No. 34 Team among Those Ramping Up Road Course Efforts
“Watkins Glen is a very different race course from Sonoma. Sonoma is a little slower, a little more technical, a little flatter. But at Watkins Glen, you’re wide open and very hard on the brakes. It’s a little easier, in my opinion, than Sonoma.”But the racing at Watkins Glen is always very exciting. We always seem to have some accidents there that are a little more spectacular because of how fast we go. We look forward to the road courses. I’ve grown to enjoy them a little bit more over the last few years, so I’m looking forward to it.
“It used to be you could pick your road-course winners out of a group of four or five drivers who had road-racing backgrounds. In more recent years, everyone takes every race so seriously. Teams are putting more work into their road-race cars, and drivers are going to some schools and getting more seat time. Now, if you look at the winners in the last six or eight years, it’s everybody in the field. Everybody’s a lot more competitive and everybody runs a lot closer together.”
JUST THE FACTS: Ragan has seven Sprint Cup career starts at Watkins Glen International … His best finish at the 2.45-mile road course came last year (21st) … Dockside Logistics returns as primary sponsor of the No. 34 Ford … The No. 34 team is coming off a 19th-place finish at Pocono Raceway, its second-best finish of the season.
. @DavidRagan’s career-best finish at @WGI came last year when he finished 21st. Says all teams taking road courses more seriously. #NASCAR
About Front Row Motorsports
Front Row Motorsports is a race-winning organization competing in the NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup Series, fielding the No. 34 of David Ragan, the No. 38 of David Gilliland and the No. 35 Ford. The team is owned by Bob Jenkins and is headquartered just outside of Charlotte, N.C. FRM was named to INC Magazine’s “INC 5000” list in 2012, recognizing the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. The team’s partnership base is representative of more than $200 billion of the U.S. economy and includes organizations such as Ford Motor Company, CSX Transportation, Love’s Travel Stops, Farm Rich, Taco Bell and Long John Silver’s. Visit teamfrm.com.
