No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Race Facts
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series --- Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Driver: Jeremy Mayfield
Team Director: Kenny Francis
Team Owner: Ray Evernham
Chassis: No. 57
Car Info: Earned Dover (a,b) poles
Finished 8th, 7th respectively
JEREMY MAYFIELD QUOTES
“I'm really looking forward to going back to Charlotte. It's one of my favorite places. I've run good there, and bad, but most of the time we've hit it pretty good. I think the night race is an advantage for us. I like it because it’s cool, and the track will be fast. Our cars have been fast on the mile-and-half tracks. We’re taking our Dover car, which ran well for us and got us on the pole twice. Anymore, any car we take is really good. We've got all the cars feeling the same and driving the same. Heck, we could take any of our cars and run good there.
“We got behind in the points, but we made up a lot of ground last week. We'll just keep doing what we're doing, and if the guys in front of us have a little trouble, we'll be right there knocking on their door real quick. That's all we can do. If we have another good run this weekend, I think we're really going to close the gap on them.”
STATS & FACTS
CAREER AT CHARLOTTE
Mayfield has made 21 starts at Charlotte with one top-five and six top-10 finishes at the track. He earned his top start of third in fall of 1996 and his top finish of second in fall of 2000. He has led three races for 53 laps at Charlotte.
Mayfield started 15th and finished eighth in this year’s spring race at Charlotte.
THE CHASE IS ON
After racing at Kansas, Mayfield ranks 10th with six races remaining in the 2004 Chase for the Nextel Cup. He is 10 points out of ninth and 25 out of eighth. He is 107 points out of the fifth spot.
WHAT A TURNAROUND
Mayfield is one NASCAR’s most improved Cup drivers after 30 races this year. His current ranking of 10th is 11 spots improved compared to his ranking at this point in the 2003 season
FIRST CAREER START
A 24-year-old Jeremy Mayfield made his first NASCAR Nextel Cup Series career start at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on October 10th, 1993. Mayfield qualified 30th and finished the race running in 29th place, making his only race start in 1993.
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.)
