Travis Kvapil
No. 5 International Trucks/Monaco RVs Toyota Tundra
Kentucky Speedway – UNOH 225
July 7, 2011
No. 5 Randy Moss Motorsports International Trucks/Monaco RVs Toyota Tundra News and Notes
- This Week’s Tundra… The No. 5 International Trucks/Monaco RVs Toyota Tundra team and driver Travis Kvapil will race MDM-105 in Thursday’s 150-lap NCWTS race at Kentucky Speedway. This is the same truck that Travis raced to a 10th-place finish last month at Kansas Speedway, and it was also raced earlier this season at Darlington Raceway.
- Three Years Ago… Randy Moss Motorsports made its NASCAR debut at Kentucky Speedway on July 3, 2008. NFL All-Pro wide receiver Randy Moss joined veteran team owner David Dollar, and the re-branded organization has recorded three wins and three poles since its inception. The team formerly known as Morgan-Dollar Motorsports was founded in 1998 and has competed full-time in the series since 1999.
- No Strangers to Victory Lane… Randy Moss Motorsports recorded a victory in the 2005 Kentucky NCWTS race with Dennis Setzer winning from the 18th starting position. The victory was the 11th of RMM’s 16 truck series wins.
- Watch and Listen… The UNOH 225 from Kentucky Speedway will be broadcast live on SPEED, MRN Radio and Sirius-XM NASCAR Radio, channel 90, on Thursday night. SPEED kicks off its pre-race coverage at 7:30 p.m. EDT, and MRN Radio will begin its live broadcast at 7:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 7. Thursday afternoon will also feature a tape-delayed broadcast of qualifying at 6:00 p.m. EDT on SPEED Channel.
Travis Kvapil on driving at Kentucky Speedway
“I haven’t raced at Kentucky Speedway since 2007, but I had the opportunity to participate in a Goodyear tire test there last month in the Cup car. The work that Bruton Smith has done to that place since he bought it is amazing. While the race track is the still the same, the facility has been upgraded and it will make for a better experience for the fans. As far as the race track, the track surface has definitely aged since I finished second there in 2007, and it’s got its own personality, developing some bumps along with the aging of the asphalt. The trucks are making a rare Thursday night appearance at a race track, but I expect that the fans will pack the place because it’s the inaugural Sprint Cup race and they’ll want to show their support of all the hard work that it took to get a Cup race there. I’m excited to race in both the Truck race on Thursday and the Cup race on Saturday, and I expect that the extra practice time on Thursday will be a benefit for us with our International Trucks/Monaco RVs Tundra come race time on Thursday night.”
Crew Chief Dan Stillman on racing at Kentucky Speedway
“Our intermediate track program is our strength right now, and if it weren’t for a last-lap incident at Texas we would have posted consecutive top-10 finishes. Kentucky Speedway is not your typical 1.5-mile track, and I don’t consider it a cookie-cutter race track. It doesn’t have as much banking in the corners as the other mile-and-a-half tracks, so you need to set the truck up with a focus on getting into the turns. We’ve spent the past few weeks since the last race at Texas running simulations with this truck on the seven-post shaker, and I expect that we’ll see some additional gains this week at Kentucky.”