NASCAR
BNS: Joey McCarthy Star Speedway race notes
New Jersey's Joey McCarthy came to Star Speedway on Saturday night with the Mannings USA-sponsored McCarthy/Pritchard Motorsports team. After a week spent suffering from the effects of the flu, McCarthy took to the quarter-mile track with some ...
Edited: Dec 22, 2003, 5:59 AM
Copy link
Share on Viber
New Jersey's Joey McCarthy came to Star Speedway on Saturday night with the Mannings USA-sponsored McCarthy/Pritchard Motorsports team. After a week spent suffering from the effects of the flu, McCarthy took to the quarter-mile track with some trepidation.
The first round of qualifying found the team lacking speed, but going back out for the second round of time trials placed the team in the feature event in 21st place. The team turned to preparing their car for the feature event which was run in extremely hot conditions.
As the race went on, both McCarthy and his car were experiencing ill effects from the heat. McCarthy's water bottle emptied on him, and his car's water temperature was also too high. Under just about every yellow McCarthy ducked onto pit road trying to get both himself and the car cooled down. Once on the track, McCarthy dodged the wrecks and kept the car on the track, finishing 21st.
"All the water ran out of my water bottle," he said afterwards. "The hose fell down and the bottle emptied out. The car wasn't doing much better, it was running 250 degrees water temperature. We kept coming in trying to cool it off and cool me off. I would have been fine, I just couldn't physically drive the car. It was probably a top twelve car, we just can't get everything to click on one night."
Despite the frustrations from Star, the team is looking forward to going to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway on Saturday, bringing "Wilson", the car that McCarthy drove to a 13th place finish at New Hampshire International Speedway in May.
-www.mccarthy-pritchard-motorsports.com.
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article MWS: Madison race report
Next article FMS: Richmond Times-Dispatch sponsors event
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
Latest news
Barcelona set to host IndyCar race in 2027 under multi-year deal
IndyCar
Indy IndyCar 7 h
Barcelona set to host IndyCar race in 2027 under multi-year deal
Winners and losers from a Chase-altering NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Phoenix II
9 h
Winners and losers from a Chase-altering NASCAR Cup race at Phoenix
Heart of Racing rules Valkyrie GTP step next year ‘too soon’ for IMSA standout Barrichello
IMSA
IMSA IMSA 9 h
Heart of Racing rules Valkyrie GTP step next year ‘too soon’ for IMSA standout Barrichello
Sergio Perez: Debut Cadillac season "without a doubt one of my best years"
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
United States GP
9 h
Sergio Perez: Debut Cadillac season "without a doubt one of my best years"
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe