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Setzer Ready for Halloween Showdown in Texas Friday Night
10-28-2008 | Martinsville,VA

No. 18 Carter County Dodge Fast Facts

Dennis Setzer

Texas Motor Speedway – NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Chevy Silverado 350K - 147 laps

220.5 miles on a 1.5 Mile Oval

Qualifying: 7:00PM ET October 30th

Race Start: 8:00PM ET October 31st

Broadcast Live on Speed

and Notes:

v The North Carolina native will be making his 22nd NASCAR start at Texas Motor Speedway. He has one Nationwide and 20 previous NCTS starts at the 1.5-mile oval. He has scored two victories (1999 & 2004), six top-five and 12 top-10 finishes in those trucks starts.

v The NCTS raced on Halloween night in 2003 at Phoenix International Raceway. Setzer finished third followed by Bobby Hamilton Sr. in fifth in the next-to-last race that season.

v Setzer has scored nine consecutive top-10 starting spots in the last nine events.

v Setzer will pilot "NITRO" on Halloween night. He drove this particular chassis at Texas and Michigan in June, Kentucky in July, Nashville in August and Las Vegas this past September.

v The No. 18 Dodge will be showcasing the Carter County Dodge paint scheme during the Texas show down. The Carter County Dodge was the outstanding sales performer selling more Dodge vehicles than all the surrounding dealerships, thus winning the prize to sponsor Setzer's No. 18 Dodge Ram at TMS this weekend.

Setzer on his favorite childhood Halloween costume? "When I was young to go trick or treating you wore homemade costumes. They didn’t really have that many to choose from in the store so we normally just made something out of what we already had. Instead of seeing Superman and Power Rangers you saw more cowboys and police men. I do remember my favorite costume my son, Brandon, wore though. He dressed up as Bill Elliott one year. He wore a costume that was a replica of his McDonald fire suit. He had the suit, the gloves and the helmet. Bill (Elliott) is such a class-act kind of guy that I thought it was neat my son chose him for his costume."


Setzer on the scariest moment in your racing career? "The crazy thing is that it’s really not that scary while it happens. Everything transpires so fast on the track you don’t have time to stop and think, "This is going to hurt" before you hit the wall or another truck. In fact I’ve never found myself frightened before a race or even while a wreck is in progress. However, after it is all over and I am sitting there looking at a mangled truck or a scratched helmet, that is when I realized how bad it could’ve been. As a race car driver we tend to put all those scary moments in the back of our head and hope they don’t revisit us anytime soon."

 

Dennis Setzer Career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Stats

Career NCTS Starts: 264 * NCTS Wins: 18 * NCTS Pole: 4 *

NCTS Top five finishes: 77 * Top 10 finishes: 147

 

2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Stats

NCTS Starts: 22 NCTS Wins: 1 NCTS Pole: 1 NCTS Top five finishes: 4

NCTS Top 10 finishes: 7 Laps Led: 171 Laps Completed: 3556/3648

Average Starting Position: 12.8 Average Finishing Position: 13.35

 

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

August 20th Bristol Motor Speedway 8 8

Sept. 6th Gateway International Raceway 1 2

Sept. 13th New Hampshire Motor Speedway 10 16

Sept. 20th Las Vegas Motor Speedway 9 16

Oct. 4th Talladega Superspeedway 8 13

Oct. 18th Martinsville Speedway 6 2

Oct. 25th Atlanta Motor Speedway 9 19

 

2008 BHR No. 18 Team Roster

Position                           Name                                                       Position                                   Name

Front Tire Changer     Jonathon Ellis                                          Rear Tire Carrier                     Jason Everhart

Front Tire Carrier        Chris White                                                Gas Man                                  Lucas Nobbe

Jack Man                   John Reese                                                 Catch Can Man                            JR Hollar

Rear Tire Changer       Joseph Hull