May 26, 2003

Dover International Speedway is the next obstacle for Chad Chaffin

MBNA American 200
May 30, 2003
Dover International Speedway
TV: SPEED (Live) 4:30 PM-Eastern Time
Radio: MRN (Live) 4:30 PM-Eastern Time

2003 points standing after 5 of 25 races
Position Driver Points
1st Bobby Hamilton 821
2nd Rick Crawford 801
3rd Ted Musgrave 771
4th Brendan Gaughan 764
5th Dennis Setzer 729
11th Chad Chaffin 612
14th Bill Lester 584

Chad Chaffin Profile
Birthdate - July 20, 1968
Birthplace - McMinnville, Tennessee
Wife - Cindy
Children - Brooke, Chase, Chaz
Residence - Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Other Interest - Owner of South Eastern
Recycling in Nashville,
Tennessee.

NASCAR Truck Series Career Statistics Year-By-Year
Years Starts Wins Top 5's Top 10's Money
2000 3 0 1 1 $ 33,635
2001 2 0 1 1 23,215
2002 2 0 0 0 13,375
2003 5 0 1 2 45,795
Totals 12 0 3 4 $ 116,020

Career Best Start:
6th @ Daytona Intl. Speedway 2-14-03
Career Best Finish: 3rd @ Nashville Speedway USA 8-12-00
Career Largest Purse:  $17,725 @ Nashville Speedway USA 8-12-00

Topics of Interest

Performance Record: Lowe's Motor Speedway
Busch Series (Three starts with a career best finish of the 27th position)

No. 18 Team History: Year Start Finish Driver
2002 9 2 Robert Pressley
2001 4 8 Joe Ruttman
2000 14 17 Joe Ruttman

Crew Chief and Family Involved in an Accident: Randy Seals, crew chief on the No. 18 Dickies Dodge, and his family were involved in a serious accident on Saturday, May 17, 2003, following the event in Charlotte. Seals' wife, Leah, and their three children, Ryne, Kendall, and Emily, were all in the vehicle at the time of the accident. Each sustained non-life threatening injuries with Seals's son, Ryne, suffering the most serious injury, a broken back.

"It's going to take him (Ryne) a little time to recover, but everything should be ok. He's a pretty tough boy," said Seals. "My family and I are very lucky. It was just a bad accident that we can blame on the rainy weather."

Just Outside of the Top Ten: Chad Chaffin and the No. 18 BHR Dickies Team dug themselves into a little bit of a hole in the points, but with one-fifth of the season completed, they are slowly working their way back out. They had fallen back to 13th place in the overall driver points standings, but after last week's eighth place finish, they are a mere five points out of the top ten and only 117 points out of fifth place in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points standings.

"I think we're back on track after last week's run," said Chaffin. "We ran a fairly clean race for the first time all year. We didn't have a flat tire or crash of fuel or anything else go wrong. The guys on the team are working great together so that's never been a worry, but we just had a little bad racing luck that got us behind. Now we think we've got that turned around, so we have no way to go but up."

Laps Lead: Chaffin is currently fifth in laps led in the series after five races. The top five leaders are as follows: Ted Musgrave 179, Dennis Setzer 165, Bobby Hamilton 143, Kevin Harvick 96, and Chad Chaffin 81.
"We've been up front trying to get the five bonus points for leading a lap, and in two of the three races, we've done that, but we're going to lead a bunch more laps before the season is over," said Chaffin.

Appearances: While in Dover, Delaware, Chaffin will be making an appearance at the Dover Air Force base, with several other drivers, to sign autographs for the family members of troops that are stationed overseas.
"I'm looking forward to the time we'll get to spend with everyone," said Chaffin. "I'm sure we're going to have a great time at the base."


Chaffin's 2003 Craftsman Truck Series Event Results
Location Start Finish Laps Status Money
Daytona 6 17 103 of 106 Running $ 13,015
Darlington 7 5 147 of 147 Running 9,175
Bakersfield 27 20 253 of 255 Running 5,665
Martinsville 23 26 245 of 250 Out of Gas 6,865
Charlotte 10 8 136 of 136 Running 11,075
Dover (Next Event)

2003 Totals
Starts - 5
Poles - 0
Wins - 0
Top fives - 1
Top tens - 2
Earnings - $ 45,795
Laps Completed - 884 of 894 (98.8%)
Laps Led - 81 of 894
Races Led - 2 of 5
DNF's - 1

This Week's Truck: Chaffin will be racing "Angel" at Dover International Speedway again this week. Last week at Lowes Motor Speedway, he recorded his second top ten finish of the second with Angel. Counting Dover, Chaffin will have run Angel in half of the events so far this season.

Performance Chart: Angel
2001 finishes: one win, three top fives, and eight top tens in 11 starts.
(Last 15 races)
DATE RACE START FINISH DRIVER
4-13-02 Martinsville 17 14 Robert Pressley
5-5-02 St. Louis 7 31 Robert Pressley
5-19-02 Pikes Peak 10 30 Robert Pressley
6-22-02 Memphis 7 12 Robert Pressley
7-6-02 Kansas 7 7 Robert Pressley
7-13-02 Kentucky 13 3 Robert Pressley
7-27-02 Michigan 8 1 Robert Pressley
8-2-01 IRP 4 5 Robert Pressley
8-10-02 Nashville 4 9 Robert Pressley
9-5-02 Richmond 11 15 Robert Pressley
10-13-02 Las Vegas 15 7 Robert Pressley
11-2-02 California 5 7 Robert Pressley
11-8-02 Phoenix 10 14 Robert Pressley
11-15-02 Homestead 33 4 Robert Pressley
3-23-03 Bakersfield 27 20 Chad Chaffin
5-16-03 Charlotte 10 8 Chad Chaffin

Chaffin Quotes

"Dover is just Dover to me. It's fast and fun to drive. I think I started ninth here the first time I ran the track, but my finish was pretty bad. I always had something break on the cars every time I was up here, but it's a great place to have fun racing. It's definitely one of the tracks on the schedule that lends itself to tough racing."

"It will be good to start getting a few races under our belt starting this week. This is the stretch of the season where we'll see what kind of team everyone has. The good teams are going to rise to the top of the points, and the others will fall by the wayside. This next ten weeks will determine a lot of how the season will turn out."

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