RON HORNADAY
Dover International Speedway
Race No. 27: Stacker 200 TV: TNT 1:00 p.m.
EDT
Dover International Speedway RADIO: MRN 1:00p.m. EDT
Distance: 1.0-miles
NOTES:
* Points battle
With an seventh place finish at Richmond International Raceway,
ACDelco Chevrolet driver Ron Hornaday has closed the gap in the NASCAR Busch
Series championship race. Hornaday, a two-time NASCAR Southwest Tour (1992,
'93) and NASCAR Truck Series Champion ('96, '98), is in fourth place, just
74 points out of first position. In fact, the 111 points separating the
top-five make it the closest NBS points battle with eight races to go in the
history of the series.
* Spring race recap
Hornaday qualified eighth back at Dover in the spring and ran as
high as fifth during the event. A significantly loose car kept Hornaday
from being able to charge off the corners. A top-10 finish looked
promising. But on the lap 178 restart, Matt Kenseth missed a shift, which
stacked up the entire field. Hornaday was collected in the wreck and
sustained heavy damage to the front of his car. He was able to finish the
race and collected a 10th place finish.
* Splitting time in Winston Cup
ACDelco crew member's Nick Terry and Aaron Smith are no strangers to
double duty. Smith has been changing rear tires for both the ACDelco
Chevrolet in the NASCAR Busch Series and also the GM Goodwrench Monte Carlo
and Cingular Wireless teams in NASCAR Winston Cup, for the past two months.
Terry is the tire specialist and jack-man for the ACDelco Chevy and last
week, substituted as jack-man for Kevin Harvick at New Hampshire. Both men
say the extra time with the "Cup" team has helped their effort in the Busch
Series.
* What ya haulin?
The ACDelco transporter will unload chassis No. 26.
It is the same car Hornaday ran at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, finishing ninth
and Bristol Motor Speedway, where he finished second.
Ron Hornaday comments on Dover International Speedway
They call Dover the "Monster Mile". What are your thoughts?
"I like Dover. It's a cool track. It has concrete high banks and fast
corner speeds. It's one of those tracks that is self cleaning and it stays
consistent all day long. If there is a wreck, everything slides to the
bottom. You see someone every year get loose and run up the track, hit the
wall and then slide down and collect someone who is right in the racing
groove at the bottom. But unlike some tracks, it is near impossible to
repair a car from a Dover crash. These walls punish the driver and the car.
Running up front is once again the key to staying out of trouble. And you
must have that RCR horsepower to drive up out of the corners. It really
does give you the feeling of driving up out of a hole. Dover is a track
where you want to win, but if you come out of the track with a top-five or
top-10 and a clean race car, you leave happy."
Ron Hornaday and the ACDelco Chevrolet Monte Carlo are fifth in the NASCAR
Busch Series point's standings. Hornaday is 74 points out of first place.
