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Starr Comes Home with Another Top-Ten in the "Music City" |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
Looking to play sweet music and claim another solid finish in the 2008 season, David Starr and the No. 11 Red Horse Racing team headed into the "Music City" with high hopes of continuing their successful history together. Starr and his Jamie Jones-led team did just that by coming home in the ninth position during Saturday night's Toyota Tundra 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway.
Despite starting from the seventeenth position, Starr patiently worked his way through the field and broke into the top-five by lap 60. But towards the end of the 150-lap event, Starr almost lost control of his Tundra, which allowed several trucks to pass him, pushing the No. 11 outside the top-ten. In the final 20 laps of the race Starr fought back to finish in the ninth position. Starr's charge through the field gave him his seventh top-ten of the 2008 season and the fourth top-ten in his career at the 1.33-mile D-shaped oval.
"My Red Horse Racing team is just awesome. Jamie Jones, my crew chief, and everyone on this team gave me a really strong truck tonight," said Starr. "We had two good practice sessions on Friday but qualifying seventeenth was not what we were hoping for this afternoon. Once the green flag fell tonight though, my Tundra just came alive. We were racing in the top-five there for a while and when I was going for the fourth position, I basically crashed without hitting anything. That pushed us back to thirteenth or so and when the race ended, I had worked back up to ninth. My No. 11 Toyota Tundra was a lot stronger than our ninth finishing position, but I feel very fortunate to end up in the top-ten. All of my guys are just awesome and I couldn't be prouder of the effort that they put out."
Even though the Houston, Texas native was happy with his ninth-place finishing position, Starr believed he had a Toyota Tundra capable of finishing in the top-five.
"It's unfortunate that we weren't able to get back into the top-five, because I definitely had a truck capable of finishing in the top-five, if not higher," Starr said. "My Toyota Tundra was awesome. My pit crew had great stops as usual and everyone worked extremely hard all weekend. But I was just going for it at the end of the race and almost wrecked. Even though it's very unfortunate, I feel fortunate to come home in ninth and with our No. 11 Tundra in one piece."
With the solid performance at Nashville, David Starr remains tenth in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship point standings. Starr is just 65 points behind Jack Sprague for eighth and 134 points behind Erik Darnell for the sixth position.
Starr and the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra team will take a week off before heading to "Thunder Valley" on Wednesday, August 20, for the O'Reilly 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway. The green flag will drop at "The World's Fastest Half-Mile" shortly after 8 P.M. Eastern. SPEED will have live coverage of the 200-lap event, beginning at 7:30 P.M. Eastern. Select affiliates of MRN Radio and Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 128 will also have the live radio broadcast.
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