· Pocono’s Camry…The No. 22 Caterpillar Toyota Dave Blaney is scheduled to drive this weekend at Pocono (Penn. ) Raceway is chassis 78. This car was most recently utilized in both events at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in May.
· Baldwin’s Back…Tommy Baldwin will make his return to the top of the Caterpillar pit box this weekend when he takes over the role of crew chief for Kevin Hamlin, who was released from the team last weekend.
· Blaney’s Career Stats…Blaney hopes to make his 247th career NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series start when the green flag waves Sunday afternoon. He made his first career Cup Series start in October 1992 at [Rockingham] North Carolina Speedway and finished 30th after qualifying 35th for his first Cup Series start in Pocono in 2000. Like this weekend, Blaney was aboard a Bill Davis Racing-owned machine.
· Blaney at Pocono…Blaney has made 14 starts on the 2.5-mile track during his Cup Series career, starting as high as 15th (2001) and finishing as high as 9th in 2003. He has scored two top-10 and six top-20 finishes in Cup Series competition at the Pennsylvania track. Blaney has competed in a Bill Davis Racing entry at Pocono six times.
· BDR at Pocono…Competitors driving Bill Davis Racing-owned cars have been racing at the track since 1993 and have made 36 starts. Those drivers have posted one top-10 finish.
· Blaney’s Busch Battle…Blaney remained in third place in the NASCAR Busch Series drivers point standings after last week’s 16th-place finish in Dover. Blaney ran in the top five for much of the event before a late-race flat tire forced him to make a pit stop. He will attempt to gain more ground on the leader again this weekend during the Federated Auto Parts 300 Saturday evening. Blaney will fly to the Nashville-area track after final Cup practice on Saturday. The veteran driver made his first start on the track earlier this season and, after qualifying in 15th, drove to a third-place finish.
· Fore!... Bill Davis Racing Competition Director Tommy Baldwin will host the third-annual Tom Baldwin Memorial Golf Tournament Thursday in Bellport, New York. Blaney is scheduled to play in the event.
· Practice Makes Perfect…Blaney is scheduled to test at Virginia International Raceway next Wednesday, June 13 in preparation for the upcoming road course event at Infineon Raceway.
*Change this week
Blaney on Pocono…“There’s no worse feeling in racing than knowing that you’ve showed up at the race track and completely missed the set up, and that’s what happened to us last week. It was an unfortunate weekend and an unfortunate qualifying result and Caterpillar expects more from us that that. Heck, we expect more from us than that and it was time to make a change, so that’s what happened. We’re lucky that we have someone like Tommy Baldwin at BDR that can take over in situations like this.
‘Regardless of what happened in Dover and just like the other teams that had problems last weekend, we’ll show up to Pocono with our heads held high and we’ll plan to be there on Sunday. It’s heartbreaking to know that we were so close to getting back into the top 35 and we lost so much ground. This top 35 rule is a tough one. You fall out and it’s almost impossible to get back in. Sometimes you feel like you’re chasing your tail. You work so hard and it almost never seems to be enough. This is a good, strong, solid team and we’ll keep trying and giving it our best. ”
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