Carl Edwards Advance
Dover International Speedway
Sept. 23rd-25th, 2005 NEXTEL Cup Series
MBNA RacePoints 400, Sunday 1:00PM
Carl Edwards
Team: No.99 Roush Racing Ford Taurus
Crew Chief: Bob Osborne
Chassis Number: RK-272 (raced at Las Vegas and first Fontana)
Edwards on racing at Dover International Speedway:
“Handling is really important at Dover. It’s pretty much a one groove track so you need to handle well through the center of the corners in order to keep your position. If we can get the No. 99 Office Depot Ford handling well I think we’ll be good. In the spring we didn’t handle as well as we should have so we were getting passed in the center of the corners and that hurt us a lot. We have one ‘Chase’ race under our belt and we finished 19th. I think championships are defined by your bad days and if that’s a bad day for us, I think we have a chance at the championship.”
Crew Chief Bob Osborne on racing at Dover International Speedway:
“We have not run as well as we would have liked the last couple times but we continue to improve and that's encouraging. I think with some fine tuning and more practice, we'll be just fine. Dover is a really unique track. It's different from any other track in that you drop off into the corner whereas at the other tracks you run up a hill into the corners. You have to have a brave driver to be fast at Dover. You have to have a driver that's not worried about how he's going to land when he drives off into the corner and I think we have that kind of driver. If we can score a top 10 at Dover I think we’ll be looking good in the point standings, we just need to survive.”
Fast Facts
Carl Edwards has four total starts at Dover International Speedway (two in the Truck Series and two in the NEXTEL Cup Series). His best Truck finish is 14th while his best Cup finish came in the spring race when he finished 16th. In the Cup car Edwards has an average starting position of 11.5 while his average finish is 17th.
Edwards currently sits ninth in the overall point standings, 109 out of first. With 5,121 points, Edwards sits 59 points out of fifth and just 14 points out of eighth.
Edwards spent two days in New York with the other “Chase” contenders helping to promote NASCAR and the “Chase”. As part of his media, Edwards made a cameo appearance along with Mark Martin on “The Guiding Light”. The episode will air on Friday, October 21 on CBS.
Office Depot will be carried on the No. 99 Ford as the primary sponsor this week. In addition to their $1 million donation, Office Depot has started “Kids of Katrina”. Office Depot is trying to raise enough money to build 25,000 backpacks full of school supplies to send to the kids affected by Hurricane Katrina. Carl Edwards has already donated a portion of his Busch Series winnings from his win in California. For more information you can log onto www.officedepotracing.com.
