TESTING: Jeff Green and the No. 66 Best Buy Racing team spent Monday and Tuesday, May 7-8, testing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in preparation for the upcoming Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup event there on Memorial Day weekend.
Green unofficially posted the eighth-fastest time of Monday’s session, with a lap of 30.034 seconds at an average speed of 179.796 miles per hour. Green’s No. 66 Best Buy Chevrolet was the fourth-fastest among all Chevrolet teams on Monday.
CHASSIS: Haas CNC Racing Chassis No. 409 – The No. 66 Best Buy Racing team will take Chassis No. 409 to Darlington Raceway this weekend. The team tested with this chassis at Bristol Motor Speedway in March, and competed with it in the debut race of the Car of Tomorrow at Bristol. Driver Jeff Green qualified ninth and finished sixth in that race, his best finish of 2007 (tied with a sixth-place run at Phoenix International Raceway).
Q&A WITH DRIVER JEFF GREEN:
You ran in the top-10 for the first half of the race at Richmond International Raceway. Are you still enjoying the Car of Tomorrow? “Absolutely. We’ve got to work on getting more rear grip, which is what I was dealing with early on at Richmond, but our lap times were very competitive. We’re working on getting our brake issues fixed. I know Harold (Holly) and the guys would love to have had the whole week to focus on brakes before this weekend, so the test at Lowe’s (Motor Speedway) really added to their workload.
“It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks, especially when you add in the Dover test, but at least we’ve got a couple of races in Charlotte coming up and the guys will get to sleep in their own beds.”
