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EVENT:
Toyota Tundra 200
LOCATION: Nashville Superspeedway
DATE: August 14, 2004
TIME: 5:00pm EDT- - SPEED Channel/4:30pm MRN AND XMR

Dennis Setzer Fast Facts:
  • Crew chief Danny Gill’s home is twenty minutes from Nashville Superspeedway
  • In 1999 Dennis Setzer scored one of his 12 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series wins at the short track, Nashville Speedway USA
  • Dennis Setzer scored a career-best final point finish with 2nd in the 2003 NCTS point standings
  • In addition to his 150 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts, Dennis Setzer has 7 Winston Cup and 102 Busch Grand National starts in his career including 2 Busch Series victories (South Boston 1994, Hickory 1994)
    Dennis Setzer NCTS Records
  • Dennis Setzer set a NASCAR record with the win at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on May 21st of 2004. He is the only driver with at least one win in 7 straight seasons in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series - dating to 1998.
  • Setzer broke the single season streak of top-10 finishes in 2003 by finishing 20-straight races inside the top-10.
  • Dennis Setzer won the 2002 race at Martinsville by starting in 33rd position. It is the farthest any competitor has ever started a NASCAR Truck Series race to go on and win.

Career Starts – 154……….Top-10 Finishes – 99 (64%)………..Top-5 Finishes – 57 (37%)
Career Wins – 12 (Bakersfield 1998; Nashville, New Hampshire, Texas 1999; Nazareth 2000;
Memphis 2001; Martinsville 2002, Bakersfield, Martinsville, South Boston 2003; Lowe’s 2004, Texas 2004)
Career Poles – 3 (IRP 1999, Kansas & Richmond 2001)

Dennis Setzer on Nashville Superspeedway Park:
“I’m excited about Nashville, we’ve ran decent there in years past, always pretty consistent. It’s a good concrete track, so it doesn’t change much with the sun. Although I have a win at Nashville it was at the short track, I almost had a win at the superspeedway, but I believe our power steering cable broke that year and we ended up 5th.”

Danny Gill on Nashville Superspeedway Park:
“Nashville is a home town track; I really want to do well there in front of my friends and family. I just want to win a guitar!”

Dennis Setzer on his finish at IRP:
“It was just a disappointing night. Our Silverado was pretty good, we probably didn’t have anything for the 43 (Johnny Sauter) but we were going to have a good second place finish. We just didn’t need that last caution cause the guys that pitted and had better tires caught us and were by us pretty quick. We gave it our best shot; we just came up way too short.”

The Truck- “PIP”
Pip is a new addition to the #46 Morgan Dollar fleet. Michigan Int’l Speedway was Pip’s debut. Pip is a character on the TV show South Park.

The Crew
Jackman – Danny Cieslinski
Gasman – Tim Rice
Catch Can – Jimmy Frazier
Front Tire Changer – Marty Houston
Front Tire Carrier – Darrell Haskins
Rear Tire Changer – Tony Tolley
Rear Tire Carrier – Robert Huffman

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