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Infineon 200
| Charlotte, NC
Race No. 5 | May 21, 2004
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• Michael Waltrip, No. 47 Chevrolet
» 05-22-2004 - 12:27 am ET
"I’m just plain mad about loosing the race because the caution lights came on. I don’t know what Carl thinks he saw out there but I’m glad he didn’t win the race because he wrecked my truck. Edwards and I got together a little bit but when you’re racing the trucks you know that it can be crazy like this. It’s been since 1997 since I’ve raced the truck and the competition is tough. Overall the ACXIOM Chevrolet was great tonight. I’ve enjoyed racing as part of the Chevy All Stars team with Sheryl Crow on the truck and having Chevrolets in the front. I’m happy for Dennis and all the other Team Chevy’s that raced tonight.”
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• Bobby Hamilton, No. 4 Dodge
» 05-22-2004 - 12:21 am ET
“We just needed gas, and we had to come in to pit. We had a good truck. I’m pretty sure we had a truck that could win. We had to come in and put gas in and we dropped back to 30th. We lost some points to Dennis Setzer, but it’s too early right now to worry about it. Our truck was as good as it was at Atlanta, but I think everybody else was better, too. If it had been a daytime race we would have been better. There’s more grip at night, but we’ll be all right. We’ve got 20 races to make it up.”
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• Brandon Whitt, No. 38 Ford
» 05-22-2004 - 12:20 am ET
"We were kind of behind ever since we unloaded out of the trailer. We progressed forward all weekend long and that's what we like to do. We started 17th and we finished 18th but we made a lot of improvements as the race went on so all in all it was a good race." HOW MUCH DID YOU LEARN THAT YOU CAN TRANSFER TO OTHER TRACKS THIS SEASON? "I learned a lot. It's been about two months since we've been on a track where aero comes into play. To get back out there and feel how it is to be in the draft and to get air taken off the spoiler, it took a few laps. But once we realized where we were it helped a lot." HOW BIG OF AN ADJUSTMENT IS IT TO LEARN TO RACE WITH ALL THE AERODYNAMICS? "It's a lot different. The trucks are really tall so they create such a tall air pocket. You can run up on someone super fast and you've got to pay attention. The rear spoilers are big so someone can get you loose or get you tight real easy. It was hard to get used to at first."
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• Robert Huffman, No. 12 Toyota
» 05-22-2004 - 12:19 am ET
Notes: Huffman finished 16th, his best finish in six career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts. He took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the first time in 2004. "That was a terrible start there. I lost communication with our spotter and was kind of winging it from the infield. The truck was terrible loose underneath those other trucks there at the start and I just lost it up there in the middle of three and four trying to keep it off of them. These guys did a great job. I have a lot to learn here in the truck series but we're going to make it. I'd like to thank Toyota and Tundra and White House and all the people that are involved at Innovative Motorsports." IT'S AMAZING THAT YOU DIDN'T HIT ANYTHING. "I was expecting to get hit but I held it wide open. I guess that's what kept it off the wall and it kind of kept spinning to the bottom. That was a good piece of driving by everybody else. I was just holding on." YOU CAME UP WITH A DECENT FINISH TONIGHT. "I know we had a top-10 truck. I was kind of disappointed in myself there about halfway through the race. I couldn't get it any better. These guys worked on it and we put new tires on it there at the end and we were really better than a lot of the truck that were there right in front of us. Mike [Skinner, who finished 15th] is hard to get around."
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• Charlie Bradberry, No. 78 Chevrolet
» 05-22-2004 - 12:16 am ET
"On that restart Harvick was behind me. I took off and this truck just didn't seem like the other ones on restarts. It just wasn't as quick. I thought I was clear. He had a run just when I came down to go off in the corner. It was just one of those deals. It wasn't his fault. It was about 50-50, really. He didn't back out and I turned down on his nose. It was just
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• Kevin Harvick, No. 92 Chevrolet
» 05-22-2004 - 12:14 am ET
“It’s like racing at Daytona. When you get side by side and you can suck up so fast and do what you got to do but you can over drive the truck pretty easily out there. We probably missed it on the set up a little bit tonight. All and all it was a good night for the Snap-On Chevrolet. Matt had a great top 10 finish too. It’s great to see so many Chevrolets in the front and it’s fun running the truck. The series is growing and so is the competition.”
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• David Starr, No. 75 Chevrolet
» 05-22-2004 - 12:13 am ET
“Dave McCarty and the guys did a great job with the Chevrolet today. I almost lost it 5 or 6 times through out the race especially on the starts. I got Carl Edwards down there by the back straightaway and he got up on my right rear and took the air off of it and we almost crashed again. I was glad to be able to get third. I was driving real hard there at the end. It’s not a bad finish but man what a wild finish. I feel good being a part of Wayne and Connie Spears Motorsports Team. After winning the pole and coming back to place third in this Chevy Silverado I think our bad luck is behind us. It’s been great running with the Chevy team. The support they have given us has been unreal.”
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• Geoffrey Bodine, No. 03 Chevrolet
» 05-22-2004 - 12:09 am ET
"I don't know what happened out there," Bodine said after the race. "I was running my line like I had been all night and someone just ran all over the right rear of the truck. I don't even know who it was, they were all just jumbled up. It was a mad house out there." The old adage "if we didn't have bad luck, we wouldn't have any luck at all" was at the forefront of everyone's mind after the conclusion of the race. In addition to the flat tire, two on-track incidents caused damage to the Team EJP Chevy, with one incident leaving a gaping hole on the right front corner of the truck.
"The 78 truck got spun on that restart, and everyone just stacked up in front of us," Bodine said. "We couldn't get slowed down in time, and nailed the guy in front of us. I don't know what it was tonight on restarts, these guys just couldn't get restarted at all tonight. They all stacked up in front of us on a previous restart and I was able to get it slowed down, but we got hit in the tail on that one. It was a rough night out there to say the least."
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• Shane Hmiel, No. 15 Chevrolet
» 05-22-2004 - 12:08 am ET
“Man Richie Wauters and the boys put one great Chevy together for us this race. It feels great to come back and finish well this weekend after two bad races. This is our last race with our Sponsor Earl Small’s and hope that our 6th place finish will show we can run up front. Our DEI power just never stopped. The team has really developed a great relationship here and we are looking forward to Dover.”
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• David Reutimann, No. 17 Toyota
» 05-22-2004 - 12:07 am ET
"Something internal in the motor broke. TRD has been giving us awesome motors all year. It's a new program and you're going to have some failures. I didn't want to be that guys but you're going to have that. I have all the confidence in the world that they will give me a great piece the next time we go race. The truck was awesome. Jason Overstreet [crew chief] and Bobby Kennedy [team manager] they gave me a super truck. We didn't touch one bolt from the time the race started until now. It was just awesome. I couldn't ask for it to drive any better. I was just getting a little better line and stuff like that. We would have been good. We just couldn't close the deal, though." WERE YOU SURPRISED AT HOW WELL YOU RAN TONIGHT? "From where we started I knew that it was going to be a struggle. But about five laps in I said that if this thing stays like this it's going to be really good and it stayed good. I was learning and moving around. It's just part of the racing deal. We've got a good truck to take someplace else."
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• By the Numbers
» 05-22-2004 - 12:06 am ET
Average Speed of Race Winner: 107.631 mph.
Time of Race: 1 hour, 52 minutes, 3 seconds.
Margin of Victory: 0.869 Seconds.
Caution Flags: 8 for 38 laps.
Lead Changes: 13 among 5 drivers.
Lap Leaders: D. Starr 0; C. Edwards 1-33; B. Lester 34-36; C. Edwards 37-47; M. Waltrip 48-57; C. Edwards 58-61; M. Waltrip 62-70; M. Skinner 71-72; B. Lester 73-88; C. Edwards 89-91; M. Waltrip 92-121; D. Setzer 122-127; C. Edwards 128-130; D. Setzer 131-134.
Top 10 in Points: D. Setzer - 815; C. Edwards - 778; R. Crawford - 698; B. Hamilton - 694; M. Crafton - 679; M. Skinner - 677; T. Kvapil - 673; T. Cook - 657; J. Wood - 642; D. Reutimann # - 631.
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• Steve Park, No. 62 Dodge
» 05-22-2004 - 12:04 am ET
“We did a good job missing the stuff in the beginning, and that’s the kind of stuff that’s been taking us out all year long. We just had a little bit of luck on our side. It seemed like they were aiming for me or something. I stayed on my toes and tried to miss ‘em. We got to the end and had something to race with with the fenders still on it. We were decent. We made a big improvement from yesterday. We’ve still got to improve a little bit more, but we’re getting closer to the top 10.”
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• Terry Cook, No. 10 Ford
» 05-22-2004 - 12:03 am ET
“It was a frustrating night tonight. We struggled since we got here, and the Power Stroke Diesel was off a little bit off tonight, but I can guarantee you it wasn’t by a lack of effort. These guys never gave up. We only had about eight laps total on this truck before the race started. We build a lot of adjustability into it and made a lot of stops and just kept adjusting on it. A good call by crew chief Wes Ward at the end to come in and take on tires. We wirer coming through the pack like a rocket and I thought we were going to get up in the top 10 and get a top-10 day out of it. Unfortunately, we got up as high as 14th and the truck gave up again. It was only good for about six to 10 laps on tires and then it would give up. We have something to build on here. If we come out of here with as bad of a weekend as we had with a 14th-place finish, that’s not too bad.” DID THE TRACK CONDITIONS STAY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT THE RACE? “It was the same old Charlotte. You could search around down in one and two. I fought an aero push as bad as I’ve ever fought. The truck was extremity tight behind people, so we have to work on that a little it, too. We’re going to go to work on it and we’ll make sure we’re ready for Dover.” DID YOU SEE THE CAUTION LIGHTS COME ON IN THE CLOSING LAPS OF THE RACE? “With four or five laps to go they came on for about a second and a half and I started to roll and they went back off, so I stayed after it. But yeah, I was on the frontstretch when it happened.”
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• Ted Musgrave, No. 1 Dodge
» 05-22-2004 - 12:02 am ET
“We came in to pit and they told me not to go until they told me. I waited and they told me to go, so I took off. Wrong time. Todd Bodine was coming in and it clipped the right front right off the truck. It bent all the steering, and we were done from then on. You’ve got to be heads up in the pits. They tell you to go, but they’ve got to be looking back. We had a good truck in the beginning. I think we had a top five truck for sure. We were coming to the front, and then that incident happened on pit road. I’m doing all I can do.”
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• Setzer Sets the Record Straight
» 05-21-2004 - 11:59 pm ET
Dennis Setzer's seventh consecutive season victory sets a new record in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series; beating Jack Sprague's previous consecutive season winning streak of six. No. 46 Team Silverado Chevrolet driver Dennis Setzer scored his 11th career NCTS victory - his last visit to Victory Lane came at South Boston Speedway on October 4, 2004.
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• Tracy Hines, No. 88 Chevrolet
» 05-21-2004 - 11:46 pm ET
"The truck was so tight right off the start that is was almost undriveable," Hines said afterward. "We came in and the crew made some pretty radical changes, but it looks like it was just too much. The truck went from too tight to way too loose, and it got to the point that I couldn't hang on to it. We came over the bumps in three and four and it got away from me and up into the fence and did some pretty good damage to the right front suspension." After the repairs were made, Hines came back on the track in an effort to gain positions and points. "No driver ever wants to get out and just ride, but in a situation like that, that is exactly what we needed to do," Hines said. "There were some guys that had problems, and we had to run a certain number of laps to get past them and pick up those points. We saw last week at Mansfield just how important every point is, so hopefully the points we gained here by coming back out help us somewhere down the line.
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• Shining Starr
» 05-21-2004 - 7:28 pm ET
David Starr will start from the pole position, his third career NCTS Bud Pole; all of which have been done in the seat of the No. 75 Spears Chevrolet. Starr has captured the Bud Pole award at California (11-2-02) and Las Vegas (10-13-02). Starr won the Las Vegas event; his only NCTS victory to date.
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• A Trio of Changes
» 05-21-2004 - 7:16 pm ET
Look for No. 16 Chevrolet of Jack Sprague, No. 22 Toyota pilot Bill Lester and No. 10 Ford driver Terry Cook will drop to the rear of the field due to engine changes. At this time, these are the only teams that have elected to make engine changes and according to the NASCAR rulebook will fall to the back of the pack for the green flag. All NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events are broadcast live on SPEED Channel. Tonight's event, the INFINEON 200, our fifth race of the season, begins at 8:30 pm ET from Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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• TruckShots Gallery
» 05-21-2004 - 4:08 pm ET
Check out the TruckShots gallery from Charlotte! Click Here for photos
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• TrackSide Live Coverage for Friday May 21
» 05-21-2004 - 3:59 pm ET
Welcome back to TrackSideLive! coverage for Friday from Charlotte
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• David Starr, No. 75 Chevrolet
» 05-20-2004 - 8:52 pm ET
“When we unloaded we weren’t that good, I was having trouble getting over the Humpy Bumps as they call them here at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Dave McCarty, my crew chief, adjust on the truck and when we went back out, we were fast and kept getting better and better. When I first came here, I couldn’t figure out how to get over the bumps. I really learned how to go over the bumps last year when Kevin Harvick took me around the track in his Chevrolet Tahoe and showed me how to drive this track. Once you learn how to get through those bumps, it makes your lap times so much faster.
“We went out ninth to qualify and had to wait to qualify so I wasn’t sure we could hold the pole. I went out when it was warmer and the sun was out, as it cooled down and the clouds blew in, the engines run better and everything just works better so it was pretty nerve racking. I am just proud to give Chevrolet their second pole of the year. I am especially happy to give the Spears team, Dave and my guys a pole. I feel good being a part of Wayne and Connie Spears Motorsports Team. Dave and my guys have been working hard all year. We’ve just had some bad luck and hopefully we can leave some of that bad luck behind us and start finishing where we need to finish. We are excited about being a part of Chevrolet Family and the support they have given us. Working with Dennis Setzer, Jack Sprague and Matt Crafton has been a big help. It’s like we are one big team. We share information and really work together. What works for Jack’s driving style may not work for me but the information is valuable to get the trucks as good as they can be. I’m just glad to be a part of that big team and hopefully we can get all four of those Chevrolet teams out front.”
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• Geoffrey Bodine, No. 03 Chevrolet
» 05-20-2004 - 8:48 pm ET
"We picked up about six tenths of a second from practice," Bodine said after qualifying. "Some of it was due to the sun ducking behind the clouds, but the crew really made some pretty good adjustments after practice to make the truck more driveable. In practice is was tough to get the truck into the turns, and when you can't carry speed into the turn, it really hurts the speed coming off the turn."
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• Terry Cook, No. 10 Ford
» 05-20-2004 - 8:47 pm ET
“The trouble for us started early today and whenever you have a problem it’s hard to overcome that and recover, but we will. We prepared a great back-up truck to go out and qualify, but unfortunately I think the battery was going dead and the motor was laying down the entire time we were out there. It’s a little disappointing because the truck drove extremely well. I thought we were going to have a decent lap. I was coming around and you could tell the motor wasn’t pulling like it should and we came in and checked and the battery was down. We had so much to do, I guess that was overlooked.” YOU WENT TO YOUR BACK-UP TRUCK AFTER AN INCIDENT IN PRACTICE. WHAT HAPPENED? “We were chasing the setup back and forth; we kept losing the balance. Wow freed it up a ton. We just dropped off some rear springs and freed it up a bunch, but it just went into the corner with no warning at all, and we called it a combination of all of the planets lining up, I got off the throttle a little bit and hit the bump in three and the weight transferred up in the front tires and the back end came around, and we just went for a ride. Had it happened in the race I think we would have been fine because the top track would have been clear. There was a lot of dust up there because everyone is running the bottom groove in qualifying mode right now. I had it saved and got up there in the dust and it just kept going into the SAFER barrier.” ARE THREE AND FOUR GOING TO BE THE TROUBLE SPOTS IN THE RACE TOMORROW? “It will be. I think it is every time we come here. It’s definitely a lot more difficult in three and four than one and two. I’m not sure where we’re starting but we started 34th last week and we finished third, so I’m not too concerned where we’re starting.”
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• Michael Waltrip, No. 47 Chevrolet
» 05-20-2004 - 8:46 pm ET
“The technology has advanced so much since I raced the truck in 1997. They have a tremendous amount of down force. You can run them hard and they stick good. My Chicago test in this truck was eye opening and we felt like we’d come here and be real good. We are a little disappointed with our qualifying run. The thing I’m looking forward to is getting out there and racing with the other trucks it will be a new experience again and something I’ll have fun doing.”
“I like the concept of running with the other Chevrolets. Its open book and I think that’s the way to develop a program and win races is to share information. As a race car driver I don’t care if the other drivers have the same thing as I do because I feel that I can out drive them. We can all work together and maybe someone has something or has done something that I didn’t think of that I can put into my truck. I’m real happy to be a part of it.”
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• Top-10 Happy Hour Rundown
» 05-20-2004 - 8:39 pm ET
Here's a look at your Top-10 trucks with about twenty-five minutes left in final practice Happy Hour:
1) #1 Ted Musgrave, 175.593 MPH
2) #4 Bobby Hamilton, 175.359
3) #75 David Starr, 175.023
4) #15 Shane Hmiel, 174.763
5) #47 Michael Waltrip, 174.560
6) #99 Carl Edwards, 174.503
7) #14 Rick Crawford, 174.447
8) #92 Kevin Harvick, 174.503
9) #16 Jack Sprague, 174.154
10) #17 David Reutimann, 174.154 (tied)
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• Chad Chaffin #18 Dickies Dodge
» 05-20-2004 - 8:26 pm ET
“That was a good lap. The guys did a great job with the truck. I’m not going to get too excited. We’ll just wait and see how it stacks up. It’ll be in the top 10. The Arrington Motors are just fantastic. That thing has all kind of horsepower. Everybody at BHR is doing a great job, and we got in a pretty good lap. Now we’ll get ready to race.”
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• Tracy Hines #88 Chevy
» 05-20-2004 - 8:25 pm ET
"We're first out so like Musgrave said, we've got the pole (laughs). We're better than we were in hot laps. That's the best that we can ask for. I felt like I ran it as good as I could. With some more experience it could have been faster. The truck was faster than I was but we'll take it. We're in the show and we're going to work on it for race conditions tonight and try to make it good for tomorrow." YOU PICKED UP A LOT FROM PRACTICE. "We only ran like 12 laps in practice. I just couldn't get the thing through three and four. I went over and asked Kevin Harvick and he helped me out a bunch. He got on top of the trailer and showed me where to run on the track. It made a huge difference through three and four. One and two I had, all you have to do is flatfoot it through there. Three and four I couldn't figure it out. He helped me, so I'm going to give that one to him right now. We didn't change a lot on the truck and he helped us get it where we needed to."
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• Kelly Sutton #02 Chevy
» 05-20-2004 - 8:24 pm ET
"We picked up four-tenths from where we were in practice so we're happy with that. I don't know if that's good enough to make the race but at least we made progress today."
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• Robert Huffman, #12 Toyota
» 05-20-2004 - 8:14 pm ET
"We are really happy. All these boys on this Innovative Motorsports team have done great. I really enjoy racing here at Charlotte and I've had a lot of success and I've been looking forward to coming back here after the way that we ran at Atlanta. We just need to get us a good finish and get this season started back off. We didn't make the race at Mansfield because of the rain. We've got a lot of good people behind us: White House, Toyota, and TRD. Hopefully we can turn in around here at Charlotte and get us a good finish."
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• Mark McFarland #59 Dodge
» 05-20-2004 - 8:13 pm ET
"That's about the same as practice. I'm getting used to the track and it's taking a little longer than I expected but we'll get there. The hardest part about three and four is just getting over the bumps. That's the best that it's felt since we've been here. We're going the right way."
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• David Reuitmann #17 Toyota
» 05-20-2004 - 8:12 pm ET
"We were like ninth at the end of practice so it wasn't that bad. I ran wide open through one and two and pretty close to wide open through three and four and it's just not fast. I don't why. It's not too good and everybody's going to get quicker because the sun is going to go down so we're going to be in bad shape. The truck drove really good and that's kind of what's got me puzzled. We ran an .84 in practice so we should have been able to run at least that. We came up short for whatever reason."
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• Ted Musgrave #1 Dodge
» 05-20-2004 - 8:06 pm ET
“We picked up from practice, and the racetrack might have picked up a little bit, too, because it’s cooled down. That might have got us back to the .70s instead of the .90s. This track is more of a race truck. It’s got some drag on it and some downforce. We weren’t really expecting to be lightning fast, but like last year, we should be nice and steady in the race. I guess being the defending race champion means I must have done something right here last year. Really, we’re back to square one. The bodies are completely different this year. They’ve made big changes throughout NASCAR. Everything is pretty much different, but it’s the same old Charlotte. You come to this place and no matter what they do to these trucks, it’s still Charlotte. I like this place. Getting in the race pace and getting this Dodge Ram to handle will be the key. I think this truck will be capable of winning the race. It might not be the fastest in qualifying, but I honestly think it’ll race decent.”
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• Andy Houston #2 Dodge
» 05-20-2004 - 8:04 pm ET
“We were tight. I spun out on my sticker run in practice, and we just over compensated for it. The track got a lot better, and we tightened up too much. I was too loose at the end of practice, and it just ended up being too tight. I know we’ve got a pretty good truck. We’ve been fast since we’ve been here. I think we’ll race good. We’ve got the speed, but we haven’t been able to put it together yet. Tomorrow night is the big show. This is just a place to start. We’ll work on getting the truck to turn and draft good. We’ll try to get the balance real good for the race.”
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• Bobby Hamilton #4 Dodge
» 05-20-2004 - 8:03 pm ET
“We’re good. It might be ugly for the rest of the competition. I know Kevin will be good and Michael. All the guys who have a lot of time here will be good. I’d say the four trucks in front of me are low drag trucks and they won’t race all that good. This is the same truck we won with at Atlanta, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you see another finish like that tomorrow night. We didn’t work on anything in practice except race setup. I think we’re ready.”
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• Steve Park #62 Dodge
» 05-20-2004 - 8:02 pm ET
“That was actually pretty good. The Orleans Dodge ran just about wide open, and that’s all you can ask for. We made changes right before qualifying that worked out good. I took my left foot and stuck it under the brake pedal so I wouldn’t step on the brakes. I had the confidence in the team. We had a truck that could run wide open, and we did. We had a problem at Atlanta. We could run wide open, but we just couldn’t get the speed. It raced good at Atlanta, and it’ll race good here. It’s a shame. All year long we’ve had trucks that are real fast. We’ve been taken out by someone else’s mistakes. We’re getting tired of that. We had a top five truck at Mansfield. We got taken out in somebody else’s wreck. We need a little luck. We know the truck and preparation is there, so maybe this will be our week.”
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• Top-10 Practice Times
» 05-20-2004 - 4:29 pm ET
Today's practice session has concluded, here's your Top-10:
1) #75 David Starr, 176.171 mph
2) #99 Carl Edwards, 175.965
3) #16 Jack Sprague, 175.947
4) #4 Bobby Hamilton, 175.644
5) #14 Rick Crawford, 175.507
6) #22 Bill Lester, 175.365
7) #46 Dennis Setzer, 175.137
8) #92 Kevin Harvick, 175.120
9) #17 David Reutimann, 175.075
10) #18 Chad Chaffin, 174.989
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• Mr. Consistency to Start All Over
» 05-20-2004 - 4:14 pm ET
Travis Kvapil’s run of 35 consecutive races without a DNF ended at Mansfield last weekend after an accident stopped the champion short. It was only the second DNF for the most consistent driver in NASCAR. Kvapil and the No. 24 Line-X team will be taking Cheddar to Lowe’s Motor Speedway. “I figured there’s no better name than Cheddar for the 06 chassis since it will be our good old standby and main truck in the stable this season,” he said. “I was laughing with the team yesterday trying to think of the slogan that was used in old cheese commercials and finally remembered what it was: Everything’s better with Cheddar….especially a trophy in Victory Lane.”
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• Geoffrey Bodine by the Numbers
» 05-20-2004 - 4:11 pm ET
Geoffrey has started 36 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series races at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He has scored 1 win (October 1991, No. 11 Junior Johnson and Associates Ford), 5 top-5 finishes, 13 top-10 finishes, and two pole positions at Charlotte. In addition, he also won the 1994 version of the NNCS All-Star Race (then known as The Winston) with his self-owned team. He has completed 11,276 out of a possible 13,146 laps at Charlotte, and has led 521 circuits in NNCS competition. His average start in the NNCS is 12.4, and his average finish is 19.2. He has earned $953,290 in NNCS competition at LMS.
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• Caution Flag Flies
» 05-20-2004 - 3:44 pm ET
Andy Houston brought out the caution flag when his No. 2 Team ASE/CARQUEST Dodge went for a spin - no contact or damage to his race truck.
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• Where's My Driver?
» 05-20-2004 - 3:29 pm ET
With about fifteen minutes left in today's only practice session, here's a look at some drivers outside the Top-10:
11) #92 Kevin Harvick, 174.194 mph
14) #47 Michael Waltrip, 173.969
19) #24 Travis Kvapil, 173.182
22) #67 Todd Bodine, 172.403
25) #88 Tracy Hines, 171.723
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• Caution Flag Catches up with Cook
» 05-20-2004 - 3:22 pm ET
Truck Series veteran Terry Cook in the No. 10 Power Stroke Diesel Ford brought out a brief caution flag when his truck got free in Turn 3 - making contact with the outside retaining wall. Cook drove away uninjured, but his ppc Racing team will be forced to bring out their backup race vehicle. Cook remained in high spirts, "We just got free off of Turn 3 and my Power Stroke Diesel Ford got out from under me," Cook continued, "We're bringing the backup truck out now and my ppc Racing crew is getting it ready to practice."
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• Top-10 Practice Rundown
» 05-20-2004 - 2:49 pm ET
After an hour and twenty-five minutes of practice, here's your Top-10:
1) #4 Bobby Hamilton 175.644 mph
2) #18 Chad Chaffin 174.430
3) #75 David Starr 174.357
4) #92 Kevin Harvick 174.194
5) #46 Dennis Setzer 174.182
6) #42 Mike Skinner 174.048
7) #2 Andy Houston 173.829
8) #15 Shane Hmiel 173.422
9) #22 Bill Lester 173.377
10) #16 Jack Sprague 173.321
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• Top-10 Practice Times Rundown
» 05-20-2004 - 1:56 pm ET
With about twenty-five minutes into today's only practice session in prepartion for Live! Bud Pole Qualifying tonight at 5:45 pm ET, here's a look at the Top-10;
1) #4 Bobby Hamilton, 174.284 mph
2) #42 Mike Skinner, 174.048
3) #2 Andy Houston, 173.829
4) #75 David Starr, 173.818
5) #18 Chad Chaffin, 173.796
6) #50 Jon Wood, 173.116
7) #16 Jack Sprague, 173.110
8) #14 Rick Crawford, 172.866
9) #46 Dennis Setzer, 172.678
10) #22 Bill Lester, 172.623
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• Lowe's is Truckin'
» 05-20-2004 - 1:33 pm ET
Defending Charlotte NCTS winner Ted Musgrave got things underway here at LMS. Look for practice times here in a few minutes after we get some lap times.
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• Good afternoon from Lowe's Motor Speedway!
» 05-20-2004 - 1:29 pm ET
Good afternoon from Lowe's Motor Speedway and today's scheduled NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series practice session scheduled from 1:30 pm until 3:45 pm. Live! Bud Pole Qualifying will follow at 5:45 pm ET. The weather is warm and sunny, in the mid to high 80's.
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