Ricky Stenhouse Jr – Sylvania 300 Advance
Team: No. 17 Zest Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Scott Graves
Primary Chassis: RK- 868- new chassis
Backup Chassis: RK-801 – chassis raced numerous times by No. 99 in 2012.
ADVANCE NOTES
· Stenhouse at New Hampshire
o Stenhouse has three Nationwide career starts, earning two top-five and two top-10 finishes.
o In July two cars tangled sending the No. 17 Best Buy Ford into the outside wall, Stenhouse battled back to salvage a 34th-place finish in the Camping World RV 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
· The Car
o Chassis RK-868 is a new chassis for the No. 17 team.
· Zest
o High Ridge Brands is the name of the parent company/private equity firm.
o Zest’s first year in NASCAR was 2012 when they sponsored the No. 17 Ford.
· New Hampshire Natives
o Chris Church and Joey Elliott, mechanics on the No. 17 Zest Ford, head to their “home” track this weekend.
o Church, a diehard Boston RedSox fan, grew up in Plaistow, N.H., which is a little over an hour from NHMS.
o Joey Elliott’s hometown of Northwood, N.H is less than 30 minutes from NHMS.
Stenhouse on racing at New Hampshire:
“We have two back-to-back top-10 finishes so I am looking forward to racing this weekend at Loudon. The key is to get your car to turn through the center and to handle well over the bumps entering turn three as the car bounces a lot. We tested at Phoenix last week and feel that we learned some stuff that might help us this weekend. Loudon is the home track for Fenway Sports Group so we hope to have another strong showing this weekend in our Zest Ford.”
Graves on racing at New Hampshire:
“We definitely have some momentum after the past two weekends. We tested in Phoenix last week and felt that we learned a few things there that could be beneficial to Loudon. We had a decent run in July before getting collected in an accident so hopefully this trip has a much better outcome and we leave New Hampshire with another top-10 finish.”
