Miguel Paludo
No. 7 Stemco/Duroline Toyota Tundra
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race 17 of 25
Atlanta Motor Speedway
BY THE NUMBERS: Miguel Paludo and the No. 7 Stemco/Duroline team have experienced some tough luck throughout the 2011 season. At Charlotte Motor Speedway and Bristol Motor Speedway, Paludo was running in the top-10 when mechanical failures ended his day early and was collected in on-track incidents in Dover and Kentucky. However, despite some tough luck the team has done well this season and NASCAR’s Loop Data Statistics reflect that.
-Paludo has spent almost 50 percent or 1198 of the 2526 total laps completed this season running in the top-15.
-Paludo has spent 70 percent of the 2526 laps completed this season on the lead lap.
-Paludo is ranked eighth among active drivers on quality passes made or passes made on drivers running in the top-15.
HEADED TO HOT ‘LANTA: For this first time in his Truck Series career Paludo will try and tame the fastest track on the Truck Series schedule. Paludo will make his first laps around the 1.5-mile speedway on Friday.
GEORGIA NATIVE: Red Horse Racing team owner Tom DeLoach calls Georgia home. DeLoach is a native of Statesboro, Georgia and studied chemical engineering at Georgia Tech, where he continues to serve on GT’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Advisory Board. The GT alum purchased Red Horse Racing during the 2005 season and currently fields two trucks, the No. 7 (Miguel Paludo) and No. 17 (Timothy Peters), in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Prior to his NASCAR ownership, DeLoach held various executive positions in Mobil Corporation, while serving as the senior contact for Mobil’s worldwide motorsports program. He is also a director and the non-executive Chairman for Asbury Automotive Group in Duluth, Georgia.
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CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 7 team will unload chassis No. 110 this week at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The last time this chassis hit the track was at Michigan International Speedway where Paludo earned his career-best Truck Series finish of third three weeks ago. This chassis also competed at Darlington and Dover earlier this season with Paludo behind the wheel.
PREVIOUS RACE RECAP: Last week at Bristol Motor Speedway Paludo was running in the top-10 when a mechanical failure on lap 90 ended the night early for Paludo. His early departure from the 200-lap event resulted in a 31st-place finish.
Miguel Paludo Talks about Atlanta Motor Speedway:
What are your thoughts about Atlanta Motor Speedway? What do you expect when you get on track?
“From what everyone is telling me, it is a really fast track. I am looking forward to going there. I feel like the track will drive similar to Michigan where we finished third. I am looking forward to getting on track and trying out different lines. The No. 7 team has been unloading with a really good set-up right off the truck. So that makes it easy for me to get acclimated to these new tracks.”
About Red Horse Racing:
Founded in 2005 by former Mobil Corporation executive Tom DeLoach and NASCAR veteran Jeff Hammond, Red Horse Racing aims to be a professional racing team that strives for excellence on and off the race track. Red Horse Racing hopes to build and maintain solid, mutual relationships with its partners to win races and championships and to represent itself in a professional manner. The team has four victories and five poles in its brief existence. DeLoach and Hammond also own Performance Instruction Training (PIT), the number one pit crew training center in the world that also has many corporate training options that include team-building, lean manufacturing, motorsports demonstrations and more.
