Danny O’Quinn, Jr. - PHOENIX ADVANCE
Phoenix International Raceway, Apr. 21-22
NASCAR Busch Series: Bashas’ Supermarket 200
Danny O’Quinn, Jr.
Team: No. 50 World Financial Group Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Drew Blickensderfer
Chassis: RK-350
O’Quinn Jr. on racing at Phoenix International Raceway:
“I’m excited about going to Phoenix this weekend. It’s kind of like a short track, but still has the high speeds. It should be a pretty good weekend seeing how we’ve run at tracks similar to it. Looking at how the Roush cars have performed there in the past tells us that we’ll have a lot of good notes to fall back on. Carl [Edwards] won the Busch series race there last year, so we can learn from that and hopefully we can run well like we did last weekend in Nashville.”
Crew Chief Drew Blickensderfer on racing at Phoenix International Raceway:
“Phoenix is a unique racetrack because it has different shaped corners at each end of the track. It has a long front straight-away and a dog-leg in the backstretch. In order to be fast there, you need to have a chassis set-up that will allow you to drive under other cars in the corners.”
FAST FACTS
This will be O'Quinn Jr.’s first start at the track in the Valley of the Sun.
Roush drivers have won four of the eight previous NASCAR Busch series races at PIR. O’Quinn Jr. would love to be the fourth to bring home the hardware for the Roush Organization.
O’Quinn Jr. posted his best starting position of his career last week in Nashville with a third place start. It was his first top-five start of the season, and his second top-15 finish of the season.
With the finish in Nashville, O’Quinn Jr. gained two positions in the points, putting himself back into the top-20 in the championship standings.
