Front Row Motorsports Poised to Progress, Adds Ragan to Line-Up
Cup Race Winner to Drive No. 34 Ford, Gilliland Returns to Pilot No. 38 Ford
Statesville, N.C. (January 16, 2012) – Front Row Motorsports will follow up its best season in the team’s young history by bolstering its line-up for 2012, adding race winner David Ragan to drive the No. 34 Ford Fusion in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Front Row veteran David Gilliland will build off an impressive 2011 season, returning to the team behind the wheel of the team’s second entry, the No. 38 Ford Fusion.
Ragan joins Front Row after completing a 2011 season that delivered his first Cup win (Daytona International Speedway in July), two poles, and four top-five and eight top-10 finishes. The 26-year-old Unadilla, Ga., native is already a NASCAR veteran, first joining the national stock-car ranks at the age of 18 and quickly ascending to premier-level Sprint Cup racing. His No. 34 team is locked in to the starting line-up entering the 2012 season, including a guaranteed starting spot in the prestigious Daytona 500 next month.
UPS EXTENDS NASCAR PARTNERSHIP; SHIFTS TO ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
WITH ROUSH FENWAY RACING
ATLANTA, Oct. 27, 2011 – UPS (NYSE:UPS) and NASCAR have signed a multi-year agreement for UPS to remain the sport’s official logistics partner, providing critical pick-up and delivery services for race teams, vendors and suppliers at every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event throughout the season.
In addition to its official partnership, UPS will continue its relationship with Roush Fenway Racing as a full-season associate sponsor of the No. 99 Ford, driven by Carl Edwards.
After two practice sessions for the inaugural Better Half Dash at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jacquelyn Butler, the girlfriend of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver David Ragan, topped the charts at the conclusion the second session, held Wednesday.
“It feels good to be the quickest right now, because I’m a very competitive person,” said Butler. “David always drags me with him to Summer Shootout and I think it definitely helps having watched a lot of Legend and Bandolero racing.”
(Photo: Charlotte Motor Speedway)
Butler has been preparing for this event with the help of Ragan and even has some previous racing experience.
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.—Marcos Ambrose passed Brad Keselowski on the first lap of a green-white-checkered-flag finish at Watkins Glen and won Monday’s rain-delayed Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen under caution when a violent multicar wreck exploded behind him on the final circuit.
Ambrose, who charged through the bus stop (inner loop) and powered past Keselowski to the inside, became the fifth first-time winner in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series this year.
Marcos Ambrose headed to victory lane for the very first time in the Cup Series, the 5th first time winner this season.
-A horrendous crash on The Final Lap of the race between David Ragan and David Reutimann. Luckily both David’s are doing okay.
-A dust up in the garage area between Boris Said and Greg Biffle, presumably Greg was sticking up for his teammate David Ragan who got wrecked by Said.
RACE RECAP CUP SERIES | WATKINS GLEN
(subject to change)
10 Jimmie Johnson
9 Jeff Burton
8 A.J. Allmendinger
7 Juan Montoya
6 Kevin Harvick
5 Joey Logano
4 Martin Truex Jr.
3 Kyle Busch
2 Brad Keselowski
VICTORY LANE
1 Marcos Ambrose headed to victory lane for the very first time in the Cup Series, the 5th first time winner this season.
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Front Row Motorsports Poised to Progress, Adds Ragan to Line-Up
UPS EXTENDS NASCAR PARTNERSHIP; SHIFTS TO ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
