Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Team Finish Fourth at Charlotte
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Otherwise, this report will look and print better from the following PDF file: http://www.sportssystems.com/applib/PDFload.cfm?file=/email/filehost/CD702.pdf&id=BC702CD18F868 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ted Musgrave Interview Contact: Jayson Kaplan, 704-293-7508 ASE Contact: Tony Molla tmolla@asecert.org Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 4th at Lowe's Motor Speedway Musgrave Continues Hot Streak with Fourth in Charlotte; Maintains Second in Championship Standings Concord, North Carolina (May 22, 2006) Ted Musgrave and his No. 9 Team ASE Toyota team continued their streak of strong performances to start the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with a fourth-place finish in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 Friday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Musgrave now has six finishes of fourth or better to start the season, and sits second in the championship standings behind his Germain Racing teammate Todd Bodine. "We haven't been outside of the top five yet, and we haven't been any worse than fourth all season long," Musgrave said following the race. "We just were a little off of Terry and Todd at the end, and I didn't want to hold them up and let the guys behind us close in and then have to deal with them. Everyone used their heads tonight. The tires threw us for a little bit of a loop tonight, but we didn't see any tire failures or anything like that. I think it was a lot like racing was back in the 70s and 80s with the harder tires, and that's why some of the veterans did so well here tonight." Musgrave again piloted the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota towards the top five in the waning laps, putting himself in position to make a run for the win late in the going. A late race caution allowed Musgrave to make a run on leader Kyle Busch and second-place Terry Cook. Musgrave made a charge on the restart and was able to slip past Cook for several laps. But Musgrave's tires - which went the entire 201-mile distance - built up air pressure and wouldn't allow him to stay in the fight for the second position. "We never changed tires at all tonight," he said. "They went the entire distance, but the right front built up a little more pressure than we wanted it to, and we were tight. Cook got a run on me, but I couldn't hold him off. I didn't want to hold them up by racing them because if you do then the next pack catches you and then you're stuck racing them. When Terry got his nose underneath me, I knew the battle was won and I fell back. I saw Todd (Bodine) coming and I didn't know if he had a truck that could get up and fight for the win or not, and I didn't want to hold him up if he could get up there and do it. We were big picture racing tonight." Musgrave now sits just 17 points behind Bodine in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship standings heading into the next series event at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. The City of Mansfield 250 is slated for 2:00 P.M. Eastern on Saturday May 27, and will be televised live on Speed. TruckSeries.com will have complete event coverage, starting with testing reports on Thursday, practice and qualifying updates on Friday, and pre- and post-race coverage on Saturday. Images are available in the Team ASE Media Kit: http://www.keldanmedia.com/teamase What is Team ASE? In the early days of racing, the driver was often recognized as the main reason for a team's success. Recently, the crew chief and crew have been acknowledged as equally important in creating a winning situation for every race team. A parallel exists between racing and the automotive service industry. Similar to the way a crew chief and crew must deliver a satisfactory product to the driver in order to win the race, an employer and the technicians in a service and repair shop must satisfy the needs of their customer in order to create return business. But what makes TEAM ASE most unique is the level of commitment from our certified technicians involved in the program - both on and off the track. Being competitive on the race track is important to TEAM ASE because ASE is itself a standard of excellence. However, TEAM ASE's success in motorsports is not solely measured by pole position, top-five finishes or by slapping hundreds of decals on racecars. There is much more to the TEAM ASE program. http://www.ase.com - http://www.germainracing.com Ted Musgrave Interview Contact: Jayson Kaplan, 704-293-7508 ASE Contact: Tony Molla tmolla@asecert.org To review or change the format of emails from this group, copy the following link into your browser: http://www.sportssystems.com/emformatoptions.cfm?trackingCode=BC702CD%3B18F868%20%3B0205&userEmail=submit%40theautochannel%2Ecom This email was individually sent to you, however if you wish to unsubscribe, copy the following link into your browser: http://www.sportssystems.com/unsubscribe.cfm?trackingCode=BC702CD%3B18F868%20%3B0205&userEmail=submit%40theautochannel%2Ecom