SRT Motorsports – Dodge Nationwide Series Race Advance
F.W. Webb 200
New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Saturday, July 14, 2012
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NEW HAMPSHIRE MOTOR SPEEDWAY NUMBERS
• Dodge has three NNS poles at NHMS (Jamie McMurray 2004, Brad Keselowski 2010, 2011).
• The best finish by a Dodge driver at NHMS is second by Brad Keselowski (2010).
• Dodge drivers have scored three top fives and eight top 10s at NHMS.
DODGE QUOTES: “I love flat race tracks and Loudon is about as flat as they come. That race is a lot about being smooth with the car – how you get on the brakes, how you let the car roll through the corners and how you pick the throttle up. We’re just a tick off in some areas. We’ve got three little things that we’re working on. This is a game of inches now. Our whole No. 12 program is just a tad from being where we were last year. We just need to step it up a bit, start building more top-fives and wins into our performance column and keep after it.” — Sam Hornish, Jr.
DODGE IN THE NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES
• DID YOU KNOW? At least one Dodge driver has finished in the top 10 in seven of the last 11 NNS races at NHMS.
• Dodge is fielding two full-time entries in the series this year. Sam Hornish Jr. is competing for the series championship while Brad Keselowski and Parker Kligerman are sharing the driving duties in the second Penske Racing entry.
• Dodge claimed its first NASCAR championship in 2010 when Penske Racing’s Brad Keselowski captured the driver’s title. His average finish for the season was 5.2.
• Dodge has 42 wins in the series including seven in each of the previous two seasons. The first Nationwide Series win came in 2002. Dodge had 11 wins in the series during the 2005 season.
• A Dodge has started from the pole 48 times.
SAM HORNISH JR. – No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger Crew Chief: Chad Walter
Career Stats: Starts: 49 Wins: 1 Top Fives: 5 Top 10s: 15 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 188
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 16 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 3 Top 10s: 9 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 73
• Fourth in Nationwide Series driver standings, 35 points behind leader Elliott Sadler. Has four consecutive top-10 finishes and five top-10s in last six starts.
• Will be making his first NNS start at New Hampshire. Made six Cup starts at NHMS and claimed a pair of top-10 finishes (eighth place in the 2009 spring race and a 10th in the 2010 fall event).
• Has scored 320 points in nine superspeedway races this season, third-best among NNS regulars.
BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 22 Snap-On Dodge Challenger Crew Chief: Jeremy Bullins
Career Stats: Starts: 181 Wins: 18 Top Fives: 79 Top 10s: 111 Poles: 12 Laps Led: 2,894
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 13 Wins: 1 Top Fives: 6 Top 10s: 8 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 140
• Two top-five finishes and four top 10s in four NNS starts at NHMS. Best finish of second came in 2010; has an average finish of 5.8 at the 1.058-mile track.
• Owns back-to-back poles at NHMS – average start is 4.5.
• Completed all 806 possible laps in four starts at NHMS.
FROM THE CREW CHIEF “We went up to Milwaukee to test after Road America and had a really good test. Everybody has been dealt a curveball heading into Loudon because there is a new tire. We’ll do the best that we can with the notes that we have from Richmond where we had a good race and Iowa where we were really strong. Sam has had some time behind the wheel in the Cup Series at Loudon. He is always a threat on flat tracks.” — Chad Walter, Crew Chief, No. 12 Alliance Truck Parts Dodge Challenger
