Danny O’Quinn Jr. and the Mac Hill Motorsports team avoided the dangers of Bristol Motor Speedway’s high banks here Friday and collected a solid Top 20 finish.
After qualifying 36th, O’Quinn brought the No. 56 Power Equipment Company Chevy Monte Carlo SS home 18th in the Food City 250. The Roush Fenway Racing driver is running a limited schedule in the NASCAR Busch Series for Mac Hill this year, and this was his best finish of four races thus far. He finished 21st at Bristol on March 24 for Mac Hill.
“I’m just so happy to have had a good night for Power Equipment and to have done it at my home track, ” said O’Quinn, the reigning 2006 Busch Series Raybestos Rookie of the Year, who grew up in nearby Coeburn, Va.
Team owner Jack McNelly praised his driver’s ability to steer clear of the pitfalls of a contest at the rough-and-tumble “World’s Fastest Half-Mile. ” Just keeping away from wrecks and staying on the lead lap is an accomplishment in itself at Bristol, he said.
McNelly also thanked Mac Hill’s sponsors for supporting the team. He noted the enthusiasm of Power, which welcomed more than 400 guests to the event.
“The Power people were there in full force, and I was glad to be able to have a good run for them, ” McNelly said.
The Food City 250 marked the fourth time that the Knoxville, Tenn. -based Power Equipment has sponsored the 56 car. The company, which sells, services and rents construction, earthmoving, forestry, crane, material handling and demolition equipment, will also be Mac Hill’s primary sponsor at Memphis on Oct. 27. Power sponsored Mac Hill at Nashville on June 9, and its sister business, Brandeis Machinery and Supply Company, sponsored the 56 at Kentucky Speedway on June 16.
One of Power’s major suppliers, Komatsu, participated in Friday’s sponsorship, as well, and Rodefer Moss & Co, PLLC served as an associate sponsor. Headquartered in Knoxville, Rodefer Moss was recently judged as the seventh-largest accounting firm in Tennessee by Business Tennessee Magazine.
O’Quinn and Mac Hill will head next to Richmond International Raceway for the Emerson Radio 250 on Sept. 7.
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