No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Race Facts
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series --- Homestead-Miami Speedway
Driver: Jeremy Mayfield
Team Director: Kenny Francis
Team Owner: Ray Evernham
Chassis: No. 37
Car Info: ‘04 backup car – never raced
JEREMY MAYFIELD QUOTES
“The Chase for the Nextel Cup hasn't gone the way we expected. It seems everything that could possibly happen to a team has happened to us. We're not alone. Several other teams in the Chase have experienced similar problems. It's not a case of our team not trying. I couldn't ask more of the team. They've put their heart into the Chase. The teams at the top haven't worked any harder than we have. The effort has been there.
“We're not through. There's one more race. This No. 19 Dodge Dealers team has one thing in mind – win. We want to finish as high as we can in the top 10, but when the green flag drops at Homestead, the strategy is simple...go as fast as we can from green to checkered flag. We won't be counting points every lap like the teams up at the top. We check the points when the race is over. We want to lead as many laps as we can and win the race. That's our objective, win the race.”
STATS & FACTS
JEREMY MAYFIELD AT HOMESTEAD-MIAMI
Mayfield has made four starts at Homestead-Miami Speedway with one top-five and two top-10 finishes at the track. He earned his best start of eighth in the 1999 race and his best finish of second in 2000. Mayfield has led two Homestead races for a total of 29 laps led
ONE FINAL SHOWDOWN LEFT IN THE CHASE
Mayfield ranks 10th going into the season-finale race in the 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup. He is just 21 points out of the eighth position.
WHAT A TURNAROUND
Mayfield is one NASCAR’s most improved Cup drivers after 35 races this year. His current ranking of 10th is nine 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.
SEASON TOTALS
Mayfield’s 13 top 10 finishes through 35 races this year is the second most he has tallied in a single season (16 – 1998). Mayfield’s five top-five finishes is the third most of his career (6-2000, 12-1998).
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 in September.
The victory was also the first for No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Team Director, Kenny Francis.
The victory made Mayfield the first driver in NASCAR Cup history to score a win in the No. 19 racecar since its first entry in 1975.
MAYFIELD SWEEPS UP AT DOVER
Mayfield earned his second and third Dover poles – the eighth and ninth of his career – in this year’s June and September races at Dover Int’l Speedway.
Mayfield became the first driver to sweep both Bud Poles in a season at Dover since Cale Yarborough in 1980. David Pearson (1973) is the only other driver to win both Bud Poles in a season at Dover since 1971, the first year of twice-a-year racing at the track.
