Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 15th at Martinsville
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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/CS702.pdf&id=BC702CS18F868 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 15th at Martinsville Speedway Musgrave Frustrated with 15th after Dominating at Martinsville; Currently 4th in Championship Standings Martinsville, Virginia (October 23, 2006) Ted Musgrave dominated the Kroger 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway, leading a race high 104 laps, but left with a frustrating 15th-place finish after a controversial black flag on a late-race restart. Musgrave was forced to bring the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to pit road on lap 139 of the 200 lapper, handing over the lead to eventual winner Jack Sprague and leaving Musgrave to dig out of a deep hole with just 60 laps remaining. Musgrave picked up the lead on lap 34 after Sprague dipped to pit road. Musgrave was able to lead handily once out front, and with the numerous cautions was easily in range to make the entire race distance without stopping for tires and fuel. "We could have made it easily," Musgrave said. "The cautions left us with plenty of fuel and that wasn't even a question. I just hate to see that call made right there. I know there was some talk in our teammate's pit last week and it got pretty heated, but that should not have any bearing on us." The call in question came on a restart on lap 133. NASCAR officials judged Musgrave made an improper restart, a call that Musgrave and his team dispute. "I made the same restart I made each time," Musgrave said. "I came down in second gear, went through the gearbox and got up to speed just like I had been all race long. Maybe there was some lag when I went from second to third gear. Whatever it was, it just seems to me like a dumb call. It's the same thing that kept me from the championship in 2003. It just seems like sometimes they go out of their way to keep me from winning." Musgrave rejoined the field deep in the pack and on the very next restart had insult added to injury when a pileup in front of him left him with no where to go and he damaged the nose of the truck, forcing another pit stop for repairs. The Germain Racing crew beat down the hood and cleared his vision, allowing for a charge through the field. All told, Musgrave gained 11 positions over the last 50 laps on a racetrack that proved difficult to pass on at best. Musgrave now sits fourth in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship standings, behind his Germain Racing teammate Todd Bodine, and fellow Toyota drivers Johnny Benson and David Reutimann. Musgrave is 7 points behind Reutimann in the battle for the third position. Next up for the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota is the Easy Care Vehicle Service Contracts 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The race is scheduled for a 5:15 P.M. Eastern green flag and will be shown live on Speed. Motor Racing Network will have the live radio call on select affiliates nationwide, and 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=BC702CS%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=BC702CS%3B18F868%20%3B0196&userEmail=submit%40theautochannel%2Ecom