Bandit Chippers.com Signs 4 Race Extension with TriStar – Back with Bliss as Primary on the #44 Toyota Camry for the NNS Race at Richmond
Richmond, VA – Today, Friday April 27th, veteran Mike Bliss brings back the black #44 Bandit Chippers.com Toyota Camry to the track in Richmond for the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on ESPN2. In 14 NNS starts at Richmond Mike has 4 Top Ten finishes and 1 Top five finish. Bliss and the #44 TriStar Motorsports Team has been extremely competitive and consistent after leading laps during the opening race at Daytona only to crash out early. The #44 Team with the help of Bandit Industries has fought its way up the leader board and heading into the race tonight Mike sits in the Top 10 NNS driver standings. Richmond is the 1st race of a 4 race extension for Bandit Chippers.com on the #44 Toyota and will be followed by primaries at Talladega, their hometown track in Michigan and a TBD race later in the 2012 NNS year.
We had a good experience with the TriStar Motorsports Team, the #44 and Mike Bliss the first couple races this year in the NNS,” said Bandit’s Travis Lint. “They go out there and compete on a weekly basis , have the ability to run up in the Top 10 and deliver on what our company is looking for on and off the track. That’s why we are back with the Black and Yellow #44 Bandit Chippers.com Toyota Camry today in Richmond. Mike really showed his talent and experience behind the wheel as he continued to push his way into the top of the NNS driver standings. We’re very proud of the team at TriStar Motorsports and look forward not only to this race, but also to the exciting SuperSpeedway racing in Talladega where we feel Mike could win and the NNS Michigan International Speedway race in our backyard. We are excited that Bandit Chippers.com is back again with the #44 TriStar Motorsports Team and hope to have a good run tonight.”
Mike Bliss added, “Richmond is one of my favorite tracks and we have a good car that can run upfront. It makes me feel good to know they are going be back with us for a couple more races. They are an experienced, well respected company that puts out one heck of a product. Hopefully we can give them that Top 10 they are looking for this weekend. I am very thankful and most appreciative of all the fine folks, employees and world-wide customers of Bandit Industries, and our #44 Bandit Chippers.com Toyota Camry Team will be ready to run upfront today on that Richmond Track.”
Qualifying for tonight’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race will be covered live on ESPN2 at 4pm ET
Friday night, April 27, at Richmond International Raceway and ESPN2 will have a live telecast of the 250-lap race. NASCAR Countdown airs at 7 p.m. ET with the race’s green flag at 7:43 p.m. Also from Richmond, ESPN2 will air NASCAR Nationwide Series qualifying earlier in the day at 4 p.m. All NASCAR programming on ESPN and ESPN2 is also available on computers, smartphones and tablets with the WatchESPN app and WatchESPN.com.
Thank you Bandit Industries for making our Richmond Race weekend possible – Go Bandit Go!!
About Bandit Industries Inc. Bandit Industries Inc. manufactures a complete line of hand-fed wood chippers, stump grinders, forestry mowers, whole tree chippers, and horizontal grinders, all designed and built at the company headquarters in Remus, Michigan.
