Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 31st at Loudon
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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/CP702.pdf&id=BC702CP18F868 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ted Musgrave Interview Contact: Lori Smith, 704-651-0606 ASE Contact: Tony Molla tmolla@asecert.org Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 31st at New Hampshire International Speedway Bad Break for Musgrave Results in 31st-Place Finish at New Hampshire; 6th in Championship Standings Loudon, New Hampshire (September 18, 2006) Defending series champion Ted Musgrave was involved in a crash on lap 90 of the New Hampshire 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway, relegating him to a season-low 31st-place finish. The No. 9 Team ASE Toyota spun entering turn three, backing hard into the turn three wall. Musgrave limped his Toyota Tundra back to the garage and after a team assessment, decided to load it onto the trailer and call it a day. "We went down the backstretch and we made contact two or three times with another driver," Musgrave said. "Once we got to the corner I felt like we got pushed down to the apron and the truck came around. It was a pretty hard hit and the Team ASE Toyota is in pretty bad shape. It's very disappointing. We had a good truck here. Rick Gay and the guys have really come together and they deserved better than this today. If people want to drive us like that, we can definitely give it back." The 31st-place finish is Musgrave's first finish of 30th or lower since July 2004 at Kansas Speedway when he came home 30th. In 142 career starts, Musgrave has only six finishes of 30th or worse. The last time an accident ended his day early was at Bristol, also in 2004. It was Musgrave's first "did not finish" in 29 races, dating back to Memphis in 2005. Musgrave dropped to sixth in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship standings as a result of the accident. His Germain Racing teammate Todd Bodine continues to lead the standings. "It's the time of the year when you do all you can to get every point you can, and this really hurts," Musgrave said. "I've never finished lower than third (in the Championship) since coming to the Truck Series, and we certainly haven't given up on this year yet. We made up 242 points last year and won the championship so it can be done. We're going to go out and race as hard as we can the rest of the season." Next up for Musgrave and the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota is the Smiths Las Vegas 350 at the newly remodeled Las Vegas Motor Speedway on September 23. There will be an open test day on Friday September 22, while practice, qualifying, and the 350-kilometer race are all scheduled for Saturday. Speed Channel will carry the race live starting at 9 P.M. Eastern, while Motor Racing Network will have the live radio call on selected affiliates nationwide. TruckSeries.com will have complete event coverage online at www.truckseries.com. #### ________________________________________________________________ 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 Images are available in the Team ASE Media Kit: http://www.keldanmedia.com/teamase Ted Musgrave Interview Contact: Lori Smith, 704-651-0606 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=BC702CP%3B18F868%20%3B0196&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=BC702CP%3B18F868%20%3B0196&userEmail=submit%40theautochannel%2Ecom