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Disappointing Night for Starr and Red Horse Racing at Charlotte |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
David Starr and the No. 11 Red Horse Racing team came home to Lowe’s Motor Speedway at Charlotte carrying the colors of PIT Corporate Training and hoping to score their first win of the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season, but their efforts came up short Friday night. After qualifying 19th for the North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Starr broke into the top-15 by lap 30, where he spent the next 50 laps until he brought his No. 11 Toyota Tundra to pit road under green. Once the green flag pit stops cycled through, Starr found himself one lap down and was unable to recover, relegating the team to a disappointing 17th place finish.
After laying down a lap of 31.287 seconds at 172.596 mph in qualifying Friday afternoon, Starr was optimistic that his No. 11 PIT Corporate Training truck was better than his 19th place starting position. After two quick cautions waved in the first 21 laps, Starr reported to crew chief Jamie Jones that his truck was “getting killed on the bottom of the track and that he had no momentum coming off the corner.” The Houston, Texas native brought his No. 11 truck to the attention of his crew under caution on lap 23 for gas only and restarted from the 17th position on lap 29. Within one lap, Starr had worked his way into the top-15, where he stayed for the next 50 laps.
During the round of green flag pit stops, Starr was scored in the third position when he brought his No. 11 Toyota Tundra to pit road on lap 82 for four fresh tires, gas, and an air pressure adjustment. When the field had cycled through, Starr and his Red Horse Racing team were in the 17th position and one lap down.
When the caution flag waved again on lap 99 for debris, Starr told his team that he “needed to be tighter on entry and going through the center of the corner.” Starr brought his Toyota back down pit road on lap 101 for four tires, gas, an air pressure and track bar adjustment. Starr restarted at the track known as “The Beast of the Southeast” from the 18th position and was having a tough time in the bottom groove of the track.
The No. 11 truck ran in the 19th position until the final caution came out on lap 131, which set up a green-white-checkered finish and extending the race past the original 134-lap event. During the two lap shootout, Starr moved his No. 11 PIT Corporate Training to the 17th position, where he finished as the first truck one lap down.
“Tonight was very disappointing,” Starr said after the race. “Our No. 11 PIT Corporate Training Toyota Tundra was a lot better than the position where we finished. It seemed we would just get jammed up on the inside, unable to get to the top where I needed to run. We got our truck better in the middle of the race but were already a lap down. It’s just very disappointing because my team is better than what we showed tonight. We will try to move on and recover next week.”
With the disappointing 17th place finish at the 1.5-mile track, Starr and his No. 11 Red Horse Racing team fell to the 14th place in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship standings. He is just 27 points behind Terry Cook for tenth.
Starr and his No. 11 PIT Corporate Training Toyota Tundra team will look to rebound next Saturday afternoon, May 24, at Mansfield Motorsports Park for the running of the Ohio 250. The green flag will wave on the seventh race of the 2008 season just after 1 p.m. ET. The race will be broadcasted live on SPEED starting at 12:30 p.m. ET and can also be heard on MRN Radio and Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 128.
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