Race 2 Win: MBNA RacePoints 200

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MBNA RacePoints 200 - Dave Blaney Notes

Dave Blaney
No. 31 Whelen Chevrolet
Event Preview Fact Sheet

Event/Date: MBNA 200 – June 4, 2005
Venue: Dover International Speedway – Dover, Del.

NOTES:

This Week’s Race Car at Dover International Speedway … Dave Blaney will pilot chassis No. 026 from the Marsh Racing stable. This is the same car Blaney raced last month at Richmond (started 20th, finished 42nd) until he was sidelined early after being involved in a lap-58 incident. Todd Bodine raced the same car to a 32nd-place finish last fall at Darlington Raceway.

Stats Fact … In eight NASCAR Busch Series starts at Dover, Blaney owns one top-five and four top-10 finishes.

RCR Chips In ... Blaney’s Jack Daniel’s NEXTEL Cup Series over-the-wall crew will pit the No. 31 Busch Series entry on Saturday. Crew chief Philippe Lopez and team engineer Brian Bass will also be on hand to help call the race.

Blaney’s Best … Blaney’s best finish for Marsh Racing is a ninth-place effort at Richmond in September 2003. All totaled, the Hartford, Ohio, native owns seven top-five and 22 top-10 finishes in the NASCAR Busch Series with a pair of career-best runner-up efforts coming at Atlanta (3/13) and Darlington (9/4) in 1999.

David vs. Goliath … In 57 Busch Series starts, Marsh Racing, headquartered in Old Lyme, Conn., has earned three top-five and 14 top-10 finishes. In 2003, Blaney recorded three top-10s for Marsh Racing at Michigan (8/16), Richmond (9/5) and Atlanta (10/25).

Not Just NASCAR … In addition to its Busch Series efforts, Marsh Racing fields a C5 Corvette for Whelen Engineering owner Sonny Whelen in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge.

Whelen’s Way … For more than 50 years, Whelen and its 800 fulltime employees have provided innovative emergency lighting and siren products in the automotive, aviation, industrial, emergency management and traffic management markets. Whelen is also a household name to race fans across America. Whelen is the title sponsor of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the Official Licensed Warning Lights of NASCAR. The company also provides emergency lights for safety vehicles, tracks and pace cars for ASA, ARCA, IRL, CART, IROC, SCCA, and The World of Outlaws. All Whelen products are made in America.

Up to Speed … The MBNA 200 NASCAR Busch Series race will be televised live Saturday, June 4 beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on FX and broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network (MRN) and XM Satellite Radio. Qualifying for the MBNA 200 will air live on SPEED Friday, June 3 at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

DAVE BLANEY QUOTES:
How is the Busch race different from the Cup race?
“The Busch race is different because you’re on a tire budget. You only have so many sets of tires so you have to go after it differently. In Cup racing, you can put new tires on your car all day. In Busch racing, you have to figure out how your car is, when to put tires on, but you also have to think about when you can afford to put tires on. You also have to take into consideration what other people are doing. On the Cup side you can get off sequence with some other guys and try and work some pit strategy. It’s not really like that on the Busch side. The races are so short that you have to stick to your game plan pretty closely. I’m definitely excited about this weekend. The Whelen car has always run pretty good at Dover, so we’ll see what happens.”

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