No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Race Facts
Banquet 400 --- Kansas Speedway
Driver: Jeremy Mayfield
Team Director: Kenny Francis
Team Owner: Ray Evernham
Chassis: No. 51
Car Info: Finished 2nd at Atlanta;
Fifth at Chicago
JEREMY MAYFIELD QUOTES
“We just had some bad luck at Talladega. We were just sticking to our game plan, which was to either be up front or stay in the back to the end. That’s what we were doing, but you can’t predict what’s going to happen at Talladega. It’s disappointing, but we have to remember we’ve had a good year so far. We’ve just got to keep fighting back and do the best we can. We’ll go out and try to win races now. We’re going to some tracks that are the type of tracks we run well at.
“We’re looking forward to Kansas. Evernham Motorsports as a whole has been really good on the mile-and-a-half tracks. We were third there last year, but I think we were good enough to win. We’re looking to get back there and pick up where we left off.”
STATS & FACTS
CAREER AT KANSAS
This weekend’s race marks Mayfield’s fourth visit to Kansas Speedway. He has two top-10s and one top-five finish at the track. He earned his best finish of third last year at Kansas, leading his first 37 laps at the track. Mayfield earned his best start of 14th in 2002.
YEAH, IT’S GOT A HEMI
Mayfield hasn’t been fond of too many orange racecars until now… This weekend at Kansas, Mayfield will run a special, orange HEMI paint scheme on his No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge. The paint scheme is a one-race promotion to generate exposure for Chrysler Group’s HEMI brand.
WHAT A TURNAROUND
Mayfield is one NASCAR’s most improved Cup drivers after 29 races this year. His current ranking of 10th is 14 spots improved compared to his ranking at this point in the 2003 season
THE CHASE IS ON
After racing at Talladega, Mayfield ranks 10th with seven races remaining in the 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup. He is 108 points out of the ninth position and 114 points out of eighth.
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 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.
Mayfield holds the Dover track-qualifying record of 22.288 seconds, 161.522 mph, set June 4, 2004. The qualifying record was the second of three records set by Evernham Motorsports this season (Kahne – Las Vegas, Mayfield – Dover, Kahne – Pocono.)
