Dover 200 - Stephen Leicht Notes

Stephen Leicht
No. 90 CitiFinancial Ford
Dover 200
Dover International Speedway, Dover, Del.
Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 3:00 p.m. (EDT)

LEICHT DOVER NOTES-
Stephen Leicht will make his 16th NASCAR Busch Series start this weekend at Dover International Speedway. Leicht will make his first appearance at the Monster Mile for this weekend’s running of the Dover 200. It will also be Leicht’s first weekend working with his new crew chief, Cully Barraclough.

CREW CHIEF- Barraclough has been named crew chief of the No. 90 CitiFinancial Ford. He replaces interim crew chief, Skip Eyler, who returns to his original position in RYR’s engineering development program. Barraclough previously served as a crew chief in the NASCAR Busch Series for Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin. He most recently worked as a consultant for Clay Andrews Racing with David Gilliland prior to joining RYR in July.

“Cully has been a huge asset to our race team and we are steadily building our No. 90 team as this season moves along,” said Robert Yates. “He is a well-respected garage member who has proven that he can help get a team up and running quickly.”

DAVID GREEN- David Green, a former NASCAR Busch Series champion, has been hired by RYR to serve as a driver mentor and spotter for 19 year-old Leicht.

LEICHT’S QUOTES-
“I’ve never raced at Dover before so to prepare for it I have been practicing on a racing simulator at Jerry Nadeau’s shop this week. I spent four hours racing on it Monday trying to learn the fastest way around the track. You carry a lot of speed through the corners and The Monster Mile is not very forgiving and it definitely doesn't leave you any room for error. Hopefully we can get the CitiFinancial Ford dialed in during practice and get a good finish this weekend.”

CHASSIS INFORMATION-The CitiFinancial team is taking chassis No.B11 to Dover. This is the same chassis that was raced at the first Dover event (started 29th finished 41st).