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Eric McClure, No. 14 Hefty® BlackOut™ / Reynolds™ Chevrolet Impala Charlotte Motor Speedway Preview
Press Release
No. 14 Hefty® BlackOut™ / Reynolds™ Chevrolet Impala
NASCAR Nationwide Series (Race 31 of 34) — Charlotte Motor Speedway
Primary Sponsor: Hefty® BlackOut™ (www.hefty.com)
Associate Sponsors: Reynolds™ (www.reynoldskitchens.com)
Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage Fast Facts
- McClure will compete in his 168th career Nationwide Series race and his eighth at the one-and-a-half-mile speedway.
- In eight NNS starts McClure has completed 98.3% of the laps and has an average finish of 24. His best start and finish at the track came in 2009 where he started 29th (May) and finished in the 18th position (October).
- The team will use chassis No. 9 during the Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage. It was last used at Dover Int’l Speedway where the team was credited with a 24th-place finish.
Celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the 32-year-old Virginia driver will be racing for his aunt, Loretta Copper, in Friday night’s Dollar General 300 Miles for Courage at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
- A two-time survivor of breast cancer, Cooper was first diagnosed in 1985 and later in 2010. On each occasion, she was forced to have a mastectomy but, since then, she has been in remission.
“We really need to turn our luck around this weekend in Charlotte so we can secure ourselves in the top 20 in driver standings. We struggled with this car at Charlotte in the spring, but we’ve had some of our better runs of late with it. Hopefully, we can have a competitive race, have nothing go wrong, and set ourselves up with something positive heading into the off weeks.”
Quick Notes
October 14, 2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway
Race:š Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage
Length: 200 laps / 300 miles
TV: Live on ESPN2 / 7:00 p.m. (ET)
Radio: Performance Racing Network (PRN) 7:00 p.m. (ET)
Sirius XM NASCAR Radio Channel 90 7:00 p.m. (ET)
No. 14 Chevy Specs
Chassis: No. 9
Engine: Pro Motor Engines
Social Networking:
Twitter: @heftyracing
Facebook: Fans of Eric McClure
Websites:
www.ericmcclure.com (driver)
- Team McClure Inc. Press Release
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