Jeff Green and the HAAS CNC Racing team survived a wild day to finish seventh in the most recent NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.
Along the way, Green and his No. 66 Windows Live / Best Buy Chevrolet managed to avoid one accident that damaged 11 cars, as well as a crash on the final lap that took out two frontrunners, to post his team’s best finish of the 2006 season.
First Time: Both HAAS CNC Racing NEXTEL Cup Series entries finished in the top-10 last weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, marking the first time the two Haas teams have posted top-10 results in the same race.
Jeff Green’s sixth-place finish marks the second time this season Green has finished in that position (his other sixth-place run came in the COT race at Bristol Motor Speedway last month), the best finish scored by a Haas driver in the team’s NEXTEL Cup Series history.
Testing: Jeff Green and the No. 66 Best Buy Racing team spent Tuesday, April 24, testing at Kentucky Speedway in one of the “cars of today.” The team hopes to use data gathered during the test to improve its performance on tracks of 1.5 and two miles in length.
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