John Wes Townley: Red Horse Racing Kansas Speedway Team Advance

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KEEP ON TRUCKIN’: For the third consecutive week, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will put on some of the best racing on the circuit. Red Horse Racing will take over Kansas Speedway for the series first visit to a 1.5-mile venue this season. This will be the second visit for John Wes Townley to the D-shaped oval in his Zaxby’s Toyota Tundra. The driver collected a 16th-place finish last spring in the 167-lap event and is anxious to showcase his talent during the SFP 250.

 

In addition to his Truck Series stats, Townley has two ARCA Racing series starts at the track and was found leading the ARCA Racing series race last season after his third place qualifying attempt.

 

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CHASSIS HISTORY: Chassis No. 085 will battle this weekend at Kansas with John Wes Townley and his No. 7 Zaxby’s Tundra team. Chassis 085 saw action at four tracks in 2012 including Chicagoland Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway. During the off season, the chassis was rebuilt to prepare for 2013.

 

REARVIEW MIRROR – ROCKINGHAM: John Wes Townley and his No.7 Zaxby’s Toyota Tundra earned the top finishing position for the Red Horse Racing stable. The young driver started the 200-lap race from the 26th position and raced a free Tundra for most of the race. With some great coaching by crew chief, Mike Beam and Spotter Chris Lambert, Townley was able to fight his way to the front and collect an 11th place finish.

 

The 11th place finish is the highest finish this season for the team and Townley’s third highest Truck Series finish, which bodes well for constant improvement over the rest of the year.

 

John Wes Townley talks about Kansas Speedway:

This is the first 1.5-mile track of the season. How do you feel going to Kansas?

“I love the 1.5-mile track program. These are the type of tracks that I’ve worked up to from racing late models. Racing on the 1.5-mile tracks makes you feel like you’ve finally made it to the big leagues. Especially at a place like Kansas. With the recent repave it’s going to be really fast. I love when a track gets repaved and you can go full throttle.

 

After three races, how do you feel about your season so far with Red Horse Racing?

“I feel great. We are coming into Kansas with some momentum from our 11th place finish at Rockingham. I feel proud of that finish but am eager for more. Looking forward to Kansas to see what we can do with our Zaxby’s Toyota Tundra.”

RHR PR

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