Blaney’s Career Stats: Blaney will make his 211th career NEXTEL Cup Series start when the green flag waves Sunday evening. He made his first career NASCAR Cup Series start in October 1992 at [Rockingham] North Carolina Speedway and after experiencing engine problems finished 40th after qualifying in 30th in his first Cup Series start at Lowe’s in 2000. Like this weekend, Blaney was aboard a Bill Davis Racing-owned machine.

History at Lowe’s: Blaney has made 12 starts on the 1.5-mile Concord, N.C. track, starting as high as 8th (2003) and posting a top-10 in 2002. Blaney fared even better during his Busch Series days earning the pole position twice (1998 and 2000) and starting inside the top-10 five times.

BDR at LMS: Competitors driving Bill Davis Racing-owned cars have been racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway since 1993 and have made 35 starts. Those drivers have posted three top-five finishes and 11 top-10 efforts and combined have led a total of 167 laps.

Double Duty Dave: Blaney is scheduled to make his debut for Braun Racing in the Busch Series this weekend driving the No. 32 ABF U-Pack machine in Saturday evening’s event.

Driver Dave Blaney on Running in the NASCAR Busch Series with Braun Racing this weekend:
“I’m really happy here. It’s a blessing really to get hooked up with Todd Braun. Any seat time I can get is always a great thing to transfer over to our Cup program. I think Todd has a great team here and we will be hooked up and run good right out of the box. All things aside my main goal here is win a race for ABF and Braun Racing.”

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