SRT Motorsports – RAM NCWTS Race Advance
NextEra Energy Resources 250
Daytona International Speedway
Friday, Feb. 24, 2012
PARKER KLIGERMAN – No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
• Career Starts: 26 • Wins: 0 • Top Fives: 4 • Top 10s: 9 • Poles: 0 • Career Highlights: • Second season driving for Brad Keselowski Racing • Finished 11th in the 2011 point standings with four top-five and eight to-10 finishes. • Posted runner-up finishes at Texas1 and Kentucky1 • Claimed a 15th-place finish in 2011 race at Daytona
BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 19 Brad Keselowski Racing RAM Crew Chief: Jeff Stankiewicz
• Career Starts: 48 • Wins: 0 • Top Fives: 1 • Top 10s: 4 • Poles: 1 • Career Highlights: • Posted career-best second-place finish in 2010 at Gateway • Won pole for 2007 race at Memphis • Had two top-10 finishes in four starts in 2010 • Second season as an owner in the series • Scheduled to compete in six events in the series in 2012 • Best finish in two previous starts at Daytona was seventh-place in 2005.
RAM DRIVER QUOTE “This is my first year where I actually can say I’m doing a full season in something; I have sponsorship. I have two rides in a time when a lot of guys don’t have one. I think the biggest word for me is grateful. I’m just grateful to have this opportunity. “We’ve worked hard over the off-season. It’s been an interesting off-season for me because I didn’t have to look for money; it’s been about how fast we can be when we get to the race track. That’s exciting as a driver; that’s what you want. I’m ready to go turn left and go fast.” — Parker Kligerman
RAM IN THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES • RAM has three wins at Daytona in NCWTS competition: Joe Ruttman – 2001, Robert Pressley – 2002 and Bobby Hamilton – 2005. • Bobby Hamilton (2004) and Ted Musgrave (2005) won the season championship driving a RAM. • RAM has captured the manufacturer’s championship three times in the 17-year history of the series – 2001, 2003 and 2004. • RAM has four poles at DIS, all in consecutive races: Ruttman (2000, 2001), Ted Musgrave (2002) and Jason Leffler (2003). • Tony Raines gave RAM its first win in the series in 1997, winning at I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Mo. • RAM won 15 of the 24 NCWTS races during the 2001 season, 13 of 25 in 2003 and 11 of 25 in 2004.
DID YOU KNOW • In 2001, RAM drivers won the first eight races of the season en route to 15 victories in the 24-race season. • RAM won 46 of 96 races from 2001 until 2004.
THE NUMBERS • There have been 417 races in the NCWTS with the first event at Phoenix Int’l Raceway on Feb. 2, 1995. There were three RAM drivers – Joe Bessey, Bob Keselowski and Walker Evans – in the 33-truck field. Mike Skinner took the win; Bessey finished fourth.
RAM TALK “We all hope to have complete vehicles with 10 laps to go and race for the win. That’s the whole strategy. You can be the fastest thing down here and not make it to the end of the race.” –Doug Randolph, Crew Chief Cooper Standard RAM
