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SuperAdmin Super Admin Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 20 Location:	O'Reilly Challenge At Texas Motor Speedway Posted Oct 29, 2008 2:31 PM Scott Wimmer, Holiday Inn Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Texas Preview NOTES: • This Week’s Holiday Inn Chevrolet at Texas Motor Speedway … Scott Wimmer will pilot Chassis No. 074 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series stable. Built new for 2008, this Holiday Inn Chevrolet saw action at Auto Club Speedway of Southern California where Jeff Burton started second and finished fourth. Burton also piloted this blue and green Chevrolet to a 14th-place finish at Kansas Speedway after starting seventh. This will be Wimmer first race behind the wheel of Chassis No. 074. • Texas Talk … Wimmer has earned two top-10 and four top-15 finishes in five starts at TMS. The six-time NNS winner has a 28.6 starting average and a solid 12.8 finishing average. Over those five starts, the Wausau, Wis., native has completed 920 of the 922 laps contested and earned just shy of $130,000 in purse money. • Wimmer in the Loop at Texas … o Law of Averages … According to NASCAR’s Loop Data Statistics, the 32-year-old driver has an Average Running Position of 15.25 at Texas. The ARP is derived from taking the sum of a driver’s position on each lap and dividing it by the number of laps run in each race. o Running up Front … Meanwhile, Wimmer has spent 61.3 percent (249 of 1,406) of the laps contested running in the top 15 during his five races at Texas. o How do you Rate? … Wimmer has a Driver Rating of 86.1 at Texas. The Driver Rating is a formula that combines the following categories: wins, top-15 finishes, average running position while on the lead lap, average speed under green, fastest lap, most laps led and lead-lap finishes. The maximum points a driver can earn is each race is 150 points. The Driver Rating number is used pre-race as a prediction tool and post-race as a performance evaluator. • A Look at the Charts … Based on Wimmer’s 22nd-place finish last weekend at Memphis, the No. 29 team maintained their fourth-place standing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series owners’ championship point standings. The Holiday Inn Racing team is now 285 markers behind the No. 20 entry in the lead, 246 points behind RCR’s No. 2 entry in second and 130 points behind the No. 60 machine in third. In 32 starts, Burton and Wimmer have earned one victory, nine top-five and 19 top-10 finishes 32 starts. • The Collective RCR … In 32 races this season, RCR-prepared NNS entries have notched two wins (Bowyer – Bristol 1 and Scott Wimmer – Nashville 1), 24 top-five and 50 top-10 finishes. RCR NNS cars have also led 796 laps in 2008 and finished on the lead lap 59 times with six different drivers including Clint Bowyer, Burton, Austin Dillon, Bobby Labonte, Stephen Leicht and Wimmer. • RCR Nationwide Cars at Texas … In 27 NNS starts at TMS, RCR boasts one pole (Jeff Green – April 2002), four wins (Kevin Harvick, March 2001, April 2006, Nov. 2006, and Nov. 2007), 10 top five and 18 top 10s. RCR-prepared race cars have also led 548 laps at the mile-and-half Fort Worth racing complex. • Scott’s Season Stats … This weekend’s race will be the 21st of 23 that Wimmer is scheduled to drive the Holiday Inn Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS in 2008. In 20 starts, he has posted one win, five top-five and 12 top-10 finishes. • Catch the Action … Live coverage of the O’Reilly Challenge from Texas Motor Speedway will be televised live on ESPN2 Sat., Nov. 1 beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The race will also be broadcast live on the Performance Racing Network and Sirius Satellite Radio. Qualifying will be televised live on SPEED Friday, Oct. 31 at 6:30 p.m. EDT. PRN and Sirius Satellite Radio with carry qualifying updates live. SCOTT WIMMER QUOTES: You haven’t run at Texas since 2006 but you have some pretty good finishes. Do you still feel pretty comfortable there? “It’s going to take me a few laps to get back into the swing of things at Texas. However, I am still pretty confident since we have run pretty well on other mile-and-a-half tracks this year. Jeff (Burton) also had a pretty good race at Texas in the spring so we will go off of those notes and go from there.” How much are you going to have to lean on your teammates this weekend? “I am going to have to lean on my teammates a bunch this weekend. I will also pick Kevin’s (Harvick) brain a little even though he isn’t driving a Nationwide car for RCR. Kevin has been able to get a lot of wins at Texas so I think he will be able to give me some good advice. I will be able to settle in after a few laps and figure out what we need to compete for the win.”