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[/media-credit]Turner Motorsports
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
News & Notes
Texas Motor Speedway
Nelson Piquet Jr.
No. 30 Qualcomm/Autotrac Chevrolet
Texas Motor Speedway – Friday, June 8th, 2012 – WinStar World Casino 400K
Nelson Piquet Jr. NCWTS at Texas Motor Speedway
Date
Start
Finish
LC/TL
Status
Winnings
6/4/10
14
8
167/167
Running
$13,025
6/10/11
10
13
168/168
Running
$12,475
11/4/11
7
4
148/148
Running
$22,125
Starts
Poles
Wins
Top-Fives
Top-10s
LC/TL
$Won
3
0
0
1
2
485/485 (100%)
$47,625
No. 30 Qualcomm/Autotrac Chevrolet News and Notes
This Week’s Silverado…The No. 30 Qualcomm/Autotrac Chevrolet Silverado will bring chassis TMS-215 to Texas Motor Speedway for Friday night’s 250.5-mile race. TMS-215 is a brand new chassis for the Turner Motorsports team.
Pocono Bound…Nelson Piquet Jr. will be pulling double duty this weekend. After racing in Texas this Friday night, Piquet Jr. will head to Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania for the Pocono 400. As much as Piquet Jr. wishes he was behind the wheel in Pocono, he’ll be having just as much fun tweeting and helping NASCAR with the official launch of their partnership with social media giant, Twitter. Stay connected this weekend by following @NelsonPiquet and using the NASCAR “hash tag” (#NASCAR) to stay in the loop.
Makes Sense… The No. 30 Silverado welcomes aboard San Diego, California based company Websense, Inc. for the WinStar World Casino 400K this weekend. Websense, Inc. is a global leader in unified Web, data, and email content security, delivers the best security for modern threats at the lowest total cost of ownership to tens of thousands of enterprise, mid-market, and small organizations around the world.
Time to Turn Right… Piquet Jr. is taking advantage of the upcoming two-week break in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) schedule by heading to Road America for his 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) debut in the No. 30 Turner Motorsports Chevrolet Impala. This will be Piquet Jr.’s third start in the NNS, and his first start ever at Road America. In his first ever NNS start at Watkins Glen in 2010, Piquet Jr. captured an impressive seventh-place finish.
Movers and Shakers…A rain shortened NCWTS race at Dover International Speedway gave the No. 30 Qualcomm/Autotrac team their second top-five finish of he season. After last Friday night’s event, Piquet Jr. was named the Featherlite Most Improved Driver of the 147-mile event, after making up 25 positions to claim his fourth-place finish.
Come meet Piquet Jr…The NCWTS will be hosting an autograph session this Friday June 8th at 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CST. The autograph session will take place in the midway behind the main grandstand at Texas Motor Speedway.
Watch LIVE… Coverage of this week’s NCWTS race will be live from Texas Motor Speedway on Friday June 8th, 2012 at 9:00 pm EST on SPEED, with pre-race coverage starting at 8:30 pm EST. For even more coverage you can also tune in to MRN Radio or SiriusXM Satellite NASCAR channel 90.
Nelson Piquet Jr. on returning to Texas Motor Speedway
“I get excited to go to intermediate tracks. We’re bringing a new truck to Texas and I feel as though our team is really confident that we’re going to be fast. Our great teamwork shows more and more each week. It was confidence in my crew chief and my team that helped me battle back to our fourth place finish last weekend at Dover. Luckily I feel like I have a lot of experience at Texas Motor Speedway, which hopefully will result in a win for my team! I want to be the first Brazilian to wear that Cowboy hat in Victory Lane!”
Nelson Piquet Jr. NCWTS Career Statistics
Races
Wins
Poles
Top-Fives
Top-10s
DNFs
Earnings
36
0
1
8
17
7
$530,148
Nelson Piquet Jr. 2012 NCWTS Season Totals
Starts
Wins
Poles
Top-Fives
Top-10s
DNF
Money
6
0
1
2
4
2
$84,62
Nelson Piquet 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results
Date
Start
Finish
LC
TC
Status
Money
2/24/2012
Daytona International Speedway
2
22
107
109
Accident
$13,000
3/31/2012
Martinsville Speedway
16
6
250
250
Running
$11,675
4/15/2012
Rockingham Speedway
1
7
200
200
Running
$14,500
4/21/2012
Kansas Speedway
8
4
167
167
Running
$17,075
5/18/2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway
16
29
199
200
Accident
$13,675
6/1/2012
Dover International Speedway
18
4
147
147
Running
$20,825
6/8/2012
Texas Motor Speedway
6/28/2012
Kentucky Speedway
7/14/2012
Iowa Speedway
7/21/2012
Chicagoland Speedway
8/4/2012
Pocono Raceway
8/18/2012
Michigan International Speedway
8/22/2012
Bristol Motor Speedway
8/31/2012
Atlanta Motor Speedway
9/15/2012
Iowa Speedway
9/21/2012
Kentucky Speedway
10/6/2012
Talladega Superspeedway
9/29/2012
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
10/27/2012
Martinsville Speedway
11/2/2012
Texas Motor Speedway
11/9/2012
Phoenix International Raceway
11/16/2012
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Totals
10.2
12.0
966
1007
95.9%
$84,625
James Buescher
No. 31 Koike Aronson Inc Chevrolet
Texas Motor Speedway – WinStar World Casino 400k
June 8, 2012
James Buescher NCWTS at Texas Motor Speedway
Date
Start
Finish
LC/TL
Status
$Won
6/5/2009
20
18
164/167
Running
$14,055
11/6/2009
10
17
146/147
Running
$11,480
6/4/2010
3
6
169/169
Running
$11,825
11/5/2010
21
6
147/147
Running
$13,300
6/10/2011
1
9
168/168
Running
$15,150
11/4/2011
1
19
146/148
Running
$15,300
Event
Starts
Poles
Wins
Top-Fives
Top-10s
LC/TL
$Won
Spring
3
1
0
0
2
501/504(99.4%)
$41,030
Fall
3
1
0
0
1
436/442 (98.6%)
$40,080
Totals
6
2
0
0
3
937/946 (99.0%)
$81,110
No. 31 Koike Aronson Chevrolet News and Notes
This Week’s Silverado… The No. 31 Koike Aronson team will bring chassis TMS-217 to Texas Motor Speedway for Friday night’s 167-lap event. TMS-217 is a brand new truck to the Turner Motorsports team.
Hometown Boy… James Buescher is a Texas native and considers Texas Motor Speedway his home track. The 22-year-old was raised in Plano, Texas and now resides in Katy, Texas with his wife Kris.
Family Dominance… James Buescher and his wife Kris met at the 1/8-mile “Little Texas” track behind the speedway. On Wednesday, they are going back to where it all began to see who will be crowned “family champion.” The two will duel it out in a 20-lap event in legend cars provided by the speedway. Both families will be on hand to cheer on their favorite driver.
Turner Motorsports is Texas Strong… Not only does driver James Buescher consider Texas Motor Speedway his home track, but so does Turner Motorsports team owner, Steve Turner. Turner, along with his wife Sandra, live outside of Houston, only four hours from the Great American Speedway. The organization is in its third season of NASCAR competition and has already captured six wins and one pole, along with 26 top-five and 81 top-10 finishes in both Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series competition. Turner Motorsports has expanded from a two-truck NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) operation in 2010 to become the largest stand-alone multi-series team in NASCAR’s top-tier touring series, fielding three entries in the NCWTS and three entries in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS).
Come and See Me… Buescher will participate in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series autograph session on Friday, June 8th from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST. The autograph session will be held in the midway behind the main grandstand at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Welcome Back… Turner Motorsports welcomes back Koike Aronson Ransome to the No. 31 truck for Friday’s race at Texas Motor Speedway. Koike Aronson Ransome designs and manufactures one of the world’s broadest lines of welding positioners and thermal cutting products, as well as supplying portable and gas apparatus equipment. . Today the company is known as Koike Aronson, Inc. For more information you can visit their web site at www.koike.com.
Watch and Listen… The WinStar World Casino 400k will be broadcast live on Friday, June 8th on SPEED. Race coverage will begin at 8:30 p.m. EST. The event can also be heard live on MRN Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 90. Check local listings for start times.
James Buescher on driving at Texas Motor Speedway
“Texas [Motor Speedway] is really fast. The truck carries a lot of speed into the corners. To be successful, the truck really needs to rotate so you carry your momentum off the corner and down the straightaway. Our Koike.com Chevrolet team has been really strong this season at the mile-and-a-half tracks and I think this weekend will not be any different. We just need to make sure we stay out of trouble all night and be there at the end.”
“It is really special to come back to Texas Motor Speedway. Both Kris and I have a lot of family and friends that come to the track and it is fun to be at what we consider our home track. I am really looking forward to Wednesday and racing Kris. She was quite the driver back in the day and it will be fun to see if she still has what it takes.”
James Buescher NCWTS Career Statistics
Races
Wins
Poles
Top-Fives
Top-10s
DNFs
Earnings
82
1
3
20
35
6
$1,314,460
James Buescher 2012 NCWTS Season Totals
Starts
Wins
Poles
Top-Fives
Top-10s
DNF
Money
6
1
0
3
4
0
$123,395
James Buescher 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results
Date
Start
Finish
LC
TC
Status
Money
2/24/2012
Daytona International Speedway
3
17
109
109
Running
$13,520
3/31/2012
Martinsville Speedway
9
3
250
250
Running
$18,785
4/15/2012
Rockingham Speedway
16
2
200
200
Running
$23,840
4/21/2012
Kansas Speedway
6
1
167
167
Running
$43,150
5/18/2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway
10
22
134
134
Running
$8,775
6/1/2012
Dover International Speedway
15
7
147
147
Running
$15,325
6/8/2012
Texas Motor Speedway
6/28/2012
Kentucky Speedway
7/14/2012
Iowa Speedway
7/21/2012
Chicagoland Speedway
8/4/2012
Pocono Raceway
8/18/2012
Michigan International Speedway
8/22/2012
Bristol Motor Speedway
8/31/2012
Atlanta Motor Speedway
9/15/2012
Iowa Speedway
9/21/2012
Kentucky Speedway
10/6/2012
Talladega Superspeedway
9/29/2012
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
10/27/2012
Martinsville Speedway
11/2/2012
Texas Motor Speedway
11/9/2012
Phoenix International Raceway
11/16/2012
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Totals
9.83
8.67
1007
1007
100.00%
$123,395
Miguel Paludo
No. 32 Unite for Diabetes/Duroline Chevrolet
Texas Motor Speedway – WinStar World Casino 400k
June 8, 2012
Miguel Paludo NCWTS at Texas Motor Speedway
Date
Start
Finish
LC/TL
Status
$Won
11/5/2010
8
33
52/147
Crash
$7,585
6/10/2011
22
8
168/168
Running
$13,850
11/4/2011
17
9
148/148
Running
$12,825
Starts
Poles
Wins
Top-Fives
Top-10s
LC/TL
$Won
3
0
0
0
2
368/463 (79.5%)
$34,260
No. 32 Unite for Diabetes/Duroline Chevrolet News and Notes
Informações Chassis (This Week’s Silverado)…Miguel Paludo and the No. 32 Duroline Brakes and Components Silverado team will utilize chassis TMS-213 this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS). This is the same truck that Paludo drove to a 14th-place finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway last month.
Unir Para Diabetes (Unite For Diabetes)…Paludo will be sporting a very different look when the No. 32 team arrives in Fort Worth, Texas. His familiar red truck will become the blue Unite for Diabetes/Duroline Chevrolet. The truck’s hood, quarter panels and TV panel will be clad in the International Diabetes Federation’s ‘Unite for Diabetes’ logo, as well as an image of Paludo and his eight-month-old son Oliver, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes three weeks ago.
Ele é Um Verdadeiro Campeão (A Real Champion)…Last week, IDF named Paludo as their next Blue Circle Champion, the very first from South America. The Blue Circle Champion program consists of Olympic and professional athletes and other high-profile individuals around the world affected by diabetes. Blue Circle Champions are selected to bring visibility and awareness to the disease, which affects more than 366 million people worldwide. The program’s name is inspired by the blue circle, the universal symbol for diabetes, which signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in the struggle against the epidemic. The symbol is also the logo of World Diabetes Day, the primary global diabetes awareness campaign.
Na Estrada Novamente (On The Road Again)…Following this weekend’s race in Texas, Paludo will head to Elkhart Lake, Wis. to make his first career NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Road America. A two-time champion in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Brasil, Paludo has extensive road racing experience, but has only made one start on a NASCAR road course circuit (Lime Rock Park in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, where he started and finished ninth).
Dizer Olá (Say Hello)…Paludo will be appearing at the NCWTS autograph session this Friday, June 8, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the midway behind the main grandstands.
Fato Diabetes da Semana (Diabetes Fact of the Week)…IDF estimates that, globally, as many as 183 million people, (half of those living with diabetes) are unaware of their condition. Most of these individuals have type 2 diabetes. The earlier a person is diagnosed and management of diabetes begins, the better the chances of preventing harmful and costly complications. The urgent need for diagnosing and providing appropriate care to people with diabetes is therefore very high.
Corrida Anterior (Previous Race Recap)…Paludo was just a few raindrops away from a top-five finish at Dover International Speedway, but timing and weather put a damper on the day, ultimately resulting in a solid top-15. Paludo led five laps, ran in the top-five for nearly the entire second half of the event, and was fifth when it looked like the race would end prematurely due to rain. However, racing resumed briefly, and a necessary late-race pit stop put Paludo outside the top-10 just laps before the skies opened up, producing a 12th-place finish in the rain-shortened Lucas Oil 200.
Veja e Ouça (Watch and Listen)…The WinStar World Casino 400k can be seen live on Friday, June 8th on SPEED. Race coverage will begin at 8:30 p.m. EST. The event can also be heard live on MRN Radio as well as Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 90.
Miguel Paludo on driving at Texas Motor Speedway
Texas is a really challenging track, but it’s one I really like to race at. It was one of the first Truck Series races I ever did, and I qualified eighth and ran pretty good. Since then I’ve gotten two top-10 finishes there, so it’s somewhere I feel pretty comfortable. To do well, you need to attack the corners and hold it wide open, and at the same time you have to balance the handling because you practice during the day and you race at night.
Miguel Paludo on the No. 32 Unite For Diabetes/Duroline Paint Scheme
I want to spread the word that you can have diabetes still do whatever you want in life. I always say that diabetes needs to be your buddy; it’s going to be with you forever so you need to treat it well. So if you do, you will be healthy and it can’t stop you from doing anything.
I want people to open their eyes to diabetes, because a lot of people have it but don’t take care of it. I’m sure a lot of people know someone who is diabetic but they may not know a lot about it. I want people to understand what diabetes is and not be afraid of it.That’s why organizations like the International Diabetes Federation and American Diabetes Association are so important. The biggest project worldwide is World Diabetes Day, which is November 14th.
Miguel Paludo NCWTS Career Statistics
Races
Wins
Poles
Top-Fives
Top-10s
DNFs
Earnings
35
0
1
3
10
8
$444,141
Miguel Paludo 2012 NCWTS Season Totals
Starts
Wins
Poles
Top-Fives
Top-10s
DNF
Money
6
0
1
0
1
1
$74,775
Miguel Paludo 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results
Date
Start
Finish
LC
TC
Status
Money
2/24/2012
Daytona International Speedway
1
30
83
109
Accident
$13,675
3/31/2012
Martinsville Speedway
14
17
250
250
Running
$10,900
4/15/2012
Rockingham Speedway
23
15
198
200
Running
$10,850
4/21/2012
Kansas Speedway
13
10
167
167
Running
$15,100
5/18/2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway
12
14
134
134
Running
$10,550
6/1/2012
Dover International Speedway
9
12
147
147
Running
$13,700
6/8/2012
Texas Motor Speedway
6/28/2012
Kentucky Speedway
7/14/2012
Iowa Speedway
7/21/2012
Chicagoland Speedway
8/4/2012
Pocono Raceway
8/18/2012
Michigan International Speedway
8/22/2012
Bristol Motor Speedway
8/31/2012
Atlanta Motor Speedway
9/15/2012
Iowa Speedway
9/21/2012
Kentucky Speedway
10/6/2012
Talladega Superspeedway
9/29/2012
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
10/27/2012
Martinsville Speedway
11/2/2012
Texas Motor Speedway
11/9/2012
Phoenix International Raceway
11/16/2012
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Totals
12.00
16.33
979
1106
97.2%
$74,775
