R. Sorenson No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart Control Dodge Advance
for the Food City 250 at BMS 08.25.06
Media Contact: Angie Copen, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates,
704-662-9642, acopen@ganassi.com
Reed Sorenson, No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart Control Dodge
Food City 250 - Bristol Motor Speedway - 08.25.06
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No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart Control Team Fast Facts:
* Smart Control at Bristol: The No. 41 Chip Ganassi Racing with
Felix Sabates (CGRFS) Busch entry will take on a new look this weekend
at Bristol Motor Speeedway to represent NicoDerm CQ Smart Control-which
is a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) nicotine patch that helps smokers, who wish
to quit smoking, work through their withdrawal from nicotine. The
special paint scheme is the third run of a five-race partnership between
GSK and the CGRFS Busch team. One of the GSK stop smoking
products-Nicorette, NicoDerm CQ and Commit-can be seen on board with
Reed Sorenson every weekend as an associate sponsor, but NicoDerm CQ
Smart Control will take center stage on the No. 41 Dodge this Friday.
This is GSK's second season as a sponsor of CGRFS. To learn more about
the pharmaceutical company and its products, go to www.gsk.com
<http://www.gsk.com/> . Please note: If you would like a rendering of
the paint scheme, please contact the CGRFS media relations department.
* First in NASCAR History: The entire partnership between GSK and
CGRFS is part of the only smoking cessation sponsorship in NASCAR
history that features the brands Nicorette nicotine gum, NicoDerm CQ
nicotine patches and Commit nicotine lozenges. This unique NASCAR
sponsorship also features the first-of-its-kind "QUIT Crew" program that
provides quit smoking counseling to NASCAR teams and fans. More than
140 NASCAR team members, officials and media, including several from the
CGRFS organization, have enrolled in the program. Free quit smoking
counseling and the No. 41 NicoDerm CQ race simulator have visited
numerous NASCAR races this year and will be at Bristol this weekend.
For more information, go to quit2winracing.com.
* 41 is a Top-10 Team: After finishing seventh in last
Saturday's Busch race at Michigan International Speedway (MIS), the No.
41 CGRFS Busch team moved up to ninth in the NASCAR Busch Series owner
standings with a total tally of 2,723. Sorenson took one step up into
11th place with 2,638 points and is only 46 points out of the 10th-place
position in the Busch driver standings.
* On the Cup Side: Sorenson and his No. 41 Target team started
the GFS Marketplace 400 at MIS last Sunday in 28th. In 200 laps they
were able to charge up to an eighth-place finish with a fast race car
and flawless pit stops. The great conclusion propelled the Target team
up two positions, into 21st, in the overall standings. With a total of
2,329 points, the team is 20 points out of 20th and 155 out of the top
15. In two NEXTEL Cup races at MIS this season, Sorenson and the Target
team have recorded one top-five and two top-10 finishes that equals an
average seventh-place finish for the young driver at the two-mile track.
His most recent solid performance at MIS also helped him secure the
Raybestos rookie-of-the-race honors for the fifth time this season.
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).
* Chassis: Brian Pattie and the No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart
Control team are returning to Bristol Motor Speedway with the same
chassis they have raced at the Tennessee track two out of the last three
times they've competed there-chassis #451. The chassis helped the No.
41 team post a third-place finish there in April 2005, and this past
March they were working on scoring their third top 10 of the season when
a late-race hit from another car dealt them a 27th-place finish instead.
Sorenson comments on heading BACK TO BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY: "Racing at
Bristol is always fun, but is a lot more fun if you're car is good and
our Busch car was in March. We had a really good run up to almost the
very end there, and then that notorious 'Bristol domino effect'
happened. I am not sure what started it all but I know we were running
around eighth place and cars started checking up. I got the car slowed
down but the guy behind me didn't so I went spinning around on the
track. Luckily, I kept the car off the wall and was able to finish the
race but definitely not where we should've finished. We only had about
50 laps left in the race to recover from the setback, which at Bristol
isn't much time.
"That race in March was just kind of crazy, too, because of the snow,
but we had a good time with it. Some of the guys on my team built a
snow man that was pretty famous by the end of the night but it was fun
and definitely a first for me to see that at the track."
"The thing about Bristol is when your car gets a little bit off, it's a
hand full and it is very easy to get into some interesting situations
there, but I learned a lot there in March, especially in the Cup race.
Our car was tore up pretty bad and we still ended the race okay. It is
just a really small place where the smallest or most simple mistake can
turn your run upside down."
Reed Sorenson Bristol Motor Speedway NASCAR Busch Series Stats
(.533-mile oval in Bristol, Tenn.)
Date
Race
Start
Finish
Laps Completed
Total Laps
Status
Winnings
03.25.06
Sharpie Mini 300
18
27
298
300
Running
$21,850
08.26.05
Food City 250
42
11
252
252
Running
$31,775
04.02.05
Sharpie Professional 250
6
3
256
256
Running
$46,538
Total/Average:
3/22
3/13.7
806
808
$100,163
Track Summary:
3 Starts
0 Wins
1 Top 5
1 Top 10
0 Poles
No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart Control Team 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results
Date
Race
Start
Finish
Winnings
Rank/Pts.
Date
Race
Start
Finish
Winnings
Rank/Pts.
Feb. 18
Daytona
13
9
$60,900
9th/138
July 8
Chicago
4
8
$28,750
18th/142
Feb. 25
California
35
11
$33,275
8th/130
July 15
Loudon
7
17
$16,025
19th/112
March 5
Mexico
25
36
$44,640
17th/55
July 22
Martinsville
**9
4
$36,825
16th/160
March 11
Las Vegas
27
10
$42,708
13th/134
July 29
St. Louis
14
4
$31,775
11th/160
March 18
Atlanta
28
42
$17,505
18th/37
Aug. 5
Indianapolis
8
2
$32,775
11th/170
March 25
Bristol
18
27
$21,850
21st/82
Aug. 12
Watkins Glen
35
28
$15,130
11th/79
April 8
Texas
2
13
$23,750
19th/124
Aug. 19
Michigan
34
7
$19,035
9th/151
April 15
Nashville
4
19
$14,150
19th/111
Aug. 25
Bristol
April 21
Phoenix
5
2
$55,900
14th/175
Sept. 2
California
April 29
Talladega
13
17
$20,000
16th/112
Sept. 8
Richmond
May 5
Richmond
9
36
$14,215
16th/55
Sept. 23
Dover
May 12
Darlington
23
23
$14,700
17th/94
Sept. 30
Kansas
May 27
Charlotte
22
21
$16,050
16th/100
Oct. 13
Charlotte
June 3
Dover
16
10
$18,975
15th/134
Oct. 28
Memphis
June 10
Nashville
36
23
$16,275
13th/94
Nov. 4
Texas
June 17
Kentucky
3
39
$17,370
16th/46
Nov. 11
Phoenix
*June 24
*Milwaukee
*11
*26
*$17,200
*20th/85
Nov. 19
Homestead
June 30
Daytona
6
40
$19,485
21st/43
Starts
Wins
Top 5
Top 10
Poles
Pts. Total
Winnings
25
0
4
9
0
2,723
$649,263
*Indicates when David Stremme drove the No. 41
**Indicates when Kevin Hamlin qualified the No. 41
Reed Sorenson 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Totals
Starts
Wins
Top 5
Top 10
Poles
Laps Led
Pts. Total
Money
24
0
4
9
0
30
2,638
$632,063
Reed Sorenson NASCAR Busch Series Career Totals
Starts
Wins
Top 5
Top 10
Poles
Laps Led
Money
64
2
17
31
2
481
$2,040,985
Reed Sorenson Highlights
First Busch Series Start (Indianapolis, Aug. 7, 2004)
First Busch Series Win (Nashville, March 26, 2005)
First Busch Series Pole (Nashville, March 26, 2005)
First NEXTEL Cup Series Start (Atlanta, Oct. 30, 2005)
First ARCA win (Michigan, June 2004)
2003 ASA Rookie of the Year
1998-2002 Legends Cars: 84 wins, 152 top fives and 166 top-10 finishes
in 183 starts
1997 Quarter Midgets National Champion
No. 41 NicoDerm CQ Smart Control Crew:
Name
Crew position
Hometown
Name
Crew position
Hometown
Brian Pattie
Crew Chief
Zephyrhills, Fla.
Ryan Quann
Catch Can Man
Richmond, Va.
Tony Glover
Team Manager
Kingsport, Tenn.
Adam Cooke
Shock Specialist
Zephyrhills, Fla.
Lorin Ranier
Spotter
Prestonburg, Ken.
Dan Chivari
Swing Mechanic
Erie, Pa.
Trevor Lysne
Front Tire Changer
Fergus Falls, Minn.
Bruce Jones
Rear Mechanic
Lakeland, Fla.
Adam Mosher
Front Tire Carrier
Fort Mill, S.C.
Brian Taylor
Front Mechanic
Cuthbert, Ga.
Daryl Lockyer
Rear Tire Changer
Los Angeles, Calif.
Tim O'Brien
Engineer
Lebanon, Ohio
Doug Riepe
Rear Tire Carrier
Danbury, Conn.
Todd Hamm
Engine Tuner
Kutztown, Pa.
Shaun Peet
Jack Man
Nanaimo, B.C
Brandon Stafford
Tire Specialist
Taylorsville, N.C.
Tim Coffey
Gas Man/Transport Driver
Greenwood, Ind.
Shane Bourgeois
Pit Support
Peachtree City, Ga.
Angela Copen
Media Relations
Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates
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