into
the final night of racing, Nathan was leading the points tally
ahead of Andrew Blackwell and Mark Carlin. After some
unfortunate penalties the night before Shane was 13th in points.
Nathan had some work cut out for him in his heat starting from
the back of the field in 9th place. |
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Podium result for Macdonald
duo at 30/30 |
Thursday February 25,
2010
Another podium finish for brothers Shane and Nathan Macdonald at
Gympie Speedway on Saturday night (20th February) driving
Shane's QLD Title winning car, was a much welcomed reward
leading up to the National Title being held in Tasmania in two
weeks time. |
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Nathan secures 2nd placing
in QLD Series at Charlton |
Tuesday February 16, 2010
Nathan Macdonald raced to a solid 2nd place finish in Round
three of the Exide Batteries Nambour QLD Series at Charlton
Raceway with Shane Macdonald crossing the line in 9th position.
Nathan started the 30 lap final from 14th, and raced past many
top drivers through the field utilising his home track advantage
on his way to a 2nd place finish behind race winner Greg
Worling. Early in the race, Nathan took a few laps before
he began his surge forward. |
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Macdonald
brothers give strong showing for Round 2 at BIS |
Thursday January 28, 2010
Round two of the Exide Batteries Nambour QLD Series was held at
Brisbane International Speedway on Saturday night the 16th
January, with both Shane and Nathan Macdonald displaying a
strong presence in the feature race. QLD Champion Shane
Macdonald qualified the 30-lap final out of position three,
while Brett Baxter was to be off pole position with Aidan
Raymont on the outside. Nathan qualified his car out of
position ten in the 20 car field. |
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January
Race re-cap for Nathan |
Thursday January 28, 2010
After a rather hectic race Schedule during the month of January,
Nathan Macdonald made the most of his time away from work to hit
the Speedway tracks. A week after the Fraser Coast Series
at Maryborough, Nathan decided to trek up the highway to Gympie
for the January 9th meeting to try his hand at the rather
unusual circuit in readiness for the 30/30 Modified Production
event in February. |
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Promising result for
Macdonald at Maryborough |
Tuesday January 5, 2010
It was time for Round 2 of the Fraser Coast Modified Production
Series as Shane and Nathan Macdonald set about to head into a
new year and to Maryborough Speedway for a two night show on
Friday and Saturday Night (1st & 2nd). A big weekend was a
ahead with 50 cars nominated for Round 2. |
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Nathan all fired up for
next race |
Saturday December 19, 2009
After missing the last few race meetings due to work
commitments, Nathan is ready and raring to go to get back in the
driver seat. Nathan has only had one opportunity to race
his new car so far, but will be making up for it over the
Christmas/New Year break with the team heading to Lismore
Speedway on the 26th December, followed by Maryborough Speedway
on the 1st and 2nd January for round 2 of the Fraser Coast
Series. Already there are over 40 cars nominated for
Maryborough which will make the competition fierce. |
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Macdonald opens season with
new car and a podium finish |
Sunday
November 8, 2009
Nathan Macdonald debuted his new Linmac Automotive VZ Commodore
last night, and what a great night of racing it was.
Nathan had no issues with the car and was on the pace from the
first heat. 15 cars turned up for the first race meeting
of the season. |
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Macdonald all ready for
first hit-out at home track |
Sunday
November 1, 2009
After 18 months of blood sweat and tears, the new car is mobile
and by all reports is looking great. Nathan was able to
make it Brisbane Speedway on Saturday night for a few practice
runs before the first official race meeting at Charlton on the
7th November.
After a very successful run at the dyno through the week,
Macdonald was glad
he put the effort in to get to Brisbane after finding some
gremlins already. |
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The New Car |
Sunday November 1, 2009
After getting
the car back from a very successful run at the dyno through the
week and completing the sign writing and setup of the car, its
all ready to go for its first race on the 7th November 2009 at
Charlton Raceway. |
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