Brett Moffitt Race Preview Cornelius, N.C
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BRETT MOFFITT RACE PREVIEW CORNELIUS, N.C. — No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Machine driver Brett Moffitt makes his 13th career NASCAR Sprint Cup start this weekend when the Follow us on Twitter series visits the 1.5-mile oval at Texas Motor Speedway. @brett_moffitt @mwrteam @aaronssports Moffitt is substituting for Brian Vickers as he recovers from blood clots. Despite owning only three career starts in the XFINITY and Camping World truck series, the 22-year-old Grimes, Iowa native is holding his own in the Sprint Cup Series. Moffitt notched an eighth-place finish at Atlanta and a No. 55 PIT CREW 22nd-place finish at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Billy Scott Crew Chief The nine-time K&N East Series winner says that lack of experience in those series has not diminished his Ryan Langley Front Tire Changer expectations. Chris Hall Front Tire Carrier Shannon Myers Rear Tire Changer MOFFITT ON EXPECTATIONS: Blake Haugland Rear Tire Carrier “Everyone seems to have low Wes Evans Jack Man expectations for me. I think that’s Jeff Kerr Gas Man because I haven't run in the truck or XFINITY Series. But that’s OK Steve Channing Car Chief by me. I can’t control that. I have David Cropps Interior Mechanic high expectations myself. I want Roman Pemberton Spotter to run top-10 every weekend. Brandon Pope Race Engineer Heck, I think about how we can Joe Bisson 2nd Engineer get to victory lane. I’m demanding of myself. We proved at Atlanta Jeremy Sharpley Shock Specialist we can get top-10s. At Kevin White Front Mechanic Martinsville I think we had a real Joe Zanolini Rear Mechanic shot to get another top 10 based Scott Swift Tire Specialist on our lap times. We got our hood messed up early and lost five laps. If we raced Kirk Butterfield TRD there tomorrow I would expect a top 10. I expect as good a run this weekend at Tim Bruce TRD Texas as we had at Atlanta.” Stump Lewis Truck Driver PLANS FOR REST OF THE SEASON “We’re taking it week-by-week. My job and Al Nelson 2nd Truck Driver focus is to drive the Aaron’s Dream Machine to the best of my abilities every week. CHASSIS NOTES If we get the results I expect then everything else will fall into place.” Primary: 775 - Has not ADVICE FROM OTHER DRIVERS: raced “Brian Vickers and Clint Bowyer have Backup: 814 - finished 8th been very supportive and helpful not at Atlanta with Moffitt. In just recently but over the years I’ve 2014 it finished 16th at In- been with MWR. Carl Edwards was dy with Clint Bowyer, Brian very helpful and talked to me at Las Vickers finished 13th at Richmond in September & Vegas. That was really cool. I had never 37th at Charlotte in Octo- met Carl before, but he came up to me ber. at Vegas and we talked. I try to show them a lot of respect and I think they will return that respect.” Michael Waltrip Racing • Media Relations Department • 20310 Chartwell Center Drive • Cornelius, N.C. 28031 Twitter: @MWRTeam Facebook: michaelwaltripracing Instagram: michaelwaltripracing Website: www.michaelwaltripracing.com NOTES: Michael Waltrip finished 26th at Daytona and Brett Moffitt finished eighth at Atlanta. Vickers fin- ished 15th and 41st at Las Vegas and Phoenix be- fore Moffitt returned to the seat and finished 22nd at Fontana and 28th at Martinsville. Moffitt is a nine-time winner in NASCAR K&N Pro Series East competition and currently serves as a test driver for Toyota Racing Development (TRD) and Michael Waltrip Racing. In 63 career NASCAR K&N Pro Series races, Moffitt has earned 10 poles, 34 top-five finishes and 45 top-10 finishes. In his 2012 NASCAR XFINITY Series debut at Iowa Speedway, Moffitt finished ninth. The following year, he also made his first start in NAS- CAR Camping World Truck Series competition, where he finished 14th at Kentucky Speedway and 17th at Michigan International Speedway. Additional Moffitt stats: No. 55 CREW CHIEF XFINITY Series: 1 start, 1 top-10 BILLY SCOTT Camping World Truck Series: 2 starts K&N Pro Series: 63 starts, 9 wins, 34 top-5s, 45 top-10s, 10 poles No. 55 Aaron’s Dream Ma- chine Crew Chief Billy Scott AARON’S: The Atlanta- began racing motorcycles as based company, with more a 5-year-old and stock cars than 2,100 stores across the when he turned 15. He country, helps customers worked in the truck series as own the life they want. Aa- a mechanic before he re- ron's carries only the best turned to college to obtain brand names in furniture, an engineering degree. After electronics, and appliances graduating in 2005 Scott with a variety of flexible pay- worked at Robert Yates ment options. It's really Racing and began as an en- easy to “Own It” at Aaron’s gineer at MWR in 2008. The with customers who are now 36-year-old served exclu- pre-approved for up to sively as the No. 55 team’s $2,500 in merchandise - no lead engineer the last two credit needed. seasons. Race Site St Fin Car# Laps Status Led 2014-13 Dover 18 22 66 396/400 running 0 2014-15 Michigan 34 34 66 197/200 running 0 2014-24 Bristol 31 42 66 78/500 engine 0 MOFFITT 2014-25 Atlanta 35 34 66 327/335 running 0 Career 2014-31 Charlotte 39 40 66 320/334 running 0 Sprint 2014-34 Fort Worth 41 40 66 283/341 crash 0 Cup 2014-36 Homestead 43 36 66 262/267 running 0 Career Statistics 2015-02 Atlanta 22 8 55 325/325 running 1 2015-03 Las Vegas 36 37 34 260/267 running 0 2015-04 Phoenix 38 32 34 309/312 running 0 2015-05 Fontana 30 22 55 209/209 running 0 2015-06 Martinsville 33 28 55 496/500 Running 0 .