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Hey UPS Racing Fans,

Pocono is behind us and we’re heading to Michigan this weekend. Michigan is always a fun track to go to. It’s a wide, fast track with plenty of opportunities to pass. Last year we had two top-10 finishes there and I really hope we can pull off a repeat performance this year. Plus, it’s the hometown of Roush Industries and Ford.

Tomorrow is a busy day for me up in Michigan. Most the day I’m at Ford World Headquarters to meet with the employees and just for some general meetings about Ford. Then we are off to the Ford Proving Grounds to test drive some vehicles. Thursday evening I’ll be at Roush Industries signing autographs. All of us Roush drivers go there once a year, either at the spring or fall race, to sign autographs for our Michigan fans. It’s a busy day, but it will be fun.

This week I’ve been in Sonoma testing. Road courses haven’t been my strongest tracks in the past, so extra time at them is very valuable. Last week we were at Road Atlanta too…we’ve been testing a bunch lately. I’m ready to head back to Sonoma for the race. Getting to the west coast isn’t fun, but once you’re there it’s a pretty cool place to visit. We are going out early to do a media event with the track on Wednesday and then Thursday I might have some free time to explore around San Francisco. It’s wine country there, but that’s not really what I want to do. We stay right near San Francisco, so I’d rather head that way and see what I can find.         

-David

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Hey UPS Racing Fans,

Well, it was nice to be home in Charlotte for two weeks, but now it’s back to a normal schedule for us…well, kind of, as normal as our schedule ever gets. Rain at the track is never a fun thing and made for a long weekend in Charlotte for what’s already the longest race we run all year. Our UPS Ford was decent and I think we could have gotten a much better finish if the rain hadn’t come. There isn’t much we can do about that and we’ll just hope for a better run this weekend. We desperately need points and that will be the goal; getting solid finishes and points racing. 

I’ve been out at Pikes Peak in Colorado Monday and Tuesday this week testing and flew straight to Dover. I’m excited for Dover this weekend, we’re back to a normal race weekend and it’ll be a busy one since I’m running both the Nationwide and Cup races. Roush Fenway has always been strong at Dover in the past and I hope to be up front at the end and competing for a win. Hopefully this is the week things will turn around for us.

Let me know if any of you have special memories about the races in Dover.

-David

 

 

David at UPS Freight

Hey race fans,

Well we had a good run last weekend in Talladega and we’re really excited to race in Richmond this weekend. Richmond is one of my favorite tracks. We got one of my first top 10s here in my rookie season and I’ve had some good finishes in the Nationwide car there too.

Richmond is a fun race for not just the drivers but also the fans to be able to kind of sit right on top of the action and really get to see a great race. And Saturday night races are a lot of fun for all of us and something we get a kick out of to race under the lights.

We’re running the UPS Freight colors on our car this weekend, and when we found out over a month ago that we were going to have a special paint scheme on the car, that certainly got everyone excited in our shop. To have UPS Freight silver colors on our Ford for the weekend is truly special. It’s awesome to represent all the employees across the U.S. that make UPS and UPS Freight what it is. We’re certainly excited to sport those colors this weekend. It means a lot to us.

We haven’t exactly had the season to date that we’ve wanted, but we’ve had a couple of engine failures and some bad luck so we’ve dug ourselves a hole. We made up a few points last weekend with a good run and stayed in the top 10 most of the race but didn’t get the finish we wanted.

Coming to Richmond, we’re really positive and there’s absolutely no reason that we can’t qualify in the top 10 and get the win with the UPS Freight car this weekend.

We’ll see you at the track.

-David

Hey UPS Racing Fans,

During our off week from the Cup Series last week, I went to Nashville and raced in my Nationwide car. Nashville was a pretty good race for us, besides the penalty we had on pit road. We qualified well and ran up front all day; it was a solid top-10 finish. The weather was kind of crazy out there. Tornadoes touched down right near the track, and so NASCAR evacuated the garage and made us all go to the media center for safety. That’s the first time I’ve experienced that at a track!

Today I’m heading out to Phoenix a day early for some Discount Tire appearances. Phoenix is their headquarters so we’ll visit them and do some other stuff while we are out there in Arizona. Phoenix is a really fun track to race at, but at the same time, it’s really hard to get your car set up to handle well. Both corners are very different, so you have to compromise a little on the set up to get it so you can drive fast in both corners. The weather looks pretty nice for our trip this week and Saturday night races are always fun.  

Besides the racing stuff I don’t have too much going on. Last week we were up in New Hampshire for a Goodyear tire test (it was cold and rainy) and I’ve actually got a few more tests coming up towards the end of the month. I just can’t believe we are halfway through April already. We’ve got some good tracks coming up and we really need to make up some points. 

David

Hi Guys,

We’re here in Bristol after an off weekend last week. It seems like forever since we were in Atlanta just a few weeks ago. We had a busy off week. We went and tested for Martinsville. It rained here in North Carolina all weekend, so we didn’t get to do any sort of outside activity. I was able to go home to Unadilla for a couple of days after the Atlanta race, so that was good to catch up with family and friends.

But Bristol is on our minds this weekend. We’ve got a good car that we brought here. We finished 10^th in the last race here last year and it would be really good to have a top-10 or top-five finish this weekend and get some of our points back. But ultimately you never know what can happen in Bristol. You could be up running in fourth and something could happen right up in front of you and you could end up taking the win. We just need to put ourselves in a position to win.

But Bristol is always a fun race. It’s 500 laps so it’s a really long race. It’s good for the fans and all of the drivers really have a fun time at this race. There’s not rain in the schedule so we’re hoping for a good solid and dry weekend. We’re running the Nationwide race too, so that will be a good warm-up for Sunday’s race.

Be sure to tune into the race and thanks for checking out the website.

- David