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Auto Club 300 - Hank Parker Jr. Notes Hank Parker Jr. / GNC Live Well Racing Pre-Race Notes EVENT INFORMATION - Event: NASCAR Busch Series Auto Club 300; Time and Date: 3:30 p.m. EDT, Saturday, April 28; Site: California Speedway, Fontana, Calif. Live Coverage: FOX Network (television) and MRN (radio); Qualifying: 3:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, April 27; Happy Hour: Friday, April 27, 6:30 p.m. EDT. LAST RACE (Subway 300) - Hank Parker Jr. and the No. 36 GNC Live Well Racing team finished 41st when a broken rocker arm in the engine ended the team's day after just 54 laps. STANDINGS - Parker is 25th in the Busch Series Drivers' Points Standings and team owner Scott Welliver holds the 27th spot in the Owners' Points Standings. THE OLD SWITCHEROO - Beginning with the Auto Club 300 this weekend, the No. 36 GNC Live Well Racing team begins using engines built by Roush Racing. Since the beginning of the year, the team's motors had come from the shops of Gasoline Alley Engines. SECOND TIME AROUND - The car the team will race this weekend is making only its second appearance on the track after debuting at Texas Motor Speedway three races ago. Built at Cicci-Welliver Racing, the car has been nicknamed "Pug," in honor of the mashed-in nose it suffered during contact with another car at the Jani-King 300 on March 31. UPS AND DOWNS - Drivers often refer to racing at Talladega Superspeedway as a roller coaster ride. Obviously, Hank Parker Jr. didn't get his fill during Saturday's race. He headed over to the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park in Atlanta the following day. Parker spent the afternoon testing the park's thrill rides before heading home to Mooresville, N.C. HANK PARKER JR. ON CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY - "California is still probably my favorite track of the entire circuit. The flat, wide race tracks just seem to fit my style of driving a little more than some of the others. The facility is beautiful, probably the nicest that we race at. When you get inside the track it's hard to believe that this used to be an industrial area." CREW CHIEF BILLY NACEWICZ ON CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY - "I'm not too fond of racing at the two-mile tracks like California and Michigan. I don't have anything against the facilities, they're both nice places, but I think that the races get kind of boring. "The races here end up being won on gas mileage, and not by real side-by-side racing. The cars get really strung out all the way around the track and it's like watching cars go by on the freeway. I just don't think these races are very exciting for the fans or for the teams." CREW CHIEF BILLY NACEWICZ ON PIT STRATEGY - "I think it's very possible you'll see two-tire stops if we pit under green. The tire compounds are hard enough to last awhile, and at a track like this where track position is everything, a lot of guys will probably roll the dice and only take two tires. You have to try and make up positions in the pits, because it's very difficult to gain a lot of spots on the track. With very few caution flags to bunch up the field, it's real hard to get past some of the guys ahead of you." ON HOW TO PREPARE FOR A RACE THAT COULD BE WON ON GAS MILEAGE - "It's very important that you get an accurate fuel mileage reading during happy hour. You've got to know how far you can go on fuel, because there's a very good chance that you'll have to rely on gas mileage to win the race or finish up front. A lot of times, I've seen guys cut it to within a lap of when they're going to run out of fuel. You've got to know if you have a realistic chance of making it. The motor guys at Roush want us to run a little lower gear with their motors, which should actually improve our fuel mileage."
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