GRANT ENFINGER – 2017 TEXAS PREVIEW
Grant Enfinger, No. 98 Jive Communications Toyota Tundra
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Texas Motor Speedway – WinStarGamingOnline.com 400
Race No. 7 of 23
Team Information:
Driver Point Standings: 7th
Owner Point Standings: 9th
Sunoco Rookie of the Year Contender
Sounding Off – Grant Enfinger:
“I’m really looking forward to getting to Texas this weekend. It’s a newly repaved track, so it should be really fast. I ran there a long time ago in an ARCA car, but I don’t think much of that experience will translate to racing there this weekend. I’m happy with where our intermediate program is – I think we’ve made some gains. We didn’t have quite what we wanted at Charlotte last month, but feel like we’re where we need to be now. Hopefully, we can build on the momentum from Dover last week, and have a strong run for JIVE Communications Friday night.”
News & Notes:
• Chassis Chatter… The No. 98 ThorSport Racing (TSR) team will unload chassis No. 44for Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS)WinStarGamingOnline.com 400 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth. This is the same chassis former TSR driver, Rico Abreu, piloted to two top-10 finishes in 2016.
• Texas-Sized Stats… Grant Enfinger will make his TMS debut in Friday night’s 167-lap event at the 1.5-mile track.
• Intermediate Track Stats… In three NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) starts on an Intermediate-style track (1.5-miles to 1.54-miles in length) this season, Enfinger has two top-10 finishes at Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway, and Charlotte (NC) Motor Speedway.
• RIDE TV Premier… Enfinger, and fellow teammate and RIDE TV driver, Cody Coughlin, recently traded in their firesuits for cowboy hats and visited Fort Worth, TX to film, “RIDE Presents: From Stock Cars to Stockyards.” The duo went go-kart racing with the Mayor (Betsy Price), participated in a cattle drive, had dinner at Horseshoe Hill and got custom cowboy hats made. They also learned how to ride a (mechanical) bull, lasso a stationary bull and perform the two-step before attending the rodeo at the Stockyards. Make sure to catch the show on RIDE TV Wednesday, June 7 at 7pm ET and Saturday, June 10 at 10am ET.
• Rookie Stripe: The RIDE TV driver is currently second in the 2017 Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings after six of 23 races this season.
• Race Rewind – Dover…. In his Dover (Del.) International Speedway (DIS) debut, Enfinger started 12th, ran as high as second, and finished third. The top-five result was the ThorSport Racing driver’s season-best finish to date and his third top-five finish in 20 series starts.
• Catch Grant at Texas… Enfinger, along with his TSR teammates will participate in the NCWTS autograph session on Friday, June 9 from 2:30-3:30pm ET at Gate 4 in the Fan Zone.
Enfinger’s Career NCWTS stats:
• Starts: 20 since 2010
• First Start: Talladega (2010)
• First Full-time Season: 2017
• Poles: 1 (Daytona, 2016)
• Wins: 1 (Talladega, 2016)
• Top-5 Finishes: 3
• Top-10 Finishes: 8
• Laps Completed: 2,635
• Laps Led: 68
• Avg. Start: 12.9
• Avg. Finish: 13.0
Texas Stages:
• Stage 1 – 40 laps (concludes at lap 40)
• Stage 2 – 40 laps (concludes at lap 80)
• Stage 3 – 87 laps (concludes at lap 167)
Race Information:
Date: Friday, June 9
Time: 8:00pm ET on FOX Sports 1
Track: 1.5-mile oval
Distance: 167 Laps, 250.5 Miles
About Jive Communications:
Jive Communications, Inc. provides enterprise-grade Hosted VoIP and Unified Communications to businesses and institutions across the globe. Jive’s hosted services include Jive Voice (Hosted PBX), Jive Contact Center, and Jive Video, which all run on Jive Cloud, a distributed platform built on open industry standards. Jive has been purpose-built to deliver the most reliable, powerful and economical hosted communication services available to the enterprise and public sector markets. Learn more at jive.com/products.
About Curb Records:
Celebrating over 50 years in the entertainment business, Curb Records is one of the world’s leading independent music companies. Owned and operated under The Curb Group by Mike Curb since 1962, Curb Records has achieved 433 number one records, over 1,500 hundred Top Ten records and charted over 4,500 total records. Today’s roster includes some of the top names in Country, Christian and Pop/Rock music. Curb Records has produced over 100 Billboard awards and achievements and was recently honored as the 2015 Mediabase Gold Label of The Year. For more information visit: Curb.com.
About ThorSport Racing:
ThorSport Racing, based in Sandusky, Ohio, is the longest-tenured NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team. ThorSport Racing, which has competed in the NCWTS since 1996, will run the No. 88 Menards Toyota Tundra driven by two-time NCWTS drivers’ champion Matt Crafton, the No. 13 JEGS/RIDE TV Toyota Tundra driven by Cody Coughlin, the No. 27 Toyota Tundra driven by Ben Rhodes, and the No. 98 RIDE TV/Champion Power Equipment/Jive Communications/Curb Records Toyota Tundra driven by Grant Enfinger. For more information visit www.ThorSport.com.
Edgehill Management Group
Jessica O’Brien
Public Relations, ThorSport Racing
Jessica@EdgehillManagement.com
Mobile: (803) 240-5807
