BUSCH: Jeff Green Charlotte Notes
</pre> Jeff Green Fast Facts Lowe's Motor Speedway at Charlotte – October 7, 2000 Green Superstitions: Although many drivers have superstitions about the color green, Jeff Green, driver of the No. 10 Nestle NesQuik Chevrolet, cannot ...
</pre> Jeff Green Fast Facts Lowe's Motor Speedway at Charlotte – October 7, 2000
Green Superstitions: Although many drivers have superstitions about the color green, Jeff Green, driver of the No. 10 Nestle NesQuik Chevrolet, cannot afford to be superstitious about it. After all, his last name is Green. He carries a green marble in his pocket at all times when he is at the race track for good luck. However, there is one green thing he stays away from when he is at the track.
"I've never had any real racing superstitions or race day rituals that I adhere to every weekend, but that changed last spring at Charlotte," said Green. "It was real hot during the race and we didn't have a cooling unit in the car. I got so overheated with three laps to go, that I lost some of my lunch and I had eaten green beans before the race. So now, even though I am not superstitious of green, I do steer away from eating green beans on race day. Oh, and we also put a cooling unit in the car now!"
Jeff and Friends: Green will have a special friend in the pits cheering him on at Charlotte this weekend, country recording artist, Steve Wariner. Wariner has partnered with Green as part of a radio promotion for his new single, "Katy Wants A Fast One." To qualify for the grand prize, listeners called-in when they heard the song and won Wariner's CD and a Jeff Green / No. 10 NesQuik die cast car. One grand prize winner's name was drawn from all qualifiers at each participating radio station and that person won tickets to a private acoustic performance by Steve Wariner in Charlotte, Friday night with special guest, Jeff Green in attendance. Also included was airfare, hotel accommodations and tickets to both the Busch and Winston Cup races at Lowe's Motor Speedway. There were 45 grand prize winners in all. In addition, Wariner will sing the national anthem for the Busch series event at Charlotte on Saturday.
Equipment: The NesQuik Racing team is taking a fairly new car to Charlotte. The car has only competed once this year at Michigan where it finished 14th.
"I feel pretty good about the car for this weekend's race," said Green. "Even though it didn't perform well during the early laps at Michigan, we were able to fine tune it and it was fast at the end of the race. We finished third at Charlotte in the spring event, but we couldn't bring that car back this time, because it was the car we wrecked at the Dover race two weeks ago. I don't think that will be a big factor because this new car is capable of running even better. Jason Keller tested at Charlotte last week and ran really well. With his notes and what we learned here in the spring, I feel that we should have a good shot at victory lane."
Jeff Green / Lowe's Motor Speedway Statistics:
Date Start Finish LC/TL Status $Won 05/27/00 26 3 200/200 Running 43,050 10/09/99 11 15 200/200 Running 14,435 05/29/99 37 10 199/200 Running 18,750 05/23/98 21 13 200/200 Running 11,820 05/24/97 16 31 145/200 Overheating 6,757 10/05/96 5 8 200/200 Running 11,575 05/25/96 16 43 14/200 Engine 4,055 10/17/95 31 11 199/200 Running 8,569 05/27/95 13 2 200/200 Running 24,619 10/08/94 40 10 200/200 Running 8,405
Event Starts Poles Wins Top-fives Top-10s LC/TL $Won Spring 6 0 0 2 2 958/1,200 (79.8%) 109,051 Fall 4 0 0 0 2 799/800 (99.875%) 42,984 Totals 10 0 0 2 4 1,757/2,000 (87.85%) 152,035
NASCAR Busch Series Cumulative Results
Starts Wins Poles Top-fives Top 10s Winnings 174 9 15 53 79 $2,560,410
Wins: Las Vegas (3/15/97); Nashville (4/03/99); Myrtle Beach (7/17/99); Memphis (10/31/99); Richmond (5/05/00); South Boston (6/10/00); Myrtle Beach (06/17/00); Milwaukee (07/02/00); Pikes Peak (07/22/00)
2000 NASCAR Busch Series Results
Date Track Start Finish LC/TL $Won February 19 Daytona Beach, FL 13 42 13/120 26,225 February 26 Rockingham, NC 3 2 197/197 34,875 March 4 Las Vegas, NV 4 6 200/200 34,250 March 11 Atlanta, GA 9 13 201/203 16,185 March 18 Darlington, SC 20 4 147/147 26,795 March 25 Bristol, TN 1 2 250/250 37,785 April 1 Ft. Worth, TX 10 5 200/200 38,300 April 8 Nashville, TN 8 12 320/320 15,505 April 15 Talladega, AL 4* 5 113/113 29,875 April 29 Fontana, CA 1 3 150/150 58,825 May 5 Richmond, VA 1 1 250/250 42,400 May 13 Loudon, NH 12 2 200/200 35,385 May 27 Charlotte, NC 26 3 200/200 43,050 June 3 Dover, DE 37 4 200/200 28,065 June 10 South Boston, VA 9 1 300/300 46,225 June 17 Myrtle Beach, SC 1 1 250/250 48,250 June 25 Watkins Glen, NY 10 10 82/82 20,275 July 2 Milwaukee, WI 1 1 250/250 49,350 July 16 Nazareth, PA 1 4 200/200 24,500 July 22 Pikes Peak, CO 2 1 250/250 81,525 July 29 Madison, IL 1* 5 200/200 31,775 August 4 Indianapolis, IN 2 3 200/200 29,275 August 19 Brooklyn, MI 24 14 124/125 19,975 August 25 Bristol, TN 7 3 250/250 28,115 September 2 Darlington, SC 2 4 147/147 25,950 September 8 Richmond, VA 3 2 250/250 34,450 September 23 Dover, DE 2 42 30/200 16,035 October 7 Charlotte, NC October 21 Rockingham, NC October 29 Memphis, TN November 4 Phoenix, AZ November 11 Miami, FL
*no time Year-to-date Ave. ST. Ave. FIN. Total LC/TL trials held Averages: 7.92 7.22 5,174/5,454 (94.86%)
2000 NASCAR Busch Series Totals
Starts Wins Top-fives Top 10s Poles Outside Poles Earnings 27 5 20 22 6 4 $923,220 Current Points Standing: 1st
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