Jason Keller
No. 27 Huggies Ford
Kroger 200 Preview
Driver: Jason Keller
Car: No. 27 Huggies Ford Fusion
Event: Kroger 200
Date: July 28, 2007
Track: O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN
Time: 8:00 p.m. EST
TV: ESPN2 7:30 p.m. EST
Notes:
Brewco Motorsports enters its 12th season of competition in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2007.
This weekend’s race will mark Jason Keller’s 411th career start in the NASCAR Busch Series. The Series record for starts currently belongs to Tommy Houston (417).
Keller has an impressive nine top-10 finishes over 13 starts at ORP, with two wins, including his first NBS career win in 1995. The other ORP win came in 1999.
Keller has an average finish of ninth place in competition at ORP.
In his last eight races at ORP, Keller has six top-five finishes.
This week’s Associate Sponsor is Marsh Supermarkets, Inc. The company was founded in 1931 with one store in Muncie, Indiana. In 1953, Marsh went public with 16 stores. Today, it is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and operates 69 Marsh Supermarkets, 38 LoBill Foods, 8 O'Malia's Food Markets, 154 Village Pantry convenience stores, and 2 Arthur's Fresh Market stores in Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. The nearly 15,000 Marsh employees serve two million customers each week.
Quotes from Jason Keller:
"Indianapolis is one of those tracks that I enjoy running on because I have had a tremendous amount of success there. It's one of those flat, slick tracks that reminds me of the tracks where I first started competing. It doesn't drive like those tracks, but you used to be able to run at the top of the track the entire race. It's still fun to drive on it even though the groove has moved down.
“ORP certainly brings back a lot of wonderful memories. I go there with so much confidence that I can go there and run well and have a shot at winning the race.
“Qualifying is going to be very important this weekend. It's going to be extremely tough to pass in the race, so I think to give yourself a chance to win, you're going to have to qualify up front. Both races that I won there, I qualified, I think third or fourth once, and I qualified on the pole for the other one that I won. So our Brewco Huggies team is looking for two solid practice sessions, a good qualifying effort – just like we had at Gateway last week – and another great race run.”
