SRT Motorsports — Camping World Truck Series Advance / Charlotte

[media-credit name=”charlottemotorspeedway.com” align=”alignright” width=”187″][/media-credit]PARKER KLIGERMAN – No. 29 Draw-Tite RAM

Crew Chief: Doug Randolph

Career Stats: Starts:  30 Wins:     0 Top Fives:     4 Top 10s:        11 Poles:    0 Laps Led:       31

2012 Season Stats: Starts:         4 Wins:           0 Top Fives:   0 Top 10s:      2 Poles:  0 Laps Led:       0

• Has two consecutive top 10 finishes: ninth-place at Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway and eighth-place at Kansas Speedway.

• Sixth in the series standings, 26 points behind leader.

• One of six drivers to complete all 726 possible laps this season.

• Scored an eighth-place finish in one previous NCWTS start at Charlotte (2011).

• Has claimed top 10-finishes in both superspeedway races this season.

BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 19 Cooper Standard RAM Crew Chief: Jeff Stankiewicz

Career Stats: Starts: 50 Wins:     0 Top Fives:     2 Top 10s:          5 Poles:    1 Laps Led:       93

2012 Season Stats: Starts:         2 Wins:           0 Top Fives:   1 Top 10s:      1 Poles:  0 Laps Led:  19

• Scored third-place finish and led 19 laps in most recent NCWTS start at Kansas.

• Best NCWTS finish of second in 2010 at Gateway (Madison, Ill.) International Raceway.

• Won pole for 2007 race at Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park.

RAM DRIVER QUOTES “Charlotte is unique for a mile-and-a-half.  It’s definitely shaped differently than other mile-and-a-halfs that we go to.  It has a little bit different pavement construction and those two things kind of add to the racing you see.  Last year we had an OK race.  We had a little bit of an issue with our truck, but we were still able to come out with an eighth-place finish.  With the improvements that we’ve made on our RAM, I think we’re going to be that much better this year.  Hopefully we can take the top-five steam we have from Kansas, improve on it and have a shot to win the race on Friday night.”  — Parker Kligerman

CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY NUMBERS

• RAM has one pole at Charlotte: Bill Lester (2003).

• RAM has one win at CMS: Ted Musgrave (2003).

• The most RAM drivers to finish inside the top 10 at CMS are five in 2003.

• RAM drivers have scored four top five and 13 top 10 finishes in nine NCWTS races at the 1.5-mile oval.

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.

• 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 421 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 while Mike Skinner took the win.

RAM TALK “We’ve had a couple weeks since Kansas to try to do everything we can to get our mile-and-a-half package a little better.  Having Brad as a teammate at Kansas gave us some ideas to go back and work on.  We’ve been busy.” — Doug Randolph, Crew Chief, No. 29 Draw-Tite RAM