David Stremme
NNCS Fontana Advance
Race:
Sharp Aquos 500 on Sunday, September 2
Track:
California Speedway (2.0-mile oval)
Location:
Fontana, Calif.
David Stremme and the No. 40 Target Dodge Team Facts:
Bristol Bounces Them Back: Stremme’s 14th place run Saturday night in the No.40 Coors Light Dodge Avenger was not only tops for the CGRFS trio of cars, but was his fourth best finish of 2007. It also vaulted the team from 24th to 22nd in the points. Stremme had recently fallen to a season low 26th but is now running as high in the points as he had in May-June.
Teammate Stremme on Target: As Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) continues to celebrate its long heritage with Target Racing, which has been with the team for 18 years making it one of the longest racing relationships in history, David Stremme and the No. 40 team will again be sporting the white and red Target paint scheme in this weekend’s Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway.
Good the First Go Around: One week after an 11th-place finish at Daytona produced his first-ever spot in the top-10 in points, Stremme survived going a lap down early at California Speedway, ran an incident-free race in the No. 40 Coors Light Dodge to finish 19th–and more importantly–retained his foothold in the championship hunt. After rolling off the starting grid 24th, Stremme kept his nose clean for the entire 250-lap event, never putting a wheel wrong and running comparative times to that of the top-10 cars. The major setback in the race came on an early stop when the team pitted and got caught out when the yellow flag flew, putting them a lap down to the leaders. Stremme went on to finish a lap down, but defended his place in the top-10 in points for the first time in his NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series career.
New Chassis, High Hopes: Crew Chief Steve Lane has selected chassis #710 for the Sharp Aquos 500 this weekend. Chassis #710 has never seen official race action as it retained “backup car” status in six previous events in 2007. The team ran this car at the two-day Charlotte Test in early May when Stremme was second on the time sheets the first day and first overall on the second day of testing.
