Camping World Trucks - Miguel Paludo Charlotte Motor Speedway Advance

HOME AWAY FROM HOME: Miguel Paludo is a long way from home. The Nova Prata, Brazil native moved his wife, Patricia, his dog, Pedrinho and his life to the United States at the end of last year to chase his dream of competing in NASCAR. Although most team members and their families call Charlotte Motor Speedway home, Paludo would have to make 3,145 laps (4,417.5 miles) around Charlotte Motor Speedway in order to get to his home city of Nova Prata in Brazil.

FIRST TIME WINNERS: The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has been competing at Charlotte Motor Speedway since 2003. In the last eight years there has NEVER been a first time Truck Series winner at NASCAR's "Home Track". Paludo would like to change that statistic this weekend as he chases his first win on the first 1.5-mile track the Truck Series will visit this season.

ROOKIE ROUND UP: Following his 28th-place finish at Dover International Speedway. Paludo continues to occupy the second position in the rookie point standings behind leader Cole Whitt.

CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 7 team will unload chassis No. 065 this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This is the same truck that Paludo drove to a ninth at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway last season.

PREVIOUS RACE RECAP: Last week at Dover (Del.) International Speedway Paludo and the No. 7 team were caught up in an early race accident when another competitor hit the turn-four wall. The violent crash resulted in massive amounts of debris littering the race track. Paludo missed the initial crash, but not the debris. The contact ended in a cut right-front tire which led to the No. 7 truck hitting the outside wall. The damage sustained in the incident was great enough to end the day for Paludo and team.

VISIT PIT: Red Horse Racing owners Tom DeLoach and Jeff Hammond also have a secondary company attached to the Truck Series team. PIT (Performance Instruction and Training) school is a state of the art pit stop training facility that is used by many of NASCAR's premier teams including the Red Horse Racing pit crew. The building is also open for tours, corporate team building events and other exciting opportunities. Visit VISTPIT.com today for more information. The organization will be holding its second annual open house on Wednesday May 25 from 6 to 9pm, EST.

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Miguel Paludo Talks about Charlotte Motor Speedway

What would you consider your home track in Brazil?

"I would consider Autodromo Internacional Velopark to be my home track in Brazil. It is a road course."

How do you think you will fare of the first 1.5-mile track thus far this season?

"I think we will race well at Charlotte. Last year I competed at Homestead-Miami Speedway. We were very successful there finishing the race ninth. I was very happy with how much I learned at that track. From talking with my crew chief, Rick Gay and my teammate Timothy Peters it seems that Homestead and Charlotte have similarities so I'm hoping we have the same result."

Your teammate Timothy Peter's says that Charlotte is very temperamental how do you as a driver adjust to changing track conditions and the transition from practicing during the day and racing at night?

"That is one of the hardest things about competing in the Truck Series for me. You will be feeling one thing in practice and you might be a little tight or a little loose, but when you start the race that same feeling you had is there but you are REALLY tight or REALLY loose. I lean on Rick in those situations and it has helped me to improve my communication to the team as I realize how important it is at these types of tracks to be as close to a perfect set up as we can be before we start the race. A little adjustment can make a big difference at these places. "