Miguel Paludo
No. 7 Stemco/Duroline Toyota Tundra
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race 14 of 25
Pocono Raceway
TAMING THE “TRICKY TRIANGLE”: This weekend Miguel Paludo will tackle the three turns at Pocono Raceway for the first time. Many of his competitors compare the track with road course racing. Paludo is a two-time Porsche GT3 champion, a series that competes exclusively on multi-turn venues. Paludo and the No. 7 team are riding high after scoring their second fourth-place finish of 2011 last weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway.
ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Last weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway, Paludo scored his second top-five finish of 2011 finishing fourth. The run vaulted Paludo to 15th in the point standings. Paludo currently sits fourth in the Rookie of the Year Point Standings only 33 markers out of the lead position.
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CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 7 team will unload chassis No. 065 this week at Pocono Raceway. This truck last competed at Charlotte Motor Speedway where Paludo had a top-10 run going, but was sidelined early in the race with mechanical issues.
PREVIOUS RACE RECAP: Last week at Lucas Oil Raceway, Paludo and the No. 7 team brought home their second top-five finish of 2011. Paludo came from the 17th starting position to finish fourth, tying his career-best Truck Series finish of fourth.
Miguel Paludo Talks about Pocono Raceway
Some of your competitors compare Pocono Raceway to a road course. Given your experience with that type of racing is this one of the tracks you had circled this season?
“Yes! This is definitely a track I have been looking forward to getting to. From what I hear the track is really fast and the corners are like road course corners. I feel like I will do really well there and coming off a fourth-place finish last week just makes me that much more excited.”
Red Horse Racing experienced tremendous success last weekend at Lucas Oil Raceway. How do you take that momentum and head to Pocono?
“It is easy. When everyone at the shop is excited that helps you to be excited. All week long all you think about after a good finish is getting back to the race track to see how good you will be at the next event.”
We are essentially mid-way through the Truck Series season. How would you assess your progress thus far?
“I would give myself a B+. We have had some really good runs; the two fourth-place finishes were really highlights this season. It also feels really good to go to a place like Nashville where we did not run very well the first time, then come back a second time and run better. That shows that I am making progress as a driver and my team is working hard to give me what I need.”
About Red Horse Racing:
Founded in 2005 by former Mobil Corporation executive Tom DeLoach and NASCAR veteran Jeff Hammond, Red Horse Racing aims to be a professional racing team that strives for excellence on and off the race track. Red Horse Racing hopes to build and maintain solid, mutual relationships with its partners to win races and championships and to represent itself in a professional manner. The team has four victories and five poles in its brief existence. DeLoach and Hammond also own Performance Instruction Training (PIT), the number one pit crew training center in the world that also has many corporate training options that include team-building, lean manufacturing, motorsports demonstrations and more.
