SRT Motorsports – RAM Camping World Truck Series Race Advance – Iowa Speedway
American Ethanol 200
Iowa Speedway
Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012
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RYAN BLANEY – No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
Career Stats: Starts: 2 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 1 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 0
2012 Season Stats: Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 1 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 0
• Finished 11th in most recent NCWTS start at Atlanta.
• Scored a sixth-place finish in series debut at Bristol.
• Brad Keselowski Racing (No. 29) is seventh in the NCWTS owner point standings, 56 points behind leader Tom Deloach (No. 17).
• Will make his first Iowa NCWTS start this weekend.
• Finished 10th in the August Nationwide Series race at Iowa driving the No. 22 Dodge Challenger for Penske Racing.
• Made three K&N Pro Series East starts at Iowa – scoring one top-five and two top-10 finishes.
DAVID MAYHEW – No. 19 Steak and Grapes/MMI Services RAM Crew Chief: Jeff Stankiewicz
• Will make his first NCWTS start of season this weekend.
• Started from pole, led 21 laps and finished third in July event at Iowa last year driving for Kevin Harvick Racing.
• Has eight NCWTS starts in last two seasons including five in 2011 where he had two top-five and three top-10 finishes.
• Made one Nationwide start last year, also at Iowa, and finished 10th.
RAM DRIVER QUOTES “I’ve been to Iowa a few times the last couple years with the K&N and Nationwide cars. I’ve got a good idea about that racetrack and I really like it. It’s an awesome facility and the racing is always really good there. I think it’s a neat track to go back to and I’m really looking forward to it. Hopefully, we can run well in our Cooper Standard RAM. Luckily, we have a night practice on Friday so we can do all our race runs there and get a good idea of what it’ll do at night. Then we have another practice Saturday for qualifying stuff. I think we’ve got a good head start.” — Ryan Blaney
RAM NUMBERS: IOWA
• The best finish by a RAM driver in four previous NCWTS races at Iowa Speedway is a 10th by Parker Kligerman in 2012. The best qualifying effort by a RAM driver is an eighth by Kligerman in 2011.
• Chris Eggleston is the only RAM driver to lead a lap at Iowa. He led once for one lap in 2010 event.
RAM IN THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES
• Bobby Hamilton (2004) and Ted Musgrave (2005) won the season championship driving a RAM.
• RAM has captured the manufacturer’s championship three times in the 17-year history of the series – 2001, 2003 and 2004.
• Tony Raines gave RAM its first win in the series in 1997, winning at I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Mo. There have been 64 trips to victory lane since then.
• RAM won 15 of the 24 NCWTS races during the 2001 season, 13 of 25 in 2003 and 11 of 25 in 2004.
• There have been 431 races in the NCWTS beginning at Phoenix International Raceway on Feb. 2, 1995. There were three RAM drivers – Joe Bessey, Bob Keselowski and Walker Evans – in the 33-truck starting field. Bessey scored a fourth-place finish.
• RAM is seeking its first win of the 2012 season.
RAM TALK “Well, we didn’t have a very good first Iowa race. We really struggled in practice but got it a lot better for the race. We ran fourth or fifth early in the race and then fell back towards the end. We did a test at Motor Mile Speedway (Radford, Va.) to work on some of the issues that we had and try to sort all that out.” — Doug Randolph, Crew Chief, No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM
NCWTS QUICK FACTS — IOWA
• There have been four different race winners AND four different pole winners in four previous races at Iowa.
• Three of the four previous races won from the pole.
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