Burney Lamar
No. 77 Dollar General Stores Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS
Team Report
NASCAR Busch Series Race 27 of 35—California Speedway
CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY FACTS & STATS:
Hometown roots…Lamar will return to his home-state, California, to compete at California Speedway for the second time this season. Lamar made his first NASCAR Busch Series start in Fontana, Calif., in 2006 with a 39th-place start and 21st-place finish.
Lamar is currently 19th in NASCAR Busch Series driver points. Lamar is 13-points back from 17th position and 1,665 points behind team owner and Busch Series points leader, Kevin Harvick.
In the rookie class Lamar holds the top finishing position, with his second-place finish at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway this February. Lamar trails first place in the standings by six points.
The No. 77 Dollar General Chevrolet stores team owner, DeLana Harvick, is 20th in Owner points, 92-points back from 19th-place and 1,574 points behind the leader.
QUOTES:
You will have the opportunity to travel home for a few days, what are your plans while in California?
“I am so excited to get home to California and visit with my family. I’m able to take a few days from the shop and travel home early to spend some time with my mom, dad and sister. I honestly haven’t seen my sister, Bobbi Jo, since December. No big plans made, just hang out with everyone and enjoy a few days off.”
Back to business…What are your predictions for California Speedway now that you’ve raced there already once this season?
“I feel way more comfortable going to a track that I’ve already made laps around. Earlier this season when we visited California Speedway, I started 39th but raced to a 21st-place finish. It truly helps to have past experience at a track, the Dollar General stores crew can utilize the practice to make the car faster instead of waiting on the driver to adapt to the track.”
QUICK NOTES:
Race Info
September 2, 2006
California Speedway
Ameriquest 300
Race length: 150 laps / 300 miles
Banking/Turns: 14-degrees
Track layout: 2.0 miles
Shape: D-shaped oval
Pre-Race Schedule—Friday—1:45 – 2:45 p.m. Practice, 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Rookie Practice, 6:40 – 7:40 p.m. Final Practice—Saturday—3:40 p.m. Qualifying
TV – The Ameriquest 300 can be seen live on TNT at 10:00 p.m. ET.
Radio - The Motor Racing Network (MRN) will broadcast the race live at 10:00 p.m. ET.
No. 77 Dollar General stores Monte Carlo SS Specs
Chassis: 018
Car History: Raced at Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Chicago.
Engine: RCR
OPERATION BIG CHANCE:
UPDATE: Dollar General Operation Big Chance…
Current points leader: Mark Day
[2006 Points Standings as of August 28, 2006]
NOTE: Dollar General, Nashville’s (Tenn.) Music City Motorplex and Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) will make a local racer’s dream come true. The driver who earns the most points in the Late Model or Super Truck divisions at the fairgrounds’ Music City Motorplex during the 2006 race season will earn the opportunity to test, and upon NASCAR’s approval a chance to compete in a NASCAR Truck Series event for KHI at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway in April 2007.
NASCAR GRAND NATIONAL DIVISION, WEST SERIES: The same car that Lamar raced at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway this past weekend was the same chassis that was in victory lane nearly one year ago at the California Speedway. Burney Lamar made four starts in 2005 in the NASCAR Grand National West Series, one of which was at the California Speedway exactly one year ago from the Busch Series race on September 2. On that very day, Lamar drove the No. 33 HPS/Groeniger Chevrolet to victory lane after starting seventh on the grid and dominating the majority of the race. Lamar competed against fellow Busch Series drivers, David Gilliland and Auggie Vidovich to win at California that night.
BEST RADIO CHATTER FROM BRISTOL:
Lamar reports to his Dollar General stores crew that the machine’s handling has been free since the start of the race…
“I should enter this thing in a drifting contest, she’d win.” — Burney Lamar
