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[/media-credit]PARKER KLIGERMAN – No. 29 Draw-Tite RAM
Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
Career Stats: Starts: 30 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 4 Top 10s: 11 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 31
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 4 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 2 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 0
• Has two consecutive top 10 finishes: ninth-place at Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway and eighth-place at Kansas Speedway.
• Sixth in the series standings, 26 points behind leader.
• One of six drivers to complete all 726 possible laps this season.
• Scored an eighth-place finish in one previous NCWTS start at Charlotte (2011).
• Has claimed top 10-finishes in both superspeedway races this season.
BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 19 Cooper Standard RAM Crew Chief: Jeff Stankiewicz
Career Stats: Starts: 50 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 2 Top 10s: 5 Poles: 1 Laps Led: 93
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 2 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 1 Top 10s: 1 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 19
• Scored third-place finish and led 19 laps in most recent NCWTS start at Kansas.
• Best NCWTS finish of second in 2010 at Gateway (Madison, Ill.) International Raceway.
• Won pole for 2007 race at Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park.
RAM DRIVER QUOTES “Charlotte is unique for a mile-and-a-half. It’s definitely shaped differently than other mile-and-a-halfs that we go to. It has a little bit different pavement construction and those two things kind of add to the racing you see. Last year we had an OK race. We had a little bit of an issue with our truck, but we were still able to come out with an eighth-place finish. With the improvements that we’ve made on our RAM, I think we’re going to be that much better this year. Hopefully we can take the top-five steam we have from Kansas, improve on it and have a shot to win the race on Friday night.” — Parker Kligerman
CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY NUMBERS
• RAM has one pole at Charlotte: Bill Lester (2003).
• RAM has one win at CMS: Ted Musgrave (2003).
• The most RAM drivers to finish inside the top 10 at CMS are five in 2003.
• RAM drivers have scored four top five and 13 top 10 finishes in nine NCWTS races at the 1.5-mile oval.
RAM IN THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES
• 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.
• 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.
• There have been 421 races in the NCWTS beginning at Phoenix International Raceway on Feb. 2, 1995. There were three RAM drivers – Joe Bessey, Bob Keselowski and Walker Evans – in the 33-truck starting field. Bessey scored a fourth-place finish while Mike Skinner took the win.
RAM TALK “We’ve had a couple weeks since Kansas to try to do everything we can to get our mile-and-a-half package a little better. Having Brad as a teammate at Kansas gave us some ideas to go back and work on. We’ve been busy.” — Doug Randolph, Crew Chief, No. 29 Draw-Tite RAM
