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No. 11 Shore Lodge Toyota (Brian Scott) - Photo Credit: Chris Graythen / Getty Images for NASCAR

No. 11 Shore Lodge Team Notes of Interest

· Brian Scott and the No. 11 Shore Lodge Toyota team will be looking for an about-face during this weekend’s Top Gear 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Scott has been caught up in accidents in each of the last three NASCAR Nationwide Series events and hopes a trip to the 1.5-mile track will turn around the bad luck plaguing the No. 11 Shore Lodge Team.

· Scott has made two previous starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway in NASCAR Nationwide Series competition and also has two starts at Charlotte in the NASCAR Truck Series.

· Chassis #122 is the car Scott will race this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This will mark the second race of the 2011 NASCAR season for Chassis #122. Scott raced Chassis #122 to a top-10 finish at Texas Motor Speedway in April, where he started from the 13th position and went on to score a 10th-place finish. Chassis #106 will serve as the backup. This car has not yet been raced in 2011.

· Last Race: Scott’s bad-luck run continued last weekend at Iowa Speedway. After running in the top 15 for the majority of the 250-lap race, Scott was hit by the No. 6 car of eventual race winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on lap 217 and had to make a trip to the garage for repairs. He returned to the race and was in the 27th position by the time the checkered flag waved.

· Scott lost a position in the NASCAR Nationwide Series driver point standings after last week’s 27th-place finish at Iowa. He is 12 points out of eighth place and 72 points out of the top five.

· Scott was one of a handful of NASCAR drivers to attend the 2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on Monday, May 23. “That was a first class event all the way,” Scott said. “It was a neat experience and cool to be in the room with so many of the legends of our sport, to hear their stories and be a part of that event.”

· To access information on Brian Scott and No. 11 Team visit: www.joegibbsracing.com and follow twitter.com/bscottracing and twitter.com/joegibbsracing.

Brian Scott

Racing at Charlotte:

“Charlotte is an intermediate track that I probably approach with more caution than most of the other tracks of its size. It’s called the “beast of the southeast” for a reason. It’s a finicky little track that is just supersensitive to tires, to heat and a lot of different factors. The track changes a lot during the course of a race and it makes it difficult to prepare for as you are practicing and trying to anticipate how it will change from practice on Thursday to the race on Saturday. But if you show the track some respect you can have a good day there.”

Last Race:

“We were actually in decent shape until we had a bad green flag pit stop, got hung up on the right rear and lost some track position. I came out of the pits just in front of Carl and when it all cycled through he was going to be the leader. So I was doing everything I could to stay in front of him and coming through some slower lapped traffic he got position on me and he got underneath me. I was thinking I’m as fast as he is so I’ll just stay here right behind him or pass him back and get the lucky dog or get my lap back. Going down into turn one we were coming up on a lot slower cars so I went to fall in behind Carl because he was inside of me. When I turned underneath him (Ricky) Stenhouse tried to fill a hole that wasn’t there and ended up getting in the back of me and that was the end of our day.”

- Joe Gibbs Racing Press Release