Jeff Green No. 66 Chevrolet Darlington Raceway Preview

Jeff Green, the driver of No. 66 Best Buy Chevroletand the guys would love to have had the whole
Monte Carlo, spent Monday and Tuesday testing atweek to focus on brakes before this weekend, so
Lowe's Motor Speedway in preparation for thethe test at Lowe's (Motor Speedway) really added
much-anticipated Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR NEXTELto their workload. It's going to be a busy couple of
Cup event on the Memorial Day weekend.weeks, especially when you add in the Dover test,
Green, a stock car racer in the NASCAR NEXTELbut at least we've got a couple of races in Charlotte
Cup Series, unofficially posted the eighth fastest timecoming up and the guys will get to sleep in their own
of the afternoon session, with a lap of 30.034beds."
seconds at an average speed of 179.796 miles perHow cool is it as a driver to have gone to Victory
hour. Green's No. 66 Best Buy Chevrolet was theLane at "The Lady In Black?" Green has this to say:
fourth-fastest among all Chevrolet teams on Monday."It's an amazing feeling to win there. It's one of those
The car is equipped with refined race parts far fromtracks that you saw on TV when you were growing
the performance of the Chevrolet pickup ring &up. Daytona, Bristol and Darlington - those are the
pinion gear set."heritage" tracks where you really want to win. I
It also was announced that the No. 66 Best Buymean, you want to win at every track, but winning
Racing team will take Chassis No. 409 to Darlingtonat a place like Darlington is just special. It's icing on
Raceway this weekend. The team tested with thisthe cake."
chassis at Bristol Motor Speedway in March, andGreen is not the only excited person in the team.
competed with it in the debut race of the Car ofHarold Holly has this to say: "All those historical tracks
Tomorrow at Bristol. Green qualified ninth and finishedlike Darlington and Bristol, all those places, that's
sixth in said race tied with a sixth place run at thesomething you can really go back and cherish. That
Phoenix International Raceway. It was his best finishday was a really special day, because Jeff and (Matt)
for this year.Kenseth were really duking it out on the track. We
Green's 1990 Nashville Speedway USA championshiphad been leading that race and Kenseth got by us on
led to his first venture in NASCAR. For several years,a restart and took off. We got another caution and
he raced part-time in the Busch Series before thrivingbeat him out of the pits, and Jeff figured out what
as a full-time driver in 1995 and 1996. He then wentKenseth had done to get by him the time before,
through a two-year NEXTEL Cup stint with Diamondand they had a pretty good duel going there at the
Ridge Motorsports and Felix Sabates. Green returnedend. We were really fortunate to win that race."
to the Busch Series in 1999. In three seasons, heHolly noted, "Bristol is one of the tracks where we
won the 2000 championship by 616 points, a serieshaven't won. We finished second there a couple of
record which remained until last year. Additionally, hetimes. Bristol and Michigan (International Speedway)
finished second twice.are probably the biggest two. Michigan is such a big
When asked if he is still enjoying the Car oftrack, and the surface is so challenging to get a hold
Tomorrow, Green answered: "Absolutely. We've goton. If you win that race, you've really done your
to work on getting more rear grip, which is what Ihomework and your car's right, your crew is right and
was dealing with early on at Richmond, but our lapit just takes everything being put together to win at
times were very competitive. We're working ona place like that.
getting our brake issues fixed. I know Harold (Holly)