Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – Charlotte Advance
Team: No. 17 My Best Buy Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Scott Graves
Primary Chassis: RK- 814 – last raced at Atlanta – finished16th.
Backup Chassis: RK- 827 – last raced at Charlotte – finished 14th.
ADVANCE NOTES
· Stenhouse Jr. at Charlotte Motor Speedway
o Stenhouse Jr. got his first Sprint Cup start at Charlotte in 2011 in the famed No. 21 finishing an impressive 11th-place.
o The two-time Nationwide champion has three starts at CMS with an average starting position of 22.7 and average finishing position of 20.
· The Car
o Chassis RK-814 is the same chassis that the No.17 team won their first pole of the Sprint Cup season at Atlanta and earned at 16th place finish after being trapped a lap down after a lengthy green flag run.
· Meet Ricky
o Roush Fenway Racing will host our “Fan Day” Friday, October 11th in which Ricky Stenhouse will sign autographs at 11am. Tickets will be distributed at 8am.
· My Best Buy
o Best Buy is taking another step to reinvigorate the customer experience by reinventing our Reward Zone loyalty program and replacing it with a bigger and better program – My Best Buy. This is the first step in our journey to make shopping with Best Buy as rewarding as possible.
o With 40 million members, My Best Buy is already among the largest loyalty programs of its kind, and with the changes we have planned, we expect it to be among the best loyalty programs as well.
Stenhouse Jr. on the Charlotte:
“We all look forward to racing in our backyard at Charlotte in front of family and friends. We had a decent run earlier this season at Charlotte and qualified into the All-Star race, so I feel that will help us leading into the weekend. Best Buy is introducing their new rewards program called My Best Buy so it would be cool to get a top-10 finish with their new scheme on our No. 17 Ford this weekend.”
Scott Graves on the Charlotte:
“We all look forward to being home and racing at Charlotte. I feel like our 1.5-mile program has improved and overall our No. 17 team is getting better from qualifying to race adjustments. Charlotte is tricky because the track changes so much throughout the race. We are putting last weekend behind us and looking forward to racing in our backyard and I feel confident we can get a top-10 finish this weekend.”
