CHEVY NNS: Team Chevy, A Look Ahead to 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series
20.12.2007:
CHEVY NNS: Team Chevy, A Look Ahead to 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series
- Team Chevy - A Look Ahead to 2008 in NASCAR
- Team Chevy in NASCAR Nationwide Series
The 2008 season for Team Chevy in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) is shaping up to be more competitive than ever.
On the heels of winning the 2007 owners championship in the series, Richard Childress will defend his title with the No. 29 combo of Scott Wimmer and Jeff Burton. He will also field Clint Bowyer in a full-time bid for the championship as well as a third entry that will include veteran driver Bobby Labonte for 15 races. Additional driver announcements will be made prior to the start of the season.
Kevin Harvick will focus on the efforts of his own Kevin Harvick, Inc. (KHI) Nationwide Series team. Harvick will pilot the No. 33 KHI Chevy in 22 races with Ron Hornaday, defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion taking the wheel twice and Cale Gale in the cockpit for the remaining races. Harvick's goal is help Gale gain valuable experience while bringing the team to the winning form he knows his organization is capable of delivering.
Rusty Wallace Inc. has become the newest member of the Chevy Nationwide Series camp. Steven Wallace will campaign a full-time entry for the championship with drivers David Stremme, Chase Austin, and Max Papis piloting a second entry on a limited schedule.
"I am excited about the 2008 NNS," said Shane Martin, GM Racing’s Chevrolet program manager, NASCAR Nationwide Series. "Coming off their owner's championship, Richard Childress Racing will field entries that will be contenders for the victory every race.
"Our newest teammates, Rusty Wallace, Inc., will add strength to our roster. They have been great to work with and we are already helping get them ready for the 2008 season with wind tunnel time."
Also adding to the Chevy firepower in NNS competition is the merger of Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s JR Motorsports and Hendrick Motorsports NNS operation.
"I am looking forward to the JR Motorsports / HMS merger," Martin continued. "I feel that Chad Walter and Tony Eury will work great together and field competitive race cars. It will be great to see Jimmie (Johnson), (Earnhardt) Junior, and Mark (Martin) in select races along with Landon Cassill who shows great potential. I have been excited about Brad Keselowski ever since I first met him when he was driving in the NCTS and Keith Coleman’s Busch Car. I am glad he has this opportunity to showcase the talent that he has!"
In conclusion, Martin said: "It is going to be an exciting year for Chevrolet in the NNS. Even though we have just barely finished the '07 season, I can hardly wait to get to Daytona."
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DAVID GILLILAND – No. 38 M&M’s Ford Fusion (Qualified 12th) –
WILL THAT HOLD UP? "I doubt it. We didn’t get a good draw. To qualify really good I think you have to go later on in the run, but I’m really proud of all the guys. Our M&M’s Ford Fusion was about four-tenths faster than we’d been all day. We just kept making good changes to it and making weiter >>
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An Interview With:
RICK HENDRICK
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KERRY THARP: We're going to roll into our post-race winner's press conference with the Dickies 500. Our congratulations goes out to J weiter >>
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DAVID GILLIAND – No. 38 M&M’s Ford Fusion – "We’ve worked really hard. We unloaded yesterday and we weren’t as good as we were, and this is something that I’m very proud of out M&M’s group – everybody here, as a team, they don’t give up. And we’ve gotten a lot better, communication-wise with Todd and me, from when I started. Together we’ve been able to make the car weiter >>
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Pep Boys Auto 500, Atlanta Motor Speedway
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ON HIS FIRST NNCS START AT ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY 15 YE weiter >>
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Sharpie 500 - Bristol Motor Speedway
August 25, 2007- Race 24 of 36
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MATT KENSETH – No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion (finished 4th) – "I hit the wall a little bit early, chasing Kurt around, and he got sideways up there and I kind of lost track of where I was at and bumped the fender in.
They’re just so aero-sensitive that we could never quite get that fixed and get that back. But, overall, we had a good car all day and I made that mistak weiter >>
RICKY RUDD – No. 88 Snickers Ford Fusion –
YOU’VE BASICALLY SAID THAT YOU’RE LEAVING THE 88 AND DON’T WANT TO RUN A FULL SCHEDULE. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A DEAL LIKE WHAT MARK MARTIN HAS, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? "I’m not looking for anything, to be honest with you. I decided I wanted to call it quits, and the only way I would get out of a rocking chair weiter >>
ROBBY GORDON – No. 7 Jim Beam Ford Fusion (finished 5th) – "A good points day. It should make up for missing last weekend, for sure. We’re going to race track at Michigan where I ran a top-10 the whole time we were there last time, so I expect to have a good run there, as well." weiter >>
LEN WOOD – co-owner, No. 21 Little Debbie Ford Fusion – "Bill Elliott came up a little while ago, and I guess he had run into Boris across the garage, and he asked him what he was doing, and Boris said, ‘Nothing,’ you know, he had missed the race. I don’t know from where it started, if Bill asked him to drive our car or what. I think that’s the way it went because Bill cam weiter >>
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ON THOUGHTS ABOUT BEING BACK AT THE GLEN AS THE D weiter >>
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CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion (qualified 12th) – "It’s a great way to start the weekend. We were 40th or something in practice, we were back there, and Bob [Osborne, crew chief] changed front springs, rear springs track bar, all that stuff, and that’s a good effort right there. I think we’ll be top 15, for sure. That’s way better than we thought we were go weiter >>
Statement from Brent Dewar; General Motors North America Vice President of Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing Regarding the death of Bill France, Jr.:
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He left the sport be weiter >>
Scott Atherton ,President & CEO, Panoz Motor Sports Group/ American Le Mans Series
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CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion (qualified 5th) – "We did just what we said we were going to do – we ran like a 95-percent lap, and I’m glad I did because it was so loose in. I lifted where I thought was early, and I couldn’t keep it t weiter >>
JAMIE McMURRAY – No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion –
WHAT TYPE OF RACING YOU EXPECT THIS WEEKEND WITH THE CAR OF TOMORROW AT DOVER? "Well, after what we went through last weekend – I mean, Charlotte’s race track was pretty good last weekend, it was just hard to race. So, just being weiter >>
MATT KENSETH – No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion –
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE CAR OF TOMORROW AT THIS TRACK? "I really don’t know yet, until we get some practice. I really don’t know. I think it’ll change the racing a little bit, I know the cars will drive a lot different than our sta weiter >>
CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion –
IS THIS A BIT OF A CRITICAL TIME IN THE SEASON IN TERMS OF PUTTING SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR TEAM AND 13TH PLACE IN THE STANDINGS? "It’s very critical. We look at the distance between us and 13th every week – I think we’ve go weiter >>
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RICKY RUDD – No. 88 Snickers Ford Fusion –
WE SAW THE 07 SPIN LIKE A LOT OF CARS HAVE THE PAST TWO WEEKS. IS IT A CASE OF JUST SURVIVING UNTIL weiter >>
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Regarding the Dale Earnhardt, Jr. announcement to leave Dale Earnhardt, Inc. at the end of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season
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DAVID RAGAN – No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion (Qualified 29th) – "We had a pick-up of a tenth or so from practice. I wish we could have run a .60 or something, but we’ve got a pretty good race car, I think. It hurt me a little bit jumping out of the Busch car back to the Cup car, but we’re racing for tomorrow."
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CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion – weiter >>
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CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion (Finished 42nd) –
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ASHLEY FORCE – Castrol GTX Ford Mustang –
LAS VEGAS MUST BE A SPECIAL PLACE FOR YOU. YOU QUALIFIED FOR YOUR FUNNY CAR LICENSE HERE. "Vegas has a special meaning to me. We did a lot of testing here in the past year, to get into the Funny Car, and it’s actually where I finally got my license. It’s a great track and a fun town, of course.
Actually, abo weiter >>
DAVID RAGAN – No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion –
YOU WERE FIFTH IN POINTS AFTER DAYTONA, AND REMAINED FIFTH AFTER CALIFORNIA. HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT TO YOU TO BACK UP THE START TO YOUR SEASON? "It was very important. I feel like the California run was a better run for us than the Daytona run. Certainly, at Daytona you have to be in position to be there for the end, and weiter >>
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