2006 Team ASE Media Kit
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| Musgrave, No. 9 Team ASE Toyota Finish 7th at Texas Motor Speedway | ||
| Musgrave Recovers to Finish
Seventh in Texas; Maintains Second in Championship Standings Fort Worth, Texas (June 12, 2006) Ted Musgrave drove the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to a seventh-place finish in the Sam's Town 400 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway. After two consecutive finishes outside the top-10, Musgrave recovered from a frustrating weekend to not only pick up his seventh top-10 finish of the season, but challenge for a top-5 finish late in the going. Musgrave credited hard work by his Tom Ackerman-led crew for bringing the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to life in the race. "It was nothing short of a miracle," Musgrave said. "The guys never gave up and that's what this Germain Racing team is all about. There are some demons in this truck and we need to take it back to the shop and figure out what exactly is wrong with it. Before the race I said I would have been happy to come out of here 15th. We were never able to find the comfort level in the truck that I wanted here. We talked about it and we know where to look, it's going to need some serious changes to A-frames and front suspension to get the camber travel we need. After all that, to finish seventh is just icing on the cake." While Musgrave was able to come out of Texas with a top ten finish, his Germain Racing teammate Todd Bodine was able to add to his points lead by virtue of his third win of the 2006 season. "It's a good finish, but all of the guys behind me in points finished in front of me," Musgrave said. "We lost some ground to Todd, and the guys behind us closed in a little bit too. It wasn't as bad a points day as it could have been, but we need to get back up at the front next week at Michigan to close the gap on Todd and stay ahead of those guys behind us." Next up for Musgrave and the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota is the Con-way Freight 200 at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday June 17. "We plan on taking the same truck we ran here in Texas to Michigan," Musgrave said. "We'll get it back to the shop and exorcise those demons and take it up to Michigan. The guys have some work to do this week, but we'll get it done and give them a run for their money." The Con-way Freight 200 is scheduled for 3 P.M. Eastern on Saturday June 17, and will be televised live on Speed Channel. Motor Racing Network will carry the live radio call on selected affiliates nationwide, while 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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