DAVE GRAYSONS RACING NOTEBOOK. First Saturday practice for the - TopicsExpress



          

DAVE GRAYSONS RACING NOTEBOOK. First Saturday practice for the AAA Texas 500 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is over after 55 scheduled minutes, the top-five, slowest and notes: #15-Bowyer 188.422 #18-Busch 188.350 #2-Keselowski 188.107 #56-Truex, Jr. 187.885 #16-Biffle 187.859 slowest: #7-Blaney 180.204 & #32-Hill 179.922. No speed: #98-McDowell & #35-Wise. ************* Its been well established this year that the #78 Furniture Row team has experienced some difficulty with their pit stops. Theres more than enough angry audio transcripts from driver Kurt Busch to verify that. After announcing yesterday that Martin Truex Jr has been signed to drive the car next season, Joe Garone, team General Manager, also announced that he has hired Truexs pit crew from Michael Waltrip racing. As far as personnel goes, weve had some struggles, its not a secret, on pit road. We have been working hard to overcome that. Our pit crew didnt grow as fast as the performance of the car did last year. Weve been able to secure Martins pit crew; actually bring them on-board in full-time positions for 2014. I think that is going to really help that part of our program, Garone said. ************* NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Texas set for this afternoon on ESPN2 beginning at 330pm eastern. Bowman on pole at Texas: #99-Alex Bowman won the Coors Light Pole for the OReilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway with a speed of 186.194mph. #22-Brad Keselowski will start second. The rest of the top 10: #12-Sam Hornish, Jr., #6-Trevor Bayne, #3-Austin Dillon, #54-Kyle Busch, #16-Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., #7-Regan Smith, #2-Brian Scott, and #33-Ty Dillon. Did Not Qualify: #89-Morgan Shepherd. Jeff Green in the #14 at Texas: TMI, (Tri Star Motorsports Inc), announced that former NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Jeff Green will pilot the #14 Toyota for todays OReilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Eric McClure and team decided it would be in his best interest to sit out this weekends Nationwide Series event due to medical reasons.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:35:50 +0000

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