Tim McCcreadie's emotional victory on the anniversary of his father's death

Tim McCreadie tried to be stoic on Thursday. He didn't want to think about the emotions that went hand in hand with May 15th. A year ago that day, the 51-year-old lost his legendary father, Barfoot Bob McCreeadie.

But a year later, the former world of Outlaw's Real American Bier Late Model Series Champion in Conneaut, and his No. 9 Tribute Machine sat down on his late father in the National Touring Victory Lane. The weight of the moment was certainly difficult for the 51-year-old veteran of Watertown, NY, to put into words.

“It is difficult to handle,” said a suffocated McCreadie, that McCreadie has managed every 35 laps to win a profit of $ 12,000 at the Great Lake Showdown on Thursday to the one-year anniversary of his father Bob. “If you have great people around you, like Boom (Briggs), their whole family, my mother, my brother, my sister, everyone … It was a hard day.”

“I held it all day and tried not to think about it (to lose his father). It was a hard game for us, but we'll keep participating, that's all we can do.”

McCReadie, who had to step back twice from the cameras and dirt vision Pit reporter Ashton Smyth to collect himself and his feelings to articulate these feelings, put on a four-year winless drought on the Woo racing route.

His last victory on the tour took place in Richmond (Ky.) Raceway in April 2021. It also achieved a 45-race winning shop, which with Rocket1 Racing on August 17th in the Batesville Motor Speedways Top-100 in Locust Grove, ARK.

Fortunately for McCreadie, his 34th career -Woo triumph came without close calls or drama. He beat Ashton's winger by 2.618 seconds in the non-stop function, in which the nation's No. 1 driver, Bobby Pierce, never challenged victory in his fourth to fifth performance.

McCReadies Race-Pe-Peaming step came when he cleared the winger of the pole start in the first round in the first row. From there he had experience on Raceway 7. In four late model starts on the 7/16 miles route, he has two victories and has no worse place than fourth place.

McCReadie figures that are a by -product of his hand for a smooth, methodological driving.

“Perhaps the way is the style to keep the car straight and not to turn so much, what I like to do is suitable,” McCreeadie told Woo PR director Spence Smithback. “When I was younger, I liked to turn the tires very much, now that I got older, I like to keep the car below me.”

Another advantage for McCReadie on Thursday was that Raceway 7 was about an hour from the Boom house of car owner in Bear Lake, Pennsylvania. A little knowledge in the back yard did not harm.

“(Boom) told me where to be in qualifying. He ran over and told me where he thought I had to be and it was good,” said McCreadie, who has three top fives and five top 10 numbers in his last six races. “He is just positive. Since he drove with him, it was amazing. He keeps me concentrated, and with everything he was only there for me today.”