CRAWFORD: Record Start This Weekend at Atlanta
03-05-2008 9:35 pm
► The Circle Bar/Power Stroke Diesel by International team will utilize
chassis CB-20 this weekend. This is the same chassis Crawford drove to a
14th-place finish two weeks ago at Auto Club Speedway in California. It is also
one of two trucks that the team tested at Atlanta Motor Speedway in January. Crawford's Thoughts on Atlanta:
►Crawford scored his third career Craftsman Truck Series pole at Atlanta in
2005, setting the track record with a speed of 182.735 mph (30.339 seconds).
►In the last four truck series races at Atlanta, Crawford has accrued the most
points of any driver (581).
► In 274 career Craftsman Truck Series starts, Crawford has posted 138 top-10
finishes - a mark of 50.4%.
► In his truck series career, Crawford has been running at the finish of 247
races - a mark of 90.0% - the most of any driver in the series.
► Crawford has logged over 46,000 miles in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
competition, the most of any driver.
► Crawford will make his 275th start - a Series record - this weekend at Atlanta
Motor Speedway. Crawford's impressive string of race starts began at the Walt
Disney World Speedway on January 19, 1997.
"Atlanta is one of the fastest tracks on the Craftsman Truck Series
schedule, and it usually provides some of the most exciting racing for the fans.
We're taking the same truck we raced at California , but we've made some changes
to the truck that we hope will make it handle better on the speedways. With the
new tapered spacer we're using this year, I don't know if you're going to be
able to run wide open all the way around the track during the race, but the team
that runs around there wide open the longest is going to be the one to beat. "