Smoother Surface Means Better Ride for Speed Stick Ford
STATESVILLE, MARCH 4, 2015 – Cole Whitt, driver of the No. 35 Speed Stick Ford, comments on racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway:
“I’ve only been to Vegas once, last year, and we were actually really good in the primary. But we had to go to a back-up after a crash in practice. But I learned a lot. I learned where the limit is there, and now I know how far I can push a car right up to that limit.
“We should be able to relate some things from Atlanta to Las Vegas. A lot of our mile-and-a-half set-ups are similar and we try to critique them and fine-tune them for each track. Obviously, depending on the roughness of the track, you might have to provide a little more give in the suspension, especially with the new rules. Vegas is actually a little bit smoother than Atlanta. You can probably get it down and dirty a little more and ride more like IndyCar. But I do think that what we take out of Atlanta we can put to use in Vegas on our Speed Stick Ford.”
JUST THE FACTS: Whitt has one Sprint Cup career start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He finished 36th last March in his debut on the 1.5-mile oval. Speed Stick returns as sponsor of the No. 35 for Race No. 3 of the Sprint Cup season.
. @ColeWhitt believes his @SpeedStick team can apply lessons learned at @AMSupdates to @LVMotorSpeedway. #DefyTheDoubt
About Front Row Motorsports
Front Row Motorsports is a race-winning organization competing in NASCAR’s premier Sprint Cup Series, fielding the No. 34, the No. 35 and the No. 38 Fords. 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, Love’s Travel Stops, Colgate-Palmolive, CSX Transportation, Taco Bell and Long John Silver’s. Visit teamfrm.com.
