Tim Sauter Ready for Monster Mile

McGill Motorsports team ready to hit the concrete

Last Saturday’s race at Charlotte was the first of sixteen straight  
weeks of racing without a weekend off for the NASCAR Busch Series.  
Without a break in the schedule for the next three months, the McGill  
Motorsports team and driver Tim Sauter are preparing for the long  
“Summer Stretch” which makes up nearly half of the NBS schedule.

After finishing in twenty-seventh place last week at the Lowes Motor  
Speedway Tim Sauter feels that his Lester Buildings sponsored McGill  
Motorsports team has begun to turn it’s early season tough luck  
around. “Those three DNF’s in the first ten races really put us  
behind. Behind in the points race, behind getting cars ready and  
behind in our on track performance. I would have loved a better  
finish at Charlotte, but we came out without a scratch and with some  
fine-tuning I think we can really get that racecar to run better each  
time out. It’s really a finish for this team to build upon,”  
explained Sauter.

Heading into this Saturday afternoon’s StonebridgeRacing.com 200 at  
Dover International Speedway, the Wisconsin driver sits 26th in  
NASCAR Busch Series points. “We made some small gains in the points  
last week and I know this team can do even better the next couple  
races,” Sauter said. “Ricky (Crew Chief Ricky Pearson) has hired a  
couple of good guys recently and the team has made some huge progress  
at getting caught up in the shop. I feel like the cars will be ready  
when we get to the track and we can work on fine-tuning them during  
practice each week and finding a little extra speed. We really do  
have some positive things going on, I’m excited and ready for the  
month of June.”

Dover is the first of two straight weeks of racing on concrete, both  
the Dover track this week and next week’s race at Nashville are on  
the hard white surface. Tim Sauter likes racing on concrete. “You can  
really feel the grip in the corner at both of those tracks. If your  
car is cutting through the center of the corner, you can really get a  
jump down the straights. We had a good car at Nashville earlier in  
the year before we got in that wreck. I think we’ll be even better  
going back.”

• The StonebridgeRacing.com 200 will be Tim’s 97th start in the NBS  
and 102nd career NASCAR start.

• All three Sauter brothers will be attempting this weekends  
StonebridgeRacing.com 200.

• This weekend’s race will be the fifth time Tim has competed at  
Dover in the NBS. Best Finish: 8th on September 21st, 2002 driving  
the AP Performance Chevy.

Tim’s thoughts on the Dover International Speedway: “This is a tough  
little track to get around, but I’ve had some good runs here and I  
feel like I may have figured this place out a little bit. It looks  
like we only have 43 entries so I’m looking forward to this weekend  
and getting a good finish for the McGill team and Lester Buildings.”

• This Saturday’s race will be the third time McGill Motorsports has  
competed at Dover in the NBS. Best Finish: 22nd on June 4th, 2005  
with Stanton Barrett driving and duplicated by T.J. Bell on September  
24th, 2005.

McGill Motorsports will run the Lester Buildings banner for fifteen  
of the remaining races on the 2006 Busch Series schedule. The team is  
actively seeking primary sponsorship for the five of the remaining  
events. Contact John McGill at 440-914-4206 or visit  
micgillmotorsports.com to learn more.