Reed Sorenson, No. 41 Target Dodge
Sharpie 500 – Bristol Motor Speedway Advance – 8/26/06
Target Team Fast Facts:
Short Trackin’ It: Sorenson has 10 NASCAR starts in NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series competition on the short tracks that appear on the NEXTEL Cup Series Schedule (Bristol, Martinsville, Richmond). His best finish is a third-place at Bristol in the Sept. 2005 Busch Series event. He also has a fourth-place effort at Martinsville (Busch, July 2006) and seventh at Richmond (Busch, Sept. 2005). His highest short-track finish in Cup competition to date was 12th at Martinsville in March.
Chassis: Crew Chief Jimmy Elledge and the Target Team have selected chassis #505 for this weekend’s NEXTEL Cup event at Bristol. This is the same car Sorenson and the Target team finished 19th with at Dover in June (started 39th).
Tennessean: Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) team manger Tony Glover hails from Kingsport, Tenn. Glover has been involved in racing for 33 years, with career highlights including back-to-back Daytona 500 wins (‘94, ’95) as crew chief for Sterling Marling, 1991 AC Delco crew chief of the year and 1992 Western Auto crew chief of the year.
NEXTEL Cup Points Report: Sorenson and the Target team moved up two positions to 21st in the overall standings after their eighth-place finish in the last event at Michigan International Speedway. With a total of 2329 points, the team is 20 points out of 20th and 155 out of the top 15.
Rookie Round Up: Sorenson is currently third in the Raybestos Rookie of the Year standings with 181 points. He trails leader Denny Hamlin by 56 points. Sorenson has captured rookie of the race honors in five of the 23 races run thus far in ’06 (Atlanta – 10th, Martinsville – 12th, Michigan – fifth, Chicagoland – seventh, Michigan 2 - eighth).
Busch Series Update: Sorenson maintained 11th in the overall Busch Series driver standings after his seventh-place finish in the last event at Michigan. He is only 46 points out of 10th place.
*Sorenson will be driving the No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart Control Dodge in this weekend’s Busch Series race.
Reed Sorenson on Bristol…
“I consider Bristol one of, if not my favorite track on the circuit. I grew up racing on short tracks and I always look forward to those races on the schedule, especially Bristol. We had a solid run there early in the season in the Cup car and we had two really good runs at the track last season in the Busch car. You have to have a good handling car at Bristol, but also a lot of luck because anything can happen. There is plenty of beating and banging, and it’s easy to get caught up in someone else’s mess because of the tight racing quarters. It’s so much fun though and I can’t wait to get on track.
“The Target team is excited about many of the upcoming tracks. We were really good at many of them the first time around this season, but didn’t necessarily get the finish we deserved. We’re all hoping we can put it all together the second time around.”
