David Stremme Pocono Raceway Advance

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David Stremme, No. 40 Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Race Advance 

Pennsylvania 500 - Pocono Raceway 

 

No. 40 TEAM FACTS:

*        Appearances:  Stremme will be appearing at the Lone Star
Steakhouse & Saloon this Thursday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.  He will be
signing autographs and meeting with fans from 7-9 p.m. EST.

*        Chassis:  Crew Chief Steve Lane and the No. 40 Lone Star
Steakhouse & Saloon crew are taking chassis No. 309 for the event this
weekend.  Stremme wheeled this car earlier this season at Pocono
bringing home a 26th-place finish.

*        Walking Around the Track: This Friday after qualifying, Stremme
will join Ernie Irvan and other NASCAR drivers to walk around Pocono
Raceway in support of Irvan's LAPS Walk charity event. The event allows
participants to pay an entry fee to get the opportunity to walk with
several NASCAR drivers as they make laps on foot to raise awareness and
fund Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) prevention and treatment.  For more
information, please visit www.biausa.org.

*        Pocono Stats: This will only be Stremme's second time racing at
Pocono Raceway in the NEXTEL Cup Series.  Earlier this season, he
brought home a 26th-place finish after handling issues and pit
strategies shuffled him back through the pack.  

*        Rookie Ranks:  Stremme is currently sixth in the Raybestos
Rookie of the Year standings.  With 126 points, he is 82 points behind
leader Denny Hamlin and only 23 points behind fifth place J.J. Yeley.

*        NASCAR NEXTEL Cup points standings:  Stremme is currently 35th
in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver standings.  He is 355 points out of the
top 25.  The No. 40 Dodge is currently 36th in the owner standings, just
13 points out of 35th.  There are now 17 races remaining in the 2006
season.

 

 

David Stremme Quotes:

 

Things seem to be really looking up for the team, what's behind the
major upswing? "By no means has our first half of the year been what we
expected.  There have been a lot of changes with the crew chief and
building new cars and all kinds of stuff.  We've been through a
restructuring stage the first part of the year and have actually been
running better.  We're still not where we need to be but the one thing
is that it's a time process.  It's not going to change overnight.  We go
to some of these places and we look forward to going back to them
because our year started out so horrible and we feel that we could have
had better results at many of these tracks."  

 

Hamlin said the video game helped him at Pocono-what are your thoughts? 

"You can play video games all you want but you have to have a good team
behind you and good equipment.  Denny commented on that at Pocono, too,
where his crew chief and him were able to sit down and talk about it.
From my side of it, when I came on board with Ganassi I was outsourced
to Busch teams.  Now, I am in-house and learning all kinds of new stuff
all of the time.  So, the video game probably helps but you've got to
have a good team around you as well."

 

 

David Stremme, Pocono Raceway Stats:

 

Date

Series

Start

Finish

Laps

      Winnings

6/11/2006

Cup Series

32

26

199/200

$87,783

 

 

 

 

 

 

 	 
Starts

Wins

Top 5

Top 10

Poles

Winnings

 	 
1

0

0

0

0

$87,783

 	 
	


 

 

 

                                                      2006 NASCAR NEXTEL
Cup Results:

 

Date

Race

Start

Finish

Winnings

Points

Date

Race

Start

Finish

Winnings

Points

Feb-19

Daytona

32

28

$263,358

79

July 16

Loudon

22

11

$109,233

103

Feb-26

California 

40

33

$87,775

64

July 23

Pocono

 

 

 

 

Mar-12

Las Vegas 

40

33

$97,272

64

Aug 6

Indianapolis 

 

 

 

 

Mar 19

Atlanta 

38

33

$75,125

64

Aug 13

Watkins Glen

 

 

 

 

Mar 26

Bristol 

26

36

$86,400

55

Aug 20

Michigan 

 

 

 

 

Apr 2

Martinsville 

38

38

$73,200

49

Aug 26

Bristol 

 

 

 

 

Apr 9

Texas 

28

21

$127,033

100

Sept 3

California 

 

 

 

 

Apr 22

Phoenix 

29

29

$73,175

76

Sept 9

Richmond 

 

 

 

 

Apr 30

Talladega 

17

34

$85,725

61

Sept 17

Loudon

 

 

 

 

May 6

Richmond 

29

33

$72,375

64

Sept 24

Dover 

 

 

 

 

May 13

Darlington

4

25

$96,533

88

Oct 1

Talladega 

 

 

 

 

May 28

Charlotte 

25

31

$90,900

70

Oct 8

Kansas 

 

 

 

 

June 4

Dover 

29

41

$80,895

45

Oct 14

Charlotte

 

 

 

 

June 11

Pocono

32

26

$87,783

85

Oct 22

Martinsville

 

 

 

 

June 18

Michigan 

30

19

$99,783

106

Oct 29

Atlanta

 

 

 

 

June 25

Sonoma 

DNS

DNS

DNS

DNS

Nov 5

Texas

 

 

 

 

July 1

Daytona

3

16

$121,658

125

Nov 12

Phoenix

 

 

 

 

July 9

Chicago 

20

21

$108,983

100

Nov 19

Homestead

 

 

 

 

Starts

Wins

Top 5

Top 10

Poles

Winnings

18

0

0

0

0

$1,837,206

	


 

 

David Stremme's Cumulative NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Stats:

Starts               Wins                 Top 5s              Top 10s
Poles                Winnings

   22                    0                       0
0                    0                    $ 2,105,356

 

 

No. 40 Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Crew:

 

No. 40 Crew:

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Crew position

Hometown

Name

Crew position

Hometown

Steven Lane

Crew Chief

Winston-Salem, N.C.

Rob Lopes

Tire Specialist

Carney's Point, N.J.

Tony Glover 

Team Manager

Kingsport, Tenn. 

Luke Roffers

Pit Support

Oneida, Wis.

Jim Pohlman

Car Chief

Oak Lawn, Ill.

Mike Calinoff

Spotter

Hauppauge, N.Y.

Scott Ward

Front Tire Changer

Clearlake, Calif.

Frank Mathalia

Engine Specialist

Oneiata, N.Y.

Andy Silver

Front Tire Carrier

Weaverville, N.C.

Brian Burns

Engineer

Indianapolis, Ind.

Daryl Lockyer

Rear Tire Changer

Los Angeles, Calif.

Fred Ware

Pit Support

Ocean City, N.J.

John Gaynor

Rear Tire Carrier

Vancouver, Wash.

Matt Mansir

Transport Driver

Greensboro, N.C.

Brian Perry

Jack Man

Huntington, W.Va.

Tim Beaver

Transport Driver

Mooresville, N.C.

Benjy Grubbs

Gas Man

Richmond, Va.

John Weaver

Shock Specialist

Montrose, Mich.

Jim Pohlman

Catch Can Man

Oak Lawn, Ill.

Doug Riepe

Pit Support

Danbury, Conn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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