In addition to Chris Buescher, who nearly won this race one year ago, Larry McReynolds’ son Brandon is making his ARCA debut on Sunday, as is Rick Ware Racing development driver Timmy Hill. McReynolds, who qualified a disappointing 14th after a near wreck, was nonetheless very excited about Sunday’s race. “You get to run right up against the wall like Darlington, which is always a lot of fun,” said McReynolds of his Salem experience to date. His #6 team spent the early part of practice working on getting the chassis up off the race track, while the young driver adjusted to the challenging high-banked oval. This is the first of at least two races for McReynolds, who unexpectedly found himself in the ESR seat. “It’s really overwhelming. Eddie [Sharp] took a big chance on me to come up here and run me with hardly any funding. It’s pretty impressive to see him take a shot on an 18-year-old kid who really hasn’t proven himself. And we’re going to run Talladega in a few weeks, so that’s exciting. The Walk of Fame down in Talladega is going to be on the car, we’re going to run the old #28 number, which is going to be cool with dad involved.”(Fronstretch)(4-11-2010)
UPDATE: McReynolds finished the race in 26th, completing 64 of the 200 laps.(4-11-2010)
