HARRISBURG, N.C. (July 11, 2023) – – JTG Daugherty Racing is thrilled to join Drumstick® in commemorating 95 Years of sundae cones by co-branding Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s No. 47 Kroger® Racing Camaro at New Hampshire Motor Speedway during the Crayon 301. What makes it even more exciting is that millions of NASCAR fans will witness Drumstick® on the car for a Cup Series race coinciding with National Ice Cream Day, July 16.

“What better way to celebrate National Ice Cream Day than with a Drumstick® sundae cone?” said Elmer Gonzalez, Brand Manager for Drumstick®. “We’re excited to partner with DAYTONA 500 CHAMPION Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and can’t wait to see America’s favorite sundae cone at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.”

Founded in 1928, Drumstick® Is The Original Sundae Cone® and a perfect match for JTG Daugherty Racing due to the team’s strong affinity for the brand. Moreover, our competition director, Ernie Cope, ensures the No. 47 Kroger® Racing’s freezer is stocked full of boxes of Drumstick®. This tradition has been upheld for years, highlighting the enduring partnership between Drumstick® and the team.

“Having Drumstick® in the freezer is mandatory,” said Ernie Cope. “This tradition actually goes back to when I worked for another team (Kevin Harvick Incorporated). So, since 2008, I’ve been making sure there’s plenty of Drumstick® in the freezer for race weekends.”

During the recent race weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Stenhouse Jr. secured his 51st career top-10 (10th) finish in the rain-shortened event. The finish is a momentum builder for the DAYTONA 500 CHAMPION as he prepares to take on New Hampshire Motor Speedway with the No. 47 Kroger® / Drumstick® Camaro, where he already has a pair of top-10 finishes.

“New Hampshire is a shorter flat track,” said Stenhouse Jr. “Track position is going to be key. It’s going to be important for us to qualify well there.”

Live coverage of the Crayon 301 on National Ice Cream Day kicks off at 2:30 PM ET on USA, SIRIUSXM, and PRN.

About Drumstick®:

Drumstick® is part of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc. a leading U.S. ice cream company, owned by Froneri, a fast-growth international business with a vision to build the world’s best ice cream company. Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream manufactures, markets and distributes a full spectrum of delicious ice cream and frozen snacks made with high-quality ingredients. With nearly 100 years of experience in the market, its robust portfolio of brands, which it manufactures and distributes in the U.S., includes Drumstick®, Häagen-Dazs®, Dreyer’s/Edy’s® Grand and Slow Churned®, Dibs®, Outshine®, Toll House®, Push-Up®, Frosty Paws®, and Skinny Cow®.

KEVIN HARVICK
New Hampshire Advance
No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing

Event Overview

● Event: Crayon 301 (Round 20 of 36)

● Time/Date: 2:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 16

● Location: New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon

● Layout: 1.058-mile oval

● Laps/Miles: 301 laps / 318.46 miles

● Stage Lengths: Stage 1: 70 laps / Stage 2: 115 laps / Final Stage: 116 laps

● TV/Radio: USA / PRN / SiriusXM NASCAR Radio

Notes of Interest

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● As a 23-year veteran of the NASCAR Cup Series with 60 career wins, Kevin Harvick has a lot of good racetracks. New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one of them. The driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) has made 39 starts at the 1.058-mile oval and won four times – tied with retired driver Jeff Burton for the most all-time. And when he hasn’t ended his race in victory lane, Harvick has been well within the vicinity. He has 14 top-five and 23 top-10 finishes, both of which lead the series among active Cup Series drivers.

● Harvick has won two of the last five races at New Hampshire (2018 and 2019) and in his last nine starts at “The Magic Mile,” he only has one finish outside the top-six. Harvick finished fifth last year at New Hampshire and he comes into this year’s Crayon 301 looking to score his sixth straight top-10.

● Who is even close to Harvick at New Hampshire? There are just two active NASCAR Cup Series drivers with three wins – Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin – but only Harvick has four victories. When it comes to top-fives, Harvick is in a class of his own with 14. Next best are Kyle Busch and Hamlin with 11 top-fives apiece. And it’s the same with top-10s. The only driver close to Harvick in this category is Hamlin, who has 18 top-10s.

● Harvick has proven quick at New Hampshire outside of the NASCAR Cup Series. In 12 career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at the track, he has a win (June 2007) to go with nine top-fives and 11 top-10s with 677 laps led. And in six NASCAR Truck Series starts, Harvick has three top-three finishes and five top-10s. His worst result was merely a 15th-place drive back in August 1999.

● While Harvick has always been good at New Hampshire, his performance at the track took a dramatic turn upward when he joined SHR in 2014 and paired with crew chief Rodney Childers. In the 13 races contested at New Hampshire since wheeling the No. 4 car for SHR, Harvick has scored three wins and has only four finishes outside of the top-five. And of his 831 career laps led at New Hampshire, 512 have come in the last 12 races (46.5 percent).

● The Harvick/Childers duo is the longest active-tenured driver/crew chief relationship in the NASCAR Cup Series garage. They joined forces in 2014 and promptly won the Cup Series championship. In their now decade-long partnership, Harvick and Childers have won 37 points-paying Cup Series races and qualified for the NASCAR Playoffs every year, advancing to the Championship 4 five times.

● Before scoring three wins with Harvick at New Hampshire, Childers won at the track with driver Brian Vickers. In July 2013, Childers guided Vickers to the driver’s third and final NASCAR Cup Series victory by out-fueling Tony Stewart – the “Stewart” in Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart had led a total of 84 laps and was in second place behind Vickers on the final lap of a green-white-checkered finish. But Stewart’s car sputtered off turn two. Out of gas, he was forced to coast all the way down the backstretch and through turns three and four of the 1.058-mile oval. As Vickers and Childers celebrated their win, Stewart rolled down pit road where he crossed the finish line a gut-wrenching 26th.

● Stewart earned a pretty good track record at New Hampshire during his career. The 2020 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee won three races in 35 starts and logged 15 top-fives and 19 top-10s with 1,302 laps led. The only driver with more laps led at New Hampshire is fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon with 1,373 laps led.

Kevin Harvick, Driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Ford Mustang

Phoenix Raceway is your best track, statistically, but New Hampshire isn’t far off from your results at Phoenix. Four career wins and nine top-fives in the last 12 races is proof of that. Are there similarities between Phoenix and New Hampshire?

“Flat tracks have always been really good for me in my career. When you look at SHR and the things we’ve been able to accomplish at Loudon and Phoenix, they’ve kind of followed that same trend. A lot of that goes back to that open test time we had at Milwaukee and Nashville. Those are the places where we would practice and practice and practice. Our guys have done a great job of having a good short-track, flat-track program, and Loudon is a place that has followed along with Phoenix and the success that we’ve had there and to be able to capitalize on that success and continue it at another track.”

New Hampshire always seems to be a race that is circled on your calendar. Is it even more so this year because of how you’ve run at Phoenix (fifth) and Richmond (fifth) – tracks that have some similar characteristics to New Hampshire?

“It’s definitely a racetrack that we’re looking forward to going to, and I can’t wait to finally, hopefully, get to victory lane. After Nashville, having the fastest car and having a tire go flat, and Phoenix and a couple of the other places where it just seems like it all hasn’t come together, we’re ready to finish off a weekend with a win. My guys are doing a great job of putting fast cars on the racetrack and Loudon is one of those places that checks a lot of boxes for us to go up there and have a good weekend.”

Is horsepower less of an issue at New Hampshire because it’s relatively flat and only a mile in length, or do you need to really be able to pull off the corner and down the straightaway to make a fast lap? Or is a fast lap more about getting through each corner well?

“For us, a lot of that depends on the tire falloff and where things go from the handling of the car and what the pace is. You definitely still have to have good power, it just comes in a different range.”

You get a giant lobster for winning at New Hampshire. Other than scaring your kids with it in victory lane, what do you do with it?

“My lobster, they mounted on a board. It sat in a closet and his claws fell off and some of his arms and legs fell off, so we took the lobster off the board and we used the board for a skateboard ramp. That was what happened to my first lobster because he just fell apart and we used the board for Keelan’s skateboard ramp.”

You’re a big proponent of grassroots racing, and grassroots racing is big in New England. What’s your take on the racing scene in New England?

“I learned that back in 2009 when we ran the Oxford 250. We spent a week up there practicing and racing, and I think 110 cars showed up for the Oxford 250 and we were fortunate to win that race. You open up every newspaper in the region the next morning and it was about the Oxford 250. From that very day forward, the same guys that I raced with will come to the garage and say, ‘Hi,’ and talk about that particular weekend, and you hear fans talk about being at that particular race. Really, the Oxford 250 had kind of given me a little bit of a leg up on everybody because I was able to interact with those fans on a regional basis and be able to have that stick with me for a long time. I haven’t been able to go back and do that event again, but having that experience up there allowed me to connect and realize how big racing was in the Northeast.”

No. 4 Busch Light Team Roster

Primary Team Members

Driver: Kevin Harvick

Hometown: Bakersfield, California

Crew Chief: Rodney Childers

Hometown: Mooresville, North Carolina

Car Chief: Robert “Cheddar” Smith

Hometown: Whitewater, Wisconsin

Engineer: Stephen Doran

Hometown: Butler, Pennsylvania

Engineer: Dax Gerringer

Hometown: Gibsonville, North Carolina

Spotter: Tim Fedewa

Hometown: Holt, Michigan

Over-The-Wall Members

Front Tire Changer: Daniel Coffey

Hometown: Granite Falls, North Carolina

Rear Tire Changer: Daniel Smith

Hometown: Concord, North Carolina

Tire Carrier: Jeremy Howard

Hometown: Delhart, Texas

Jack Man: Brandon Banks

Hometown: High Point, North Carolina

Fuel Man: Evan Marchal

Hometown: Westfield, Indiana

Road Crew Members

Mechanic: Tyler Trosper

Hometown: Mooresville, North Carolina

Mechanic: Nick DeFazio

Hometown: Orange, California

Tire Specialist: Jamie Turski

Hometown: Trumbull, Connecticut

Engine Tuner: Robert Brandt

Hometown: Mobile, Alabama

Transporter Co-Driver: Rick Hodges

Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina

Transporter Co-Driver: Stephen Mitchell

Hometown: Woodville, Ohio

A spin early in Sunday night’s Quaker State 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway ended a promising start for Harrison Burton and the No. 21 DEX Imaging team.

Burton started the race from a Cup-career-best fifth place and was racing in the top five on Lap 18 when he spun off Turn Two.

As Burton slid across the track, all four tires on DEX Imaging Mustang were flattened, necessitating a tow to pit road.

Between the time lost getting back to pit road and the subsequent repairs to the underside of his car, Burton rejoined the race five laps behind the leaders and in 37th place.

The DEX Imaging team continued to work to improve their position. At the end of the first 60-lap Stage, Burton received the free pass that goes to the first driver a lap or more behind.

Then a spin by eventual winner William Byron on Lap 81 allowed Burton to move to three laps down. Another caution at Lap 124 saw him get another free pass, bringing him to two laps behind the leaders.

Another caution flag at Lap 156 brought another free pass, and Burton was then just one lap off the pace.

When rain sent the field to pit road at Lap 185, Burton was in position to rejoin the lead lap, but before the race could be restarted the rains picked up and the race was called at that point, leaving him with a 28th-place finish.

Next up for Burton and the Wood Brothers team is the Crayon 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 16.

About DEX Imaging
DEX Imaging is the digital document imaging division of Staples, the world’s largest business solutions provider. DEX sells and services the broadest selection of copiers, printers and data management solutions, such as HP, Konica Minolta, Canon, Kyocera and numerous others.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES:
Reducing Operating Costs
Reducing Paper Consumption
Increasing Productivity

DEX Imaging has been the recipient of virtually every industry award since the company’s inception, including the JD Power & Associates Award for Best Customer Experience, the prestigious ProTech Service award by Konica Minolta, the Diamond Premier Dealer Award by Kyocera, and the Elite DEALER Award by ‘ENX’ magazine. Other accolades include being named ‘Best Place to Work’ by numerous business journals in the markets DEX serves.

Wood Brothers Racing
Wood Brothers Racing was formed in 1950 in Stuart, Va., by Hall of Famer Glenn Wood. Wood Brothers Racing is the oldest active team and one of the winningest teams in NASCAR history. Since its founding, the team won 99 races (including at least one race in every decade for the last seven decades) and 120 poles in NASCAR’s top-tier series. Fielding only Ford products for its entire history, the Wood Brothers own the longest association of any motorsports team with a single manufacturer. Glenn’s brother, Leonard, is known for inventing the modern pit stop. The team currently runs the Ford Mustang driven by Harrison Burton in the famous No. 21 racer.

No. 6 Castrol Edge Ford Paces Field Late Before Strategy, Rain Play into Final Results

HAMPTON, Ga. (July 9, 2023) – Brad Keselowski led three different times for a combined 19 laps, won stage two and was in prime position for the finish in Sunday night’s race from Atlanta Motor Speedway, but an incoming band of storms ultimately paused the action not far into stage three, and it never resumed from there with the Castrol Edge Ford finishing sixth.

“It was a good day,” Keselowski said. “We were right where we needed to be, but didn’t get the breaks we needed. I was really happy with our performance and quality of the cars we had. My teammate, Chris Buescher, did a good job, but just didn’t catch the breaks we needed at the end.”

The threat of rain resulted in the field racing as if it were the last lap, for multiple laps, through much of the 185 laps that were completed. After finishing the first stage in 24th, the No. 6 began the second stage of 100 laps from near the tail end of the field.

From there he methodically worked his way through the field, advancing into the top-10 by lap 123 when the race’s fifth yellow was displayed. He and teammate Chris Buescher were inside the top-5 together on the ensuing restart as Keselowski took the lead for the first time on lap 137. He led three different times in a stretch of 23 laps, winning stage two under caution.

Facing the need for fuel, and incoming rain, the field was faced with a big decision in the stage two break. Keselowski needed fuel to make it on the long run and pitted for four fresh tires and fuel. That put him 17th on the next restart at lap 164.

The seventh and final caution waved with 82 to go with Keselowski scored sixth. Light rain began to fall under the extended yellow, which ultimately sent the race to a red flag, before NASCAR deemed it official not long after.

The NASCAR Cup Series heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway next, with race coverage next Sunday set for 2:30 p.m. ET on USA, with radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Fastenal Ford Led 39 Laps Before Inclement Weather Shortened 400-Mile Race

HAMPTON, Ga. (July 9, 2023) – Chris Buescher led the second-most laps of any car and was poised for a solid finish in Sunday’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but inclement weather forced the race to end early with the Fastenal Ford ultimately finishing 15th.

The threat of rain and late-race fuel strategy made all the difference as the race was shortened to 185 laps when everything settled. After finishing the fairly calm opening stage in 22nd, Buescher began the second stage in fifth after a right-side tire only strategy in the preceding stage break.

He maintained the top-10 position from there throughout much of the remaining laps, as he inherited the lead under a yellow flag at lap 92 – one of seven overall cautions on the night. He held the lead for the 39 laps following, as teammate Brad Keselowski eventually worked his way to Buescher’s bumper, putting the RFK Ford Mustangs 1-2 for a series of laps.

After the No. 6 took the lead in the closing laps of stage two, Buescher settled in behind to finish third in the stage, before again taking right-side tires. He would restart 15th as the field from there turned into panic mode, chasing the threat of incoming rain.

A caution with 82 proved to be the last as rain ultimately moved in under the extended yellow, and forced a red flag before ending the race short at lap 185.

The NASCAR Cup Series heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway next, with race coverage next Sunday set for 2:30 p.m. ET on USA, with radio coverage on PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.