David Green – StonebridgeRacing.com 200 Preview
Race: StonebridgeRacing.com 200
Place: Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware
Date: Saturday June 3, 2006
Time: Green flag at 3:30 pm EST
Tune-in: FX, 3:30 pm EST; MRN, 3:00 pm EST
Car: No. 27 PULL-UPS® Ford Fusion
Driver: David Green
Crew Chiefs: Stewart Cooper, Shawn Parker
Notes:
Brewco Motorsports begins its 11th year competing in the NASCAR Busch Series. Brewco is coming off its most solid performance in the series, having placed two cars (No. 27 and No. 66) in the top-ten in points (eighth and tenth respectively) in 2005.
The No. 27 will have a special paint scheme this weekend, as Kimberly-Clark will feature its PULL-UPS® brand on the hood of the car for the final race this season.
Today David Green will be at the largest stamp show ever held in America –The World Philatelic Expo 2006 at the Washington Convention Center (http://www.dcconvention.com/default.asp). He will sign autographs at the United States Postal Service booth from 10 to noon and 1 to 3 pm EST. A racing simulator will also be at the booth.
Last year at Dover, the No. 27 Brewco car started 13th and finished in 11th place.
In 24 starts at Dover, Green has eight top-ten and five top-five finishes.
This week’s Associate Sponsor is Giant Food LLC. Headquartered in Landover, MD, Giant operates 192 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, and employs more than 25,000 associates. Included within the 192 stores are 163 full-service pharmacies. Giant is celebrating its 70th year in business in 2006.
Looking Back:
To recognize the history of the NASCAR Busch Series, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2006, each week we’ll take a look back into David Green’s 16-year racing history, as it relates to this week’s track:
In the 2004 Spring race at Dover, David Green drove an untested car to a NASCAR Busch series qualifying record for the Speedway, en route to winning his first pole of the 2004 season. Green’s speed of 157.916 mph surpassed Joe Nemechek's year-old Busch record of 156.747 on the high-banked concrete oval. At the time, the pole run was the 22nd for Green. The qualifying record still stands.
David Green on Dover:
“Dover is a newer, smoother version of Bristol, with almost identical tendencies of Bristol but faster in all areas. The huge drop-off into turn one and the uphill climb off turn two makes this track very technical in all aspects of the chassis. The car has to be able to get into the corner well and be able to cut through the center, but still have enough forward bite to go up the hills on exit. Dover is also a track where the more you try to overdrive the car, the slower you run and the more you flirt with the wall on the exits of turns two and four.
“Dover is the best concrete track we run on, hands down. It is smooth and very consistent with three-to-four lanes of racing at all times. I love this track. We won the pole here in 2004 and have had a lot of good runs here, so hopefully we will tame the Monster Mile this weekend on our way to a win. It takes a solid effort at Dover - no mistakes on my part with the steering wheel and fast pit stops by the Brewco crew. That’s challenging, because pit road is the smallest and narrowest we run on all year. Track position and a car that cuts well all day long are key.”
David Green at Dover International Speedway:
Number of starts: 24
DNFs: 4
Average starting position: 13.3
Average finishing position: 16.2
Laps: 4131 of 4800 laps completed (86.1%), 44 laps led
Highest finish: Fifth (2002)
Last year: Started 13th, finished 11th
