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Brendan Gaughan Pre-Race Report - Texas

Driver: Brendan Gaughan
Owner: Michael Gaughan
Texas 350K
Texas Motor Speedway
Race: Friday, November 3 – 8:05 pm
Qualifying: Thursday, November 2  - 7:00 pm
1.5-mile oval, 146 laps/ 219 miles
 
The Piece: Gaughan will drive Orleans Racing’s T-1 (Lonestar)
 
The Stats:

Texas Motor Speedway - Truck Series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Start

Finish

LC/TL

Status

Winnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

8-Jun-01

30

2

167/167

Running

$46,100

7-Jun-02

10

1

167/167

Running

$63,000

13-Sep-02

5

1

167/167

Running

$58,430

6-Jun-03

5

1

167/167

Running

$63,700

11-Oct-03

7

1

167/167

Running

$60,630

10-Jun-05

30

27

160/167

Running

$9,915

4-Nov-05

34

32

119/147

Drive Shaft

$7,045

9-Jun-06

18

26

164/168

Running

$10,415

 

 

 

 

 

 

Texas Motor Speedway - Cup Series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

Start

Finish

LC/TL

Status

Winnings

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/4/2004

16

38

230/334

Engine

$72,000

Gaughan on Texas Motor Speedway: “I still love Texas. I’m always going to love Texas. Even if it’s not the racing side of me, the cowboy side of me says I love Texas. Right now with the Orleans Racing team getting back on the horse, so to speak, this is a stop that is important. At Atlanta we proved that we had a good truck but it took us a while to get running. Atlanta was kind of a test. We have a starting point that will be better than where we started at Atlanta. With any luck it will be a great starting point for here and we’ll be faster, right off the bat, than we were there.

“Every time we go to Texas everybody talks about four wins in a row and how great Orleans Racing used to be at Texas Motor Speedway. Well, Bryan Berry and Tom Buzze and Kevin Kroyer and I are working very hard to make this the Orleans Racing team that is great at Texas.

“Our test at Texas World Speedway went alright. For the past couple years everybody on the team just kind of went there to pacify me. This time we went down there and put data on the trucks. Bryan and Tom realized that you really can learn a lot there if you really take is seriously. There are a lot of positives there. We’ve got to go back there with a bunch of different aero channels and really do some really good, real-life wind tunnel type things. When we go back there for the next Texas race we’re going with all those aero sensors because Bryan and Tom definitely think that there’s an advantage to going to Texas World Speedway.

“This year at our test we learned a few things. NASCAR’s made it very difficult by basically telling us we can’t get Goodyear tires. So it’s very difficult to go down there because Texas World Speedway chews up tires really fast. The asphalt down there is real, real old. We learned some of the things we needed to. We didn’t get through all of our test plan but we got through most of it. We had about three different things that we changed there that we’re taking up to Texas Motor Speedway. So things are positive.”

Meet the Crew:

Name

Hometown

Shop Duty

Race Day Duty

Bryan Berry

Homestead, FL

Crew Chief

Crew Chief

Robert Ewing

Las Vegas, NV

Truck Chief            à

Front Tire Changer

Danny Goad

Martinsville, VA

Mechanic / Tuner

Rear Tire Changer

Clint Jennings

Logan, OH

Engineer

Rear Tire Hanger

Jacen Johns

Springfield, MO

Mechanic

Front Tire Hanger

Calvin Gravely

Martinsville, VA

Tire Spec / Fabricator

Jack Man

Bill Caldwell

Culver City, CA

DOT

Fuel Man

Steve Fiedler

Yankton, SD

Truck Driver

Catch Can

Listen in on the #77: The team’s primary radio frequency is 451.3371.

 



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