No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Race Facts
MBNA America 400 --- Dover International Speedway
Driver: Jeremy Mayfield
Team Director: Kenny Francis
Team Owner: Ray Evernham
Chassis: No. 57
Car Info: Earned pole/finished 8th
at Dover (a)
JEREMY MAYFIELD QUOTES
“I’m definitely looking forward to Dover. We got caught up in someone else’s mess last weekend, so we’re excited to get right back to a racetrack that we feel really good about. We started on the pole and led a lot of laps here in the spring, and we finished second in this race last year. We know we’ve got a great Dodge coming back here, and we’re going to pick up right where we left off in June. This team hasn’t give up all year, and they’re not going to give up now. We’ve been knocked down before, but we bounced back.
“Track position is everything at Dover. The guy that starts up front has got the lead and has got clean air all day. That’s just where we want to be.”
STATS & FACTS
JEREMY MAYFIELD AT DOVER
Mayfield has made 20 starts at Dover with four top-five and six top-10 finishes at the track. He earned his best finish of second after starting 28th last fall. He has led four races for 208 laps.
Mayfield earned his second Dover pole – the eighth of his career – in June. Mayfield lapped the speedway in 22.288 seconds, 161.522 mph. He broke Rusty Wallace’s track-qualifying record of 22.505 seconds, 159.964 mph, set Sept. 24, 1999. The qualifying record was the second of three records set by Evernham Motorsports this season (Kahne – Las Vegas, Mayfield – Dover, Kahne – Pocono.)
THE CHASE IS ON
After being caught up in another driver’s incident at New Hampshire, Mayfield remains 10th with nine races remaining in the 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup. Mayfield is just six points out of the ninth position and 18 points out of eighth.
WHAT A TURNAROUND
Mayfield is NASCAR’s most improved Cup driver after 27 races this year. His current ranking of 10th is 15 spots improved compared to his ranking at this point in the 2003 season.
IN GOOD STANDING
After qualifying for NASCAR’s 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup, Mayfield clinched a top-10 season ranking for the second time in his career. Mayfield finished the 1998 season in a career-high seventh place championship ranking.
MAYFIELD ROCKS & ROLLS AT RICHMOND!!
Mayfield earned his fourth career victory (first since Pocono-a 6/19/00), and first with Evernham Motorsports when he took the checkered flag at Richmond this month.
The victory was also the first for Team Director, Kenny Francis.
Mayfield also became the first driver in NASCAR Cup history to score a win in the No. 19 racecar since its first entry in 1975.
