David Starr
No. 81 Zachry Toyota Tundra
Darlington Raceway – Too Tough To Tame 200
August 14, 2010
David Starr and the No. 81 Zachry Toyota Tundra team left Darlington Raceway with a 12th-place finish after a run-in with the Lady in Black on Saturday night. Starr raced in the top-15 for the majority of the event and spent nearly sixty laps inside the top-10. However, the Zachry team was left battling back to the front after being involved in a multi-truck pile-up on lap 107.
Saturday morning started off on a high note as Starr posted practice speeds inside the top-15 throughout both sessions at Darlington Raceway. During qualifying the driver of the Zachry Toyota Tundra posted a lap of 29.230 seconds picking up one-tenth over his fastest practice lap.
Starr rolled off 14th for the Too Tough To Tame 200 and stayed on the track throughout the opening cautions to climbing up into the 12th position. The No. 81 Zachry Toyota Tundra was tight off of both turns two and four leaving Starr struggling to get on to the straightaways.
The team utilized the lap 47 caution period to come for four fresh Goodyear Eagles, fuel, as well as an air pressure and wedge adjustment. The changes proved to be exactly what Starr needed as he moved into the tenth position by lap 50 and solidly raced inside the top-10 until being caught up in an accident on lap 107.
Starr was racing in the upper groove side-by-side with a truck entering turn one when the other driver got loose and set off a multi-truck pileup. Starr made contact with the outside wall that resulted in fender damage. He drove the Zachry Toyota Tundra down pit road where the team went to work securing the right front fender and hood before sending Starr back on the track. He restarted as the first truck one-lap down, and received the lucky dog on the subsequent caution just 15 laps later. By the time the checkered flag fell after 147 laps at Darlington Raceway, Starr was scored in the 12th position.
“Our Zachry Toyota Tundra was awesome tonight,” said David Starr, driver of the No. 81 Zachry Toyota Tundra following the Too Tough To Tame 200. “We made it up to sixth-place. Doug Wolcott and everybody on our Randy Moss Motorsports team did a heck of a job all day long. We had great practices, a great qualifying run and a great race. Unfortunately right on a restart getting into turn one a truck got loose and I thought I was clear of him, but when he got lose he over corrected and came up and we got into him. It pretty much ended our night. We never gave up; we kept working on the truck. The guys did a great job patching up the front, but the truck wasn’t competitive after that. We tried to stay on the lead lap and we missed that, but we came home in 12th place and it says a lot about this team. … I was excited to have Zachry back on our truck; our Toyota Tundra was awesome tonight.”
In just a few days the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will take the green flag for a nighttime showdown at Bristol Motor Speedway. The O’Reilly 200 will commence at 7:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, August 18th. The weeknight dose of NCWTS action will also be broadcast on MRN and Sirius XM radio at 7:45 p.m. EST.
