NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owner Bobby Hamilton will make NASCAR history at Phoenix International Raceway during the November 11 Chevy Silverado 150. Hamilton will field entries for Deborah Renshaw (under his umbrella at BHR2) and Erin Crocker (driving the No. 4 Dodge), becoming the first owner in NASCAR history to field entries driven by TWO female drivers in the same race.

What an Accomplishment: “That is a pretty big deal and it’s a neat statistic actually because I was one of the originators of the diversity program.  I had Willie to start off with and Bill Lester and we worked real close with NASCAR on that.  I feel like I’ve been a part of it the whole time.  I just thought it was somebody else’s turn for a while, then Deborah come along.  She’s local [from the Nashville, Tenn., area] and it’s worked out real well and she’s been a blast to work with. We tested Erin the other day at Nashville and she just told them what she wanted to do with the truck.  She is a sharp cookie and knows exactly what she’s doing and I think Ray wants to give her some more seat time to teach her how to race a little better.  She’s going to be pretty good.”

Evaluate Your Season: “Our season has been a little off, but I knew it would be.  We won the championship last year and we were a very good race team.  We’re still a very good race team but we knew that we were getting caught up with last year, so we had to go out on a limb this year as a building year.  We needed to try to upgrade our stuff and we stumbled on some good things and hurt ourselves on some others.  The engineers and crew chiefs kept their eye on it and said they could always go back and say, ‘No that hurt us the next two races and let’s do this.’  It’s been somewhat of an R&D season for us but it’s going to have us in great alignment for next year.”

Driving the TECH NET/Law Enforcement Torch Run Dodge: "This will be the last race for the TECH NET/Law Enforcement Torch Run Dodge. It has been a great program and I want to thank all the folks at the all the TECH NET Auto Service locations across North America. We were able to raise some funds for the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics through a die cast program and we won a race in Mansfield with them on the truck so we have had some fun with the TECH NET program this year." 

Event:  Chevy Silverado 150 (150 laps)
Location: Phoenix International Raceway (1-Mile Oval)
Qualifying:      November 11th 12:00 PM EDT
Race Start: November 11th 8:00 PM EDT Live on Speed

Notes:
• Hamilton will be racing Beavis in Phoenix.  This is the third time that Hamilton has raced this particular truck this year.   
• Timothy Peters has raced this same truck several times this season.
• The Tennessee native finished seventh after passing three wide in one of the turns last year at Phoenix International Raceway.  He qualified his Dodge in the eighth spot.