Crew Chief: Scott Graves
Primary Chassis: RK- 860 – last ran at Chicago – finished 8th
Backup Chassis: RK-811 – 2012 No. 99 chassis
ADVANCE NOTES
· Stenhouse at Texas
o At the spring Texas race, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. cut a left-rear tire sending him into the outside wall early causing the rookie to go numerous laps down resulting in a 40th-place finish.
o Stenhouse Jr. is currently 20th in the driver’s championship point standings.
· The Car
o Chassis RK-860 is the same chassis that Stenhouse Jr. had a strong performance with at Chicagoland earning his second top-10 finish of the season. He was the fastest car in Friday’s practice session and qualified fifth for his first Sprint Cup start at Chicagoland.
· Ford Ecoboost
o Delivering up to 20 percent better fuel economy than conventional engines, EcoBoost uses smaller overall size combined with turbocharging and gasoline direct injection to bring customers the power they want and the fuel economy they need.
Ricky Stenhouse on Texas:
“Texas is probably one of my favorite tracks. We tested there a couple of weeks ago and felt that we learned some things that will help us this weekend. I am also running the Nationwide race so I think the extra seat time and learning how the track is going to change throughout the race should be beneficial to us on Sunday.”
Scott Graves on Texas:
“We tested with this chassis a few weeks ago at Texas and came back and worked on our car to get it dialed in for this weekend. We’ve had some of our strongest races this season on mile-and-a-half tracks so I feel we should have a solid run this weekend.”
