When Regan Smith was repeatedly told after last year’s Daytona 500 that he and his Denver, Colo.-based Furniture Row Racing team were no longer running under the radar, it was taken as a reassuring compliment.
The No. 31 AccuDoc Solutions team will bring chassis TMS-015 to the season- opening race at Daytona International Speedway. TMS-015 ran both restrictor plate races in 2011, scoring one top-five and two top-10 results.
The No. 30 Fraternal Order of Eagles Chevrolet Impala team will bring chassis TMS-317 to the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway. TMS-317 is a brand new chassis to the No. 30 FOE Chevrolet team.
Mike Skinner will make his return to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the first time in nearly a year. The inaugural NCWTS Champion spent 2011 searching for a full-time opportunity after competing in the first two events of the year for Eddie Sharp Racing.
Matt Kenseth – NSCS ADVANCE
Team: No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: Primary: RK-779 (Last run at Talladega, Oct. 2011)
Kenseth NSCS record...
Greg Biffle – NSCS ADVANCE
Team: No. 16 3M Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Matt Puccia
Chassis: Primary: RK-794 Brand new chassis
Backup: RK-689 Last ran Daytona in July...
Fueled by his passion for motorsports, NASCAR enthusiast and Mega Millions Lottery winner, Joe Denette, formed Joe Denette Motorsports (JDM). JDM, a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) team, made its NASCAR debut in the 2011 season-opener at Daytona International Speedway.
Double Duty at Daytona… The NextEra Energy Resources 250 will actually be Cale Gale’s second race at Daytona International Speedway this week. Gale wheeled the No. 6 Rheem Chevrolet in the ARCA Racing Series event on Saturday afternoon where he brought home a 13th-place finish.
Stenhouse, Jr. on racing at Daytona International Speedway: “We’re ready for another championship. Our Nationwide Series season starts this week and I think we have worked on a few things that we needed to work on during the off-season and want to start out strong this year."
The No. 30 Qualcomm Autotrac Chevrolet team will bring chassis TMS-016 to the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. TMS-016 was used last year by Ricky Carmichael at Daytona and Talladega Superspeedway events where he finished eighth and fourth respectively.
