2006 Team ASE Media Kit
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| Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 23rd at Michigan International Speedway | ||
| Bad Luck Leaves Musgrave
23rd at Michigan; Currently Third in Championship Standings Brooklyn, Michigan (June 19, 2006) Ted Musgrave was challenging for a top-10 finish in the Con-way Freight 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday afternoon, but once again Lady Luck frowned on the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota, leaving the defending series champion with a damaged truck and relegating him to 23rd at the finish. Musgrave was running well into the top ten as the race entered its final third; but contact with another competitor sent him sideways in turn three. Despite an impressive save to keep from hitting the wall, the nose of the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota slid into the grass, knocking off the bottom of the front air dam splitter, resulting in an ill-handling truck the rest of the way. "I don't know what happened over there," Musgrave said. "I don't know who it was and I am certainly not pointing any fingers. All I know is we got caught in the quarter panel and it turned us sideways. I fought it but it still dipped the nose into the grass. We knocked off the nose and we just couldn't run after that. It's a shame, this is the same truck we had in Texas and I think the changes we made to it were working, we just couldn't make it to the end." Musgrave is looking to a trip to his home state and The Milwaukee Mile to turn his recent string of bad luck around. "For whatever reason the breaks we were getting to go our way early in the year aren't going our way now," he said. "The guys are working just as hard, but we're not getting the luck. Maybe Milwaukee is what we need to get pointed in the right direction. We've won up there before, and it's always nice to go back home. But I've won here in Michigan before too and that certainly didn't help us today." The Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200 is scheduled for 9 P.M. Eastern on Friday June 23rd. Speed Channel will have the live television broadcast, while the radio call will be carried on selected Motor Racing Network affiliates nationwide. TruckSeries.com will have complete event coverage, 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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