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Gilliland Drives TRG Motorsports Chevy to 29th at Texas
Press ReleaseDenton, Texas (April 5, 2009) - David Gilliland drove the Capital Window/TRG Motorsports Chevrolet Impala SS to a 29th place finish in today’s running of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Starting from his 15th row qualifying position Gilliland had some slight handling issues and began to work on those through the early pit stops. On the team’s second pit stop on lap 98 a tire began to roll away from the crew when the NASCAR Official stopped it and rolled it in front of the car. The tire tripped the right front tire changer costing valuable time and track position. At this same point the crew had tweaked the handling of the car and Gilliland was able to run times equal to the top five cars. The loss of track position, plus two untimely caution flags which occurred just after the team pitted under green, had the car mired back in 30th for most of the day.
“The car was really fast today,” Gilliland said. “We struggled in the pits and you just can’t do that at this level. I think we gave up like seven positions on our second pit stop. It is so tough on the track to get by cars, that when you lose positions in the pits it makes it that much harder. You cannot give up track position in the pits at this level, you have to work too hard on the track for the spots.”
The team made a few adjustments on the first couple of pit stops which dialed the car right in for Gilliland.
“It is too bad, we had a much better car than the finish showed today. We were able to match the times of the top five cars for over 80% of the race. To finish well in this series you have to have the total package. We are new as a team and it is still coming together. We did get unlucky with a few cautions when we just pitted, but we are putting fast cars on the track and the guys are really working hard. It was an unfortunate day for TRG Motorsports, but the car is in one piece so we can bring it to the next mile-and-a-half track.”
Kevin Buckler, TRG Motorsports team principal, knows that it takes a total team effort to be successful at this level of motorsport.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will take Easter weekend off and then travel to Phoenix International Raceway for a Saturday evening race on April 18.
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TRG Motorsports is based in Mooresville, North Carolina. Currently the team fields a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series entry as well as a Camping World Truck Series effort and an ARCA RE/MAX Series team. The Racer’s Group was founded in 1993 and has been competing at the top level of sports car racing. TRG’s Porsche sports car program is run out of the company’s headquarters in Petaluma, California. The team has the most wins of any team in the Grand-Am Rolex Series with 26, including the 2005 and 2006 Rolex Series GT championship trophy to go along with wins in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona (three) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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