SRT Motorsports – Dodge Nationwide Series Race Advance
NAPA Auto Parts 200 Presented by Dodge
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Saturday, August 18, 2012
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SAM HORNISH JR. – No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger Crew Chief: Chad Walter
Career Stats: Starts: 54 Wins: 1 Top Fives: 9 Top 10s: 20 Poles: 1 Laps Led: 232
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 21 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 7 Top 10s: 14 Poles: 1 Laps Led: 117
• Third in NNS championship standings, 24 points behind leader Elliott Sadler.
• Won first career NNS pole position last week at Watkins Glen.
• Owns nine consecutive top-10 finishes including four top fives in last five races.
• Has more points (82), more laps led (18) and more miles led (48.894) in two previous road course races than any other NNS regular.
• Has completed all but two laps this season (3,650 of a possible 3,652 laps – 99.94 percent).
JACQUES VILLENEUVE – No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger Crew Chief: Jeremy Bullins
Career Stats: Starts: 8 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 3 Top 10s: 5 Poles: 1 Laps Led: 52
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 1 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 1 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 10
• 1997 Formula One World Champion.
• Has two top-five finishes and one pole in four previous NNS starts at Montreal.
• Scored sixth-place finish in the No. 22 Dodge Challenger earlier this season at Road America (race No. 14).
DODGE QUOTES: “We just need to keep our heads down and do the right things. You come to a couple of road course races in the Nationwide Series and even in the Cup series, it’s about staying on the island all day long and not letting somebody use you up but also being smart enough to let ‘em go when you know it’s somebody that’s going to give you problems and generally doesn’t care if they finish the race or not. I feel good about our progression, how we’ve been. The good thing is that we’ve had good reliability out of our Dodge engines and out of our race cars. I’ve felt really good about the road course testing that we’ve done.” -Sam Hornish, Jr.
MONTREAL NUMBERS
• Dodge drivers have four top-five finishes in five NNS races at Montreal.
• Dodge has two poles at Montreal: Patrick Carpentier (2007) and Jacques Villeneuve (2011).
• Dodge drivers have racked up six top 10s at Montreal.
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 Ryan Blaney are sharing the driving duties in the second Penske Racing entry.
• Brad Keselowski gave Dodge and Penske Racing their first NASCAR Nationwide championship in 2010. His average finish for the season was 5.2.
• Dodge has 44 wins in the series including seven in each of the previous two seasons. The first Nationwide Series win came in 2002. Dodge had 11 wins in the series during the 2005 season.
• A Dodge has started from the pole 50 times.
• Dodge has three second-place finishes at Montreal.
FROM THE CREW CHIEF “Montreal is always a fun venue for the Nationwide Series. We were really glad to see the race stay on the schedule this season. The Alliance Truck Parts team had a very strong run last season in Montreal and Sam has been driving very well on this type of circuit. We would love to bring home a checkered flag in the last road race of the season.” – Chad Walter, Crew Chief, No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger
