“Sonoma is still pretty new to me. I’ve only raced there once. I’ve been to Watkins Glen a handful of times, so I’m a little more comfortable on that one. But, I definitely got more and more comfortable and faster as the weekend went on last year at Sonoma. I love the road courses and I think they’re a great equalizer for smaller teams like ours. It takes a lot of the aero side out of it. It just depends on how good of a car you can put together and how good the driver can hit his marks, be smooth and put a good race together. We’ll have a new sponsor with us at Sonoma — Uponor — so I’m excited to go back there and see if I can improve from where I was last year.”
JUST THE FACTS: Whitt has one prior Sprint Cup career start at Sonoma Raceway, finishing 27th last season … Uponor joins the No. 35 team as primary sponsor for the road course race … Uponor is an award-winning provider of plumbing, fire safety, radiant heating/cooling, hydronic piping and pre-insulated piping systems for residential and commercial applications.
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