David Ragan Advance
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Aaron’s 499
Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday Apr. 29
1:30 PM Eastern on FOX/MRN
Fast Facts
David Ragan competed at Talladega Superspeedway in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2006. He started 2nd and finished 7th.
Ragan’s finish at Talladega was one of 7 top-10 finishes in the 2006 season.
Ragan has also competed in the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Talladega Superspeedway.
David will compete in the Busch Series race on Saturday as well as the Aaron’s 499 on Sunday.
David Ragan
Team: No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: Primary: RK-433 Last ran in the Gatorade 150s in Daytona 2007, finished 28th
Back up: RK-367 Last ran at Talladega fall 2006, finished 41st
Ragan on racing in the Cup Series at Talladega Superspeedway:
“Patience is probably the biggest word for my season this year. Patience goes to leaps and bounds of highs at Talladega and Daytona. We’ve got great racecars that we’re taking to Talladega next week. The whole Ford Fusion group is going to be pretty fast. We know that we’ll have to race hard the whole 500 miles but at the same time we’ve just got to be there at the end, like we proved at Daytona. We rode back there from 20th to 30th the whole race and then at the end we still had a good car where we could go hard.”
Crew Chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at Talladega Superspeedway:
“Well to make our restrictor plate program better, we’ve got David a better car. Our good car, we got wrecked in the 150s back in February so hopefully we’ve got him a better car. We’ve been to the wind tunnel with it. We built two cars, rebuilt the one that we wrecked and another car and went to the wind tunnel with them. We worked on it a little bit more and hopefully we got the drag knocked out of it for Talladega. At Talladega you want a low drag car.”
