Carl Edwards – NSCS BRISTOL ADVANCE
Team: No. 99 Aflac Dental Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Bob Osborne
Chassis: RK-739 This car ran Michigan in June, finished 5th
QUOTES
Carl Edwards on racing at Bristol Motor Speedway:
“The Bristol night race is always a lot of fun. We’ve had some really good luck there. We had a bad points day at Michigan with a rare parts failure, so we’ll just go to Bristol and pull out all the stops and do everything we can to get another victory before the Chase starts.”
Crew chief Bob Osborne on racing at Bristol Motor Speedway:
“Bristol is a tough track. It doesn’t take much to get caught up in someone else’s accident. We had a good run in the spring since we were able to start up front and stay up front. Qualifying is important at Bristol to start up front, get a good pit stall and stay up front all night. We could certainly use a win after a tough break at Michigan last weekend.”
FAST FACTS
* CARL EDWARDS enters Bristol fourth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup point standings, 39 points behind leader Kyle Busch. He has earned one win, 10 top-five and 14 top-10 finishes this season.
* FOR THE RECORD… In 14 starts at the 0.533-mile bullring, Edwards has two wins, four top-five, six top-10 finishes and two poles. His average start is 19.6, and his average finish is 12.5. Edwards has completed 6843 of 7013 (97.6%) laps attempted at Bristol.
* IN THE LOOP… According to NASCAR’s Loop Statistics compiled over the last 14 races at Bristol, Edwards has turned 267 of the track’s fastest laps which is fourth highest, spent 4,378 laps (67.2%) in the top 15 and led a total of 300 laps (seventh most).
* ON THE TRACK…The No. 99 will have Aflac Dental as the primary sponsor. The crew will unload RK-739 for the weekend. This car first raced at Dover in May, and then went on to finish fifth at MIS in June.
* REWIND, BRISTOL, AUGUST 2010… Edwards started second and ran in the top five until a miscue in the pits dropped him back to 26th just past halfway. He fought his way back up to 12th to finish the race.
