Rollie MacDonald
| Rollie MacDonald | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 4, 1944 Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Achievements | 1983 MASCAR Championship 1986 QUASCAR Championship 2005 Champion |
| Awards | 2005 Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame 2009 Maritime Motorsport Hall of Fame Riverside Wall of Fame |
Roland "Rollie" MacDonald (born February 4, 1944) in Pictou, Nova Scotia is a Canadian businessman, racing team owner, and former racing driver. MacDonald is the owner/President of King Freight Lines Limited.
MacDonald started the excavating company MacDonald's Excavating in 1975. The transportation side of the business quickly outgrew the excavation side of the business, and the company was rebranded King Freight Lines Limited in 1986 to better reflect the company's new direction.
King Freight Lines now operates mainly as a transcontinental transportation company that services Canada and the United States, however they still do excavation work on the side.
King Freight Lines is a member of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association (APTA), as well as the Nova Scotia Trucking Safety Association (NSTSA).
MacDonald built his first race car in 1965, a ’55 Pontiac, and started his racing career that year at Mountain Raceway, a dirt track near New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. He would then go on to rack up 21 straight victories at Mountain Raceway. In 1977, while trying to pick up his 22nd straight win, MacDonald's car struck the outside in what is considered the worst crash in the history of Maritime racing. MacDonald would spend a month in hospital following the crash.
MacDonald went on to compete in the MASCAR series, winning the series championship in 1983.
In 1986 he teamed up with fellow Maritime racing legend Junior Hanley, taking one of Hanley's cars to Quebec and winning the QUASCAR Championship.
In 1993, MacDonald purchased a Busch Grand National Oldsmobile from Jimmy Spencer and raced in the Busch North Series forming MacDonald Motorsports. MacDonald made his Busch North Series debut at the 1993 New Hampshire 75 at New Hampshire International Speedway. He started the race in 18th, and finished in 24th, two laps down.
Over the next two seasons MacDonald competed in a total of six races, with five of them coming at New Hampshire. However, his best finish was 15th in his only start at Apple Valley Speedway in the 1994 Fisher Snowplow / Minute Mount 150.
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