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Atlanta

 

Coming off of two top-ten finishes at the first two races of the season, Johnny Benson and the No. 23 team were looking to keep their streak going in Atlanta.


 

Benson, whose truck was adorned with the Exide batteries logo this weekend for the first time this season, would start the weekend off with a small delay.  With rain showers placing a halt on all activities until noon on Friday, Benson was forced to only one practice session.  Starting off a little slow in practice the No. 23 team quickly made many changes to the truck and by the end of the session, Benson had improved significantly.  He ended up fifth quickest during practice.

 

However after getting back to the garage Benson’s team realized a problem, which forced them to change engines.  Going into the late afternoon qualifying session Benson would attempt to qualify as the last truck out on the racetrack.  Running a stellar lap of 30.738 seconds at 180.363 mph, Benson would qualify his Exide machine in the third position.

 

As the green flag would drop for the 130 lap race, Benson would have to start from the tail end of the longest line, due to his motor change earlier in the day.  That however, would have no effect on Benson charging through the field.  Picking off positions one by one, Benson would soon find himself within the top-ten by lap 30.

 

Soon thereafter though Benson would run into some unfortunate luck, without power by lap 33 Benson would have to come to pit road under green to assess what was wrong with his truck.  The No. 23 team jumped onto pit road and raised the adorned hood of the Exide machine.  With flames flying everywhere, the team soon realized it was the carburetors that were on fire.  Putting out the fire and changing carburetors fast, the No. 23 Exide Toyota Tundra would soon come back on the racetrack by lap 50.  

 

Fighting to gain positions for the rest of the night due to being 16 laps down, Benson would drive hard and salvage a 28th place finish as the checkered flag fell over the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series field.

 

Johnny Benson will be sporting a green machine in two weeks at Martinsville Speedway.  He will be representing Team Green with 360 OTC adorning the sides of his truck in a few weeks.  The race will be televised live Saturday, March 31st on Fox.

 

 

NOTES:

  • This week’s race truck for the Atlanta Motor Speedway is Chassis No. 23-73.  This is the same chassis the No. 23 team ran with at California Speedway a few weeks ago.  Benson and crew were very pleased with the progress and success made with this chassis, therefore they will give it another go this weekend in Atlanta.
  • Back in Blue… Bill Davis Racing is pleased to announce that EXIDE, the leader in consumer batteries, has come on board once again as a sponsor of the No. 23 Toyota Tundra.  EXIDE’s logos will adorn the hood and sides of the No. 23 Toyota Tundra this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
  • Fast Facts… In Benson’s NEXTEL Cup debut in 1996, he won the pole in just his fourth start in Chuck Rider’s No. 30 Pennzoil Pontiac at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.  Benson also won the Busch Light 300 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in the Busch Series in 1995 racing in Bill Baumgardner’s Lipton Tea Chevrolet, he then went on to win the Busch Series Championship that year as well.
  • Testing News... Benson and his No. 23 race team, along with BDR teammate Tyler Walker, spent last Friday making laps and gaining insight while testing at Rockingham Motor Speedway.
  • Listen and watch … The American Commercial Lines 200 is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET Friday, March 16.  It will broadcast live on Speed Channel (TV), MRN (radio) and Sirius Satellite Radio (Ch. 128)

 

Johnny Benson’s Racing Quotes:

Johnny Benson on racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway:

I really enjoy Atlanta Motor Speedway.  It's one of the fastest tracks on the schedule, and it takes a very well-balanced race truck to run around it wide open for any sustained length of time.  We will be running the same chassis as we ran in California two weeks ago, and I was very happy with the outcome of it then.  It seemed to handle very well once we figured out the kinks, so hopefully it will produce good results at Atlanta as well.”

 

“We have Exide batteries serving as our primary sponsor this weekend for the first time this season and I am very excited to have them back on board with us again this year.  We are looking forward to putting on a great show for them as well as the fans this weekend in Atlanta.”

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