Team: No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Scott Graves
Primary Chassis: RK- 832 – new chassis
Backup Chassis: RK-801 – 2012 No. 99 chassis – ran at various tracks in 2012.
ADVANCE NOTES
· Stenhouse at Phoenix
o Stenhouse will make his first Sprint Cup career start at Phoenix this weekend.
o Stenhouse has six Nationwide career starts, earning three top-five and six top-10 finishes.
o Stenhouse has completed 100% of the laps ran at PIR in the Nationwide Series.
o Stenhouse has never finished out of the top-10 at PIR.
· The Car
o Chassis RK-832 is a brand new chassis for the Rookie of the Year contender.
o The backup Chassis RK-801 raced various times in 2012 by the No. 99 team.
· Best Buy
o Best Buy joined Roush Fenway Racing and the No. 17 car in 2012.
o Make sure to follow @BestBuy and use hashtag #BestBuy17 in 2013.
· Arizona Native
o Veteran Car Chief, Pierre Kuettel, is from Phoenix.
Stenhouse on Phoenix:
“I am looking forward to racing the No. 17 Best Buy Ford at Phoenix. We haven’t finished worse than ninth in the Nationwide series there, so hopefully we can keep that streak going. We don’t have much practice time in Phoenix so we will rely heavily on our short-track testing we did in the off season. Phoenix is a tough track, so we will work on getting our Best Buy Ford to handle through the corners. I think we will have a solid finish at Phoenix.”
