David Starr
No. 81 CHASCO Constructors Toyota Tundra
Bristol Motor Speedway – O’Reilly 200
August 18, 2010
Despite only having limited practice time, David Starr raced through the field on Wednesday night at Bristol Motor Speedway and looked poised to have a top-five finish in the No. 81 CHASCO Constructors Toyota Tundra. Unfortunately with just two laps remaining, Starr made contact with another truck that sent him ricocheting across the track and ending the day for the No. 81 team.
Starr rolled off 12th in the O’Reilly 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway. With only seven practice laps in the CHASCO Constructors Toyota Tundra, Starr spent the early laps feeling out his truck to determine what changes his team may want to make during a later caution. By lap 10 Starr had already made his way into the top-10 where he raced for much of the 200-lap event.
Crew chief Doug Wolcott made the decision for Starr to come down pit road during the lap 37 caution period for their first of two pit stops. The team gave Starr four fresh Goodyear tires, fuel and a slight air pressure adjustment. Starr returned to the track in the 23rd position and worked his way back up to 10th before returning to pit road shortly after lap 130.
At that point in the race, Starr had reported that his truck was really starting to come to him. He was no longer struggling with a loose truck on entry and was turning fast lap times around the 0.533-mile speedway. The crew gave Starr another four fresh tires and fuel and sent him back on the track still racing inside the top-10.
Starr had raced as high as the fifth position and was currently running seventh with less than five laps remaining in the O’Reilly 200 when he made contact with the No. 7 machine going into turn one getting the No. 81 Tundra loose. Starr pulled up beside him again with just two laps remaining when the No. 7 made contact with the wall and then came back down into the No. 81 CHASCO Constructors machine. The contact sent Starr barreling into the inside wall before ricocheting back across the track and making heavy contact with the No. 52 of Ken Schrader. Starr walked away from his truck and went on his mandatory ride to the infield care center.
“I just hate it for our team,” said Starr after emerging from the infield care center. “We had a really great truck and it looked like we were going to bring home a great finish for CHASCO Constructors. Unfortunately we were involved in an accident with about two laps to go and we weren’t able to get the result that we were looking for. I had a great truck all night long and everybody on our team did a tremendous job. I thought we were going to get our first top-five finish tonight but I guess it just wasn’t meant to be.”
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