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[/media-credit]SRT Motorsports – Dodge NNS Race Advance
5-HOUR ENERGY 200
Dover International Speedway
Saturday, June 2, 2012
SAM HORNISH JR. – No. 12 Wurth Dodge Challenger Crew Chief: Chad Walter
Career Stats: Starts: 44 Wins: 1 Top Fives: 4 Top 10s: 11 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 154
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 11 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 2 Top 10s: 5 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 39
• Claimed fifth top-10 finish of season at Charlotte Motor Speedway (ninth-place)
• Fourth in Nationwide standings, 57 points behind leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
• Only previous NNS start at Dover came in 2008 where he posted a 23rd-place finish.
• Has completed all but one lap in 10 races this season (2,142 of 2,143 possible laps, 99.95 percent) second best among series regulars.
PARKER KLIGERMAN – No. 22 Snap-On Dodge Challenger Crew Chief: Jeremy Bullins
Career Stats: Starts: 16 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 4 Laps Led: 7
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 1 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 1 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 0
• Scored eighth-place finish in first NNS start of the season at Iowa Speedway (race No. 10).
• Will be making his first NNS start at Dover.
• First NNS pole came in his first career series start at Kansas (2009).
DODGE QUOTES: “As a young driver, a big benefit to racing Trucks and Nationwide the same weekend is I run practices and a race on that track the night or day before. As a professional race car driver I should be able to do that any day and I think, as a young driver, it’s beneficial because you learn the ways to make that happen and be successful.” — Parker Kligerman
“I always love going to Dover and have had some very good runs there but we always seem to have some kind of issue in the race. Our goal this weekend is to change that.” –Sam Hornish Jr.
DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY NUMBERS
• Dodge has one win at Dover (Ryan Newman, fall 2005).
• Dodge has two poles at Dover (Ryan Newman, fall 2005) and Kasey Kahne (fall 2004).
• Dodge has 10 top-five and 21 top-10 finishes at Dover.
• Kasey Kahne gave Dodge its first top five at Dover with a third-place finish in 2004 fall race.
DODGE IN THE NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES
• Dodge is fielding two full-time entries in the series this year. Sam Hornish Jr. is competing for the series championship while Brad Keselowski and Parker Kligerman are sharing the driving duties in the second Penske Racing entry.
• Dodge claimed its first NASCAR championship in 2010 when Penske Racing’s Brad Keselowski captured the driver’s title.
• Dodge has 42 wins in the series including seven in each of the last two seasons. The first Nationwide Series win came in 2002. In 2005, Dodge had 11 wins in the series. A Dodge has started from the pole 48 times.
• A Dodge driver has finished 10th or better in three of the previous four NNS races at Dover.
FROM THE CREW CHIEF “I think the biggest challenge at Dover is you can’t control what happens a hundred car lengths in front of you and you’re on top of it before you get there. People say that about Bristol, well add about 40 more miles per hour of speed and just as much banking on the straightaways and you have Dover.” — Chad Walter, Crew Chief, No. 12 Wurth Dodge Challenger
