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Joe Laracuente: "Along with the #76 doorstopnation.com was ALSO on the #75 Ryan Matthews drove the #75 doorstopnation Ford to a 26th place finish...decent...only 19 laps not bad... Good to see Matthews got a ride he deserves one.."





Joe: "Here's a cool pic of the two doorstopnation.com drivers Ryan Hackett to the left and Ryan Matthews!"


What started off as a day of milestones for Ryan Hackett and the Hackett Racing team ended early with a 22nd place finish in the Michigan 200 at Michigan International Speedway on June 13th.
Ryan began the weekend on Friday by putting forth a strong practice effort that put him about mid pack on the speed chart.
The team mainly focused on race runs and did not worry about qualifying too much considering they knew they were already locked into Saturday’s race. On Saturday, Ryan qualified for the race in 25th position.
When the green flag dropped Ryan wasted no time working the American Spice Ford through the field. By lap twenty he was scored in 20th position. After a caution on lap 30 the team decided to stay out on the track and Hackett found himself as the race leader.
He would end up leading three laps, his first laps led in NASCAR. After leading the race Ryan was consumed by trucks with fresher tires and he settled into 10th place where he remained for 8 more laps.
Unfortunately, the great run came to an end as Ryan came off turn 4 and got loose, hitting the wall with the right side of the truck. He brought the truck into the pits as the team fixed some of the damage and sent Ryan back out onto the track, a few laps later Hackett radioed back to the team that the truck was still not driving correctly.
Ryan took the truck to the garage area and after reviewing the damage was forced to cut the day short with a bit less than half the race to go.
The day was not a complete loss however. For his efforts Ryan was awarded the “WIX Filters Lap Leader Award” for the race. It was also great to have the folks from www.americanspice.com at the race.
The sponsor for the race brought a contingent of 10 people to the track, all of whom had a great day and received a ton of television, radio and at-track exposure for their company. They also brought some great t-shirts and some samples of their wonderful products as gifts for the team.
Ryan and the entire Hackett Racing team hope that the relationship will continue in the future. Stay tuned for updates on when Ryan’s next race will be.


WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER NOTES

FOR THE MICHIGAN 200

NASCAR CAMPING WORLD SERIES RACE AT MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY, JUNE 13, 2009,

· Ryan Hackett led once for three laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in the Michigan 200. Hackett led for the first time in his six-race NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career.

· Hackett was sidelined by an accident and was credited with a 22nd-place finish in today’s race.

· HACKETT QUOTES: “It’s great to win the WIX award. How much does that pay? [smiles]. We didn’t really practice that well. We worked mainly on race runs during practice. We were really good in the draft so we kind of threw qualifying out the door so we could have a good race truck.

Our Ford F-150 was really good in the draft, really good. We had a good top-10. We got loose. Right in the high groove we were really good. I hope we got a lot of attention out of this race for Americanspice.com. Our next race will probably be Kentucky.”

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“Our biggest thing is we need to keep people looking at us. We need to find sponsorship. We’ve proved the last three weeks that we can run with these guys in practice. We just haven’t had the money and the resources to run the full race.”