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MITCHELL
QUALIFIES 25TH AT NASHVILLE
LEBANON, TN (June 7) ... It was a bittersweet Friday afternoon
for West
Virginia driver Richard Mitchell, who will start his second
NASCAR Busch
Series race from the 25th starting slot in tomorrow's Inside
Traxx 300 at the
Nashville Superspeedway.
The former two-time NASCAR Northeast Region champion dodged a
plethora of
mechanical problems on and off the track as he pushed his Coach
USA/Mountaineer Gaming/West Virginia Tourism Monte Carlo around
the 1.333
mile concrete tri-oval in a time of 30.42 seconds (157.720 mph).
“Give all the credit to my crew – they worked their tails off to
get us into
the race,” Mitchell said. “We missed almost an hour and a half
of the
two-hour practice session trying to eliminate a vibration
problem and a miss
in the engine, but they stuck with it and got it fixed in time.”
If problems with the racecar weren't bad enough, the team also
suffered a
breakdown with the transporter enroute to Nashville. “They blew
a tire and
tore off all the break lines,” Mitchell added. "It turned a
10-hour trip
into a 20-hour marathon. The car arrived at the track just as
the gates were
opening."
Unfortunately, the West Virginia University graduate is still
not out of the
woods on the mechanical front. “The motor developed another miss
during the
evening happy-hour session,” lamented Mitchell. “We didn't get
it sorted
out before the practice ended, so I really don't know what the
race is going
to hold for us.”
The Inside Traxx 300 will be televised live on the FX cable
network beginning
at 7:30 PM, EDT. The contest will also be broadcast live on the
MRN radio
network.
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