08-18-2008 | Martinsville, VA
No. 18 Tahoe Smokeless Tobacco Dodge Fast Facts
Dennis Setzer
Bristol Motor Speedway – NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
O’Reilly 200 - 200 laps
106.6 miles on a .0533 Mile Oval
Qualifying: 4:15PM ET August 20th
Race Start: 7:30PM ET August 20th
Broadcast Live on Speed
News and Notes:v
The North Carolina native will be making his 14th NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start at Bristol Motor Speedway. He has one previous Sprint Cup, six Nationwide and six NASCAR Craftsman Truck series starts at the famed-concrete track. He has scored two top-five and two top-10 finishes in the truck series events.v
Bristol is the only short track where Setzer has not scored a victory. He has visited victory lane at Martinsville, Memphis, O’Reilly Raceway Park and Mansfield.v
Setzer will pilot "Viper" on Wednesday evening. This particular chassis raced at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, where Setzer scored a seventh-place finish. It also raced at Dover earlier in the summer. It is the newest chassis in the No. Tahoe 18 Dodge stable.v
Setzer and teammate Stacy Compton will sign autographs at the Food City Family Race Night on Thursday at 5:00p.m. until 7:00p.m. at the Tahoe Display. Come by and grab a sample of the latest Tahoe Smokeless Tobacco.Rock the Vote: Be sure to visit the truck series page on NASCAR.Com to vote Tahoe Driver Dennis Setzer the series’ Most Popular Driver. Click the Rock The Vote link and fill out the online ballot. Setzer won the MPD honor in 1999.
If you could be Mike Helton for a Day what would you change about the NCTS,
"It is kind of like being asked what you would do if you were President for a day. It is one thing to voice our opinions when we are not the ones doing it. If I was given the chance I don’t think I would want to be Mike Helton for a day. Those guys have a really hard job of directing our sport on both a competition and marketing level. It is easy for us as drivers, owners and fans to think we have the solutions to all the problems. Sometimes I think we do, but other times we are only looking at it from one angle. Their job is to look at it from all angles. We all have the same goal and that is to continue to grow the truck series. We have some teams who have lost funding or are unable to travel to all the races because the costs are so high in the economy now. I think those are the things we need to take a look at and how we can make this better on that angle. I just want to keep trucks on the track."Dennis Setzer Career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Stats
Career NCTS Starts: 257 * NCTS Wins: 18 * NCTS Pole: 3 *
NCTS Top five finishes: 75 * Top 10 finishes: 144
2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Stats
NCTS Starts: 14 NCTS Wins: 1 NCTS Pole: 0 NCTS Top five finishes: 2
NCTS Top 10 finishes: 4 Laps Led: 139 Laps Completed: 2423/2514
Average Starting Position: 15.4 Average Finishing Position: 14.8
2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Race Results
Date Venue Start Finish
Feb. 15 Daytona International Speedway 17 10
Feb. 23 California Speedway 13 16
March 7 Atlanta Motor Speedway 8 13
March 29 Martinsville Speedway 10 1
April 26 Kansas Speedway 20 25
May 16 Lowe’s Motor Speedway 28 7
May 24 Mansfield Motorsports Park 24 34
May 30 Dover International Speedway 30 18
June 6th Texas Motor Speedway 9 11
June 14th Michigan International Speedway 17 16
June 21st Milwaukee Mile 15 11
June 28th Memphis Motorsports Park 11 12
July 19th Kentucky Speedway 11 4
July 25th O’Reilly Raceway Park 10 26
August 9th Nashville Superspeedway 2 7