No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Charger Race Facts
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series --- Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Driver: Jeremy Mayfield
Team Director: Kenny Francis
Crew Chief: Slugger Labbe
Team Owner: Ray Evernham
Chassis: No. 108
Car Info: EMS Chassis – 20th at Vegas
Tested at Lowe’s in May
JEREMY MAYFIELD QUOTES
“There’s one good thing about a 600-mile race, it gives you time when you’re off a little bit on your car to get it fixed. If all of the races we had were 600-mile races, we would have had a pretty good season so far because we seem to get our cars fixed near the end of the race where they’re running competitively.
”I don’t mind the Charlotte night race because it starts later. It’s not like starting in the afternoon and running just as it starts to get dark. We actually race at night at Charlotte. I don’t like the twilight races because of the sun and because it’s really not a night race. Charlotte really is a night race. I like it.”
On the new Dodge Charger, new tire compound, new spoiler rules…
“Every week we go to the racetrack we’re getting better and better. We roll off the truck good, we show up great, we practice and qualify good. For some reason, we’re missing something in the race. We start off pretty good, then the car doesn’t react the way we thought it would with the first change that we make. So, we have to play catch-up during part of the race and sometimes even during the rest of the day. We’ve got to get better at that – figuring out what the track wants and setting the car up to work under those conditions. We’re starting to understand what’s going on, but we just have to continue to work on it. Overall, we’re going to be fine. The good thing about it is we haven’t started running good yet and we’re still close to the top 10. We just need to get better. Getting into the Chase is our goal just like it is any other team out here each week. Now it’s time for us to make a move within these last 16 races.”
STATS & FACTS
JEREMY MAYFIELD AT CHARLOTTE
This weekend will mark Mayfield’s 23rd start in a points race at Charlotte. He has earned one top five, six top10s and 53 laps led at the track.
He earned his top start of third at the track in fall of 1996 and his top finish of second in fall of 2000.
Mayfield earned his most recent top-10 finish at Charlotte in the spring race one year ago, where he started 15th and finished eighth.
FIRST CAREER CUP START
A 24-year-old Jeremy Mayfield made his first NASCAR Cup Series career start at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on October 10, 1993. Mayfield qualified 30th and finished the race running in 29th place, making his only race start in 1993.
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
Jeremy Mayfield will celebrate his 36th birthday on Friday, May 27.
NEW EVERNHAM MOTORSPORTS CHASSIS
The No. 19 Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge Charger team has been very pleased with the brand new Evernham Motorsports chassis that it has run this year. The team will run the same in-house chassis No. 108 that it brought to Las Vegas earlier this year.
CREW CHANGE
The No. 19 Dew Crew roster added Donald Marvel as rear tire carrier beginning this month at Darlington. Marvel will continue to support the No. 19 Dew Crew for this weekend’s race at Charlotte.
HOLDING STRONG
After racing at Richmond Mayfield is holding strong at 16th in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series point standings, just four points behind Evernham Motorsports teammate Kasey Kahne. Mayfield is only 87 points away from breaking into the top 10 and 150 points away from the top five.
