2006 Team ASE Media Kit
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| Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 19th at Memphis Motorsports Park | ||
| Musgrave Rolls to
Hard-Fought 19th at Memphis; Slips to 5th in Championship Standings Millington, Tennessee (July 17, 2006) Defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Ted Musgrave fought back from a pit road miscue and wrestled the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to a 19th-place finish in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park on Saturday. Musgrave, one of four former Memphis winners in the field, started 13th and hovered just outside the top-10 for much of the night. After racing 89 consecutive green flag laps, Musgrave came to pit road for a final adjustment from his Tom Ackerman-led crew when the caution waved with just over 20 laps to go. However, an ill-timed misfortune on pit road dropped Musgrave out of the top twenty. Rather than a patented charge to rally for a top-10 finish, it was all Musgrave could to do score 19th at the checkered. "It was pretty cool to get some green flag racing," Musgrave said. We don't get to see that a lot in the Truck Series. The guys that had their trucks set up for long green flag runs were dominant. We were adjusting on it, and we were getting a little better. Todd's (Bodine) truck and my Team ASE Toyota were about the same. We pretty much ran together at the same pace on the track all night long. We had a miscue on pit road and that hurt, the jack got dropped and we didn't have any left side tires on it. It was just another roller coaster night for us." Musgrave's misfortune late in the going also cost him in the series points battle. He now sits 248 points behind teammate and series championship leader Todd Bodine, and dropped one position in the standings to fifth. Musgrave is just 17 points behind Rick Crawford for fourth, and is 8 markers ahead of Ron Hornaday in sixth. The No. 9 Team ASE Toyota and driver Ted Musgrave will take a two-week respite from competition before the next series event at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis on August 4. The Power Stroke Diesel 200 is slated for an 8:30 P.M. Eastern start, with live coverage on Speed Channel and selected affiliates of the Motor Racing Network. TruckSeries.com will provide comprehensive coverage throughout the day, including practice, qualifying, and race updates at www.truckseries.com. Images are available in the Team ASE Media Kit: http://www.keldanmedia.com/teamase 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. |
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