SRT Motorsports – RAM Camping World Truck Series Race Advance
UNOH 200 – Bristol Motor Speedway
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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RYAN BLANEY
– No. 19 Cooper Standard RAM
Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
• Will make his first-career NCWTS start at Bristol.
• Scored second-place finish in K&N Pro Series East race at Bristol in March.
• Has two top-10 finishes in five NNS races this season.
BRAD KESELOWSKI
– No. 29 Reese Towpower RAM
Crew Chief: Jeff Stankiewicz
Career Stats: 2012 Season Stats: Starts: 53 Starts: 5 Wins: 0 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 4 Top Fives: 3 Top 10s: 8 Top 10s: 4 Poles: 1 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 128 Laps Led: 54
• Scored eighth-place finish last week at Michigan.
• Has four previous NCWTS starts at Bristol. Best finish was seventh-place in 2010.
• Brad Keselowski Racing is fifth in series owner point standings, 29 points behind leader Tom Deloach (17).
• Will be making first NCWTS short track start this season.
• Brad Keselowski Racing has two consecutive top-10 finishes at Bristol: Keselowski (seventh-place in 2010) and Parker Kligerman (10th-place in 2011).
• Average finish in five NCWTS starts this season is 8.40.
RAM DRIVER QUOTES “I’m really looking forward to Bristol. I ran the K&N East race at Bristol earlier this year and we did very well. Even though the track is different at least I’ve been on Bristol and I’ve got a pretty good feel of it. I’m working well with the guys already at Brad Keselowski Racing and I think we can do really well. Racing with Brad is definitely going to help because I can talk with him and discuss what our RAM trucks are doing. I think it’s definitely a more basic racetrack since they changed it. It’s going to be difficult to go up high and be able to make any ground. I just want to stay out of trouble and get a really solid top-five finish out of it.” — Ryan Blaney
RAM NUMBERS AT BRISTOL
• RAM has four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes at Bristol.
• RAM has scored top-10 finishes in 13 of 14 NCWTS races at BMS.
• The most RAM drivers to finish inside the top 10 are four in 2003.
• The best finish by a RAM driver at Bristol is second-place (Stacy Compton in 1999 and Robert Pressley in 2003).
RAM IN THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES
• Bobby Hamilton (2004) and Ted Musgrave (2005) won the season championship driving a RAM.
• RAM has captured the manufacturer’s championship three times in the 17-year history of the series – 2001, 2003 and 2004.
• Tony Raines gave RAM its first win in the series in 1997, winning at I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Mo.
• RAM won 15 of the 24 NCWTS races during the 2001 season, 13 of 25 in 2003 and 11 of 25 in 2004.
• There have been 429 races in the NCWTS beginning at Phoenix International Raceway on Feb. 2, 1995. There were three RAM drivers – Joe Bessey, Bob Keselowski and Walker Evans – in the 33-truck starting field. Bessey scored a fourth-place finish.
NCWTS QUICK FACTS — BRISTOL
• There have been 14 previous truck races at BMS.
• There have been 12 different race winners.
• Four races have been won from the pole.
• Qualifying Record: 126.922 mph (Ken Schrader, 8/25/04).
RAM TALK “Bristol is a challenging place for a young guy to go. It’s hard for the driver. We’re trying to keep everything as simple as we can and give Ryan as many laps on the track as we can during practice. Our whole goal is to run all the laps, try to stay out of trouble and see what he and the team can learn.” – Doug Randolph, Crew Chief, No. 19 Cooper Standard RAM
