SRT Motorsports – Camping World Truck Series Race Advance
Kentucky 201 – Kentucky Speedway
Friday, Sept. 21, 2012
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RYAN BLANEY – No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
Career Stats: Starts: 3 Wins: 1 Top Fives: 1 Top 10s: 2 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 50
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 3 Wins: 1 Top Fives: 1 Top 10s: 2 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 50
• Claimed first NCWTS victory last week at Iowa in his third series start. The victory was the first for RAM since Dennis Setzer won at Martinsville in March 2008.
• Average finish in three races this season is 6.00 while his average start is 6.33.
• Became the youngest winner in NCWTS history at 18 years of age surpassing Kyle Busch.
• Brad Keselowski Racing (No. 29) is fourth in the NCWTS owner point standings, 42 points behind leader Richard Childress (No. 3).
DAVID MAYHEW – No. 19 Steak and Grape/MMI Services RAM Crew Chief: Jeff Stankiewicz
Career Stats: Starts: 9 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 2 Top 10s: 3 Poles: 1 Laps Led: 29
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 1 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 0 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 0
• Will make his first NCWTS start at Kentucky this weekend.
• Best NCWTS finish is third-place (twice, most recently in 2011 at Iowa).
• Finished 16th last week at Iowa in first start of 2012.
RAM DRIVER QUOTES “Every time you win the week before, it always boosts your team, boosts your self-confidence going into the next week. Everyone is all fired up from the previous week. Your confidence level is just sky high when you win the week before. Kentucky is definitely an odd place, a big mile-and-a-half that’s fairly flat and it’s really rough. It’s got a lot of bumps in it. You’re going to get loose getting into three. It’s really flat and there’s a bump right there at your lifting point. Turning in the center there is huge and not wearing out that right front since you’re turning so much.” — Ryan Blaney
RAM NUMBERS: KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY
• RAM has two victories at Kentucky: Scott Riggs (2001) and Bobby Hamilton (2004).
• RAM has one pole at Kentucky: Jason Leffler (2002).
• Five RAM drivers finished inside the top 10 in the 2004 race.
• RAM drivers finished 1-2 in the 2001 race (Scott Riggs took the win over Joe Ruttman).
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. There have been 66 trips to victory lane since then.
• 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 432 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.
• Brad Keselowski placed second at Kentucky in June.
RAM TALK “The June race at Kentucky was probably our best, most competitive race of the year. We didn’t finish that good but before we had our incident, we were running in the top five. It looks like we’re going to have a chance to do a little testing in Nashville and work on a few things that we know we had specifically going on at Kentucky.” — Doug Randolph, Crew Chief, No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM
