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track primer schedule Fri., March 9

Gatorade Pole Day Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying Start Time: 3:15 p.m. (MST) Television/Radio: FOX Sports 1 / MRN/SiriusXM 2017 Pole Winner: Joey Logano

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DC Solar 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series – Race No. 4 Start Time: 1:00 p.m. (MST) Television/Radio: FOX / MRN/Sirius XM 2017 Winner: Justin Allgaier

ISM Raceway is a 1-mile track.

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▶ ▶ Expect the unique configuration of the 1-mile ISM Raceway track to once again produce some of NASCAR’s most intense racing. Kevin Harvick is the undisputed favorite after winning four of the last eight races here.

If Harvick doesn’t find his way to Victory Lane in his Ford, expect a Chevrolet driver to score the win. The manufacturer has dominated in the spring race at Phoenix with eight wins in 13 years.

▶▶ Kevin Harvick sits atop the list of winners at ISM Raceway with eight. Seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson has four victories at the desert oval.

race rewind ▶▶ Ryan Newman was the unexpected winner of the fourth race of the 2017 season after a late caution flag gave his No. 31 Richard Childress Racing team the opportunity to break a drought that stretched back to 2013.

TicketGuardian 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series – Race No. 4 Start Time: 12:30 p.m. (MST) Television/Radio: FOX / MRN/SiriusXM 2017 Winner: Ryan Newman

track facts LENGTH: 1 MILE (312 LAPS = 312 MILES/500 KILOMETERS) BACKSTRETCH: 1,551 FEET FRONTSTRETCH: 1,179 FEET BANKING IN TURNS 1 AND 2: 11 DEGREES BANKING IN TURNS 3 AND 4: 9 DEGREES FIRST RACE: NOV. 6, 1988 – CHECKER 500 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES QUALIFYING RECORD: JIMMIE JOHNSON, NOV. 15, 2015, 143.158 MPH RACE RECORD: TONY STEWART, NOV. 7, 1999, 118.132 MPH

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Kevin Harvick leads all drivers in wins at Phoenix with eight.

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Will ‘Happy’ Season Continue?

Kevin Harvick Will Look to Collect Another West Coast Win

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side from the Daytona 500, the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season has been the season of Kevin Harvick.

But will Harvick, whose nickname is “Happy,” remain red-hot this weekend in the Valley of the Sun? First, the good news for Harvick fans: The

2014 series champion leads all drivers in wins at Phoenix, having gone to Victory Lane a record eight times at the 1-mile track.

Now, the good news for everyone else: It has been four races since Harvick’s most recent win at Phoenix — which as of 2018 was officially renamed ISM Raceway. That means three drivers have won at the track since Harvick last did.

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Martin Truex Jr. isn’t concerned about Kevin Harvick’s hot start.

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Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway, respectively.

So perhaps more worrisome for Harvick’s competition than his record at Phoenix is the fact that he’s been handsdown the top driver of 2018 and was far ahead of the competition last Sunday in Sin City.

At last some of his competitors are taking solace in knowing that the season is

merely three races old — and a lot can, and inevitably will, change before a champion is crowed at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November.

“It’s early,” said Kyle Busch, after finishing a distant runner-up to Harvick last weekend at Las Vegas. “This is only Race 3 — we aren’t worried yet. Show me that [in] race 26 through 36.”

Reigning series champion Martin Truex Jr., likewise, is

quick to dispel the notion that Harvick’s early-season performance is cause for concern.

“It’s a marathon and it’s a grind,” Truex said. “Honestly, it really [only] matters where you’re at when those last 10 races start, and I’ve learned that over the past few years.

Obviously, you want to run good, be consistent and get stage points and all those things, but just being

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As for Harvick, well, he plans to keep his early-season success going for as long as he possibly can. And, at least historically-speaking, Phoenix seems like a pretty good place for him to do just that.

“I’m just fortunate to be riding the wave,” said Harvick, who in December celebrated his 42nd birthday.

“You can call me old, you can call us old, but cars are fast, and things are going well.”

Well enough for the rest of the Monster Energy Series garage to sit up and take notice. Even if they’re not willing to concede defeat this weekend or any other weekend.

“Two weeks in a row, they have had some things figured out,” driver Kasey Kahne said of Harvick and his No. 4 team. “They are on a roll right now. I thought they were at the end of last year. I thought they were really rolling.

Kasey Kahne believes Kevin Harvick has carried over momentum from the end of last season.

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They have carried that over and probably even gained a little more.”

Harvick, for his part, believes the credit for his stellar start to 2018 belongs somewhere other than himself.

“As you look at the last two weeks and our 1.5mile program in general, it has been really good since I started here at SHR [in 2014],” Harvick said after

leading 214 of 267 laps and sweeping all three stages at Las Vegas. “They put a lot of effort into everything we do from every standpoint to get these cars going like they are. I have to thank everyone from Stewart-Haas Racing.

[Co-owners] Gene [Haas] and Tony [Stewart], it is fun to have them here when we win.

Everybody who helps put this thing on the racetrack, we couldn’t do it without them.”

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▶▶ Kevin Harvick has captured the last two races in convincing fashion and now heads to a track where he’s the Monster Energy Series’ all-time wins leader. This doesn’t at all bode well for the competition. ▶▶ One driver who could pose a challenge for Kevin Harvick at Phoenix is defending spring race winner Ryan Newman. Then again, with a best finish of eighth in three races, Newman hasn’t exactly set the woods on fire in 2018. ▶▶ Martin Truex Jr. finished a Phoenix career-best third last fall, but continues to search for his first victory at the 1-mile desert track. Sunday could be the reigning series champion’s time to get it done. ▶▶ Substituting for Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Phoenix in November 2016, Alex Bowman turned heads with a stellar performance and sixth-place finish.

Now the full-time driver of the No. 88, Bowman has a golden opportunity to shine. ▶▶ Ryan Blaney started from the pole at Las Vegas and was the highestfinishing Team Penske driver with his fifth-place result. Expect the thirdgeneration driver to be fast, again, this weekend in the Valley of the Sun.

preview predictions Driver To Beat: Kevin Harvick Team To Beat: Stewart-Haas Racing Sleeper: Alex Bowman

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2018 nascar series standings monster energy nascar cup series no. Driver

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Pts. Wins

Kevin Harvick 135 Austin Dillon 94 Joey Logano 132 Ryan Blaney 131 Martin Truex Jr. 115 Kyle Busch 104 Kyle Larson

104 Brad Keselowski 99 Denny Hamlin 97 Paul Menard 96 Clint Bowyer 93 Aric Almirola 93 Kurt Busch

77 Ryan Newman 75 Darrell Wallace Jr. 68 Chris Buescher 67 Alex Bowman 67 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 66 Erik Jone 64 Michael McDowell 53 Chase Elliott 52 Trevor Bayne 50 AJ Allmendinger 43 William Byron 43 Jamie McMurray 42 David Ragan 39 Daniel Suarez 38 Kasey Kahne 37 Jimmie Johnson 36 Matt DiBenedetto 31 Jeffrey Earnhardt 25 Ty Dillon 25 Gray Gaulding 22 Cole Whitt 18 Mark Thompson 15 D.J. Kennington 13 Brendan Gaughan 9 Harrison Rhodes 4 Danica Patrick 2 Corey LaJoie 1

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Tyler Reddick 123 Elliott Sadler 123 Christopher Bell 100 Justin Allgaier 95 Spencer Gallagher 89 Ryan Reed

88 Brandon Jones 86 Ryan Truex

85 Daniel Hemric 84 Matt Tifft 69 Kaz Grala 68 Ross Chastain 68 Cole Custer

63 Garrett Smithley 58 Alex Labbe

52 Michael Annett 46 Jeremy Clements 46 Josh Williams 44 Austin Cindric 41 Ryan Sieg 39 Vinnie Miller 36 Stephen Leicht 34 Joey Gase 32 David Starr

31 Jeff Green 28 Dylan Lupton 27 J.J. Yeley 21 Spencer Boyd 21 Chad Finchum 16 Kyle Benjamin 34 John H. Nemechek 33 Caesar Bacarella 24 Chase Briscoe 22 B.J. McLeod

18 Tommy Joe Martins 16 Matt Mill 11 Josh Bilicki 9 Ryan Ellis 7 Timmy Hill 7 Mike Harmon 6

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Stewart Friesen Spencer Davis Dalton Sargeant Matt Crafton Myatt Snider Cody Coughlin Justin Fontaine Austin Hill Justin Haley

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hall of fame spotlight: ken squier

Hall of Fame Spotlight: Ken Squier

By Keith Waltz

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here are a handful of NASCAR legends who achieved iconic status without risking their lives at every turn.

Broadcaster Ken Squier is among that select group.

Born April 10, 1935, Squier’s family owned and operated radio station WDEV in Waterbury, Vermont.

“My dad used to work the fairs with the harness racing and the bigger fairs

Ken Squire during his NASCAR Hall of Fame induction speech.

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would have sprint car racing on the weekends,” Squier said about his introduction to auto racing. “That was pretty exciting stuff for a kid – and I never grew up.”

After trying his hand at racing a stock car, Squier began working local races as a public address announcer. He was eventually hired by the France family to assemble a radio network – Motor Racing Network – to broadcast many of the phoenix preview: march 8, 2018

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As sports television expanded during the 1970s, the networks became interested in racing and they needed announcers familiar with the sport, so Squier transitioned from radio to TV. While working as a reporter for “CBS Sports Spectacular,” Squier brought forward the idea of televising the Daytona 500 live from flag to flag. CBS executives eventually signed on and Squier’s call of the

NASCAR Hall of Famers 1979 race forever Ken Squire and Richard changed the sport.

Petty. (Photo by John Squier continued Harrelson/Getty Images via NASCAR) to anchor CBS’ NASCAR coverage – including the Daytona 500 – until 1997 and he served as the program’s host until 2000.

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driver profile Ryan Ellis returned to racing in the XFINITY Series season-opener at Daytona. (Photo by Getty Images for NASCAR)

A Return to Racing Ryan Ellis Gets Another Chance at NASCAR Career

By Joseph Wolkin

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fter Ryan Ellis stepped away from trying to race full-time, he never knew whether or not the opportunity to compete in NASCAR would ever come back. But thanks to BJ McLeod Motorsports, he was able to run the XFINITY Series season-opener at Daytona International Speedway and hopes there is more to come.

What was it like to get back in a racecar?

“It’s different just because you’re at Daytona and there’s so much unknown.

A lot of other tracks, you’re working on set-up and a lot of debrief. It’s cool to be back in a car. It wasn’t nearly as tough as I thought it would be. I think if I did it at Martinsville, Darlington, Bristol or Dover, it would’ve been a lot harder to get acclimated.”

After becoming Matt DiBenedetto’s PR rep, did you ever think you’d have a shot to race again?

“Every time you get out of the car, you never know if you’re going to get back in.

I always treated it like that. Every time after that was a surprise. This came up at the end of last year with Densify. Even this one, I don’t even know if I’m ever going to race again. I’m going to treat it like my last one. But I’m going to do everything I can to make sure it’s not my last race.” phoenix preview: march 8, 2018

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crew member spotlight Chris Minton is a transporter driver for Team Penske. Courtesy Photo

Travelin’ Man Minton Keeps Team Penske Moving

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hris Minton, transporter driver for Team Penske and driver Brad Keselowski, has fond memories of growing up around a couple of North Carolina’s most storied short tracks. He remembers how he fell in love with stock car racing by joining his family for what was a closing chapter of NASCAR history.

“My first Cup race was at North Wilkesboro Speedway when I was real little,” Minton said. “I stood on my Dad’s shoulders and watched them race during the last Cup event there in 1997. My father

was a spotter at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston Salem, N.C., and I also worked there as a spotter as well before my driving began.”

Minton started his racing career by working in the pits at local dirt and asphalt tracks. He applied for a position at Team Penske in 2016 and began as an intern with aspirations of learning how to drive transporters. He studied hard, received his license, and joined the Penske operation fulltime in October of 2016.

His job is to co-drive to all 36 Cup series events in 2018 and keep the transporter in top shape when in the garage.

“We drive as a team the whole time,” Minton said. “We can work a total of 14 hours but can’t drive but 11 hours. At the track, I handle the ice coolers and clean and vacuum. And when the guys need something, they will find the truck drivers, which is myself or Mike Williams.” phoenix preview: march 8, 2018

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“Driving means the world to me. I wouldn’t do it for anyone else for sure. Everyone knows everyone within the Penske organization from the top to the bottom. I love the atmosphere, the team work and all the guys. They are an awesome organization to work for.”

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Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John’s Ford, celebrates with the trophy during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

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NASCAR’s West Coast Natives Tame The #NASCARGoesWest Tracks March 5, 2018

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evin Harvick’s dominating victory in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was head-turning in its standard of excellence. For NASCAR West Coasters like the Californian Harvick, winning on NASCAR’s Western Swing has become a particular source of pride.

And statistics show, winning happens a lot for

the West Coasters on the sport’s Western Swing.

This week’s top-three finishers at Vegas, for example, all hail from the region. In addition to Harvick, from Bakersfield, Calif., runner-up Kyle Busch is a Las Vegas native and third-place finisher Kyle Larson is from Elk Grove, Calif.

Five Monster Energy NASCAR Cup drivers from the West – Harvick, Busch, Larson, Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch account for 33 wins at the three #NASCARGoesWest tracks – Las Vegas, ISM Raceway in Phoenix, and Auto Club Speedway in California.

Add another six wins – covering all three venues – if you count in California native, retired Cup champion Jeff Gordon’s work there.

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spotlight won yet on the Western Swing, but did earn the pole position at ISM Raceway in 2010 and has two top-10 starts in his last four Auto Club Speedway races. And Phoenix native, Alex Bowman won the pole position at his hometown track in 2016 driving for the injured Dale Earnhardt Jr. With a pair of trophies in three races already this season, Harvick is riding a huge swell of momentum into this week’s TicketGuardian 500 (3:30 ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM) at ISM Raceway. It is a venue where he has already produced a careerhighlight mark on his resume.

He has a series-best eight wins at ISM Raceway and 19-top-10s in 30 starts. He won five of six races between 20132016, finishing runner-up in the only race during that stretch that he didn’t win. He hasn’t finished worse than sixth in the last nine ISM Raceway races.

For Harvick, spending time out West is something he particularly looks forward to and this year he’s doing

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something he’s never done before – competing in a NASCAR K&N West Series race at Kern County Raceway in his native Bakersfield.

“To be brutally honest with you I am looking forward to going to race the K&N car more than any of them next Thursday - not because I don’t enjoy what I do here, but because I have never raced at Kern County Raceway in my hometown,” Harvick said last weekend in Las Vegas.

“I like coming to all three of these races because I get to see so many fans and friends.

The race of the three weeks

that we are out here, the four that I am going to race, the one I am looking forward to the most is the K&N race because it isn’t something I get to do all the time.

“If I had to pick one out of the three [Cup races he is most fond of] I would pick California just because I love the surface and how much the cars wear out the tires and slide around and the multiple grooves and all the things that come with Auto Club Speedway.”

Competing in a sport once traditionally associated with the Southeast, for these West Coast natives, racing in places

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spotlight such as Las Vegas, Phoenix and California has been a chance to shine in front of the fans and supporters who watched them establish themselves and ascend at the local tracks throughout the region.

That those same drivers seem to naturally fare so well “at home” is appreciated by team, by fan and by driver.

And a trophy this weekend would surely be welcomed

by Californian Jimmie Johnson, the sport’s seventime champion who hasn’t won a race since last Spring.

His mark of 25 races since a victory is the longest in his career, albeit a small time frame by any competitive standard. And he’s returning to the land of victory donuts and champagne toasts.

Johnson is second only to Harvick in trophy-hauls and optimism at ISM Raceway with four wins, three pole positions and 20 top-10 finishes in 29 starts at the track. He captured those four victories during a five-race span during the 2007-

09 seasons. He has four top-11 showings – and a pole – in the last six races at Phoenix.

And if Arizona doesn’t prove to be the place that restores his winning ways, Johnson is the gold standard in his native California, the track where he hoisted his first of 83 trophies.

He boasts a series best six wins at the 2-mile Auto Club Speedway. He has scored a pair of pole positions and accumulated 16 top-10 finishes in 23 starts at the track – his last win coming in 2016.

Similarly, the Elk Grove, Calif. native Larson has proven himself top-shelf at Auto Club Speedway, winning from the pole position there last year.

He was runner-up at the track in his Cup race debut there four years ago.

With the exception of Larson (who was runner-up in the 2017 spring ISM Raceway race), Harvick, Johnson and both Busch brothers have victories at the always tough one-miler.

Kyle Busch has finished in the top-five in his last five Phoenix

races including runner-up in 2016. His older brother Kurt won at ISM Raceway in 2005 and has top-10 finishes in five of the last seven races here.

At Auto Club Speedway, Kyle Busch has three victories, including back-to-back wins in 2013-14. His older brother Kurt won at California in 2003 and has four top-10s in the last six races there.

The opportunity to compete in front of a “hometown” crowd is something Kyle Busch says he appreciates for competitive and sentimental reasons.

“Everybody hates the time change,” he said. “I use that to my advantage since I think I’m usually on West Coast time, anyway. I still haven’t gotten East Coast time down yet.

“It’s fun for me. It’s a cool atmosphere and the weather is great without the humidity. If it’s hot out, it’s nice and warm.

And if it’s cold, it’s a crisp cold.

“It’s still home and I love being out West.”

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Smithfield Foods Donation Brings New Indoor Archery Facility to Victory Junction By press release

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he Smithfield Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Smithfield Foods, Inc., is pleased to announce its gift of $500,000 to Victory Junction, a children’s camp committed to enriching the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by providing life-changing camp experiences. Smithfield’s donation will fund the camp’s new indoor archery range.

Since 2004 Victory Junction has served 47,903 children and their family members through a variety of programs - onsite through summer and family weekend camps and offsite through the camp’s outreach program, Reach, which brings camp-like experiences to children in hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses.

The new and improved Smithfield Foods Archery Range will provide a safe gathering place for campers to learn archery, make friends, and enjoy the adventures and experiences of camp life-a welcomed break for children who spend most of their year enduring medical treatments or hospital visits.

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spotlight among the most popular program venues at Victory Junction,” said Chad Coltrane, chief executive officer of Victory Junction.

“The activity is currently offered at an open-air range but is only operational when weather permits.

It is also positioned in an area of Victory Junction’s campus that is subject to flooding during heavy rains.

Smithfield’s generous gift will allow us to create an indoor venue for this activity to provide uninterrupted fun for our campers, regardless of inclement weather.”

Construction of the new indoor facility began on Jan. 31, 2018, and is expected to be completed by May 1, 2018.

Like all facilities at Victory Junction, the Smithfield

Foods Archery Range will meet the rigorous safety standards of the American Camp Association and will be staffed and supported by certified professionalsallowing campers of all ages and abilities to enjoy the activity.

Victory Junction was the dream of Adam Petty, a fourth-generation race car driver from the famous Petty family and a rising star in the sport. After Adam’s tragic passing from a racing accident in 2000, the Petty family realized his dream of a camp to serve children with serious medical conditions through the opening of Victory Junction in 2004.

Smithfield, a longtime sponsor and supporter of NASCAR, applauds

Victory Junction, the Petty family, and their important connection to the NASCAR community.

“Smithfield Foods is proud to support Victory Junctionan incredible place where campers experience positive, life-changing impacts well beyond their time at camp,” said Keira Lombardo, senior vice president of corporate affairs for Smithfield Foods and president of the Smithfield Foundation. “We’re pleased that the indoor archery center will provide yet another bright spot at camp where children can gain confidence in their abilities and what they can achieve.”

For more information about Victory Junction and its camp programming, visit victoryjunction.org.

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cknowledged as one of the country’s leading neurosurgeons, Dr. Jason Cormier has helped MSG provide a comprehensive, grassroots marketing campaign focused on preventative health care education and wellness

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With an emphasis to educate and engage race fans in their growing role as health care consumers, the objective is to influence behavioral changes and to provide racing’s brandloyal audience with the medical knowledge to make informed, preventative decisions that directly affect the wellness of their families.

Dr. Cormier is particularly qualified to speak to the relationship between racing and safety since he races

shifter karts professionally.

He’s been interested in the sport for as long as he can remember.

“With any racer, it probably starts outside the car,” Cormier said. “I can recall doing things as silly as racing to see who gets to the door first. I was racing on lawn mowers with my brothers at the age of 6.”

Cormier now races go-karts at top speeds of up to 130 mph. He has established relationships with multiple racing organizations, such as ARCA, NASCAR, Formula One, USAC and NHRA. “What I love about racing is being able to push the limits of the impossible to the edge, and nudge it,” Cormier said.

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As an internationally recognized brain surgeon, Cormier has been able to engage companies to establish new technologies to diagnose and rehabilitate head injuries. He is now augmenting his current efforts on prevention.

“Motorsports Safety Group is excited that we’ve come this far in such a short time,” Cormier said. “We owe a great deal to both the drivers and the racing organizations for embracing our insight.”

Cormier has found that his racing background gives him more credibility when talking with race teams.

“I am able speak to and understand the lingo – whether it’s regarding G forces, drafting, tire grading, steering pull, tire/ shocks ratios, etc.,” Cormier explained, “and on the other side, implications and educating from a medical

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“I’m not just a doctor who comes in saying, ‘We’re trying to get you out of this car,’” Cormier said. “My approach is to try to prepare them appropriately so they can enjoy the sport longer and walk away from the sport with their faculties, to better enjoy retirement and most importantly, to remember it!.”

Through Cormier’s work with race car drivers, he has found that very few have the desire to alter their racing styles, so preventative measures are best taken before the racing begins.

“It would be difficult to say to someone, ‘You’re pushing the limits a bit too much,’” Cormier said. “The racerathletes will continue to defy the odds and challenge the physics of what they believe should happen. To stymie that progression and excitement they bring to themselves and the

public, it would render them unrecognizable to both the public and to themselves.

“My role is to educate them as to how they can be safer and MSG is excited about the technology that we hope will help prevent or reduce concussions, and so far there are very promising results that will help mitigate those causational vectors of force.”

For the specifics on that new technology, race fans will have to stay tuned.

“Our team has put real thought into who we’ve engaged and the racing organizations that we’ve engaged,” Cormier said.

“We hope to introduce new technology in 2018 with a plan to build 300 to 400 percent of what we did in 2017. There are many more exciting things to come.

We thank all of you for embracing our insight and we encourage you to follow us on social media and speak to us when you see us on the track.”

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The win was considered an upset in the 100-lap feature event over NASCAR stars Curtis Turner, Lee Petty and Bill Rexford, the eventual Strictly Stock division champion that season. Florian, a native of Cleveland, led 40 of the scheduled 200 laps. The summer heat prompted him to remove his shirt in Victory Lane.

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Bill Whitley described his close friend in a Sept. 29, 1999 interview at Martinsville Speedway provided by FordPerformance.com.

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